Daddy/Daughter Dinner Date....

Last weekend our stake held a Daddy/Daughter dinner that was a "luau". Sadie was beside herself excited to go. Thanks to Uncle Jaba for the accessories, Lennie and Sadie looked perfect for the occasion!!

Gotta go back....back....back to school again......

Well, the kids have been back in school for one whole week!! So far so good with only a couple of minor issues and stresses. YAY!!

Sadie - 1st Grade

Lenard - 7th Grade....yeah, Jr. High!!!

Jon - 5th Grade

I just love these kids, and I am so proud of them!!!

Jon and Sadie put on a puppet show....

Lenard was gone to scout camp for a week, so Jon and Sadie played a LOT together just the two of them. One day they called me in for a puppet show.....☺

PUPPET SHOW BY JON AND SADIE

Christi

Yellowstone....in just one day....

Yep, that is all the time we had at Yellowstone. Not ideal, but we saw A TON in that one day there.

Here are some videos of our adventures.
Yellowstone 1
Yellowstone 2
Yellowstone 3
Yellowstone 4
Yellowstone 5
Yellowstone 6
Yellowstone 7
Yellowstone 8

It was a Sunny 68 degrees with a light breeze.....PERFECT....and we all got sunburned. Who puts on sunscreen when it is 68 degrees out?? LOL!!

Wrestling on our vacation....

Well, the reason we first planned our vacation was because Jonny qualified to wrestle at Western Reigonals in Pocatello Idaho. This was his first year wrestling, ever, and we are very proud of him. He ended up wrestling at both Regionals in Pocatello and Nationals in Orem the next week. I have never seen anything like these tournaments!! The kids (and more-so, thier PARENTS) are CRAZY.....CRA-ZY about wrestling....they live it, eat it, breath it. I learned a lot, and I think Jonny did to. Everyone he wrestled was VERY VERY tough. In fact, he lost every match....he just does not have the experience or mat time these kids did. But he gave it his all, and in the end....he even got a medal at Nationals. Here are the videos of his matches....

Regional Freestyle Intermediate 75 - there were 25 wrestlers total in his weight class.
Match 1 The kid Jon is wrestling here, took 2nd.
Match 2
Jon was out after that.....it was a double elimination

Nationals - Greco Intermediate 80 - Jon put on a couple of pounds so he could wrestle up for Nationals (there were only 9 kids in the 80lb weight class, and we knew it would mean a better chance at a medal for him....even if he lost.)
Match 1
Match 2
Match 3
He did take 8th....
On the Medal Blocks

Nationals - Freestyle Intermediate 80
Match 1 - He NEARLY had it!!! He wrestled his HEART out on this one!!!
Match 2

This is a slide show of some pics I took at Regionals.

WE ARE PROUD OF YOU JONNY!!!
and Sadie and Lenard too.....it was some LONG days in the arenas waiting for Jon to wrestle once or twice.

This will put a smile on your face!.....hee hee.....

10 days....6 states.....almost 3000 miles....thousands of memories!!

That is what our vacation was!! I am in the process of uploading pictures and videos to get onto the blog so we can share some of our travels with ya. It is definately a trip that wont be forgotten. We had a wonderful time (although we had plenty of the cliche "are we there yet"s and "I'm squished", "He's touching me", "How much longer", etc, etc.) we are so glad we got to go....and we are also glad to be HOME!!! Pictures and Video....coming soon.