We are without...here's an update

Well as of yesterday the girls and I are without a computer. I figured one less thing to fight about.
I think we might ask santa for a new one...or maybe we'll wait for an after christmas sale! We will be using my computer at work or going to the library for a bit until we can afford a new computer.
Hopefully everyone had an amazing holiday and BLACK FRIDAY experience!
I have never done the crazy shopping day - but maybe there's one for me to try out in the not too distant future!
I guess since I am doing a post, I might as well update everyone...MINUS the pictures! Maybe someone can teach me how to do it on a computer that is different than my own!
The girls only had school for Monday & Tuesday last week.
On Monday we decided to start the holiday season off right... we went on the Heber Creeper's rendition of "The Polar Express". It was so much fun! Even though there was no snow and I did not wear my PJ's...it sure brought the spirit of the season to life. When you arrive at the train station, you board the train. They started off singing Christmas Carols and then they introduce your chef & elves that would be on the train with you. Our elves were "ginger & snap". Our chef's name was "Rupert". The elves went around to each child on the train and asked them what they wanted from Santa for Christmas. (They forgot to ask me...so, Santa if you're reading this, I either want a new computer or a new digital camera...mine is dying.) As the train starts heading to the "North Pole", they pass out the MOS YUMMY chocolate chip cookies and hot cocoa. Once everyone was finished, the elves passed out the story, "The Polar Express". There was a narrator on each train car that read the story along with a fun little CD that went along with the book. then we arrived @ the North Pole, Mrs. Claus got on the train and passed out the recipe for the cookies. (They had joy, and a sprinkle of giggles and stuff like that...so I don't think I could make them too well) Then guess who hopped on the train? SANTA! Such fun! Tara's nephew Tucker was on the train with us. I wish I could post the picture I snapped of him looking @ Santa! It was the TRUE spirit of the holiday! Such innocence & awe! Then Santa hopped off of the train and we went back to the train station. We all went out to dinner at a local favorite..."the train" afterwards.
Wednesday the neighbors came over and played for most of the day. We baked sugar cookies. mmm! I love to watch kids do cookie cut outs, and you know, they were entertained literally for hours! The cookies turned out sooo good...even thought the dough was played with for WAY too long!
Thursday we SLEPT IN! That was the best part of the ENTIRE WEEKEND! Justin took the girls for half of the day. They helped him bake pies to take to Michelle's house for Thanksgiving. Once the girls got back home, we got ready to go to Justin's Mom & Dad's house for dinner. At first I felt weird being there, but I know I am loved by them and I love them and the support the whole family has shown for the girls and I. We had a really fun and relaxing time. Then we went home and watched Home Alone & Home Alone 2.
Friday the girls & I put up most of our Christmas stuff. My parents had gotten us a hotel room at the Hilton in downtown SLC. We had the vice presidential suite! Talk about WOWZA! It was like the size of the main level of my house! Gigantor! It was truely fun! The girls would have been happy to swim from dusk till dawn, but we went to temple square to see lights, the mall, costco, and we watched MammaMia! ... TWO times! I love MammaMia! We popped popcorn and just had a good time! Thank you mom & dad! (oh and btw, the girls did swim for about 4 1/2 hours total)
Saturday afternoon I started to feel as if I had been hit by a truck. We ended up staying a second night in SLC I was so sick! We got back home on Sunday morning and I was sick all day. Justin's parents came and got the girls and took them to the big extended family Christmas Party. I was bummed I couldn't go, but did not want to spread my nasty germs. I slept from 1:30 - 7:00 pm...obviously my body needed it.
And now, it's back to the routine...Holiday is over! So, there's the Epps Girls update until I can get back to a computer...I really want to figure out how to post some of the pictures...we'll see how quickly I become a computer pro!

Camping...Take ONE

The above slide show is of our weekend camping trip! (way too many pictures to put in one post!)

A couple weeks ago my bestest friend in the whole entire world, Tara, called and asked if we wanted to go camping. "Of course!"I said. Anyway, we got online to reserve a site at the most excellent campground, Currant Creek. If you've never been, I highly recommend it. It has running water AND flushing toilets! It's like roughin' it, with 2 comforts of home! It is an absolutely beautiful place and it is not too far away.

We decided to leave Heber about 3:00 Friday. Well Tara got here @ 3:30 and Eric & Brittany got here at 4:00. Justin was fiddling with the boat and we finally rolled out of the driveway at 6:00. Yeah, that's pretty normal when it comes to us and camping. We never leave on time!

We decided to go up over Lake Creek, cause it's a lot faster than going around by Strawberry. We got all the way to the summit (only 14 miles further to Currant Creek) and there we stared at 2 feet of drifted, mushy SNOW! May I say that I am done with snow? Anyway, There were a couple trucks with camp trailers on them trying to turn around, so we waited and then Justin thought he had to give his "good ol' Ford" a try at it! Him & this other guy in a Chevy kept goofing around and pulling each other out of the snow and finally Justin got stuck. The guy helped us out and Tara said "that was enough and we needed to get going". Justin was trying to get the boat loaded back onto the truck , Tara & I started to tease him and CRASH!! He lost control of everything and smashed his pinkie in-between the truck and the boat trailer thing. I heard a crunching noise and then Justin's fowl-mouth blurt out a few choice words that I will edit out for the sake of young readers! Ouch! Tara, Tika & Carsun were the Medical Staff as I sat to the side trying not to puke! (thank heavens for First-Aid Kits in all of our vehicles!)By the time he was all fixed up and we were headed back down the hill, we were all starving. We had planned on having Hobo - Dinners that night but since it was 8:45 when we got back into Heber, we stopped at SubWay...the weirdest tasting Hobo-Dinners I've ever had! By 9:15 we were headed the long way to Currant Creek! We actually made really good time. We pulled into the campground at 10:20. As we drove down to our "RESERVED" campsite, there was a family headed to bed. We ended up talking to them about how we had reserved that spot and blah, blah, blah. Anyway- we went to find an empty spot for the night. We figured that we could work it all out in the morning. By that time it was almost 11:00. We decided to sleep in the cars rather than set up for the night. Uncomfortable fun! (the girls thought it was great...Tara, Eric & Brittany on the other hand, did not! They were squished!) The weekend turned out being super nice. The weather was beautiful and the campground was not very busy. Fishin' was AWESOME and the company was much needed! For not camping once all last summer, we did a great job getting back into the groove!