Jogapalooza

Ryder's school fundraiser: Jogapalooza
We ran for 20 minutes, Ryder and his friends made 3 laps with mom following along. The kids were so excited and have so much fun. They loved the warm up with the Bobby Lawrence karate team.

Jogapalooza

Ryder's Kindergarden program

16th ward makes it to Regionals!

Way to go my little YW Basketball team!


Our ward took first in our division so made it to the regionals for basketball. What a bunch of cute girls huh? 2 had already darted off to make it to their PROM dates.. sorry Lauren and Nicole.
The girls were amazing. In the CHAMPIONSHIP game they barely lost by 3 points! We won't talk about the big travel that should have been called in the last minute that let the other team get the basket that took them from 1 point lead to 3... nope won't mention that at all.
Great group of girls and great season.
Thanks to my coach Melissa over there for dragging out her kids!

Heading into the holidays..

So sorry if this is the same picture you get on your Christmas card from us. I am just sitting here uploading all my music to my newer computer so I will be able to make the annual Christmas music Cd. So realizing the blog hadn't been updated in a while again, decided I would post some photos etc. I really can't believe Christmas is right around the corner.
Every year I have the same delimma how do we do this without it being ruined by how worldy and gimmy gimmy it's become. And then I do too much.. so how do we do it?

Jackson Hole

For the July 24th weekend, we escaped Utah and more fireworks and headed to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I had forgotten how absolutely lovely it is up there. Our river guide assured us we might not find the winters quite so lovely. Did he really say -35degrees? Ugghh, no thanks. Scott and I rode our new bikes on a pretty road leading up into the mountains. Jackson has these trails everywhere. We are so jealous that Utah doesn't have trails all over like that. They were everywhere.
Our friends, the Stones, went with us and we had a great time. Had to do the downtown scene, ate some yummy BBQ at Bubbas, did the river, downtown in there again :) and the went to the Bar J for dinner and entertainment. We stumbled on that place totally by accident our one of our drives and it was fun. I would definatley say that is a fun family thing to go do. Now we our home for one day and back up to East Canyon! Then on to Washington. We are excited to see my mom and dad (the "other" grandma and grandpa- is that like the other white meat? ) The kids and I love WA, we are going while daddy works in Reno.

Maddie feeding the stingrays. Ryder dropped his fish in the water before they could eat it. You have to get your hand right under their body and then their mouth kind of sucks it up