Homecoming Week

It's been a few weeks since Homecoming week at Logan High School (Sept 12-18), but I haven't had time to get this on here until now.  The first activity was the traditional painting the street/painting each other activity.  Megan had a great time, but she had to wash her hair six times to get the paint out.  Because she is a Senior Class Representative this year, she was involved in painting the street in front of the school and on Main Street (at 12:00 a.m.).  What fun!!

Next was the Homecoming Parade.  Tyler was at a golf tournament that day so he wasn't able to participate, but I think he was okay with that.  He'd rather be golfing than act like he's golfing on a truck trailer.



Megan in her Senior Class Officer role



Meg's Powderpuff team













Some of Ty's golf teammates

 Now on to the Powderpuff game.  Meg was one of the quarterbacks for her team and she did great.  She had three complete passes and got her team very close to the endzone and then they pulled her to put the first string quarterback, if you will, back in, but she couldn't get the ball in the endzone.  The other team scored twice to go up 12-0.  Then Meg's team scored one touchdown, but missed the extra point.  Then Meg went in again.  On the second down, she handed the ball off to Ali Norda who ran it into the endzone for a touchdown.  They had to get the ball in the endzone for the extra point (I guess they figure there's no way any of the girls would be able to kick it through the uprights) so Meg handed it off to the same girl and she ran it in to score the extra point.  The Crimson team ended up winning the game 13-12.  It was tense with a very happy ending!!

Winding up for a pass



Meg making the "Crimson" sign
before the game





Celebrating after the game (Megan is #555 with yellow shorts)

Mike and I didn't attend the Homecoming game to get any pictures, but Logan beat Ogden 49-14.  Go Grizzlies!!

Last, but not least, for the week's activities . . . the Homecoming Dance.  Megan went with Derek Larsen.  She was very excited and ended up having a fabulous time.

Nice tan lines, huh?

Aren't they cute!!!!!

My how they grow!

In 2003 we took a trip to California and Mike took this creative picture of the family.  We stood in order by age--Mike obviously on the right and Heather on the left.

So when we were at the beach at Bear Lake I thought it would be fun to take another one like this to see the changes in our family. Mike is on the left this time and Heather on the right, but look at Tyler.  It's so weird to have to look up to talk to him, and Candice and Megan have passed me as well.  It won't be long before Heather is taller than me too.  It's crazy how fast they grow and change.

Here are some more before and after pictures:

Crazy huh!!!

Labor Day Fun

Even though it was near freezing temperatures, we went over to Bear Lake for Labor Day.  We spent most of the time inside playing games, but after dinner we went to LaBeau's to get shakes and then went to the beach.  The crowds had cleared out by the time we got there so we had it pretty much to ourselves.  Heather was crazy enough to get in the water and Tyler wouldn't be one upped by her so he got in too.  The rest of the group played football, volleyball and kickball.  Thanks to our good friend Kevin for taking some great pictures of the fun.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Kevin and his cute girls

The whole fam

One more day

Our last sight seeing spot was the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  It must be the most visited vantage point because there is a whole village of shops, visitor centers, and even a train depot.  There are also four colored shuttle bus routes that take you to different areas.  We got on the blue shuttle bus which goes through the center of the shops, train depot, and visitor centers and then switched to the red shuttle bus which goes to more of the canyon viewing spots.  We got off at one of the stops and then walked along the rim trail about two miles.  There were several spots where there wasn't much space between the trail and the edge.  One false step and you could be off the side for an easy 3000 ft. drop.  We were glad we didn't have any small children with us to worry about.

The Grand Canyon truly is massive and amazing.

A long way down!

The Colorado River

We decided to get back on the shuttle bus just in time as this storm ended up unloading a pretty decent amount of rain.  We had seen the clouds forming and Mike had even seen a few lightning strikes across the canyon, but it was very warm up until about 2 minutes before it started to blow and pour.

Day two of our trip

We drove back to Bryce Canyon from Escalante along Scenic Hwy 12.  It was definitely scenic.

We didn't have time to see everything in Bryce on Wednesday so we went back on Thursday to take the rest of it in.  We started at Bryce Point.

Then we moved on to Inspiration Point. It was all so amazing!

Next we drove to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.  This is our first good view.  On the way into where we parked, Mike quickly looked off to the side and said, "Big."  What an understatement!

It took us about four hours to get from the North Rim to the Route 66 Inn in Williams, AZ.  It's a good thing it was late and we were really tired because it was another winner of a room!!