Boise State

Tonight is BSU's 1st game of the season. So Christopher put his BSU flag on his car as we ran some errand and donned his BSU orange shirt. This paticular game is not on TV, thank goodness for the internet. Go BRONCOS!!

Happy Birthday to Me!

Look what I got for my birthday present. Unfortunately, two other cars got worse than me. I was trying to avoid colliding with some guy coming off the ramp too fast and ended up getting smacked from behind because I had to slam on my breaks and then the guy behind that car smacked into the one just behind me. So, the guy that caused the whole thing didn't even end up with a scratch and then took off before the cops got there. I am still pretty rattled. Everyone was ok, my girls were with me and they didn't even blink an eye at the whole ordeal. It was a good thing we were in the Suburban and not the mazda or damage would have been a lot worse.

Back To School

This was our first day back to school. We can still wear shorts considering it is usually in the 90's. So far so good, except the getting up early is a little hard on everyone.

Robin Hood (loosely adapted version)

The girls participated in a childrens play on base sponsored by the Missoula Childrens theatre. The travel from base to base during the summer and spend a week at each place and then at the end of the week they put on a play. You must audition on Monday (everyone gets a part) and then you spend the week practicing so you can put on the performance Friday and Saturday. Analise played a skunk, Little Stinker, and Sage was an snooty aristrocrat, the Baroness of Beef. They had a fun time and the play turned out pretty good in the end.

Goldfish

So, Analise caught a goldfish at the Oakley 2nd ward 4th of July party which managed to stay alive until we left for Texas. she wanted to bring it with us, but I didn't know if I wanted to transport a 10 cent goldfish in a hot car for 3 days. So we decided to release it into the wild at Harris' pond (good bye Sunset) and we went to petsmart and bought her and Sage some gold fish. The sit in the center of the breakfast table so they can check on them every morning and watch them swim back and forth. sometimes I feel like I am in fishbowl and go back and forth to the same places every day without experiencing what is going on around me. Some of that is out of my control, some not. This summer helped me get out of my bowl for a while, now, I got plopped right back in. Here is a picture of Sammie and Freddie.

Back to Texas

Well, we have officially arrived here this morning at 4:00 am after some fun and exciting days in the car. The 1st day we drove to St. George, Utah. I have never been there before it is a very interesting city layed out in the rocky canyons. Very pretty. We stayed in a very new hotel, which was nice, since you never know what you are going to get when you book on line.
Then on day 2 we drove into Arizona and stopped at the Grand Canyon. Ok, well it is really not on the way, but we went there. On our way up to the north Rim we stopped for a bathroom break at Jacob's Lake. I took a picture for Mom, who worked there as a teenager.
Then that night we stayed in Phoenix, AZ with our friends Bill and Tina George. It was fun getting some more "Bill and Tina" stories. We miss hanging around them.
The following morning we met up with Chris's little, well younger, maybe not littler, brother, JD. The girls are always excited to see Uncle JD. Then we started on our heinious drive south.
It was a toasty 104 degrees today and we have not been used to that fun.
Our house is still here. We even found our cat, but, unfortunately most of our plants did not make it.
We had a great summer and will miss our family. Hopefully we can someday move alittle closer.

Twin Falls Temple

One our way home from Boise we decided that even though we weren't in Sunday dress we would stop and visit the open house of the Twin Falls Temple. It was really cool, and the temple is of course beautiful inside and out. Everyone in my parents ward is so excited about the proximity and my Dad is directing the choir that is performing at the dedication. I told him to get Pres. Monson's autograph.


After the open house you get to have cookies in the cultural hall in the stake center next door and we ran into our dear friends Jason and Shannon Killian and their 3 adorable kids. Needless to say, Jason is still crazy Jason. It was so good to see them again if only for a few minutes.