Kite Festival

A few weeks ago my Dad was wanting DYING to go to this "kite & balloon" festival out on Antelope Island.  Well, I've never been there-Mark hasn't ever been there- & my kids have never been there....I thought it would be fun. Well......it was totally over-hyped up! We went on a Sunday morning with my parents, & my brother and his family.  Don't get me wrong...it was fun to go with all the kids; but Antelope Island is BORING!! sorry to those of you who love it.  The festival was just some food vendors sprawled out, a big huge stage that reminded me of the Sugarland one that blew down (the singers were horrible!), and a big canopy tent with table underneath.  Okay, so it wasn't nearly as horrible as I'm making it sound.  They had a cool hair feather booth, where I bought some cute purple feathers to wear to Kips football games. They had the coolest Face painting booth (at least Sier thought so) and they had some awesome BMX'ers there doing some trick. (they really were pretty rad) And the kites? okay, I have to say I've never seen people fly kites like that before! There was a group of people who choreographed kite flying...seriously, it was pretty ah-mazing. we drove around a little bit and found somewhere to have our picnic lunch...that I totally slacked on. You see, we had a HUGE breakfast at home before we left, so I didn't think we would be very hungry, so I just packed a few PB&J's.   Good thing my Mom and Jera packed extra! We were all starving! So maybe we'll go again next year and make it a tradition....it'll be a blast!

The Dam Fam

Koy fell asleep with my Moms hat over is face!

Alex's cute butterfly! I wish I could get away with that ;)

Captain America!

"what the hell are we doing here?"....I'm sure that's what he's thinking.

So them!

Koy Boy

Ohhh.....stop staring at my fat legs...I'm getting old people....sheesh

Booklynn's rainbow...so her! I love it.

Jera & Lara....or is it Lara & Jera?? Don't ask
our neices or nephews, they even get confused!

Watching the BMX tricks

Silverwolves Football

what do you get when you have a housefull of boys?? FOOTBALL.  kip has played flag football for a few years, but he has been so excited to start REAL football! I had no idea of how insanely busy it keeps you....i mean, friends have told me- and mark has been involved before...but seriously! the good news is that kip LOVES it...like LOVES it.  mark is one of his coaches, and i don't know what i was thinking when i volunteered to be team mom...but we are really liking it.  kip plays tight-end and does really good at it! i LOVE watching mark coach too, i really think he was born to be either a coach, or a sports announcer...i think i've said that before, but i really believe it. enough about kip....now on to sier.

Sier is also playing football! he has been waiting forever to play flag football. he's so excited to be on a team with some of his cousins and friends. mark is also coaching him...i don't know how we find the time. sier had his first practice last night, and he ran his guts out! his poor left leg and foot are sore today from it.  that kid just doesn't know how to not try hard.  everything he does he's trying to prove to himself and everybody else that he can do it. i'm just glad flag isn't as intense as tackle!