July Funtivities!

Ok, I realize that the last blog was a tich wordy, so this one will be more-or-less a listing, with a few explanations and slideshows! Here we go...

4th of July
July started out with a bang (as it always does)with a 4th of July Logan trip. We were so excited that Matt and Cortnie were here that we followed them to Logan to party! Grandma's achillies tendon was bugging her, and Cortnie had jet lag, so Mom and I (escorted by Dad) ran the Lewiston 5K! Those ones are the best because you can actually win in your age group! Mom took 1st and I took 2nd. When we got back we went to play tennis (see Matt's blog for some cute pics.) and then had a b-que on Grandpa's deck (Todd was in charge of the delicious hamburgers)with Clark and Brenda. Then we watched the USU fireworks from Grandpa front lawn. Next was black and white night on Grandpas big screen. Todd and Jordan had stuff to do back at the ranch, so they left after the B-que and the rest of us stuck around. For the next few days, Grandma was so nice to take us to all the Logan hot spots! We went to the cheese factory, Prestwich Farms factory, Caspers icecream, the fancy fun pool(Jack and Jill jumped right off the high dive-no fear!), and Costa Vita for dinner. On the way out of town we went to Ratatouille and Artic Circle. We had a great time, and I even found time to finish Ender's Game!

M,C,& J
The big fun with Matt and Cortnie continued through most of July. It was so fun to party with them. They were good sports to put up with all of us! Some of our fun times included sleep overs with Jack, the Lehi Pool, Harry Potter, Ping Pong, B-ques and dinners, movies, Jillian's play, shopping, house hunting (in case they move back) and just chatting!

Swim Team
Katy decided to join the swim team this year! To try out you have to be able to swim 3 strokes across the pool. So, in a few trips to the pool, she learned how to breathe on freestyle, do the backstroke without weaving all over the lane, and how to do the breast stroke. She made the team and was very dedicated to her morning workouts. Her time ended up being at 9:00 and I just ran on the track while she swam, and sometimes I did a few laps after she was done. She really improved over June and July and had a great time. The meets were long and annoying, especailly County. They have bronze, silver and gold meets that you go to according to you times. At the last minute they changed Katy to the silver meet in P.G. I was bored to tears so Melody and Jonny came to rescue me! She one all of her heats(she must have been in the slow ones!!!) and placed 13th in backstroke and 19th in breast stroke. Who knows how many participants there were...Anyway, at a couple of the meets she was signed up for the I.M. where you have to swim a 25 of each stroke. I thought she would never make it without stopping or dying! The first time she got DQ for only a one had touch on breast, but the second time she passed! It brought back good memories of my own summer swim team adventures! (nevermind the black dot on all the pictures...)

Jillian's Play
I signed Jillian up for a theater workshop thing. The play they did was about bugs going to a picnic. They gave them a CD with the lines and songs on it and told them to listen to it at home. She took this very seriouly, as usual, and had her parts and most of the others memorized within a few days. Before practice one day I said "oh shoot, we better practice your parts" She told me she already did that morning and she had them memorized. Very self motivated. The hard part was getting her to say the parts with enthusiasm! The first performance...not so much! The second time was like night and day. It was so nice of Matt etc. as well as Lili and Mom and Dad to come to her play. She loved being the center of attention! This was one of her parts "That's right, I'm a Dragonfly. I may look rather odd. I've just gone through a metamorphesis, for I am and arthropod!"


In other news...
* Jordan played in the State baseball tournament
* Ran with Mom, G-ma, Brenda and friend Mandi in the Hyde Park 5K (Logan) Katy and her friend Spohie did the mile race and WALKED across the finish line together!
* Pioneer Day b-que and sparklers at Mom's
* Football camp/try-outs--Jordan made the A Team!
* Todd played in Monticello golf tourn. and stayed in Moab-1 under 1st day and
played well enough the next 2 days to earn back his entrance fee!
* Took Katy and Jillian to 7-peaks

I guess this one was pretty much the same as last time, but now I am caught up to August and I can do normal sized blogs!