Mark Mattinson

Today I learned that my cousin past away last night. He was in an ATV accident down in Mt.Pleasant. He was drunk or have been drinking while he was riding his 4 wheeler.
I am sure that if he had not been drinking he would still be here today. What makes it really sad is that this is the third child that my aunt and uncle have lost in the past 4 yrs. Their only daughter Jackie passed away in November of 2004, her and her husband were driving down to Phoenix when they got in a horrible car wreck and they both lost their lives. Just out side of Wikie Up, Arizona. In January of 08 their son Max passed away he had a seizure, and now Mark. You would think losing your children it would make you closer to your other children but instead it has drove the family apart. When their dad did not attend their funeral. I don't know how you could not go to your own child's funeral. I pray for them that they are able to find peace within themselves. To lose your life at such a young age in your early forties.
Mark I hope that you are out of pain and is reunited with grandma and grandpa and your uncles, and your son Nick.

Hershey Track Meet

Today is Tim's track meet. I am sure that he will do awesome.

Paul back to work

Today is the first day that Paul has been back to work in almost 2 weeks. I am glad that he is back to work, but then I miss him too. I got used to him being here all day. When he came home from lunch his foot was bothering him. I guess we will know how he did after work. I think he is not staying off of his foot while he is at work.
He drove his truck to work but had to come home for a computer and his clutch went out. He was only able to keep it in first gear. I don't know what we are going to do now. He needs a new clutch and transmission. Oh where is that darn money tree to pick from!!!

Flying Raccoons

Today we went down to Goshen to pick up our boat. What an ordeal, first of all it wasn't even ready for us. We had to move a horse trailer with 2 flat tires and dig it out and raise it so we can get it hitched to Paul's truck. Then we had to cut the pad lock on the boat so we can hook it to the hitch. And of course there was 2 flat tires on the boat. Drive to Santaquin to get a can of fix a flat then back to Goshen, find a gas station (which there is only one) put air in the tires and I was to follow Paul home. He was driving the tarp was blowing like crazy cuz it came unhooked in the back, as we were getting near Warm Springs all of the sudden a mommy raccoon came flying up at least 5 to 10 feet in the air above the boat and at us. I ended up running over the raccoon I think I got the tail or maybe leg. The raccoon got up and walked to the side of the road. So scary having a raccoon fly at you.We got home and told the boys to stay away from the boat so we can check it out and make sure that there is no babies in it. Well of course there was a baby raccoon in the boat. So tiny and cute... Called our friend who is an officer with Payson Police and he was not working so he told us to call dispatch. Well dispatch said that they would not help us because it is a wild animal... So what the heck are we going to do with it... Went down to Payson Police Dept. and there was 3 officers there and they said that they don't deal with raccoons we would have to call someone and pay them to take care of it. I was really upset with them over this. When I worked in Mapleton I always sent officers to take care of raccoons. Anyways I called Larry Carter and he made some phone calls and sent over Trent Gordon who has a trap. He finally showed up around 9:30 and brought a can of tuna fish to lure the raccoon into the live trap. Well the raccoon just didn't care for it. As Trent was climbing into the boat there was another raccoon, then another one. We ended up with 4 baby raccoons. They are so cute and tiny. Maybe 4 to 6 weeks old. I went next door to Jamie's house and she said that her friend would take it. (back when we thought there were 2) We didn't know what to do with the babies until tomorrow when Kami could come and get them. So Trent said that he had a couple of bottles and would take them home and feed the baby raccoons. And hopefully his wife will let him keep them. If not after church he will bring them back to us and we will get ahold of Kami so she can come and get them...The boat is torn up, all the seats are ripped and shredded from the raccoon. We will need to reupholster all the seats and put new foam in them...Talking to Cynthia she is now telling me that there is something wrong with the motor.... UGH I wish I knew this earlier, I doubt that I would have gotten the boat then. Oh well, hopefully were Paul is really good at fixing things he can fix it with no problems...

Star Trek

Took the boys to see the new Star Trek movie. It was AWESOME!!!
I was surprised that Jake even sat through the movie, he started to get tired the last 15 min. but other than that he was really good, they all were. Maybe this means that we can take them places without them driving us nuts.... Guess we will have to wait and see.

Hope of America

Had to wake up early after staying up late to take Tim to the bus stop so he can go to Hope of America over at BYU. 5th graders from around Utah are going to be performing tonight at 6:15pm
The program starts at 7:20pm It is going to be a very long day. Paul has a Dr. appointment this afternoon and we will get to hopefully find out about his foot today. It is still swollen his ankle is 3 times it's normal size and it has been a week since he hurt it....

Teenagers???

Woke up this morning to a message from my neighbor saying someone threw a brick threw her car window. Went outside to check on our cars and they were ok. Luckily! But our other neighbors truck got a brick threw the back window of their truck and someone a block away got one threw their car window. I can't believe someone would do this... What are kids coming to these days....

Paul and his foot

Last Tuesday Paul fractured his foot and has been off of work ever since and is driving me nuts. Because now that he is off work he is not able to do what he wanted to do around the house and in the yard. Tomorrow we go to the Dr to get it looked at again. Hopefully everything will be ok.