Yogurt Baby!

Apparently Jenna learned how to feed herself yogurt today!!

Kindergarten Love Notes!

Last night I went to bed and felt something crinkle in my pillow.  It was this cute little love note from Jaiden!

I love it!  Thanks Jaiden!! 

Swiss Days

It is so neat to see the community come together for "Swiss Days" every year. We live only a block away from the town hall where all of the festivities are and so it is perfect for walking back and forth. People who didn't live nearby had to park at the high school and ride a shuttle back and forth. The Swiss Days committee borrowed our 15 passenger van for one of the shuttles.

Last night Rick and I enjoyed the BBQ dinner and family history displays and this morning Jase and I ran the 5k. Here I am still splotchy and red-faced! My time was 30 minutes 35 seconds and Jase's was 33 minutes and 30 seconds. I haven't run a race in years. Hopefully I can improve my time on the next one.

The kids enjoyed the parade -- at least those entries that threw out candy, otter-pops, or T-shirts! Josh and Jaiden would yell out, "Here comes a candy-throwing one!" The younger kids also got a kick out of Smokey the Bear and the lion from Laser Mania.

Janika and I took the little kids around to play the games and look at the booths. The older boys saw "opportunity" and set up a table on the corner to sell lemonade and candy. They made a few bucks each and so they were happy! Jase helped man one of the booths yesterday and today with his scout troop.

Those who put on Swiss Days do such a wonderful job! (Notice Ky's hair in the last picture. He got it done at one of the "hair styling" booths! Stylin!)

Deaf Branch Conference Day Two

Deaf Branch Conference Day One

Tonight was the first night of our Deaf Branch Conference. We had about 65 people attend. About half from our branch here and half from out of town. We had Deaf people come from Northern Utah, California, and a few from other states. One person came clear from Maryland!

Tonight everyone arrived and had a chance to visit. I know many of our members were excited to see friends that they had not seen for a long time. Then we had a wonderful meal catered by Staheli Catering. The key note speaker was Ron Burdett. He did a fabulous job (as always)! It was a very enjoyable evening!

Annie

I took my kids to Tuacahn to see "Annie" tonight. We went with the deaf group and the interpreters did an incredible job! I had already seen the play earlier with Janika and so I enjoyed watching the interpreters much of the time. Janika was excited to see her friend, Ellie Smith, play the part of "Annie." They got to know each other in the production of "Les Miserables" last summer. Ellie did a fantastic job and we enjoyed the show very much! Jase decided at the last minute to stay home, which was fine by me since I needed someone to watch Josh and Jenna until Rick got home from cleaning up after the first night of the Deaf Branch Conference. Jared came along but was "too cool" to actually get into any of the pictures. The girls took their glasses off in one of the "poster pictures" because "none of the orphans were wearing glasses." Silly girls!

Cowboy Day

I feel so disorganized lately. I went to pick up our cute little neighbor girl, Aly, to bring her to pre-school with Josh and she was all decked out in cow-girl clothes. "Oh, is it cowboy day?" Her mom remembered and she just had a new baby four days ago. What's my problem?

The problem is -- I didn't write it on the calendar. I have a master calender in the kitchen which I check numerous times a day. If appointments and obligations get written on the calendar then I do pretty well at staying on top of things. But if they don't, then wedding receptions, baby showers, cowboy days, and "wear pink to school" days are completely erased from my memory.

But luckily my friend saved my son from the embarrassment of being the only kid not dressed up. (Actually I noticed that a couple of other kids apparently had forgetful parents too...) I hurried to the basement and dumped out the costume box searching for suitable cowboy gear.

Our cowboy hats have all been sat on, stepped on, squished, and tossed out and so I had to choose this goofy little hat which looks more like a farmer than a cowboy, but Josh didn't know the difference. (He has done just fine in pre-school since that "first-day melt-down" by the way). I didn't dare let him wear our cowboy boots since they are several sizes too big and I was afraid he might fall down the steep stairs that lead to the pre-school area. We also have chaps and the whole get-up but I could only find one leg in a hurry. So vest and hat it was. He was a perfectly happy little uh...cowboy!