7 Years of Higher Learning

So what have you done in the last 7 years? Wait, no, don't tell me. I didn't really want to know. This is about me, see Steffiscraps, it's in the title. That's me. Oh come on, I'm funny! Here's an even better question: what did you have for dinner 7 years ago tonight? Well, I had nachos from the Puck. And Stretch had steak fries. You'd think that was a weird thing to remember, but it was the day we met and that's not a day you forget! Meeting Stretch completely changed my life! In the past 7 years, I've experienced more than I ever thought possible! I've learned some amazing stuff, questioned some crazy stuff, and in the end have figured out that even though a lot of what he does seems weird, he's usually right and I end up with my foot in my mouth! There, I said it. Now we will never speak of it again!

So what crazy amazing weird stuff have I learned because of Mr. Smarty Pants? Really, you're gonna wish you didn't ask! Here goes:

- it's a long trudge through the snow to the bunnies, so the kids need a trail. So at our house, not only does the driveway get plowed, the lawn gets plowed too.

- Properly retiring a US Flag (or 1,000 US Flags) involves A LOT of fire!!!

- The proper way to make a 'smore is to use chocolate frosting instead of Hershey bars. AAAAAaaaah Perfection!!!

- An eight inch hole is just not quite big enough for a size 34 waist to fit through. You can blame the wallet all you want, but that slab still moved even without the wallet!

- When your mom tells you not to drop trucks on your finger, she means it! And metal pins squeak when you yank them from a finger with Craftsman pliers!

- A Nikon D50 will hold over 500 pictures of deer. Twice. Also, Dugway deer are smart. They know where the hunting line starts and stops.

- When you pick a camp site in the dark, you can't complain when you have visitors outside your camper window in the morning. I wouldn't have complained anyway since the visitor was a way cute moo cow!

-Little girls are really good with guns! Hot hubby showing our daughters their target after they demolished it is really cool!

- Men will go to great lengths to keep sprinkler spots off their Hemi Dodge. For example: tear up and reroute the sprinklers in the front lawn!

- Who knew you could get up close and personal with this many elk butts!? I know now!

- Little girls will do anything if promised candy and/or xbox games.

- The sun setting over the Great Salt Lake is so beautiful. The sun setting over the Great Salt Lake as seen from my front porch is even better!

- If you catch a foul ball at the Raptors game, you can get the player to autograph it after the game.

- Terms like Plum Crazy Purple and Slime Lime Green have nothing to do with Jolley Ranchers.

- It routinely reaches 140+ degrees in Iraq, while there is 3 feet of snow in Utah. 18 months is a really really really really really really really long time, but 7 years flies by in the blink of an eye!

- You can have more than one "First Kiss"

Are you bored yet? How is that possible? The motto of or family since meeting Stretch is "Never a Dull Moment". To my dear husband: Thank you for the most joy and fun and memorable moments a wife could ever ask for. I love you!

If anyone would like clarification on any of the aforementioned pearls of wisdom, please, come visit. You'll only need a small sack lunch to sustain you on the drive!