Alissa turns 14!

Happy Birthday Alissa!
Poor Alissa always has her birthday fall right before camp which is the busiest time of year at our house, so it was a pretty low key 14th birthday, we opened presents then went out to dinner at her favorite pizza place.

Waiting to open presents...















I made her a fleece blanket in her high school colors so she can keep warm at all those football games, she even mentioned it was big enough for 2 people (a small oversight on my part, what was I thinking?) So we told her the only boy that she will be keeping warm is her dad. LOL!















Mmmmmm, pizza! Racheal, Haylee, Sarah and Alissa

Girls Camp 2008

Amy, Lacy and Kerri, the 3 stake camp directors on Tuesday morning at camp.













The weather was perfect and all went well. We sure had a lot of fun. Colby came with us for the whole week and helped out and Racheal and Alissa were there. Here are a few of Racheal's pictures from her camera. (I will see what Alissa has on her camera and get those posted as well)

Getting her tent set up with all her tent buddies, here are Racheal, Whitney, Courtney, Megan and Karli, all but Megan played on our soccer team this year as well.










Whitney, Karli, Megan and Courtney on their 1st level hike, Racheal was taking the picture










This is what they saw at the top of their mountain, looking over Eagle Cap Wilderness in the Willowa-Whitman National Forest. How beautiful!











Who let this leader go??? J/K, Ashlee was one of the ward leaders.

So happy together!

Here are some random photos of Haylee and the girls, they sure like hanging out together!

Our favorite cheerleader

Once the weather warmed up Alissa started coming to all of the girls soccer games, we sure appreciated her support! Here she is in the shade staying cool, watching our last game. Go Team!

Soccer season comes to an end

The Wild Mustangs (Racheal's team that Colby and I coach) had a 6-2 season, much better than last season. It sure is fun to watch the girls grow and develop skills throughout the year. Sarah's team did great as well, she continues to play forward and goalie and she gets to move up to the next level this fall which means that both our girls will be on the same team. Can you say thank goodness?????????? This means only 2 practices instead of 4 throughout the week and only 1 game on Saturdays! So here are a few highlights from the season...

Sarah on a fast break away going to score!














Sarah questioning the refs call, "What?, I didn't trip her, she fell!"














Sarah's team BBQ with her coach














Sarah and Haylee playing on coaches "bucking bull" in his backyard during the BBQ



















Ethan hanging out at the team BBQ with us, Ashlee and Gerrit ran away to Utah for the weekend so we had some extra guests with us.














Katie, Aubrey and Racheal playing around during half time at our last game, they sure had fun together.



Racheal showing off her stuff, she was our top scoring player this year with 7 goals!!!


Racheal (#7) and her #1 coach (me) getting ready for the next line up.
Haylee and Racheal showing off their trophies after our end of the season picnic.

End of the school year

The girls got out of school on June 4th! WooHoo! Summer Break! Everyone had wonderful report cards. (not sure who's kids they really are) Next year we will have 3 kids at 3 different schools. Alissa is going into high school, Racheal at middle school and Sarah in her last year at elementary school. We will be busy running kids to and from all those schools. Alissa keeps reminding us not to worry because this winter she gets to take drivers ed so she will be able to drive herself where ever she needs to go. AAUUGH! Not sure we are ready for that, but she is! She informed me a couple weeks ago she wants me to teach her how to drive not her dad. LOL! Anyway...here is a picture of Racheal with her favorite middle school teacher on the last day of school, yeah for great teachers!

Sarah qualified for regional track

Towards the end of the school year each school holds a track and fields event and then the top 3 qualifiers get to compete against other schools from our area at the local high school. Sarah qualified in 3 events, the 75m, the 200m and the relay race. She did a great job at the regional races and we all had a fun day supporting her. Yeah! Go Sarah!