First real competition of 2009 ISU Invitational

It's Hayley's first year of competition and she was nervous!

Hayley gets to lead the line on this song. It's a fun one - she's having a lot of fun in Color Guard

Parker is the Jr. Drum Major this year! He gets to walk out to accept our awards. He is the shorter of the 2 guys.

PS - at this competition we took 3rd - yeah we were sad. Judges didn't like our director and they were short a couple judges - so we got some rough bangs on our scores. But watch out next week at the Davis Cup!

Here she is in action!

Parker is just a pro at marching! He is so fun to watch!

Here Parker is - doing some of his visual moves. He's very sharp and precise. Look at his arms! I'm kinda sad this likely will be his last year to march. Very good chance he'll be drum major next year!

Homecoming 2009!

This is 1/2 of the group that Parker went with. He had a band competition that morning, then hung out at a Reed's gym for a few hours and played games. They got all fixed up and went out to dinner and had Chinese food. Picture time - before they head out to the dance!

Parker's date was Katie Chandler and she is just so cute & bubbily! They looked pretty good together I thought! They had a fun time!

Family Photo Day! We had fun at the Railroad...

We had fun goofing around and she caught us! I love these kids - we have so much fun together! There are teen age rough moments - but we get through them & still love each other! The kids crawled up in that dirty train car - but not me...

There are so many good pictures of her! She is simply gorgeous don't ya think!? She's growing up! She loves being in high school! My baby's not so little anymore...

Parker is just the man! He is such an amazing young man! Even his sister said "he's dang cute Mom" He's having a ton of fun in high school this year. Hard to believe he's a Junior!

Youth Boating Day!

Hayley needed a rest after her turns on the tubes!

Yeah, there's Parker acting like the stud with arms crossed while going about 30 mph on the tube. He managed to stay on and get some major air at 48 mph! He stayed on - but the kid on the left wasn't so lucky! It was a fun day!

Hayley goes to NBC Basketball Camp!

This was us in the hotel room after Hayley got "cute" and ready to go! We were trying to burn off some of her nervous energy! Don't we just look so cute!

July 13-17, 2009 Hayley and I went to Coeur D'Alene, Idaho and she attended a week long intense basketball camp. This was her team & they took the championship at the camp! Hayley plays "Post" and is getting fierce - if she could just get that giggle out of her!

My aren't the flowers by my house beautiful this time of year!

I cut them back so low, I thought they'd not make a full recovery, but boy was I wrong! They are so full of roses! Smells so good to walk in the front door!

Girls Camp 2009 - "Go for the Gold"

The girls are getting ready for their skit! They are doing a skit to the "Popular" song from the play "Wicked"! Sharon is doing Hayley's hair (she's an advisor in YW) - we love her! And Liberty is doing Alyssa's makeup. Liberty (Bishop's wife & Co-Camp Director) was so fun - taught the girls all kinds of music from the Great 80's! They loved it!

Here they are striking a pose at one of their final practices at our camp site! Shanae is the little one in the Dorothy costume - she's the one who needed to be Popular! haha We were lucky to have no rain during this practice!

This is how we spent most of our time - under our incredible shelters! We played games, and did crafts and made up jingles. Right now they're doing the Cup game! Very fast and fun! We all huddled under the shelter a lot - but thank goodness for it! We were one of 2 wards who stayed dry the whole week! Yeah for us!

Hayley and Montana hanging out!

How many Bishopric members does it take to start a fire? Well, with a bunch of wet wood, it took all 3 of them!!! But...it was a big wonderful fire for our testimony meeting that night!