Pine Valley Picnic at the Ward House Gym?!

Saturday was an adventurous day! It started out at 7:00 A.M. with Thane helping out at the cannery canning peaches and I taking the kids to yard sales. Around 11 I arrived back home with more toys then I had planned! Of course I was looking for stuff for the preschool, and didn't come home with anything useful! We made lunch and waited for Thane to come home. I started laundry and the washing machine decided it wanted to leak more than usual. I had a big mess to clean up and Thane finally called and ordered the part we needed to fix it. (I can't do laundry until Tuesday now, so hopefully no one will get sick before then ;) The kids were at each others necks, and they were driving me CRAZY, so we decided to go and spend some of their energy at the pool. Tait and Sinjin had to sit out for a while as a punishment for fighting earlier in the day. They didn't like that very much.

We came home and got ready to go to our Ward Party out at Pine Valley. (Pine Valley is a 45 min. drive from our home.) We looked at the sky and saw the darkest most ominous clouds I had ever seen. They were deep purple. We got the kids in the car so we could go but we knew there was a strong wind on it's way (we live right in the path of wind storms). We have a broken gate, so we had to go out and try to secure it, and all of a sudden, a huge dust storm blew in!! We closed the kids in the garage and went out to hold the gate and keep it from bending out of shape! After about 30 min. of secureing the gates with rope, we were finally ready to leave. We decided we would still drive up to Pine Valley because it looked like the storm was not headed that way (by this time we were already late for the picnic). We drove all the way there and noticed that all of the ward members were driving the opposite direction!! Back to the Church!! They got rained out! So we turned around and head back home. 1 Hour and 30 Minutes later we arrived at the church (which is located right around the corner from our house :-D ) It was a beautiful drive though. On the way to Pine Valley we pass by Snow Canyon (named that because of the petrified white sand mountains) 2 ancient volcanoes and lava fields. So it was worth the drive. Everything was set up at the church in minutes and we were eating dinner before we new it. It was a lot of fun talking to our friends and the Collards sang a funny song for the bishop, and his face was redder than usual! Once we got home another huge cloud was threatening a lightning storm, but the kids wanted to walk their friends home so we leashed up Sadie and went for a short walk. We were standing out in front of the Hancocks home talking with our friends and our hair started standing up from static electricity so we decided it would be a good idea to get home so we didn't get struck by lightning!! The day ended with a viewing of Twilight. What a great day!