TWO BIRTHDAYS ONE WEEKEND

Happy Birthday Chloe - It didn't make sense to do anything other than a dress up party. Dress up is your favorite thing to do every day. We provided all the dress ups, did all of your guests hair, make-up and nails. Each of you got to strut your stuff during a fashion show and then we ended the party with a little tea party luncheon. Whew....what a day!

10 YEARS OLD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR! I can't believe it has been 10 years since you were born. You are such a great daughter and sister! Mom went a little crazy this year for your party. We decided to do a Fear Factor party. We tie died shirts for all of the guest so they wouldn't ruin their clothes with blood and guts :). For challenges we did

Pull worms out of spaghetti using your teeth......



Eat Dog Food.... Carley didn't mind.

Carry bloody eyeballs across the grass and drop them in a cup tied to your teammates head.

Dig for real earthworms.



Presents and Cake.

CABIN FUN

We are making progress.


Last year the outside of the cabin was finally completed so this year we are trying to make the inside livable (cabin style).



Last weekend we worked on finishing the ceiling. We were short help so Buddy and I cut the boards and Brennan and Josh nailed them in. We got the better end of the deal!




This was not much fun for the kids so we took a break and went to the pond to catch some frogs. Taylor likes to catch them but does not like to touch them. Carley loves to hold them but can't catch them and Chloe....well she prefers neither. Dani Gramma and Trax went along with us.

Dancing the day away

It was that time of year again for the annual dance recital. The girls had been preparing for months for this big day. They all did so good!




Taylor has been taking gym for 3 years and she can already to 8 back handsprings in a row! She loves it and is always doing fips anytime she can. She also did 4 scaffling dances as well.




Carley has been taking tap, ballet and gym for the past three years and likes it for the most part. She perfomed a tap dance for the recital.



This was Chloes first year. I contemplated even letting her do it as I was not sure if she would go through with it. She did and she did such a good job! My little angel did a ballet dance to "She looks like and angel"

The rectial was at the UNLV Artemus Ham Hall. 6/13/09

REPEAT CHAMPS

The WILDCATS did it again. Taylor's soccer team won the Henderson Cup for her age division. We ended the season with a 8 - 1 - 1 record.



Taylor played fabulous of course. For those of you who have never watched her play, she is truly amazing. During the championship game we ended the first half tied 1 to 1. The parents really didn't know what to expect as this was not the outcome we had hoped for. It turned out it just took them a little while to warm up and we ended up scoring 5 more times



For a little surprise afterwards we treated the girls to a limo ride for ice cream. They were so excited. Her coaches, Cole Boren and Allen, taught her so much over the past two seasons. Taylor was asked to play on the Henderson Heat team next season. We are excited but a little nervous about the time commitment as SHE IS ONLY NINE! Taylor we are very proud of you.

I survivied Ragnar!

I survived........

The Wasatch Back 188 mile relay. There were 12 of us on a team and we each ran 3 different legs. It took us a little over 31 hours to run the entire race. It was so fun and challenging. My friend Karrie Sue and my little bro Kade also ran on my team. We drug Chris, Shawna and Annilee along to drive the van and provide us water and snacks while we ran. They got a good workout too. My mom and Karries mom make us snack lunches and a fabulous BBQ dinner when it was all over.

We had so much fun we signed up to do it again in October.....in VEGAS!!

Remembering Red Cliffs

Brittnie and I decided to escape the heat and head to Cedar for a couple of days with the kids. We planned on taking our time and stopping along the way. We stopped in St. George to go to Paula's and then off to Red Cliffs. Red Cliffs is a place we visiting often growing up from field trips in elementary to Senior Sluff Day as Seniors in High School. This is even where Chris and I took our engagement pictures.

I mentioned to Taylor that we used to catch tadpoles and frogs there and so she came prepared with a Tupperware container. When we got there we were very surprised at the lack of water. We walked up the trail to the pond and there wasn't a drop of water along the way. Because it was 90 degrees and both Buddy and I had a child on our hip we turned around before we actually made it to the ponds.

We didn't find any tadpoles but we did see a lot of Crawdads. Taylor caught 2 small ones and insisted that we take them up to Grandmas. She tried to sell them the next day at her bake sale but no one wanted them. Good times.