Cheer Camp

Sierra is off to Cheer Camp at the University of Utah for four days. She has been a tornado around the house practicing, packing, preparing. Since she is the co-captain I have to help with a lot of things as well. We made decorations for the doors, good luck gifts, secret sister gifts, and we are going to do hair updos for everyone tomorrow morning. She is so excited. Hope they do well- they have worked really hard preparing for this. Go Bobcats! This is their new uniform. They are so cute!

Taylorsville Dayzz

Today Sierra was in the annual T-ville Dayzz parade. They were in their new uniforms and they looked awesome! Of course it was about 100 degrees and we were melting on the side of the road- so we were worried about the girls having heat exhaustion. But they were fine. We hollered for all the kids we knew and loved all the hot rods.

After the parade, they have a big oldies car show. They always have a tire burn-out right after the parade. So we headed over there. The fire department is there hosing down the pavement and the crowd. It was a lot of fun, and a lot of smoke. If you have never been to one- the hot rods lock up the front tires and just let the back wheels spin and spin. It's kinda weird, but we love it.

Then we were so exhausted we came home for naps and air conditioning. We went back about 7:00 after things had cooled down. There is a giant festival with rides for the kids, shopping, food, concerts,and fireworks. So we did the whole thing. The kids got face painting and air brush tattoos, & rode all the rides. Sierra was off with her friends and her new boyfriend Hunter. They had a lot of different bands but the last one was a Neil Diamond impersonator- he looked and sounded just like him- it was wild. He sang the America song when the fireworks started. We all met up after the fireworks to head home. It was a lot of fun for everyone!

Swimming and Sundaes

Today I took the kids and a couple of their friends swimming at my Grama Dodies pool. Mom came and joined us as well. It was Skyler's first time (my nephew) swimming with us. He didn't cry at all- in fact he LOVED it. It was so fun. The kids all had floaties and noodles. We were there forever. Grama didn't swim but she hung out by the pool chatting with her neighbors. We all got a bit of sun. Justice and Montana both have a few new freckles. Gotta love that.

We went to Arctic Circle after and had icecream. What a fun afternoon. We came home and everyone laid down for a nap. Now that's my kind of fun!

Hog Fever!

Guess who else went and bought a bike! That's right. My dad couldn't resist. I guess we will be bike buddies now! He deserves it!

Las Vegas Pics Part 2

Las Vegas Pics Part 1

Las Vegas

We're back! And we are loving the weather here! It is so stinkin hot in Vegas. We had covered parking- and we would come out and get in the car and burn our legs on the seats- that's how hot it was. About 110 or hotter everyday.

Sierra and her team did an awesome job. The awards didn't come their way and they felt bad for a minute- but they know they worked hard and did their best. The California teams just blew us away. They will have to watch out for us next year- we will be knocking their socks off!

We tried to squeeze in as much fun as we could. There just is never enought time. We went swimming a couple times, dragged the strip and did our sight seeing, went to Fremont Street and did some shopping, bowling in our hotel (so fun!), and saw the Bellagio inside and out (wow! totally amazing!) as well as the fountain show there. We ate out for every meal- but didn't have anything that was too memorable. Justice and Grama Dodie wouldn't eat much so they were cheap dates. Gas was outrageous $4.23 a gallon was the cheapest, $4.89/gal. was the most . We spent as much on gas as we did on the hotel. Our hotel was nice but we decided Sam's Town is still our favorite hotel. But, it was on the wrong side of town for where we needed to be this year. We stayed at the Orleans. It's a nice hotel, but the machines stink. Not even Grama had any luck. And she is ALWAYS lucky in Vegas.

The pics didn't turn out great. Our digital camera is dying. Hopefully we can get a new one soon. But I figured some crappy pics are better than none at all.

All in all we had a great time! But we are soooo glad to be back in the beautiful Utah weather!