Viewmont Homecoming Parade

Brett's little sister McKenzie is a cheerleader at VHS (my alma mater) and this year my mother-in-law drove the cheerleaders in the parade (they were on a trailer behind the Hummer). Bammy asked my girls if they wanted to ride with her, and of course they said YES!!!! Grace had a blast playing homecoming queen and sticking her head out the top of the car and waving to the crowd and Ava sat on the front seat and ate all the candy she was supposed to throw to people. Can I say the writing is on the wall?

My Hero

This is actually from a long time ago, but I thought it was blog worthy. This is Brett at the LOTOJA finish line.

Last month my husband and my father-in-law finished LOTOJA. It is a bike race from Logan, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming ( a short 206 miles). I was so proud of them both. It was a really fun weekend for me too. We spent Friday night at the fine Howard Johnson in Brigham City. Which was awesome because we stayed in a smoking room with my sister-in-law and her husband. Not only did I inhale 30 some odd years of smoke, but I could have rolled over and spooned my siser-in-law in the next bed. (Logan was totally booked and we got the last two rooms in Brigham City-I wonder why no one else wanted them?) I woke up at about 3:00 and decide to get the heck out of that place. But where can you go at 3:00 in the morning?So, against all of my morals, I spent the next hour and a half wandering around the Walmart in Brigham with no bra on (classy- I know). We drove up to Logan and there the fun began. I got to race Brett from stop to stop, only he was on his bike and I was in our car. Even with that advantage he still beat me to one of the stops. He finished in 11 1/2 hours and his dad finished shortly after. I was amazed that Brett would even want to do something like this, but he was so dedicated to the training and training and training that he had to do to get ready for this. He didn't even complain the next day. What a man!!!

YUMMY!!!

So my little sister Michelle said she had this "amazing" spaghetti squash recipe. Would anyone like to come over for dinner?

Sisters and Trucks

I seriously think that we live in the cutest neighborhood. The other day my two girls each had two friends over, and those four girls each happened to be two sets of sisters. They were having a great time outside riding bikes and playing pretend while I mowed the lawn. After a while all these big trucks kept going up and down our street, after about the tenth one I showed the girls how to ask the driver to honk with a hand signal (honestly it is the ONLY hand signal I am familiar with) and a new hobby was born. The girls spent about 30 minutes standing on the sidewalk "talking" to the truckers and waiting in the shade for the next truck to come along. While they waited they put their arms around their sisters. It was really cute!!

Ava's first pony tail

Every day Grace wants her hair in a high pony tail and Ava always asks but she just doesn't have enough hair. Today for the first time (with the miracle of spray gel) Ava got her first high pony. I know that this hair style is kind of out of date, but I went to high school in the 90's and you weren't cool unless you had a high pony and it was curly. Besides tell me that profile isn't stinking cute.