cupcake

Going into this blogging thing I had great expectations for myself. I was going to be a regular daily blogger, I have some great blogs I read and have been extremely spoiled because they are updated daily. How hard could it be, right? Now I know what monumental effort that must take. First of all, my life just doesn't have the content to warrant daily updates. It's just the same stuff, different day really. So, I'm OK with it now to hit it every once in awhile. I do have to say thank you to the blogs that are updated daily, during the long winter months when I deal with SAD anyway, then you add my supersized life stress of late, sometimes reading my daily blogs were the one thing I looked forward to . And, I am grateful for SPRING and these!These have made me happy every day since I received them! You know you have a good friend when she knows the perfect thing to do for you!!!!!!

Utah has a new Frontrunner commuter train. It runs from North Ogden to Salt Lake. Last Saturday was the first day it went online and the public has been able to ride it free since that day through today Wednesday 4/30. We wanted to take our kids to ride it, and as life happens we were scrambling tonight to get our ride since regular fare starts tomorrow. We boarded at the Woods Cross station and rode north to Roy. We then had to get off and wait to get on a southbound train to return. At Farmington (the station is just west of Lagoon) they came on the intercom and said that due to unforseen circumstances the train would not be allowed to continue south and everyone would have to get off and the train was heading north again. We were told they were dispatching UTA busses to pick everyone up to transport them to the Woods Cross Station. We waited for about 20 minutes and so I called my dad to come and rescue us, while I was talking to him they said the trains were running again and we could go wait again for it. So we went back to the platform to wait another 25 minutes. Tonight was cold, the wind was blowing and Hunter and Noah were only wearing shorts with a sweatshirt and even though Cade was covered in clothes, he is so skinny (it's hard to imagine he's our kid)that he was freezing. Hunter, Cade and Noah were crying because they were so cold....you can imagine the fun WE were having! FINALLY the train came for us and took us to the station and we got in our warm car..after warm showers everyone went to bed. The Woods Cross station is RIGHT by several refineries and there was an explosion at one of them, all the roads were blocked off and that's what shut the train down. You know how you feel like whatever you do can't just be simple, something dramatic has to happen to make it even more memorable than just normal. Everything we do turns into a fiasco so I don't know why I'm ever surprised.
When you're in SLC you'll have to take it for a ride....it's pretty fun.