So... this is my very first entry on this new blog thingie.  I have never been into scrapbooking or even organizing pictures so this is a HUGE stretch for me.  My wonderful, persistent friend Teisha (here's a shout out to ya babe!) keeps telling me I should start a blog.  I have finally caved in.  I'm not really sure what to write about.  Since my kids are always doing and saying the unexpected (don't we all feel that way?), I think I'll share my most recent incident.

Last Friday I was driving back from Heber, Utah after having a marvelous time on the Heber Creeper - Polar Express (lots of fun for the kids - ours really got into it).  Ryan and I were just talking away when he very calmly says "you've just been caught".  "What are you talking about?"  Then I saw the flashing lights in the rear view mirror - crud.  Pulling out all of our information we realized our car was not registered (expired in Oct. - yeah nothing like procrastination).  Trying to stay calm about the whole thing while silently kicking myself for being so dumb, there was a knock on the window.  As the window was rolling down, we hear a seat belt being undone, and realize Ronin is starting to come up front.  "Ronin sit down", we say in quite voices.  He then turns to the open window and yells as loudly and authoritatively as he can muster, "You leave my mom alone!  I am NOT going to let you take her to jail!"  

Certainly not an expected comment from our 9 year old.  Luckily Officer Anderson of the UHP paid no attention to that, gave me a warning about the registration and reduced my actual ticket to only 9 over.  I'm not going to disclose how fast I was really going, but let's just say I could have had my license taken away had he not reduced my speed.  Kudos and thank you to Officer Anderson.  What a wonderful unintentional teaching moment - NOT.

Needless to say, I have slowed down and will eventually get the car registered.

I'll post some pictures as soon as I figure out how to.  Like I said, I am not very good at that kind of stuff yet!