Life

So our house smells better now! Kent and I our craming in our last few school assignment between work trying to get ready to go to Utah for Brigham's wedding. Kent bought me tickets to go see the broadway Wicked, that is in AZ now, for my birthday tonight. AZ is soooo hot the only form of exercise I can think of doing is lap swims in the city pool. And it is now monsoon season here in AZ, that was scary with the thunder and lighting. YEa for life.

The Mystery of the Wierd Smell

So a few weeks ago our apt all of a sudden started smelling funny. It is a total mystery of where it is coming from; we've checked everywhere, drains, sinks, plumming, hinden corners. Nothing! I told Gabe and he thinks it's my shoes- it's not. Grandad came out to check it out and he got down on his hands and knees trying to stiff it out....nothing! We have no clue. This is really embarassing too. What do we do?

Revenge of the Nerf Gun

So, I was preparing a lesson for the Young Women about forgiveness and not seeking revenge. I discussed with Kent, for a moment, the principle of not seeking revenge and the harm it can do to someones life who seeks revenge. A minute later Kent disappeared from the living room... then I heard the shots of our nerf gun and saw balls flying at me. I screamed and jumped up to get the other nerf gun and nail Kent as he was shooting me. Through laughs he said, "Stop, Wait, I want you to practice the principle you teach and not seek revenge on me." Oh no he was GOING DOWN!

And the call it a "hike"

Pinnacle Peak, a majestic name. Dayna heard of this peak and we both decided that it would be fun to hike this peak in north Scottsdale today. It would be a great way for us to get to know the area we live in a little more.

We had to park a quarter mile away due to a lack of parking. This turned out to be a good thing because this extra walk just about doubled the length of the hike.

The first sign that this would not be a 'real' hike came when we entered the main parking lot.
There was not a single car in the parking lot that was not brand new and fancy. Therefore, this must be a classy hike. This was not too much of a surprise because of the classy nature of Scottsdale, but still not a good sign for a hike.

We started up the hike by walking past the Visitor's Center. Wait, what kind of random, one trail, hike has a visitor's center? It's not like this is a state or national park. May I re-emphasize that there is only a single, short, trail.

Then at the trail head there was this sign... It says something like "grab a rock or two to make your hike challenging".

If you need to carry rocks for a hike to be challenging it makes you wonder, weird....

We hiked for a little over a quarter of a mile and came to a offshoot trail for rock climbers. Dayna couldn't resist the temptation to check out the rock climbing routes, so we took this side trail. We were able to see some cool, expert level, rock climbing routes and this trail took us up to the base of the big rock outcropping that makes up the top of Pinnacle Peak.

We decided to see if we could find the main trail and see how it makes its way up to the top of Pinnacle Peak. We scrambled around for a few minutes before we realized that the Pinnacle Peak hike does not hike Pinnacle Peak. Instead, it winds around the base of the hill, as can be seen in the picture below.

We were shocked. We wanted to hike a peak, and the trail doesn't even attempt to approach the peak. Fortunately, we were among the fortunate few who actually got to hike up Pinnacle Peak due to our explorations and curiosity.

Downfalls of Night shift

Downfalls of a Pediatric Night shift Nurse:
Being a nightshift nurse makes me feel like a vampire sometimes; sucking patient's blood in the middle of the night (for labwork of coarse, or is it?). Anyway, sometimes I am a little slow at 2:00am, I think any normal person would be, like I am sleepwalking around the unit. After coming out of a spanish speaking patient's room, I went into my next patient's room. I asked the mom how the baby was doing and she just stared at me with a concerned face. I thought, oh no, something is wrong with the baby. I asked again again what was going on and she even had a more concerned face. I went over to the baby thinking something must be terribly wrong and then...... the mother asked, "what language are you speaking?"

Thirst

Have you ever been so hot and thirsty after a fast sunday in Arizona that you drink two full glasses of water mixed with punch, then a third, then a forth and you are still thirsty but nothing else will fit in your stomach? Then what do you do? It's a crazy thing I'm telling you.

The "Orange" and the prankster husband

After a long night shift I arrived home to a yummy waffle breakfast and orange slices my husband had so kindly made up for me. Oh what a sweet, caring, loving husband, I thought as I finished my waffles and started munching down on the juicy sweet orange slices. I picked up the next orange slice, bit into it, and the thoughts I had of a sweet, caring, loving husband suddenly changed. I looked up, with a cringed face, to see Kent with a big grin. He had stuck a lemon slice amongst my oranges, just waiting for me to take a bite...He's going down.