Chili Cookoff!

Friends and family! You are all invited to the Chili Cookoff (formally known as the deck from heck party) this Friday, the 23rd at 5:30pm. Dinner from 5:30 to 6:30, games and hayride from 6:30 to 8pm. Let me know if you can come!

My Disneyland Trip- by Ryllie

My Disneyland Trip- by Maddux

My Disneyland Trip- by Cy

The drive to California went pretty fast.

I really liked the ball games too!

Hollywood? I don't remember much about that place.

Disneyland, the Happiest Place on Earth!

Jedi training was worth waking up for!

Wait a second! When did my best buddy Nate get here?

My Disneyland Trip- by Hadlie

My first trip to California was great! Disneyland was cool. I got to hang out with my dad a lot, and ride rides. My favorite ride was "It's a small world", even though I can't say words, I sang at the top of my lungs through the whole ride. Mostly I was happy as long as there was food in my hands. My mom put this tether thing on me, and told daddy to take me to buy a sucker or something. My daddy let me pick out the one I wanted, so I picked the one that was bigger than my head. So that tether thing, I didn't like it much so I threw a fit, and ended up winning after about 10 minutes of having it on, but I was a good girl and stayed by my family and didn't run off too many times. I liked the baseball games, especially the game where dad bought me my monkey. I learned how to say Cy's name, but it comes out sounding like "Ice", so we named my monkey Ice. I slept for most of the ride through Hollywood, but after lunch and some soda I was ready for the Dodgers game. People kept chanting "Let's go dodgers" and then they would clap. So I joined in, only thing is, everyone else had stopped so I looked pretty silly yelling really loud, and everyone laughed. I didn't really like wearing my shoes, so I kept taking them off, and even lost a shoe. My mom finally gave up putting them back on me, and I was free to wiggle my toes! I loved the beach too. My mom says Aunt Kaysha took pictures at the beach and she still hasn't gotten them from her, but trust me, I was cute as can be! What a fun vacation!

Perfect Amalerican Girl!

Maddux makes me laugh so hard singing Carrie Underwood's "All American Girl". Listen to how she sings the words All American, it comes out Amalerican every time! Cracks me up!

Half Triathlon- I did it!

My sister Kenice, sister-in-law Karen, and I decided 6 months ago that we wanted to try to do a half triathlon to get us motivated to get in better shape. Who knew, but I actually love swimming! We started training back in March, and I really enjoy swimming, but the bike kicks my butt. The race was on August 29th, and although my physique hasn't changed like I want it to, my energy and ability have increased, and I was able to complete the race and beat the time that I had set for myself. It was really fun too! Way to go sistas! By the way, my cute niece Hailey did the child's race and was awesome, and that is Adam's brother Dave in the picture as well, he rocked it!