Good Football News!!

Well it is official - Ryan made the "A"team this year for football! With the Stansbury split it opened up some spots on the "A"team. He worked hard this summer going to conditioning classes and one on one training with my dear friend Mike. And it paid off!! He was sooo happy when they told him that he had been picked for the team!
His confidence has gone through the roof, he told me he loves being on this team because he feels like for the first time he is being coached! He loves football and is so excited to be a part of this awesome team!

Ryan is between Clay#35 and Dallin #17. This was at our little scrimmage against Tooele. We stomped all over them! The team looks good this year! It is going to be awesome!

Ryan at practice!

Vacation

So this year for vacation we kinda did a "staycation". We went to St George for a couple of days. I know I know, who in the heck goes to St. George in the middle of July! We did!! But we had fun!
We went for a drive through a small part of Bryce Canyon. We had never been through there. We headed over to the Grand Escalante Stair Case. It is always cool to see the awesome rock formations. And an interesting piece of tid-bit - I finally made it through Tropic, UT. My Uncle is from there and I have always heard about Tropic, but I have never been through there. Now I know where Uncle Glade grew up, and I dont know why my Aunt Karolyn would not want to move there, it is beautiful!
Here is Leo and Aynsley in the Monument on one of the little trails that we hiked on.

Leo and Ryan too!
Here is an awesome double arch that we drove to - I love how all the formations are just naturally formed over thousands and thousands of years. Make you really stop and think that we are really only here for a blink of time!

Another cool rock formation

I took this picture with my camera on the flower setting - I love how it turned out!
One night we went over to Tuchan theater and saw FOOTLOOSE!! It was awesome. Aynsley has never been to a play besides school plays and she was just amazed by the production. When Wren does his solo dance -(in the movie the part where he is doing his dance thru the vacant rail building to Never) at the end of the solo Aynsley screams - whooooo! it was too cute, she was way into it! Then also at the end of the production she screamed again and says to me -"Mom that was awesome!" So now I guess I am going to have to take her back to Tarzan next year! Except we will go in the Spring!
Then the next day we went over to Vegas, the kids were bugging us to go to M&M world and Coke world. Then Leo and Ryan did the Nascar experience - rode the roller coaster and the race simulator.
We had fun and it was soooo nice to have a week off!!

The Biggest and Best Waterfight EVER!

Well the 4th of July weekend is coming to a close. For the first time in a long time, I had a 3 day weekend. Friday, we went up to the pool spent the day up there. My Mom, my sister and my dear friend Monica. It was nice and relaxing. We just hung out and deepened our tans.
Then on the 4th we got up and got ready for the Grantsville parade. I love this parade!! It reminds me of the old Magna days, maybe even a little bit better. In the Grantsville parade, everyone who knows each other squirts each other with water, whether it be water guns, water balloons, or the hose from the fire truck! This year, I found these cool little foam water cannons at Wallie World for cheep! So we loaded up the cooler with just water and got ready. We shot at a couple of people we knew.....Then came my all-star boys...(since I am the league sec. I can call them that). Well my Dad had forewarned us that Craig, the minor coach, and my Dads coworker, would be driving. As soon as we saw him, my Dad told Ryan to go and get him.....right thru the window - we got him!! Then it was war on the boys..we got them!! This year they didn't have the firetruck with the hose on it.. kinda sad.
Then we were off to the park and the car show. Spent the MUGGY afternoon over there and of course got sunburned.
We hosted the BBQ this year as my Mom and sister claim that their BBQ's are on the fritz. Little did we know how much fun we were going to have. MY neighbors across the street - the Millers - were having their family BBQ. (Monica and I are good friends and Bob and Kay - her mom and dad in law live across the street from me) It all started innocently with the kids messing around with the cheep water cannons that I bought. THEN - the all out Miller vs. Taylor - WATERFIGHT began!! We were squirting hoses across the street, throwing buckets of water on each other, laughing and screaming, wrestling for the hoses. It was an all out war!
All in all there were about 25 people running around wet and soaked! It was SOOO much fun - almost 3 hours we went at it! And we even got BOB!! hahahaa!
This had to have been one of the best 4th of Julys that I have had!! the night concluded with an awesome fireworks show down at the park.
I love this Nation, I love my family, I love the Millers, watch out Jay - I will find a way to get you back!! All my aches and pains today were so worth the fun that we had yesterday!!

Baseball season comes to a close, for Ryan!

Well Baseball is officially over! Well at least Ryan's season that is. I love baseball and love going and watching him play. He was so excited this year to play, he wanted to play catch and 1st so bad - Then he dropped his Dad's torque wrench square on his toe, and was kind of on the injured reserve list. He couldn't run or put his weight on his foot - so he played right field for the first few weeks of the season. Then towards the last part of the season he started to play catch and loved it. He did very very well too! Kinda surprised dear old Mom! I am really critical of catch because that it what I have played forever!

My little catcher dude! Loving it!!

OK - Look where the ball is - and look where his bat is! JUST A LITTLE AHEAD OF THE BALL!
I love my new camera! I love that I can take like 10 shots in a row to get pictures like this!


Here he is loading up - Looking good - I think this one went foul though....
Leading off first - He is so DANG CUTE!
So now with Baseball over - we have 4 weeks off and football starts. Ryan loves football 2nd to baseball - It is a never ending cycle - Baseball - Football - Basketball - But we love it and he loves it and that is all that matters!