Summer - It's a wrap!

We had the greatest time with our family in Utah! We miss them so much! But summer is now coming to a close and all I can think of is that commercial... you know the Staples commercial where the kids are walking through the store with sad faces, buying back to school supplies... the dad is pushing the cart, smiling, kicking up his heels. The music playing is Christmas music..."Its the most wonderful time of the year..." Yeah, that's me! I'm right there.

My Olympics addiction...

Its not just the abs . . . but seriously, have you ever seen abs like his?(and all on a diet of like 10,000 calories a day). . . but my whole family is glued to the tv and getting not nearly enough sleep to function because we are so into the olympics. And I have a serious crush (Matt knows all about it) on Michael. I never thought anyone that needed so much dental work could be so cute!

And the girls gymnastics and volleyball... we love it all. But how come the 12 year old chinese girls don't get the necks that the American girls get? And btw, (found this on another blog) strange but true, Fievel and Shawn Johnson are never seen in the same room at the same time... you decide.

Rise and Shout! the Cougars are out...

Of course when we are in UT we need to go by my alma mater (and eat at the Cougareat which is all messed up now that they have Taco Bell instead of the Navajo Taco) and drag my kids to the apartments that I lived in. It was a gorgeous summer day in UT and we had a great day with our cousins Spencer, Josh and Allie and Aunt Noelle, Uncle Erik, Aunt Chelsea and Ama. I'll challenge anyone to the lyrics to the Cougar fight song... I actually know all of it as well as my Cougarette moves.

The good, the bad and the ugly...

We have been on a beautiful adventure driving through Colorado and Utah. We have seen the most gorgeous scenery on earth and hiked to breath taking waterfalls. It's been really fun until Sam crashed and burned on his rip-stick. We spent an evening in the emergency room in Steamboat Springs CO getting stitches and a drain put into Sam's knee. Looks pretty, huh?