A Real Blowout!

No, I am not talking about Samantha's soccer game against the Butterflies (which was a 7-7 tie where Samantha scored two goals). I am talking about glass. Samantha came home from school with a 'fishing pole' which consisted of a stick, a string, and a magnet tied to the end of the string. She had some paper fish with paper clips on them so that she could go fishing. Of course, Patrick ended up with the stick, swinging it around, even though I told him not to. "You'll put your eye out." I told him.

I had to run an errend and told him to come with me. He walked out to the garage ahead of me, and about the time I came out I heard an explosion. He had struck the back window of the Durango with the magnet just right, and the tempered glass shattered. The strange thing is that it blew outward. I found glass 12 feet away. Fortunately he was off to the side and didn't get showered with glass. But we did have to go a day looking like rednecks with plastic and duct tape over the back window.

Beanie Ballerinie

'You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life

See that girl, watch that scene, dig it the dancing bean'

Yes, I quoted an Abba lyric. It may be the first and last time I do so. Anyway, Bean started her dancing class this week. I think she's going to enjoy it.

SuperBean!

I've attached a video showing Lauren's favorite pastime of late: Swinging Superman-style in her Dora underpants. Note the audible 'woo-hoo' with each kick. She enjoys herself so much that she gets lost in it and is startled when Kate calls her name.

The Pink Princesses were defeated by the Hot Tamales this morning in an 11-3 rout. We didn't get on the board until the third quarter when Samantha scored her first goal of the season. She also assisted on the other two goals we scored.

Football and Futbol

This morning Samantha began her first soccer season. And as her coach I made sure that she started and closed the game. Although there are only three girls on the team so everyone starts and closes. I was a little nervous about coaching, as I know so little about soccer and didn't really do a lot of coaching for Patrick's team last year. Until I met the coach of the other team this morning. I spent as much time teaching her the difference between corner kicks and goal kicks as I did my own girls. My team has named themselves the 'Pink Princesses', and they defeated the 'Green Glowbugs' 7-1 today.


Then tonight I took my son to his first college football game. The Utes hosted the UNLV Rebels, and after a shaky first half by the home team, the Utes smashed their opponent. We had a great time. I love going to Jazz games with my kids, but a football game is different. I don't have to worry about P annoying other people at the football games. We were on the 8th row, and he would wander down to the rail above the field and watch the game, and no one cared. While down there he did get a special high five from Swoop, though I was too slow to catch it on camera.


One reason why it is more fun to catch a game and Rice-Eccles than Lavell Edwards Stadium...





Since it was P's first game I had to get him a foam finger. He spent the whole game giving the other team 'the finger'.




I took this picture to note how much time the flag bearers spent on the field after numerous Utah touchdowns. However, upon further examination it does show what a great view Patrick and I had of the 'end' zone...

The ‘Cavin’s

We took advantage of the long Labor Day weekend to run down to the Camperworld in Nephi and stay in the ‘cavins’ that the kids love so much. I was threatened about making snide comments about how camping with Kate’s family is not real camping. I was told not to make comments about how Pat’s definition of ‘roughing it’ was going without wireless access. So I won’t. I won’t make any rude comments about having power in the cabins. Or running water. Or bathrooms and a swimming pool. Or the TVs and Wii that was taken. But I will make a comment about how Pat didn’t want to walk all the long way up to the bathroom and had to sit on a 5 gallon bucket to pee where everyone could see. I just won’t post the picture Kate took of the event.

We had a great time. We ate like kings and relaxed for one more weekend before school really gets started. This morning it was raining so hard that we decided against standing outside to make breakfast. So we packed it in and drove to Nephi to have breakfast in the One Man Band Diner. Yeah, we really roughed it…

Kate made tinfoil dinners for Friday night, and they were a little POH (Piece of Heaven)

Whitney was pretty excited when she discovered a deer skull

Not to be outdone, Patrick found an arrowhead.

Saturday night I made Navajo Tacos for dinner, making the fry bread from Rhodes rolls. We then made scones for dessert.

Being that she's on a diet, Beth decided to 'go easy' on the scones...