Thursday, July 8, 2010

Random updates

Just a couple of updates since it's been forever.


Aaron - was invited to be a topic chair for the WERC conference next year. He gets to find two people to speak about the topic and attend the conference. It's a big honor and I'm very proud of him.


Me - Not much going on here. Just recovering from my surgery and enjoying the summer.


Shelby - Soccer practice, playing with Kacee, mowing the lawn, and playing any electronic game she can get her hands on. Aaron offered to pay the girls each $45 if they would weed the back flowerbed. They got about 75% done when Aaron found what we believe to be a gopher snake in our driveway. Now Shelby won't go near the flowerbed in fear that it's infested with snakes.

Gretchen - She is a bike riding fool these days. She loves to play on the swing set and begs to go swimming every day. She spends a lot of time playing on my iTouch as well. She worked really hard on the flowerbed too and would probably go out there and weed if Shelby would go with her. She's not as scared, I don't think.


Bailey - getting cuter every day. She is starting to say words, like: shoes, grandpa, some, mom, up, water and outside. It's so fun to see them grow up, but I would LOVE to keep her at this age for a while. It's my favorite.


Here are some random pictures that I thought were cute and wanted to share.

We went to an open house at my office (because no one but employees are allowed in the building, they set up special times to have family come in and see my work space) and as part of the fun, they had a spin the wheel game for prizes. Shelby got these swim goggles and Bailey looked adorable in them!
Not sure what they were doing under the table or why Bailey had a pacifier in her mouth, but it was cute.
This is of the grizzly bear and her 4 cubs we saw in Yellowstone over Memorial Day weekend.

School Dance Festival

It's been a while since I posted and I'm trying to catch up. At the end of every school year, the kids do a dance festival. It was great to have my dad there to see the festivities.




Gretchen's class did their dance to a song Ice Cream Freeze.




Shelby's class did a dance based on a YouTube video. It was a compilation of several songs called Evolution of Dance 2. Here's a link to it.











Grandma Harris Came to Visit

Grandma Harris was in town last week on her way down to Arizona to see Dawna and her kids. We had a fun picnic dinner at a park in American Fork with those of us in town. We were really happy to see Carolyn and Kim Bargeron as well. I haven't seen them in ages and it was great to catch up. Here's a picture of Grandma with my family.

End of spring soccer

Gretchen and Shelby have finished their spring soccer season. Gretchen will be playing recreational soccer again next year, but Shelby's team has decided to go competition. They will be playing harder teams and needing to practice a lot more. She has already started twice weekly practices and is excited to play.

I don't have a team picture for Shelby, but we did take one for Gretchen's team since Aaron was the coach. He printed these off and gave the kids these trophies.