Anyone seeing Red?????

So tomorrow is the big day.  The day that all Utah and BYU fans wait for.  Yes,  it's the big game.  You know which one I'm talking about.  The University of Utah gets to make that hour long trip to Provo to play against the Cougars.  Will you be wearing Red or Blue??

Guess what color I will be sporting?

Too much time on my hands- I think

What do you do when you think you have too much time to spare?  Why you paint the mailbox of course.

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After:



Our first egg

FINALLY - the chickens have started to earn their keep.  We got our first egg.  Ok I know that may not sound exciting to everyone but to us it is (yes we get excited over little things).  Alexis just about stepped on it when she went to put the chickens away for the night.

They haven't quite got it figured out to use the nesting boxes yet.

 

 



 

 

They've grown haven't they?  They are actually pretty friendly, they even let us pet them.  They love this barrel that they are sitting on.

The Contraption

That's the only name we can think to name it.  Apparently my grandfather made this when my dad and his siblings were younger.  It ended up in my dad's front yard a year ago.  It may not be the prettiest thing but the kids sure have enjoyed it.

Our friends no I mean family, The Hess' were here earlier this month and when they come around it is always a lot of fun.  It didn't take the kids long to figure out how to work it.  However, it does help when someone (Kirk) is willing to push you on it. 

Oh, and did I mention that you have to stop quite often to fix it????

A busy summer.....

I'm not sure where June went and I'm still trying to figure out how July got here so fast.  This summer just seems to be flying by.  We have kept a lot busier this summer than any other summers that I remember.  June started off with Jake and Alexis taking a trip to Yellowstone with the youth from our stake - all 150+ of them.  They had a great time. 

They were then home for a week before heading out to church girl's camp and football camp.  You would think that we would get a break - oh no- it was time to get Jake ready for the National Scout Jamboree for two weeks.  He will have lots to share when he gets back so stick around.

Alexis headed off to Cheerleading camp this last week for four days and will be gone again next week to EFY.  Hoping by the end of the month we can get back to some type of normal routine.  Oh wait, we just might. School starts the 19th of August.

Alexis was also in the 4th of July parade with the cheerleaders - They got to take the easy way out and ride:

Race Day

The advantage of living on one of the best streets in town is that you get to witness the bike races.  Yep, that right, today was the bike race.  So we set up camp on the front porch and watched these guy go by.  These guys come from all over to participate.

It is so much fun being on the watching end of things....