WE ARE LAME!!

So I keep thinking I need to post something on here but we haven't really had anything exciting to share. Other than Torrey this summer we really didn't do much. Lance's back and the cost of gas pretty much kept us at home.

I keep trying to get Lance to take his shirt off so I can take a picture of his scare so maybe we could post that, but we've all seen enough of Lance with his shirt off and his scare isn't really that exciting. So I just thought I would take this opportunity to thank everyone for the phone calls and the show of support and love as Lance has gone through this back surgery. It's always comforting to know that whatever life throw's at us (any of us) that we are surrounded by people who care and will be there for us. So thank you to everyone who took time out of their busy lives to think of us, keep us in your prayers and just simply care. We are truly grateful.

TIMBER-R-R-R-R-R-R

So, everybody comes home for a nice relaxing, get together, weekend at the 4th of July. But, Dad has other ideas. "Let's cut down the tree, that mom wants to get rid of." So look at Dad run. You won't see that too often.

The tree came down, but it was an all day project. First you have to cut the tree and then you have to get out the 4 wheelers, all the boys and lots of "do this" "do that" and act like "Tim the Toolman" and more power.

It was lots of fun to sit on the sidelines and watch. It made a mess of the lawn, because you had to use "more power" to try to pull the stump out. Zack loved it.

We'll see what project we can come up with for next summer. Always new adventures to look forward to in this family.

What happened to the family blog? From the looks of it the Lords family haven't left the house or done things interesting all summer. My excuse is that I lost my camera and have had problem pulling pictures off my phone....what's your excuse? Hello? Are you guys still alive? Let's see some posts?

Poor little Sophie. My little terror terrier is so humiliated by her new house breaking pants. Oh yes...they make diapers for dogs, and she hates them. For the most part she has been doing really good, but some days her over excited bladder gets the best of her and I have to put on her "potty pants". I thought this picture was so funny. She sat there straddling the arm of the couch, sulking about having to were her plastic pants.

Last week Zack and I had the opportunity to visit the Utah Museum of Modern Art where they had a Monet to Picasso exhibit. It was really exciting to be able to see some of these really famous painting right here in our own MOMA. We saw Monet, Picasso, VanGogh, Dali, Mondrian, and Renoir along with several other artists. We decided that we liked Picasso and Mondrian the most. This is a picture of Zack standing in front of Picasso.

This summer Zack has become very interested in electronics. A majority of his time is spent dreaming up crazy electronic devices. On one of our ritual stops at Radio Shack to randomly browse we found a really cool project sheet for making an LED flashlight. Zack was really excited about the project and saved his allowance until he could purchase all the components for the project. He built the entire thing by himself with a little soldering help from Jason. It was a cool project and I can't wait to see what other cool things he can build.

THE SPIDER-PEDE

the half daddy long leg / half centipede.

Imagine laying on the couch watching television late at night, when out of the corner of your eye you see something quite large scurry across the floor in front of you. So you jump up on the couch with a shoe in your hand hoping to squish the intruder. And then you get a closer look at it...and say "holy ####, what is that!!" When you realize you have some kind of pre-historic insect taking up residence in your living room, you throw the shoe and watch the monstrosity bolt for the crack in the floor at an unbelievable speed due to the fact that it has about a hundred thousand long creep legs. Despite your screaming and pleading for your ferocious terrier to attack, the infamous "spider-pede" slips away, leaving you terrified of day you cross paths with it again.

But last week, this "spider-pede" made the terrible mistake of falling into the bath tub, allowing me to get a picture to document the discovery of this new species. Sadly, although this one is the size of a bar of soap, I believe it is only the smaller offspring of much larger one I saw that night on the couch.

Be afraid...be VERY afraid!

Well we got the new plane home. What a trip that was! Lots of truck problems for Angie and I that cost a lot to get fixed once we got to Troutdale. Needless to say we are in the market for a new truck. Dad and I started to work on the plane at about 9:00 in the morning and finished at about 7:00 that night. Loading the plane was quite comical if you were to watch us. It was a lot of work and I don't think that there was one bolt that wasn't stuck and rusted. It was great though. The adventure continues. Mom, Angie and the girls after taking the truck in and driving around in the loaner pimp mobile went to Multnomah Falls, and had a fun day. On the way home the wings that were in the trailer behind my truck bounced off the shipping platform we had them on and damaged both wings. Easy fix though. Dad and I are both excited about this plane. You would have to ask mom and Angie how excited they are ( Ha Ha).

Mariah's class this week did a play, A Mid-Summers Night's Dream. She did a really great job. It was a hard play to learn concidering the way they speak in the play is in Shakspearian form. The room that the play was in was really small though so the only ones that could attend were Angie the girls and I. She has preformed in several play when we lived in Mount Vernon. I think she really enjoys the whole acting thing, where I enjoy just acting up (Ha Ha). We were really proud of her and wish that you all could have seen her.

We don't know who changed the look of the blog, but it is awesome. Really like the thought that comes with it. Great job.
mom and dad