Father's Day Outing

On Sunday we went up on the mountain and had a picnic/ potluck dinner with all of Hootie's family & my parents. It was a yummy meal, and it was so nice to really enjoy the outdoors & be with our families. We took the 4 wheelers up and went for a long ride. Hootie had to take some pictures for a Land Conservation project (or something like that), so we went all over the mountain & into some of the different canyons. Everything was so nice & mostly green, thanks to the rain this spring. It is pretty cool to have your own mountain, go around as you please and know you aren't trespassing.

I guess that's part cause of the craziness of us living here, but working in Salt Lake. In 15 minutes we can be on our own mountain riding horses, 4 wheeling, or snowmobiling whenever we please. We both love our jobs and hate the drive, but we are here to stay. For Hootie, the ranch will always come first, he'll never give it up, and I wouldn't want him to. He has an amazing work ethic because of the hard work a ranch requires and all that he has learned from is dad and both of his grandpa's.

We saw a few deer and we also took some cool pictures of some of their horses with their colt's. I think horses are amazing beautiful animals. You can look in their eyes and see if they are scared, wild, or if they trust you, it is pretty neat. Too bad I've been around them my whole life, & they still can scare the crap out of me.

There is also a pictures with the Roche family (I'm stuck in the front, looking awkward, cause I had to give my camera to the nice lady that took a pic for us), we went out to dinner for Doris' 80th birthday party. She didn't want a big shebang, she knows too many people with former students and such, and I think she was worried that it would be too much craziness for her. She is a great lady and so good to her family. I am grateful for all of Hootie's grandparents, it's nice having them around and feeling like I have grandparents since mine are gone. Hootie takes great care of all of them, but they all return the favor.

Hey everyone. So I really feel like I've had nothing to say lately, still don't. Nothing to exciting, or anything you'd want to hear about it going on. So until I can come up with something better than those two lines. I'll post a good analogy about stress management.


Great Wisdom for Stress Management

A lecturer when explaining stress management to an audience raised a glass of water and asked "How heavy is this glass of water?"

Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g.

The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.

If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem.

If I hold it for an hour, I'll have an ache in my right arm.

If I hold it for a day, you'll have to call an ambulance.

In each case, it's the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes."

He continued, "And that's the way it is with stress management.

If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won't be able to carry on."

"As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again.

When we're refreshed, we can carry on with the burden."

"So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down.

Don't carry it home.

You can pick it up tomorrow.

Whatever burdens you're carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can."

So, my friend, Put down anything that may be a burden to you right now.

Don't pick it up again until after you've rested a while.



Here are some great ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

* Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

* Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.

* Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

* Drive carefully. It's not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.

* If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.

* If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

* It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply be kind to others.

* Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won't have a leg to stand on.

* Nobody cares if you can't dance well.