BAM!!!

Just when I was thinking there was nothing to blog about... BAM!!! Literally!!No, this is not us....
But a young girl that must have been flying down the road by us. It was a nice Infinity car too.
Our windows were all open and it was so loud! I look out the window and see these flashing lights. Guess your hazards go off when the airbags go off, huh? Didn't know that. From what I heard, I knew someone had rolled. Kylie was going to bed, Nate was already in bed, they come running out, "What was that?" So, we jump in the Jeep and go down there. This poor girl was just coming to. A kid that Nate works with had just got there too, because it was almost on his property. She finally came to and was trying to get out. We couldn't get her out, so she started pushing the front window out. Nate and Timmy were trying to help her, but she wasn't being very cooperative. They finally were able to pull the windshield back and help her get out. Wow, scary for her. Hope she is OK. She was messed up though and high on something.

The funny thing is though, Kelsie and Brooke were in bed and they heard us leave and came out and we are all gone. They didn't know what was up. After a few minutes, they saw all of these flashing lights start to come. They tried to call me and I was on the phone with 911. They tried Kylie and her phone was home. They kept trying and trying to call and couldn't get anyone. Nate's phone was home too. Luckily I had grabbed mine, knowing we would be calling 911. Needless to say, they were a little bit scared not knowing what was going on. They finally did get me though. :)

Basketball Girlies

Here is Kelsie and Brooke in their basketball uniforms. Brooke is the youngest on the team. She holds her own though and gets alot of playing time. They have won all of their 5 games now and yesterday they won their game against the only other team that was undefeated in their league. Not anymore!! Kelsie has scored between 8-12 points every game. They have fun and it's even funner when you win!! Yeah!! Good job girls! Go Charter!!

Bundled up and Kylie's SO Lucky!!

This is what my girls look like anymore when we go anywhere in the Jeep at night. It is getting colder and Nate refuses to put his top on the Jeep. It's pretty funny. We have the heater going full blast and all bundled up.

Kylie is such a lucky girl! She got a phone call from the executive secretary in the stake tonight, actually they asked Nate first, but then he asked for Kylie and told her that the Stake President has asked if she would talk in Stake Conference in a couple of weeks. Isn't she so lucky? Glad it's her and not me. :)

Girls back home!!

Besides having no internet this last week, we were also down 2 girls for most of the week. Kylie was gone all week from Sunday night till today when I picked her up. She was a counselor at Science Camp for 6th graders. She did it last year too and she really enjoys it. She is glad to be home though. She can't wait to sleep in her own bed tonight.

Kelsie left Monday morning to go on a 3 day backpacking trip with her school class. They hiked about 12 miles between the 3 days and had to carry all of their food, sleeping bag, tent & everything else. Here she is the morning she left...

She survived! Here she is when I picked her up at school. Much lighter pack! She got to go straight to a basketball game from here too. She wasn't too happy I made her go, but atleast they won!
When she put on her much smaller backpack the next morning to go to school, she said, "I love you backpack." Much lighter and smaller than the one she had been carrying for 3 days. It was pretty funny!

Finally!!!

OK, sing it with me.........

It's been one L O N G week...

:) More to come soon!

You try going without the internet for a week.

No internet!! :(

Wow, I feel lost! We have no internet at home till sometime next week. Our DSL modem bit the dust last night and after spending hours on the phone this morning, they finally figured that out. Guess I'll be keeping my laptop in the car and mooching off of any signal I can find. :) I am at Nate's work right now hooked into their wireless. See ya around sometime soon I hope!

Basketball and field trips

Wow, it's been a week since I've posted. Guess that means we have gotten back into our busy routine with school already. Talking with a friend on the phone tonight she said, " I don't know how you do it." Sometimes I don't either. (She works full time though so that's a different kind of busy) It's running from one thing to another all week long. I wanted to get some pictures today to post, but they didn't turn out. Kelsie and Brooke both started this week playing on their school basketball team. They won their first game today. Yeah!! Brooke is the youngest on the team. She is a 5th grader playing against 6th-8th graders. She was very nervous today before their game telling me, "They are all so big." But she did great. We were 1/2 hour late getting to the church for activity days after their game. We had to take 3 girls straight to the church in their uniforms still and all sweaty. Guess I learned I can't schedule both things in the same night anymore. My bad!

I went on a field trip with Brooke's class to the county courthouse. It was pretty interesting. They did a mock trial and Brooke was chosen to be the victim. Here she is being "sworn in" and then she had to tell how she got her bike stolen. It was fun for the kids to see how the system works.

Labor Day 4 wheelin'

Any chance Nate gets, you know what he will be doin'. And any time that he and Jon can have off together they take advantage. Here's some pics from our adventure on Monday with Lynne, Jon, Peter and Simon (cousins and who Nate works with) and some other people came with us too.

Simon, Brooke, Kelsie and Kylie eating their lunch.
This little hill is called Drive Line Hill. Pictures never do it justice, but you can see from the people around, they just go and hang there for the day watching people go up it. And for people like Nate, when you have an audience it just makes you want to do it more and prove you can make it up it.


This little spot, actually did some damage. Not much, but good thing for rocker panels Nate put on. They paid for themselves on this spot. :)
Brooke and Simon taking in the scenery.

Boating - Labor Day weekend

We spent the day at the lake on Saturday after they came back from camping. Here is Kelsie tearin' it up on her board.

Here is another one of Kelsie. I think you can see where the handle of the rope is. Guess what she did next? She wiped out!
Brooke just chillin'.

This is where Kylie spent most of the day. Laying on the back of the boat. She has been fighting something all last week and has not felt good. She probably would have gone camping too if she had felt better.
This is the only picture you're gonna get of me in a swimming suit. Yes, I was out there boarding!
And here's a good one of Nate. He got some good air! Had to get a picture of all of us on this post. We don't have too much boating left this year.