Simplot Games

What a fun weekend! McKay and I spent the weekend in Pocatello so he could participate in the Simplot Games. It is a National Track Meet. There were 95 boys competing in the shot put. They narrowed it down to 20, then to 12. McKay made it to the final 12! He did awesome! Another teammate made it in the final 12 also. It was a fun time! It ended up being a nice little vacation for me too. I got caught up on some reading, we ate out, stayed in a motel and had no responsibilities except to get us to the meets on time!

This is the guy who took 1st place from Georgia. I took a picture because I think we will be seeing him in the Olympics!!

Catching Up

Hiram's first time snowboarding - pretty impressive! We all thought he would spend most of his time on his bum, but he proved us wrong!

Mitchell still has it!

I didn't even entertain the thought of snowboarding, I played it safe with skiing. I couldn't believe how it came back - just like riding a bike (almost). The only time I fell down is when all of our boards and skis got caught as we were getting off of the lift and we all fell flat on our faces! Pretty entertaining!

McKay's football coach talked him into throwing the shot put for him this year and has decided it is pretty fun, especially when he took 3rd place at the BYU invitational! He went with no expectations, but now he feels the pressure to do better each time. He has been to two more meets since then and has always placed in the top 5. We are off to Simplot Games this weekend.

Checking out his lettermen jacket that he got for Christmas. He lettered in football and now he will get one for track.

He was named MVP Lineman for our region in Football so we surprised him and framed it for Christmas.

The annual "picture on the stairs" as they come down on Christmas morning. They are getting so big!

Posing with his new aviator sunglasses that he got for his birthday.

Rubbing it in!

Kyle bet Hiram that he would pass him up by his birthday. Almost, but not quite - I think they are pretty much even.

Kyle's 14th birthday.

Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go . . . .

All Region MVP

HE won't let me put it on facebook because it is "bragging" but HE won't need to know that I blogged about it! HE was named All Region MVP! The West Jordan Defensive Lineman Coach nominated HIM, Bingham Head Coach seconded it and then HE was voted in!! Way to go!!! HE worked his tail off all year and it paid off! This person's name has the letters Y A K C M in it!

Don't ask me why Mitchell decided to wear his horse costume from when he was 4 or 5 years old!!

Here is one of our future missionaries! He tried on Hiram's old suits from his mission and they pretty much fit!! Hiram was having a ball with this!

Meet Sandy and Danny from Grease!!

Sadly, the football season has come to an end for McKay. :( They played such a great game against Pleasant Grove! We really were the better team - ahead at half time, but after two interceptions, we lost the game. What will McKay do with his time now? He did so well and will miss it so much!!

It's on to the playoffs for Mitchell's team! Beat Bingham!

Kyle's team moves on to playoffs. Beat Alta!!!

Hey, for any of you who have listened to or looked at my playlist (songs), I apologize! I was editing my playlist today and found that some horrible songs got put on there. We've had problems with that website before. It is a shared website and I'm guessing that some sick person did this. Hopefully, none of you were on my blog long enough to listen to those songs. They were on the bottom of my list!

Football 2009

Mitchell #84

Kyle #84

McKay #58

Family 2009

Homecoming Dance

First Homecoming Dance