Camping Trip

Last Friday/Saturday we went camping at Snow Canyon. It was a ton of fun...but really short. We had Mom and Dad, Don and Kathy up for dessert (dutch oven peach cobbler).

Bombers Crash

Ethan is on a competitive soccer team called the Bombers which is divided into two smaller teams named Crash and Surge. Ethan is on Bombers Crash. He loves the games but hates the practices. ;) On Saturday they had 2 games, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. The afternoon game was Surge versus Crash. Surge won but the coaches had a huge pizza party afterwards so no one would feel bad.

Pinewood Derby

It was Ethan's first pinewood derby. He was so excited. We bought him a kit at the Scout Store (complete with a "skin" that rubbed onto the car so we didn't have to paint it), Bryan helped him cut it out on my scroll saw and they worked together (the night before) to complete the car. Bryan ran to the Scout Store the afternoon of the derby to get some weights to try and make it lighter. It looked so great and Ethan was so excited.

We went to Pack Meeting early so Bryan could help weigh in the cars and, after the flag ceremony, the racing began. Ethan didn't do so good, but it gives us something to work toward for next year. You better watch out because he is set on winning next year!!!

Conference Tent

Last year Ethan read a Friend article about a family who made a "Conference Tent" where they sat and watched Conference. The kids made one last year and decided this year they wanted to make another one. It works for about 30 minutes before they begin fighting and arguing. This is the last year but it was fun while it lasted.

Ethan's Soccer

For the first time this season, I was available to go to one of Ethan's soccer games!! So far this year I have had something Church related on Saturday mornings so I wasn't able to go. But this time Bryan was the busy one so I went.

Ethan played right wing, left wing and a bit of goalie. His team lost 5-0, but he had fun.

Bryan's SHAC Triathlon

Bryan had the Sand Hollow Aquatics Center triathlon on Saturday. Ethan had a soccer game at the same time so we didn't get to watch, but he did awesome! He came in 1st in his age division so he felt good about how he raced. His split times were a bit messed up because something was wrong with the timing mat. It shows his swim and transition 1 (T1) combined and then his T1 time is his biking time and so forth. But his overall time is correct, he just doesn't know how he improved. Except his run time did improve over last November, so that's great. I was so proud of him!!

Cute kids

Here are Ethan and Courtney's school pictures.

Courtney does wear glasses but I wasn't home when Bryan sent her off to school. She forgot to wear her glasses and Bryan didn't notice. Oh well, they are nice pictures anyway.