Addiction

You are witnessing the begin of a complete "obsession" with Coke. Our baby girl has caught the bug and now is addicted to the sweet nectar known as Coca Cola. Just try and take the can and she says "NO, NO mine" and has a total freakout. The funny thing is, when she throws the tantrum she does it so carefully that not one drop spills. Good girl Quin.

Not for the faint of heart

Here are 2 recent pics I have come across.

The first is a guy I bike with. He "accidentally" scraped his thigh with a CHAINSAW!

Number 2 is just weird.

High School Again

As cheesy as this seems, I love just hanging out with Holly. While away from the kids this past weekend Holly and I just hung out with friends and acted like high schoolers. I just want Holly to know how much fun she is to be with. Maybe that is why she is so popular? Oh yeah, we also saw a moose and her baby

Second place is the first loser

This past weekend was the Logan to Jackson (LOTOJA) bike race. Last year I did the entire 206 mile event, but this year opted for a relay with 3 of my riding buddies. The relay was broken into 5 legs. The "freak of nature" Justin Jensen did the first leg. Jamie the "bike shop worker" did the second leg. I did the third, and Brad Pilling "Murder Eye" did the 4th and 5th. There was a second DNA relay team and they had 5 riders (Adam, Tony, Bubba, Jon, Scott). It was so nice not having to deal with the nerves, and stress that goes along with a BIG ride. In fact here are some pictures of me getting ready. No stress!
To make a long story VERY short, we ended up taking 2nd place. The other DNA relay took 4th. Come to find out that the team that beat us happened to be a bunch of young ringers. Crazy thing is even though we only had 4 riders, they barely beat us. I ended up riding from Montpellier to Afton and had 2 steep climbs to deal with. I felt really good riding and had an absolute blast jumping from group to group. We ended up staying the weekend hanging out with friends and planning strategy for next year. Actually we are trying to get the women out on the relay next year.
I am sick of the 2nd place finishes! So far this year I have placed 2nd 3 times, 3rd once and 85th once(this is the one I am most proud of). Last year I placed 2nd once and 3rd once. I really need to win one!!! Oh well there is always next week.
Correction: I took 1st in the Summer Games Tri-relay
Correction 2: I Win, I Win, I finally Win

Metal Mouth Millie

Millie came home from school today and told me that she is one of the "coolest kids in 3rd grade."

Not because she acts cool, not because her hair is cool, and not because her clothes are cool. She is cool because she has a retainer. A pink sparkly retainer with an "M" on it!

She just got it yesterday and let me tell you, ever since it has been a slurp fest. For anyone who has ever had a retainer, you know what I mean. I couldn't stop giggling because I remember all too well. At first you don't know what to do with your tongue and all that spit so you talk funny and you "slurp" every 10 seconds trying to collect and swallow all the saliva.

Slurping during the drive home, during prayer, during homework, in her bed, in her sleep! She started getting self-conscious about it so to make her feel better, I pulled out my good ol' retainer, dusted off the cobwebs, and put mine in. We slurped together. Then this morning we had practice exercises of how to talk and how to swallow without making that sound. I think it helped because when she came home from school today, she was, as mentioned above, "one of the most coolest kids in 3rd grade!" "Everybody wants one now," she said.

Oh I'm so glad that she feels so cool. I hope she feels this cool when she gets a headgear. j/k!

(Actually, I didn't think they made those anymore but I saw a girl wearing one today at Costco...poor thing).

1st day of Pre-K!

Oh Miss Emily....watch out because today is the first day you face THIS kid...


He is a treasure but even his teacher last year said that in 15 years of teaching, she has never encountered a kid who talks as much as Will does! He will talk to anyone who will listen. I actually missed having our conversations today while he was at school. I can't believe how big he is getting. I love that I can leave the house 5 minutes before school starts, put Quincy in the stroller, and walk to Will's pre-school! So much better than last year when I was juggling 3 school carpools. The things he was most excited for were to eat at school, use the bathroom at school (he wouldn't go at home because he was "holding it"), and to hang his book bag on the hook that has the cartoon of the boy with yellow hair. As much as I missed him today, I thoroughly enjoyed my alone time with my baby girl. FINALLY just the 2 of us!

Will and his teacher Miss Emily.

Labor pains

Today is Labor Day. It is amazing how every year on or very near the first week of September, Utah gets its first dusting of snow in the high country. Here is a picture taken from our back deck. Anyway with the cool weather and a day off what do you do? Answer: PUT THE KIDS TO WORK!!! We made today our fall cleanup. The funny thing was the kids had no idea what we had in store for them. When Millie realized what was going on she asked "Why do we have to work on Labor Day, I thought it was a day to celebrate not working?" In order to save face Mom and Dad responded with "Labor Day was started by farmers who HAD to work to get their farms ready for winter". I don't know if this is fact or not, but Millie found it to be a valid explanation

The chores started in the kids room and moved to the basement. After 6 hours, a truck load of junk to the dumpsters and another truckload of items bound for DI our work was completed. Well that is until Oktoberfest, where the kids must clean the garage to prepare for the month of October!