Utah State Fair

Thanks to my wonderful sister who sent me her SD card reader I can upload come pictures. we have made it a tradition in our family to go to the Utah State Fair every year. It has also become a tradition for Thiess to take Diessen down the big yellow slide. I love the fair, I really would like to know how you become a food tester there. The kids really enjoyed visiting all the animals. Who knew that sheep smelled so BAD!!
FFA has a great exhibit that is for kids that the kids loved. We had a lot of fun.

blog update

Sorry I haven;t updated the blog lately. I tried to a week or so ago but the cord to camera no longer works therefore I cannot download any pictures. So until I buy an SD card reader there won't be any blogging. :(

Lagoon

I haven't been to Lagoon for years mostly because I'm a little afraid that I am going to die on one of the rides, but this year I went with my parents and Rob. I really think that Lagoon is more fun as a parent then it ever was as a child. Page was more timid but she started to get the hang of it by the time we left. I loved watching my kids having so much fun. Diessen was so brave and wanted to ride every ride and he wasn't tall enough to. He was very upset that he couldn't ride the bat. I really thought Diessen would be sick by the end of the day. Uncle Rob was such a great uncle to ride so many rides with his nephew. I'm glad he didn't think that it wasn't too uncool. We only had one casuality, we lost our monkey leash.

New business

As if I'm not busy enough with my other 2 jobs, I've decided to go into a business with my mother in law selling cute girlie stuff. We have a website it is: www.ribbonsandknots.com but I don't have it completely finished yet. So until then if you are interesting in doing a party or ordering anything just call me.

Just your friendly neighborhood....

SNAKE! I few days before i found our friend snake, my neighbor had called to see if Thiess was home to kill one in her yard. We had been working in the yard all day tearing out weeds from the parking strip and after many trips back a forth from the truck, he popped up out of nowhere. It some what scared me but when I realized it wasn't a rattlesnake I was fine. I ran inside to get my camera and yell at Thiess (he was in the shower and when he came out the snake was gone). I wanted him dead, but then I realized he has probably been eating all of the voles that have been eating up my garden.

Summer catch up

We have been very busy this summer. Here are some pics of what has kept us busy.
We started off our summer with Thiess playing in the summer games with some high school friends. They took 3rd place. Thiess took second place in the three point contest and free throw contest. We have spent many days out in our pool. We had a week that it wouldn't stop raining so we played out in the rain, Diessen and Page love their rain boots. Diessen got a new bike and has almost ridden the wheels off of it. Rio Tinto Kennecott had a company party at Rio Tinto Real Stadium, Diessen played in a soccer skills challenge and we watched Bolt on the jumbo-tron. We also have visited Grandma Dorothy in Laramie and spent a few days in Wheatland at grandma's house.Uncle Rob stayed with us for s few days and we went to the Aquarium.

Pictures

Grandma janet took the kids pictures the last time we went out. Here are a few. I can't believe how big my kids are!