Soccer Pics

Justice had a great first game. He got some big kicks in and really chased after that ball. Good job buddy.

Mahalo/Soccer/Dance

Montana is leaving tomorrow morning to go to Mill Hollow with 79 other 3rd & 4th graders from her school. Its a campsite with cabins and several other cabin type buildings. They get to hike, do crafts, learn about animals, bugs and trees. The usual camp type stuff. I went there when I was a kid, Sierra went in 4th grade, and now it is Montana's turn. She is soooo excited. I just hope that excitement will continue once she gets there. This is her first trip away from home without mom or dad. But her best friend Maddy will be there...so hopefully she will survive. She keeps saying Mahalo (which is Hawaiian for Thank You or goodbye?) instead of Mill Hollow---it makes me laugh. She doesn't do it on purpose--just one of those things that happen when you don't really know how to say something. :-)
So we will be putting her on the bus tomorrow morning---I know she will love it. I am just worried about the weather. If it rains she will freak out...and I know it will rain- it always does up there. So I am packing her brave hat...hope she will wear it.

Justice is starting summer soccer tonight. He is soooo bored...this came at the perfect point this summer. So hopefully he wont melt & will enjoy it. Also Justice insisted on taking a dance class this summer. He is in Montana's jazz/ballet class and is TOTALLY loving it. He is actually really good too--some natural ability in there just like his sisters. So Montana gets attention in their class by being the "best behaved/quiet" dancer, and Justice gets attention because he is the only boy. It is fun to watch them through the window. After every class he is just beaming and says "I want to dance forever mom- I LOVE IT!" I guess we will see how long this phase lasts. But for now...we are the dancing family!!

Sierra is still enjoying her month off from drill team...only Stars and thats it. She is enjoying the time off, but I can tell she doesn't know what to do with herself. She is sleeping A LOT! She broke up with her boyfriend...but she doesn't seem too upset about it. I guess they are still friends. Also she can get her driving permit now that she is 15. She picked up the manual and is studying to take the test. Ugh---here we go!!

Out with the kids

I was able to take the kids to a couple movies this week: some more successful than others.

First I took Justice & Montana to lunch & to see Transformers 2. We totally loved the first one and watch it regularly at home, so I thought they would love it & they really wanted to see it. I had to make them cover their eyes on a couple risque parts, but they were over pretty quick. We were there about an hour when I decided it was just too violent and adult for them. Montana was shaking and covering her eyes- Justice was hanging onto me. So we packed up and left. I felt really bad that we didn't see something more geared for kids. We definitely will next time. They still want to see Up & Ice Age 3. So I will have to make it up to them.

Then I took Sierra to see The Proposal. She had already seen it but was dying to see it again because a)she loved it, and b)she knew I would love it. It was really cute...not my favorite movie of all time- but definitely a must see! We went to dinner & shopping after and made a night of it. She's such a cute kid- I love hanging out with her. I relish the time I get to spend with her. She's so busy and growing up so fast...I know my chances to just hang out with her are dwindling.

Lazy days of summer

Nothing going on here except nothing!! We are still painting but taking our sweet time. Sierra is gone to her dads for another week, little ones are spending the nights and weekends with their dad for the next two weeks.

So needless to say...things around here are blissfully dull.

Except mom and dad went to Yellowstone/Jackson Hole without us! How rude! They did ask us to go and it just didn't work out :-( So we were asked to take care of Shadow, their big black lab. So Roxy has a friend this week.
That's it!

It's kinda nice to just do whatever you want, whenever you feel like it! But I do miss my babies! Love you guys! Be good!

Justice's Room

It's been pretty quiet around here with the kids gone to their dad's. So I decided to start painting bedrooms. Well, a bedroom. We bought Justice new bedding last week and so I started with his room first. His walls are still peach from when the girls use to be in that room...so really his needed to be done first! His sheets are so cute- covered with all different airplanes and kind of a military theme. So I've been slapping up Blue & Cream paint. When I get that done (hopefully today) we are going to hang some airplanes from the ceiling on clear thread. He wants to make a sky on the ceiling--blue sky with white clouds on top, but I will pass on that for now. It sounds cute--but I will need someone to help me who knows what they are doing. And I don't want to ruin what I've already done. He is soooooo excited about this. I am excited to see it all come together. I will post pics when it's done. Then I will most likely move on to the other bedrooms! I guess having the kids gone has it's perks??? The house is getting spruced up a bit--and it really needed it. We haven't painted for 10 years. YIKES!!

Pool Time

After swimming at my friend Michelle's last week we were really itching to get a pool. We just got it set up and it is MUCH bigger than I thought it would be. It's 10 feet wide and 30 inches deep. It is 900 gallons (yikes) and has a filter & chlorination system. So it's pretty nice for a "little" pool. It was really a pain to set up because our yard is so un-level. We tried several spots but ended up putting it on the brick patio (which I know is going to be a bad idea) right by the house because it's the only place it would work. So we will see if the kids can behave and not flood the house :-{ I will have to put a tarp over the window right behind it I am sure. But I am hoping we can avoid that--- I NEED THE SUNLIGHT! We have a cover for it so hopefully the water will warm up a bit! It is chilly hose water. So the kids are perfectly happy and loving the water today!! Hopefully that will keep them busy for a couple of days!

Taylorsville Dayzz Parade & Carnival

This morning Sierra's drill team marched in the Taylorsville Dayzz Parade. She was not able to dance with them because she missed a couple of practices while we were in Las Vegas. She was not upset about this at all because she got to pass out flyers instead while wear t-shirt, jeans and flip flops instead of the sequins and dance garb. We were all there to cheer on the team anyway. They looked amazing. I also took some fun pics of the rest of the parade- it was a fun time.

Later that night, we went back to the carnival. Sierra went to hang out with her friends and I headed over to watch the Neil Diamond tribute concert (Jay White- looks and sounds exactly like him). It was a lot of fun. Mom met me later for the fireworks and some food. It was a good time for everyone. We didn't get home until after midnight, we partied til we dropped. We love Taylorsville!