It's Been a Hot One

Temperatures this week have been soaring into the high 90's. The only way to cool off is to blow up the pool and lounge after a nice game of golf. We had a 7 on 7 this weekend down at Snow. It was fun, and we did alright. I will be down there again for football camp next week also. For how boring summer is it has definetly gone by fast, 2 a days start in like 4 weeks, then it is school.

Girls Camp

So this is another boring week of summer. Mom was at girls camp so we were home alone all week, and that was nice, except when Brett was being mega annoying. So while she was gone we went golfing a lot and that is it. I had another 7 on 7 tourney on Saturday, this one was at BYU, it was a lot of fun and we did a lot better, we went 3-3 and it should of been 4-2, because a ref said there was one minute left and we played for 3 and a half minutes and the other team scored. But during the actual playoff games we won our first on and lost our second to the potential championship team.

Routine Summer

Summer is to the boring stage where you don't want to go back to school yet but you don't want to be bored anymore. So my week consisted of reading some books ( thanks to Jer) and going to football. Actually there was a highlight of my week. Mom and Dad went to Jackson Hole on Thursday and Brett was at B-ball camp, so I got the house to myself for a couple days. I stayed the nights at Shane and Heathers, where I got introduced to Fear Itself, sounds scary huh, its not, ok it is a little scary and disturbing, and it is the one show where commercial breaks are nice. You can just unclamp your hands from the pillow and untense your whole body. Friday at 7 a.m. I got a lovely wake up call from Brett saying that he was sick and I had to go pick him up from UVU, so that was fun. Saturday we went over to S and H's to watch a movie and have pizza. So we watched The Village, sounds scary huh, its not, ok it is a little startling, but not disturbing, it also is confusing. Sunday we went up to Patti's for a Fathers Day BBQ, that was nice. I watched a video of Brocks first fight, he won, end of story. Mom left for Girls Camp this week, so I get another week alone, well Brett's home this time.

Summer Has Begun

This is our first week of summer break. Most people during summer break love to go out in the sun right, but when it is 60 degrees for a high all week long that doesn't really make it feel like summer. So during our first week of Winter break Brett went to EFY, and I went to football. Brett says he is not going to EFY next year even after a good group and stuff. Football in the Morning is all I do, I went golfing once this week but that was all. We had a seven on seven tournament Saturday, we lost all our games but they were against 5A teams and this was our first tourney of the year, all the games were close too.

Days 8 and 9 Saturday and Sunday

The week went a little faster than we wanted it to and before we knew it we were already leaving. Jer and Kenz fixed us breakfast that morning and then we said our goodbyes, Champ and Samara didn't think we were leaving for good untill we didn't come back after a while. We learned from the way down that you need to do something all the time, so we watched some more movies and stuff. When we pulled into the motel, we actually got the room we wanted, there was actually a pool, and actually a good breakfast. Sundays travel wasn't to bad, but right when we got home we were in Grandkids withdrawl, so we called Shane and Heather to see if we could come over.

Day 7 Friday

First off we went to a sprinkler park, Channing and Samara loved it. The best part was when all the fountains would turn off, and then turn back on, because Channing would just wait in anticipation for the water to come back on, and when it did it was like he had just won the lottery, he went crazy. After the Sprinkler park we came back and went swimming again, can you tell the kids like to swim.

For dinner we went to Rudys BBQ. It was unique but good. After dinner we went to kiddie acres and rode the train, the place wasn't quite what we expected, so we stayed there for like ten minutes and left. That night we just chatted.

Day 6 Thursday

Our first activity of the day was lunch at the Hula Hut where we ate on the water, it was pretty cool. The food wasn't to die for like the people on the internet said( Dad searched the customer reviews before we went). So right before he would order he would say something like, " so i've heard you tubular tacos are really good, what do you think Patrick", that was our waiters name.

After lunch Kenz and the kids went home and we went to the San Marcos outlets, and they are huge, every store you could think of was there, we only bought like two things there so it was kindof just a trip to say that we've been there. When we got home we went swimming again with cleaner water this time. To end the night we played games.

Day 5 Wednesday

Jeremy had to go back to work for the rest of the week and he was pretty disapointed. While he was at work we went to the Round Rock outlets and bought some school clothes. While Channing and Samara were raiding KB toys we secretly bought them and inflatable pool that we blew up by mouth while they were asleep, so that when they woke up they could come and swim.

While we were at the store waiting in line Kenz saw this movie and just had a mega outburst that goes as follows, " O my gosh the Apple Dumpling game, I watched this movie every week when I was a kid." and when Grandma and Grandpa are on duty that kind of outburst results in it sliding down the checkout table and into the shoping bag. So that night we watched the Apple Dumpling game and about 10 minutes into it I fell asleep and didn't wake up untill it was almost over. But don't judge the movie by that, Kenz said I fell asleep during the boring part.

Day 4, Tuesday

To start the day off we went golfing while the ladies and babies stayed home. It was kindof a goofy course but it was nice to swing the clubs. We decided that to save time we would play "best ball" to try and get a really good score on the course, only one of those decisions came true. Although there were some good hits we still shot an average game. And I think we hit more balls into the cemetary than any other person that has golfed there. There is this one hole where you hit it up this pretty steep tall hill. The first time we got up to it Brett just cranked it. So when we came around too it the second time( it was a six hole course so we played twice) I just cranked it and that little red dot at the bottom of that picture is brett about 150 yards away from the tee box behind him and probably 50 yards away from the hill. It was a fun morning of golf and the afternoon was about to get better.

We were going to go to Schliterbauns water park, but half the park was closed because school was still going, and so instead of that we went over to Lake Travis and rented a Waverunner. Jeremy was pumped, after we did all the paper work for it and got out on the water there quite a long ways of no wake zone because of all the boats that you can rent. So finally when we got the the wake zone Jer gave it all the gas and just flew for a while screaming and cheering the whole way, so was Brett, I on the other hand was scared for my life, One because it was my first time back on a waverunner since I was stuck with dad in the middle of Bear lake, and Secondly because I was at the back about to fall off. We rented it for 2 hours and it was the perfect amount of time. We biffed it hard core once. I was pretty shookin up right after it and I think we all were, but now that we think back to it, it was really fun actually. We had to swim about 40 yards to get back on the Waverunner because it just kept going after we fell off. We hit up a house boat for quite a while it had the best wakes. We got home and pretty much crashed for the night.

Day 3

On Monday we went down to Austin to get the "grand tour" you could call it that, it included Jers work and UT Stadium

We went to Jers work first were we looked out the windows at the rolling hills of trees in all directions. They had a lot of candy there when we got there, but when we left it had dwindled quite a bit.

We then went over to the staduim. At first we were just looking from the outside because we thought all the gates were shut. Kenz though was determined that she saw a gate open, and sure enough when we got around to the other side a gate was open. So me, mom and, Kenz walked in. We almost got lost in there because there doing construction and there was stuff everywhere and it was a confusing stadium. We finally found a portal door open, and right as we walked in we were amazed. It was so huge, especially since it was empty. We just took some pictures and did some sight seeing while we were in there. Its even bigger now because they are building the stands that you can see in the top picture. The big black thing in the other picture is the big screen, it takes up the whole entire endzone of that side.

After that we went to lunch at a place called Fredies and we got served by a guy named Stoner, yeah its true. What was even more weird was that his dad worked for byu for 30 years. We got back home and went swimming, the pool was usually closed on Mondays but because of Memorial day it was open, but since it is usually closed there wasn't any chlorine in the pool, so lets just say that there was a little yellowish green hue to the pool. That night we watched Hitch, it was pretty funny.

Texas Vacation Day 1 and 2

For the first day of our vacation we drove 13 and a half hours. It wasn't too bad untill it got dark and we were anxious to get to our motel and "swim". We finally pull in and Dad was checking in for ever. He comes back out and says that our room was taken, because of how late we were, so we had to get a smoking room. Secondly they didn't have a pool, I don't know were dad got the notion that there was a pool. Our first day of traveling wasn't the best, so I thought it would be better if I drove a lot( a lot as in the whole way which was 8 hours). But I was wrong, about 6 1/2 hours through I was miserable, mainly because we thought it was a 6 hour day but it wasn't. So when we finally pulled onto Jer and Kenz street, I floored it I got up to 40 miles an hour to go probably 200 yards. After we cooled down from that long trip we got our greetings in and all that. They were BBQing so I went outside to check it out and it was really hot and humid and I literally started perspiring instantly. I was definetly going to have to get used the humidity quick.