4th of July

Stadium fire works.

Dale and I doing our sparklers

I LOve the 4th of July... Dale had the day off, Katie and Dan came up from Salt Lake. We made a fun day out of it. It had been while since we had ALL gotten together and done something. We started the day off right by getting in our exercise. We went on a bike ride up Green Canyon.

The most unforgettable mountain bike ride make special note to the purple huffy that Katie is on.

Background on the Purple Huffy. Katie and I got these one year for Christmas when were like 10 and 12. The breaks squil so bad, there is no shocks at all on the bike and the gears will change when they want to. So, when Katie and I had talked she said she would bringing her bike but for some reason I thought she had a new bike but when she had showed up she had brought the PURPLE HUFFY up from Salt Lake. This was going to be very interesting.

We were all set to go!!! Katie and I had discussed that we would go but we would just say back with Bryce, and kindof use him as our excuss for not wanting to go to fast, but little did we know that he is actually really good at mtn. biking. So, it would be Katie and I staying back. We start up the hill not even 5 min into Katie's bike won't switch gears. So, my sweet dad switches her bikes but my dad's bike peddles that have shoes and they clip in so really not much of a peddle there. Katie feet were curled around these peddles. It was a sight to see, my dad on a huffy and Katie on a bike that was way to big and not much of a peddle. I stayed back with her. In front of us came a hill I let her know to which the gear to easy to help her get up the hill we ended getting off the bikes and walking them up a hill. When we finally get to the top there is Dale, Dan and My dad and bro laughing. I told my dad to just go with the boys and that we wanted to stay back. So, I gave her my bike and she road that and I took Purple Huffy. I didn't know how she was riding this. Every bump was pain, your legs were on fire because you were stuck in the hardest gear. We finally had enough. So, we turned back with Bryce and did our own thing. THANKS FOR THE MOMENT KAT!!

After the bike ride we went back home and mom had a good meal waiting for us. We did shish kabobs on the grill, my mom had also made a lot of different salads. I hope one day I can be as good of a cook as she is.

Bryant with his master piece kabob.


Mom with her favorite mother's day gift. She loves her grill.



Perparing our kabobs.

Smile for the camera!!

Burnett Reunion 2009

When we got back to Utah from our trip. We had Adam come pick us up at the airport and we went straight to the Burnett Reunion. We didn't get there until 11:45 pm, luckily we had sent our tent down with family and they put it up for us. The Smith Family was in charge this year. They decided that they would host it in their backyard down in the Lehi area.

The Burnett Crew

We went to Seven Peaks on Friday. It was a little chilly and overcast. But that didn't stop us from having a great time. All the older nieces and nephews had placed bets on if I was going to go down the BIG Orange slide. I couldn't let them be right, I had everyone go before me which probably I should have gone first. My first mistake is that I looked down... NEVER LOOK DOWN. I had a big crowd( my nieces and nephews and sweet husband) cheering me on and I finally did it. Looks like I won the bet!!

The next day, Saturday. We hiked to this beautiful water fall up Provo Canyon. I cannot remember the name of it, but it was Beautiful!!!

Here we are before the hike :-)

We made it!!!

On the hike we saw a lot of stinging nettle. I was being very cautious on where I was walking what I would touch. When we got down to the waterfall I stopped thinking about it and walked right into a patch of it. Man, that stuff hurts. I put some mud on it to help with the stinging. I don't think it really helped but it took my mind off of it.

Dale and Dallin showing us their cool man poses

Dale, Dave, Darren and Ammston hiked a little bit above the waterfall.

We live in such a beautiful area. We are so lucky to have the mountains close.

My little niece Myah. She had a loose tooth I noticed Dallin in the bathroom with Myah using some pliers to get it out, she didn't want to do it anymore. When she came out I let her know that I worked at a dentist and if she wanted I could try and help her get it out she was a little hesitant. I didn't think she would want me to do it. Throughout the reunion she would ask when we were going to try again, I would get busy and forget. She was really ready to do it this time. We went inside and Myah, Mandi and I were playing dentist. We used anbesol to get her "numb" and then I twisted it and it came out. She didn't even know it had come out but she was so excited when she put her tongue up there and it was out.

Thank You Smith Family for all that you did for the reunion!!!

Summer Vaction

Our yard has taken up most of our summer, but we were able to go on a vacation. It isn't very often that Dale gets time off and he had a week off again, so we thought that we would take advantage of the time and we would go somewhere. Dale has always wanted to go to Six Flags and I've always wanted to go to the beach..... What a better place to go then California. So, we booked our flight and activities and made it a done deal!!!

We had an early flight at 6:00 am on Sunday morning.(Father's Day) We decided that we would go down to Salt Lake that night. We went to dinner with my sister Katie and Dan. We stayed with Adam ( Dales nephew), he was kind enough to let us sleep at his house and then we would have him take us to the airport. THANKS ADAM!!

We flew into Long Beach Airport

At the airport the luggage pick up was outside which I thought was so cool. I just had to take a picture of it. Throughout the whole trip I always had my camera, I felt like I was one of those tourists who were coming to America and were seeing things for the first time. I would pull out the camera to take a picture and I could see people look at me funny and probably thinking why are you taking a picture of that. I really need to get out of Utah more!!!

After we had gotten our luggage we headed over to the car rental place to pick up our car rental. We were supposed to get a Chevy Malibu but instead we got a KIA Spectra. Dale and I were just hoping it would make it through our adventure in California. We also rented a GPS unit. Man, was that a lifesaver I was a little nervous about being the co-pilot and telling Dale were we needed to go, ( I have a hard enough time getting around in my own state) So, when we had that as an option I was like "YES!!!" It was a great purchase to start the trip off right.

Our Rental Car

Our GPS unit came in handy many times. We ended up calling the thing Saving Sally, A.K.A. Sally for short.

As we were driving around trying to find the stadium of the Angel's. We found a street sign that said 'Burnett' we just had to take a picture of it.

I have never been to a live MLB game, Dale always talked about how going to a live game was so much better than watching it on T.V. and I thought it would be fun to go and see one. The Angels just happen to be playing the Dodgers. It was a good game to go to.

Outside the Angels Stadium.

One of the Pitches for the Angels, Nick Adenhart was killed earlier this year by a hit and run drunk driver. Fans put out hats, jerseys, bears and other items in Lou of him.

Us inside the stadium. We went and bought ourselves some hat's so we would fit in with the rest of the crowd. I have never seen so many people decked out in baseball gear. Everyone was layered with Angle's or Dodgers attire. We had to get something so we wouldn't like we were from out of state :-) The game was very slow. I think it took the 4 or 5 inning before anyone even got a run. I was very entertained by watching all the drunk people and seeing how much people spent on food. The highlight of the game was there was someone that had ran onto the field and was tackled down by the security officers. Also, the famous MVP Kobe Bryant was there.

The next day we went to Six Flags, WOW!!! As we are driving into the park I'm a little nervous seeing all the roller coasters. I look over and Dales face was priceless you would have thought it was Christmas morning. I took some medicine for motion sickness and hoped that I wouldn't loose my cookies. I kept telling myself that It was something... the only thing Dale really wanted to do on the whole trip. I didn't want to hold Dale back from any of the rides so I kept giving myself pep talks when we waited in line. I'm proud to say that I was able to do them all with Dale and I didn't die.

This is just one of the many roller coaster rides that we went on. Overall, Dale and I would have to agree that our most favorite ride would have been the X2. If it wouldn't have been that we waited in line for 1 hour I think that we would have gone on it again. What an amazing rush!!!! On a couple of the rides you would be going so fast and all the sudden you would black out. The first time this happened I was freaking out screaming to Dale that I had lost my vision and he would yell back it's was OK he couldn't see either. (Almost like when you stand up to fast and you see stars that kind of feeling.) We did that until the park had closed. We went back to the hotel and we crashed having a wonderful nights rest.

The next day we went to Universal Studios. We first took a tour of the studio, it was really fun to go and see how movies are made and what all is entailed with movies. The had some rides that were a lot of fun.

I think we went on this ride at least 5 times!!! Very fun.

Another one of our favorite rides.

We were able to go to some Beach's while in California. This is what I had been waiting for the whole trip, Beach's and shopping!!!

This is Newport Beach.

We decided that we wanted to try and go to the Beach's earlier in the morning before it got to crowded. I think that is everyone else thinking too.

It was a little chilly that morning and we decided that we were OK not getting in our swimsuits we ended up just walking around to all the little shops that were on the beach. There were sections of homes that their backyard was the beach. How would you like that set up?

Another area in Newport, with the beach and homes.

In between Beach's we did a little shopping Irvine called the Spectrum. AMAZING!!!!! I've never been to a shopping mall like that. We were able to get some clothes, and swim shorts for Dale. We saw The Proposal and an IMAX movie Transformers 2. I loved this place. They had a cool water fountain that is pictured behind us that I tried to get a picture of when it would go off, I got the water fountain but my face is kinda odd... oh well, couldn't get both.

A couple weeks after we had gotten home from California. We received a NOTICE in the mail from a tole road company. I called Dale and asked if he remembered going through one on our trip. He was like no, but I remember a sign saying that one was coming up, but I just figured that we had gotten off the exit before we came to one. ( I was sleeping in the car) Well, to make a long story short we ended up going through one and must have been the fast lane were they have a computer up above that just scans it when you go through that area . We ended up owing money because we had gone through it. A 4.00 pay toll road went to a 49.oo ticket, we talked with our brother-in-law Dave and he said that we should call and try and see if we could get it down, because we are out of staters and didn't know the area.. Thanks for the advise Dave. We were able to get the ticket down to 29.oo. Watch out for those tole roads. I'm glad we don't have those in Utah.

The next area that we went to was Huntington Beach. I think that this one was my favorite. So, I think that we had someone tell us that this is were the the big PRo volleyball games are played

Volleyball courts, bike ride path and the beach. What more would you want?

People walking on the Pier.

Little shops that were on the Pier

For dinner that night we went to a place called Duke's. It was recommend to us by a couple people so, we thought we would try it. We both ordered a steak that was very yummy, couple strawberry lemonades. When we were done with our meal the waitress brought us our total for our meal. Dale looked at the ticket and I'll I saw was $$ signs in his eyes. I don't think that Dale or I had ever spent that much on a meal. Dale was dying,..... We didn't even get a dessert is what we both kept thinking. 60.00 was our total... That was the best 60.00 spent Dale would probably say different. After dinner we went and found ourselves a McDonald's and got us a .99 cent frosty. Good thing that we will only do that once and awhile.

That morning we got up and went and saw the San Diego Temple. What a beautiful temple! We were going to try and do a session but we were running out of time, we had to be back to Long Beach to catch our flight and we were cutting it close, We got lost a couple times trying to find the temple, but we both wanted to see it. We had just enough time to get out take a few pictures and then hurry and get back in the car. Man, was it worth it!!!

We wanted to try and get someone to take our picture with the temple, but no one was outside. So, we tried ourselves.

I had a really good time in California. I was glad to get to spend some quality time with my husband that I love so much, It isn't very often that we get to spend that much time together. I can't say that I was ready to come home but I was glad that we got to come on this great adventure and make some memories. We so be doing something like this every year!!!

The Yard Saga

This week Dr Skinner took the week off for U.E.A. So, I thought that I would add A LOT of pictures and let you know what we have been up to the last couple months:

Back in April, we decided that we wanted to try and get the yard done for summer..... Dale had a week off of work and we thought oh will be able to get it done then. Man, if we only knew what the job would have entailed....Here we are in October and we are still trying to finish it, Maybe will be able to enjoy it before the winter comes?!?!?!

Here is our yard before we started the project.

We wanted to have some flower beds and mounds with some bushes through out the yard. In order for us to do that we had to cut out the existing grass where we wanted them, so that meant that we would hand dig them out with the shovel. Let me tell you not an easy task. Good thing that we have wonderful family close that was able to help us. Thanks Dave!!!

We also need to bring a lot of top soil in to build up the mounds and to make the backyard a little more level. Thanks to Dave and Michelle again they came to the rescue. They just happen to have some extra dirt that they had, so we were able to use that. It's a good thing that we had access to a dump truck and a tracker.(Thanks Floyd) We were able to get the dump truck going and use that to haul the dirt.

The dump truck sure did have a mind of it's own. It would start only when
it wanted to and would die at random times. Dale is trying to jump it in the backyard.

We needed to get everything ready to go by the next morning because Dale's brother and dad would be coming to help set rocks. We wanted to get a good portion of it done while Darren was up because he is the PRO LANDSCAPER, ( that is what he does for his job... and is very good at it) If we only knew what the morning would have brought. SNOW!!! That didn't seem to stop them though they worked right through it. ( That would be the burnett boys!) They were able to get all the rocks set and after it was all done, it stopped snowing. What are the chances. THANKS GUYS for working through it.

Getting the rocks set in the front corner of the yard

Look at that sown coming down!!! They sure are troopers!!!

Floyd driving the tracker into the backyard, getting ready to start on the back

Darren, letting Floyd know where to dump the dirt for the rocks & fire pit.

I cannot wait until we can use the fire pit and have a wiener roast and smores
( This picture is that afternoon after they have set the rocks...)

After we got all the rocks set it was time to do the sprinkler system. My dad was willing enough to come out to help us. At the first, I was really excited to spend some quality bonding time with my dad and I was very excited to dig out the trenches but by the end I hated shoveling. I never wanted to look at another shovel, but the time spent with my dad was great. We only had the evenings and Saturdays to work on it so, it took a little longer than we hoped but we got it done and got it done right. THANKS DAD!!!

Our beautiful yard all dug up.

When the sprinkler system was done, Dale and I were very disappointed in how the yard looked after we had covered the trenches. There was beautiful grass and then hills of dirt. So, we wanted to rip out the grass. I talked it over with my dad and he was like,"Absolutely not! If you were to hit one of those sprinkler heads we will have to start all over." He let us know that it would just take years for the grass to grow in where the dirt was but it would eventually be covered. We, at the Burnetts house, are very impatient people so we went against what my dad had said and rented a sod cutter and took out the grass ourselves. WHAT A JOB ... if only we had thought about the grass before we had started the whole project of the yard, and done that at the very beginning. Oh well, we can't turn back time!

The master sod cutter!

It was so hilarious to watch Dale run the machine, this heavy machine and my sweet Dale trying to run it and it jiggling him all over the place and at the same time trying to guide it where it needed to go. It was so funny, I don't think I have ever laughed so hard.

We just recently got trees and bushes. We were able to go down to J&J Nursey in Layton, and got some sweet deals. Always nice to get a deal especially when you are buying trees and bushes.

We used Floyd's truck and trailer to bring home the trees and bushes. I think next time we will just have J&J deliver. It was a very nerve racking experience. I don't think Dale or I said one word to each other on the way home because we were so nervous that they were going to fall off or we didn't tie them down right, but we made it home safe and sound.

Floyd and Dale planting the trees

Right now, with the yard we are trying to decide if we want to do a fence or sod. So, we are at a holding right now with the yard. Stay Tune!!