My husband, the drug dealer

So Adrian bought a new car. And when I say new I mean it is 18 years old, but new to us. It is a Mitsubishi Eclipse which is his favorite affordable car. This is the 4th eclipse he has owned.

Four days after he bought this eclipse he got pulled over because his temporary license plate "looked suspicious". Now, he did not get pulled over by any regular cop, it just so happened to be the K-9 officer with the drug dog who pulled him over. Right away, Adrian was asked to step out of the car because his car smelled really strongly of marijuana. Adrian tried to explain that he just bought the car and had the bill of sale to show the cop right there. The cop did not care what Adrian had to say, he made Adrian sit on side of the road in the 100 degree heat with his hands on his knees. Adrian was not allowed to move while about 7 more cops showed up and began searching his car. He was told if he tried to run for it, they would send the dogs on him or tase him. The cops all said the car smelled really strong of marijuana. At one point the main cop told Adrian that Adrian smelled strongly of marijuana too and that if needed they would send Adrian to a medical clinic to check all his bodily crevices to find the drugs. Adrian said he was a bit scared at first because the cops were being so harsh and mean to him, but after a while and them finding nothing, Adrian was making jokes to them. They searched Adrian's car for 4 whole hours. They took it to a shop and had parts of the car taken apart looking for the drugs.  The whole time Adrian had to sit on the side of the road, this was the end of June so it was so hot. After 4 hours of nothing turning up, they finally let Adrian go, giving him only carwash coupons for their inconvenience to him. We did notice when we bought the car it has a distinct smell, but to us it smells like an old oily dingy car, we're so naive that we did not recognize the smell of marijuana. In the end we now get a laugh of it, but Adrian keeps saying that it was his brown skin, brown eyes and black hair that made them so suspicious of him having drugs. This probably would not have happened to an old white lady driving the same car. 

First family camp-out

Our ward is having a camp-out this weekend and we initially wanted to join in the fun. But, I picked up a shift to work on Saturday so we wouldn't be able to go. I still wanted to go camping so we took the kids and stayed Friday and Saturday at North Fork by Eden, Ut. It was a very pretty place to stay, but it cost us way more than we anticipated to stay one night so we will probably never go back.

It was a perfect temperature when we got there and it felt so nice to get out of the city.

Malachi loved to play in the dirt. I could not keep him on a blanket, he would pull the blanket so he could get his little hands in the dirt. 

Levi was so excited to go camping. We had a little creek right next to our camp site and it was perfect for him to play in.

It was fun to camp, but it was a lot of work with two little kiddos.

Levi copies everything Adrian does. After Adrian was done pounding in the tent stakes, Levi picked up the same rock Adrian used and pounded them all in a little more. Notice the gray rain fly on the ground. Once we got the tent up we thought there was no rain fly. We probably said 10 times or so how much warmer we would have been in the night if we had the rain fly. We discovered it under our tent as we took the tent down the next morning!!! We got a good laugh!!

Levi had so much fun that evening we were there. He stayed up late with us and we even saw two shooting stars. He kept holding out his hands wanting to catch a falling star.

We got to bed quite late that night and Adrian and I hardly slept because we were up all night trying to keep blankets on the kiddos.

Malachi's night routine was not bothered at all. He slept the best out of all of us. He was so good the whole time we were camping. He's entertained by watching everyone else.

We weren't able to have a fire because we could find absolutely no fire wood around. I guess that's how a public camping site is, everything's been so picked over.

Good morning to these two handsome boys :)

Levi was so grumpy when he woke up. Malachi woke up at his normal time of 0630 and we all got up with him. Levi did not get enough sleep and in the morning he kept saying he wanted to drive back home. Here's one picture of him happy after we ate breakfast.

 We did a small hike to a waterfall. Had we known how steep and strenuous it was we probably would not have done it with kids. But, Levi was great at walking on the easy parts!!

Notice how dirty his face is, it amazed me how I could not keep this boy clean. At one point he was literally laying in the dirt rolling around.

Levi also got soaked in the creek and ended up walking around with no pants or shoes. 

We had some good old fashioned family fun. Adrian said he's had his fill of camping for a while though. It's just not as relaxing as it used to be before kids. We sure love our kids though and can't wait for more adventures with them!!