Bear Lake...

AAAHHH...Oh I love to go to Bear Lake. We go up every year in September with Steve's family and we stay in the condos up there. We play games, swim, golf, play on the beach and a lot of other things, but best of all...we all just get to relax! This year was a lot of fun and everyone was able to be there. Grandma and Grandpa, Greg and Paige, Us, Ben's family and Jennifer. We all have fun together and we laugh...Ben and Steve put on a comedy show for everyone...Lyndsie even played the guitar for us a little...and Kale made us laugh too ( his voice is sooo funny!) We all love to go to Bear Lake, it is a trip we look forward to every year!

Buying shakes

Minature golfing (Brinley won)

playing games like horseballs, football, and kickball

riding bikes

swimming
walking out to the lake at night up to our necks
then running back to the hot tub

staying up late

Sydnie...

Sydnie needs a couple of pats on her back...here's a shout out to her! She has been working so hard on a few things and has been doing a great job. For cheer, she set a goal to get a solid standing tuck and a cartwheel tuck. So she went out in the front lawn for weeks and practiced them over and over until she got em without even thinking about it. I am so proud of her for trying so hard, she worked on it for so many weeks, that our lawn is even wore out because she kept doing it in the same exact spot. Another thing that she is doing so good in is piano, I can't believe how amazing she is becoming! She played all summer long and now that September is here, she has started in with a new teacher and I think that she will love her and I think that this teacher will be able to help Syd find out how good she can be. I am excited for her! Sydnie is doing great in school and is trying hard there too! She is a hard worker and really, a lot is expected sometimes it seems. She is always so busy. Here are some pictures of Sydnie at Legacy at their first home volleyball game. Legacy vs. Westpoint.

Homecoming Week

Homecoming Week for Lyndsie is busy, busy, busy! How does she fit it all in...Powder Puff games, early morning practices, cheer meetings, decorating football player's doors, dinners, football games, assemblies, decorating, dances, the lists goes on! Even though it is crazy, I think that it is one of the funnest weeks ever! Lyndsie participated in the Powder Puff game where the Junior girls play against the Senior girls in a football game. They take it pretty serious with practices and a coaching staff and such! Pretty funny...the juniors won!

The actual Homecoming game was so fun...Clearfield won and it was a great game against Roy...Go Falcons. On the first touchdown, the fans let balloons go and the cheerleaders did their traditional pushups! It was a fun night for everyone...Steve got to drive a convertable car for royalty so Sam and Wyatt was able to ride in one of those cars, they thought that was so cool! I wish that I had gotten a picture of that...darn it. There was definately a lot of excitement in the air and I was so glad that Clearfield won, I think that Clearfield deserves it! It's a great school and most everyone there works hard to make it a great school!

The Homecoming Dance was a success too. Lyndsie had a great time! She looked so beautiful and Darren looked handsome. They went with a fun group and there were a lot of them and they were all good friends! Wow...what a week!

Powder Puff Game

Homecoming Game

The Homecoming Dance

Nine Eleven

Patriot Day for me started out with an assembly at Clearfield High School for Homecoming. They started the assembly with a moment of silence and I was impressed with the respect that the students gave during this time, the auditorium was completely silent for about 30 seconds. It gave me the chills. Eight years ago, the morning of Semptember 11, I remember waking up to the news in horror and confusion and after I had gotten Lyndsie and Sydnie off to school, we were all outside to wish Jennifer Ence a Happy Birthday! We were all in shock, crying and devastated over what we were discovering. What a sad, sad event...something that has changed our lives forever...escepcially our children. A few weeks later, we had a trip planned for disneyland and I remember being in the airport waiting for our plane and Sydnie kept asking me over and over

"Mom, do you think that our pilot is nice?"

What a simple question, but the meaning of it was huge, she was scared to death to get on the plane. They have true fears and most of the time, they just don't know how to show them. She was only 6 and that was how she was dealing with things...she just needed to know that her pilot was a nice one and wasn't going to fly our plane into a building. If 9/11 would have never happened, that question would not have been on her mind at all that day in the airport.

Our Labor Day Hike...

Kim had a great idea to go on a hike up Waterfall Canyon! Some were excited to go while others like Lyndsie and Sydnie had to be talked into going! Brinley had a soccer tournament and so she and Steve were not able to go with us because we knew that we would not be back in time for her second game of the day and plus she needed to rest. Darn, she would have had a great time with Grace though! The hike was hard since we ended up going during the hottest part of the day! Duh! Sam loved it, Lyndsie and Kim complained the whole way up and Sydnie just plugged along. It was a great victory to finally make it to the top. It seemed to have taken us a long time to get up there but it was so fun! We saw other people that we knew...we saw Pres. Davis and Delany and we saw Tenille and her family and their dogs! Oh...we should have taken Roxy! She would have love it too!

Camping!

This has got to be the most spontaneous camping trip ever!!! Brinley had a soccer game early in the morning and then Sam had a football game at 12:45 and then after that is when we decided for sure that yep we would go camping for the night! We came home, Steve had a meeting with the Bishopric and we started to pack while he was gone, called the Page brothers to see if they wanted to come because they had mentioned that they had wanted to if we went, and then we were off. We drove up past Grandma's, luckily we found a spot and started to set up camp. We even brought Roxy with us this time and she was as happy as can be! So happy, she had to say hello to everyone that passed the camp site! HOW annoying is that! We were shushing her all day and night! We had Lyndsie start us up a fire and she got the biggest logs possible and then decided we better have someone else start it! :)

We had a great time...we went for walks with Roxy, played in the river (even Roxy got in the water...she went under like a cannon ball though and hated every minute of it), we went exploring, Allen and Brent went tubing, and we sat around the camp fire and talked and told stories! We were so glad that Brent and Allen went with us because they make us laugh and they entertain us so much! It was a great spontaneous camping trip! Even though we only had time to go for one night, it was worth it and you can fit a lot of fun into one over nighter!

A New Legacy...

The Opening Assemby at Legacy Jr. High was so fun to watch! What a great year these students are going to have here at this brand new school! Sydnie did a great job, the other cheerleaders did a great job, the student body officers did a great job, everyone seemed to be having a great time. Everyone seemed to be happy and the best part is that it wasn't crowded and it didn't take all morning for them to load the gym with kids like at Syracuse jr. high. What a fun morning! The Stadium Dance was the best part...(besides Sydnie performing) I loved watching all of the kids come together and dance! It was so cool!