I just luurve my small town!!

 A few weeks ago on Facebook my cousin (who is a coach in Granger) was complaining about not having a team mom to call about practices, games ect... my comment to him was...send emails to the parents, text messages.... heck if we can do it out here in my small town, then you can in the city!

Which then got me thinking about my small little town of Grantsville that I now call HOME, and felt like I have been here FOREVER!!!  Bear with me - I need to give you some back ground..

I grew up in Magna - went to Cyprus High - (Yes I am a Pirate always will be.... BUT I am also now a COWBOY)

I remember riding our bikes on Sundays to my Grammas house for visits, I remember going to Thrifty Drug with my Gramma for an ice cream cone.. I loved Magna, everyone knew each other!! You could drive down 3500 S. and wave to a ton of people and they would wave back! LOVED IT...

So when we got married, we bought our first house on the border of Magna and West Valley... I thought this is going to be great......
ENTER 2001, my Mom and Dad announce that they are moving to Grantsville... HUH?? Grantsville???  (I had been out here for basketball games in high school...it was a LOOONNGG way from me!!) .....then the housing boom happened, houses went up every where around us.... we didnt like it, schools were suffering, etc...
ENTER 2005 - Leo and I were thinking about moving - SO we decided heck why not - lets go look in Mom and Dads neck of the woods.. and within 2 weeks our house sold, we bought a lot out here in Grantsville and were packing our home of almost 10 years up to head WEST!

ENTER Current Day - So when I was thinking about my small town - I said to myself, SELF - this is just like growing up in Magna... everyone knows everyone (if they don't that is their own fault), everyone waves at you when you drive down the street!! I LUURVE this town!!

AND the best thing I luurve about my small town - THIS TOWN SUPPORTS EACH OTHER!!
I have seen the best in people, from supporting the kids on the football team even when they don't have kids on the team, supporting the longest standing town party "The Sociable" each and every year! Jr. Jazz, Little League Football, and supporting something that is near and dear to my heart - Grantsville Youth Baseball!

I was blown away by all the support and people that came out to our opening day last week!! It was AMAZING!!

 

Just like all the wonderful life long friends I have made - AMAZING!! (you all know who you are!!) And I even have a few fellow Pirates out here with me now too!!

This little town out WEST called GRANTSVILLE...I LUURVE IT!! And I now call it HOME and will FOREVER!!

NEW Recipe and recipe blog for you all to try!!

SO - since I have been not working home, I like to go through all the blogs that I stalk read and find new and interesting recipes to feed the Egan4.

One of the blogs that I love, is OUR BEST BITES. I found there cookbook at Costco and bought it and have been trying a few of the recipes out. 

One if the recipes that we ALL (even Aynsley) LOVED was the Crispy Coconut Chicken Fingers!
I must say they are FANTABULOUS!! I also made as a side dish the DELICIOUS Oven Baked Steak Fries!

Here is the link to the recipe - CRISPY COCONUT CHICKEN FINGERS and OVEN BAKED STEAK FRIES - I would just type it out for you all - but I have to give credit where credit is due - This blog has amazing recipes!!  GO there now and check it out!

One thing - I did not use chicken tenders, I simply cut up 3-4 chicken breasts and made my own strips!
Oh and here is my picture of the delicious coconut chicken and steak fries!

Aynsley and the Childrens Sociable

Aynsley has been part of an amazing cheer group as you have heard me talk about - Remember the Cheer Competition post 
This year her little group tried out for the Childrens Sociable - well they made it! 
Here is a little known fact that I learned this year... if you make the top 10 acts - well you win the fabulous prize of being in ALL 6 performances the day of the show! YES that is right - 6 performances on ONE day!! 
Are you feeling my pain yet???  I thought last year was bad with 3 performances - it wasnt! 

It was fun - it was a LONG day - but it was fun!!  


here are some pics of the performance

Ayns is the tall one in the middle

 

Here is a video of one of the performances!  FUN stuff!!  the little red head in front goes a little fast - Aynsley had Kelly right behind her counting - so Aynsley is on - Mikelle just got a little excited! 

 

 

The next day Aynsley was SOO tired and SOO sore from performing 6 times - catching Kira 6 times - doing Cart wheels 6 times!  You get my drift!

Weekend in So. Calif

It all started 3 months ago... Ryan got tickets to a NASCAR race for his birthday. He had been bugging us to go.. and we kept telling him that he was not old enough to go, that it was adults only!  (sometimes a race should be adults only!  LOL ) 

So for his birthday, we gave him a Tony Stewart Jacket and inside the jacket we had his tickets to the Fontana Calif race. He was stoked!!

Then 2 weeks later, I lost my job. I was stressed on how in the heck I was going to get Ryan to Calif to enjoy his birthday present. Things just seem to fall into place and I stashed some money aside for the trip!  Thank goodness the tickets had already been bought!!

SO fast forward now to the end of March, and we head out to California. It had been raining all week in Los Angeles but the storm should be past us for the race.

Sunday the day of the race we leave Tom and Capi's early because our tickets came with pit passes. And what do ya know... rain the whole way to Fontana!!  Are you kidding me!!  We get there and walk to the pits - there was not much going on due to the drizzle, but it was cool to be back there. (word to the wise - Las Vegas pit passes are way extremely better, because you are in the garages! Fontana you only get pit road!)

We had great seats off of turn 4 - and the race was phenomenal!!  There were only 4 cautions (which is unheard of)  Only one accident (which is also unheard of) and in the last 10 laps - my driver Jimmie Johnson passes the puke Kyle Busch to take the lead, then in the last 2 turns Kevin Harvick (Leo's driver) passes Jimmie to win the race - WHAT EVER! 

I know none of my family cares about NASCAR or how the weekend went - but we did and that is all that matters!!  I guess we are closet red necks!! 

Here are some pics of the weekend!!

Leo in front of Harvicks pit

Ryan in front of Tonys pit

US looking down pit road

Tom (Leo's brother) Capi (sis in law) and us - GROUP Shot!!

Start Finish Line - US

Turn 4 - Lets go Racing Boys!!

What ever Harvick won - here is his burn out! 

SO Happy Birthday Ryan - and Leo too (we went on his birthday weekend!)