Growing up

Alisha went on a dive trip to Southern California for a few days with Matt and I was surprised to see this note that she left for Austin on the message board in the kitchen.

She must be growing up if she is doing something this thoughtful!

Summer Sleeps Over

Our niece Summer (Josh and Debbie's 4-year old) stayed the night with us while her parents went to Snowbird. She's always so much fun to have over. She always brings her "Pet Shop" toys to play with and loves to throw pretzels and pieces of banana for Missy to catch.

Look how long her hair is! Alisha did a good job of getting her bathed and doing her hair for the day. (Although she got tired of trying to dry it so I had to help out).
Summer even wore an orange shirt to show support at Alisha's Volleyball game Saturday morning. (Alisha is the middle girl in the photo with black shorts & the number 14 on her shirt.)

Utah State Fair

We went to the State Fair earlier this month. We took our nephew Jace with us also.

(He's in the center carrot)

The size of some of the cows was really impressive!
We thought the little coats and hoods on the sheep were funny. Especially the white coats and hoods on the black sheep...it looked like a screwed up animal version of the KKK!

The boys had never felt how thick and soft the wool on sheep is. They got to check it out on a few un-dressed sheep. Alisha was really into the "Fair Food" Here she is eating a carmel apple next to a pig's butt.

She also had a funnel cake and cotton candy!
The little pigs were my favorite part. I guess they reminded me of the story of Wilbur in "Charlotte's Webb"

Time Out for Missy!

We have a plastic tray in the kitchen where we put muddy and wet shoes.

Matt told Missy to sit on it the other day and made her stay there for a couple of minutes so we've decided to call it her "Time Out Spot". If we tell her to go to Time Out, she'll go and sit on the tray. It's so funny!

(Of course she's rarely in trouble so don't think she's really being punished...)

Too bad the kids don't mind this well when they are told to go to their rooms!

Football Season Begins

Austin is playing tackle football this fall for the first time. He's played two years of flag football but decided that it's time to be a MAN and play for real!

He's playing on Orem's Lightweight team (which is actually combined with boys from Oak Canyon and Pleasant Grove).

He weighed in at a whoppin' 93 pounds! (Luckily the boys have to weigh 105 or less to be in the Lightweight division so no one is too much bigger than him!)

At each practice, one boy is given the gold jersey (their usual jerseys are light blue).

Today Austin was given the coveted gold jersey because he worked the hardest at practice.

He was so excited!