Pirate Island

We went with some friends to Pirate Island tonight. The kids had so much fun!! Everyone is dressed up like pirates and talk like pirates! It is like going to Rainforest Cafe but Pirate style:) They have an arcade area with games and the food was great too!!

Score!!

Cayden made his first goal EVER, today in soccer (the day I forget the camera of course)!!! He was so proud of himself and couldn't stop talking about it all day:) Way to go Cayden!!!

Brandon & Rachel

My brother got married tonight!! It was perfect weather for an outside wedding and they both looked great!! They had a dessert bar with all kinds of chocolate desserts and candy (never go to a wedding with that kind of food without eating dinner first)!!:)

Deciding whether to be nice or not with the cake, they both were too nice!!:) I am glad my brother found Rachel!! They are the perfect match:)

LOTOJA 2010

Night before LOTOJA 2010

206 MILES

(Logan, Utah to Jackson Hole, Wyoming)

4 PEOPLE

(Lance, Kent, Jeremy & Danielle)

10:14:30.303

(The goal was 10 hrs.)

Placed 17th out of 60 relay teams!!!!

RACE DAY!!!!

Starting line right before Lance started the first leg

The race has begun!!

Kent (Danielle's brother) getting ready for the second leg of race

Transition zone

Kent, Jeremy & Lance

Danielle getting ready for 3rd leg of race

The timing chip had to be traded off at each transition zone

Lance starting the 4th leg (the transition zones were so quick you were lucky to get any pictures)

Jeremy getting ready for the 5th and final leg!!

Jeremy just crossed the finish line!!

The Finish Line (the team minus Kent who went home already)!! Everyone on the team did awesome!! Everyone was so fast that we would barely make it to the transition zone in time to trade off riders!! We can't wait until next year!!:)

Utah Football 2010

First Utah game of the season!!

Breakfast Cookies

Cayden refuses to eat anything that is a fruit or vegetable!! Will not even try it. I at least have him fooled with these breakfast cookies that are full of fruits and other healthy things. He loves them!! They are actually pretty good and I don't feel guilty letting my kids eat them for breakfast or whenever they want:) They freeze well so I double the batch and have them ready when we need a quick breakfast or snack.

Banana Oatmeal Breakfast Cookies

1/2 C. peanut butter

1/2 C. applesauce

3/4 C. packed brown sugar

1 egg

1 tsp. vanilla

2 ripe bananas (mashed)

1/2 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. salt

1 1/2 C. flour or (3/4 C. all purpose and 3/4 C. wheat flour)

1/4 C. toasted wheat germ

2 C. quick cooking oats (not instant)

1 C. chocolate chips or (raisins or cranberries)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. With electric mixer, beat peanut butter & applesauce until combined. Beat in brown sugar. Add egg & vanilla, beating until mixed. Stir in bananas, baking soda and salt. Add flour and wheat germ, mixing until combined. Stir in oatmeal and chocolate chips. Drop 1/4 C. dollops of batter 4-inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet. Press down slightly with the palm of your hand to flatten into 3-inch rounds. Bake for 15 minutes or until edges are browned. Let stand 1 minute on tray and then remove to wire rack.

First Day of 2nd Grade

This year Carlie was so excited to go back to school! We had a much smoother transition than last year and Carlie loves her new teacher, Mrs. Oz:)

Every grocery store needs one of these!!

If only every grocery store had one of these I think I could say grocery shopping was "enjoyable"!! It was the best and easiest shopping trip I have ever had in 7 years!!

One last Summer getaway!

We went up to Park City for one last getaway for the summer:) We went shopping, ate at a really good Mexican Restaurant, El Chubasco, went swimming, watched people practice ski jumping into water at the Olympic Park and went down the Alpine Slide (after some convincing)!! It was a fun weekend and we are sad to see the summer fun come to an end!!:)

Getting ready to ride chairlift to top of slide:)

Riding the chairlift to the top of the mountain, Carlie is getting more nervous!!

Cayden can't wait!!

Last chance to turn around!! Too bad there was only 1 way down at this point or Carlie may have taken it:)

We made it!! "That was so much fun, can we go again??"

Tour de Utah

We went up to Snowbird and watched the final leg of the Tour de Utah. The kids thought it was fun to watch the bikers race up the mountain and ring there cow bells!! It is amazing how many days and miles they ride in the end. Just going up the canyon to Snowbird would have been enough for me:)

This was the winner of the Snowbird portion of the race

Jai Crawford, Fly V Australia

The "crazy" people always come out to these events!! This guy would run along the racers as they would come and pour water on them and try to push them up the hill!!

Everyone just lined their cars up the side of the canyon to watch

Dinosaur Park

We took the kids to the Dinosaur Park in Ogden. A lot of it is outside so you want to go on a "good" weather day but maybe not on a day when it is 100 degrees:)

The kids favorite part was digging for "real" dinosaur bones:)

It was a fun day and my kids are both happy that dinosaurs are not alive today!!:)

Rachel

This is my new soon-to-be sister-in-law:) We had a bridal shower at my house for her. Family, friends and of course good food made for a fun afternoon!!

I had to steal a picture from her blog (THANKS):) I forgot to take a picture of just Rachel at the shower:)