Pony Express Days

We've had a fun week at Pony Express Days. It started off on Sat. May 30th with a pancake breakfast. The kids really look forward to this and we always have a great time!





Then on Monday we went to Family Fun Night. They had booths with free games, pictures with Minnie and Mickey, and free popcorn and cotton candy! Then we got to enjoy a comedy show by Jason Hewlett. He does celebrity impersonations and he's really good at it! He performs in Las Vegas. We thought we'd get rained on but were lucky and it started raining as we were getting in our van to go home.






On Thursday we got to go to the Carnival. The kids wait all year to go to this and were thrilled to go!













The girls loved going on the boat ride!













Christian and his friend Aiden on the Ferriswheel.














Christian, Aiden, and Emilee on the Swings. Emilee was scared at first but then ended up loving this ride.













The mini Train was a big hit with the girls!














Christian and Aiden getting ready to ride the Gravitron!

On Sat. we went to the Pony Express Days Parade. It started almost an hour late, so it was a little hard to keep the kids happy, but they were so excited once it got started and they got plenty of candy. I even got a T-Shirt! It was a busy and fun week for us!

Welcome Summer!

Emilee's class had an end of the year BBQ and awards ceremony yesterday. It was for the parents and siblings of the kids in the Lifeskills class. Emilee's teacher, Mrs. Cannon, is in the brown behind Emilee. The BBQ was a lot of fun!

Emilee won the award for Best Cheerleader, because she's always cheering on the other students!

To Welcome the kids home on their last day of school I painted them a, "Welcome Summer" banner! I wish this picture showed all of the banner. It has a sun on the left and a red flower on the right. They loved it and it was a great start to the summer!

10th Anniversary!

Sterling and I had our 10th Wedding Anniversary on Friday, May 22, 2009! My mom was nice enough to watch the kids so we could go to The Anniversary Inn in Logan, UT.

We stayed in a super cute room called Joanie's Diner!

It had a Jukebox full of 50's music!

Here's Sterling behind the counter at the diner!

Me and Betty Boop!

Here I am in the phone booth!

I love the attention to detail in this room!

Ster and I sitting at the booth.

Me behind the counter.

Me on the cute 50's couch!

The Bed. Don't you love that bedspread?

The jetted tub with the two towels folded like kissing swans!

We had a amazing time! We went to see Angels and Demons and we both loved it. 5 stars. We both love Indian Food, so we ate at the Tandoori Oven, since our first choice was booked for a wedding. It wasn't too fancy but the food was wonderful! It was a fun and memorable 10th Anniversary!

The Eagles

Saturday Sterling and I were able to go to The Eagles concert! We left the house at 4:30 PM so we could go to dinner before. We went to a restaurant we've never been before called the Indian House. I highly recommend it. It's on State St. in Sandy by the Rio Tinto stadium. We started off the meal with Deep Fried Vegetable Balls. They arrived sizzling and were served with two sauces one sweet and one more on the tart and spicy side. Both tasted wonderful and added a lot to the veggie balls. We both ordered the Vegetable Coconut Korma. I ordered mine mild and Sterling got the medium. It was a yummy coconut sauce made of onions, cashews, golden raisins, coconut cream and spices all mixed with cauliflower and carrots over rice. The spices were just right and it tasted wonderful. For Dessert we got the Peshwari Naan which is Indian bread stuffed with coconut, cashew nuts and raisins drizzled with honey. It had some different spices I couldn't identify (sage maybe?) but it was Yummy! We then headed to the Rio Tinto Stadium, found parking, and then our seats. We thought the show started at 7 PM and couldn't believe how sparse the crowd was at 10 to 7. We then took out the tickets and saw the show actually started at 8! Oops! Better to be an hour early than an hour late. So we walked around the stadium for awhile to pass time. The opening act for The Eagles was Michelle Branch! She did a great job. The Eagles took the stage at about 10 to 9 and had fans on their feet for most of the show. They did a great job and had great energy considering their age (in their 60's). Joe Walsh is an amazing guitar player. Very fun to watch. They had a huge arched screen behind them that had cool light effects and graphics and/or video. It was fun to see how many ways they used that.











This is what the screen looked like during Hotel California! They didn't allow camera's inside the stadium so I got the concert pictures off the SL Trib site!

We left during the second song, after they came back on for the encore, to beat traffic. It worked and we got out without having to wait! They performed for almost 2 hours and we got home at 11:30PM. It was a great date and even better because The Salt Lake Tribune gave us the tickets for being in a newspaper advertisement for them (see two posts below)!

50's Sock Hop

Christian and Emilee's school held a 50's Sock Hop for the students and their families. They encouraged everyone to dress in 50's style. Not very many adults dressed up but Sterling and I did! I think we had more fun than the kids!

Christian and Emilee also just had Spring Pictures taken at their school. I took pictures of them before they left for school!

See You In The Funny Papers!

The Salt Lake Tribune asked readers to write in about what they like about the paper. Sterling wrote a little essay and sent it off. They liked it and asked our family to come in and do a photo shoot for a SL Trib ad. It took us a little while to find the Trib offices because we thought they were by all the stores in the Gateway but nope it's one block East! It was so freezing cold that day. The girls and I were walking around in our dresses trying to hold them down because it was so windy. Once we finally made to the offices and thawed out and bit they started the photo shoot. Hailee didn't know what to think about that and she wouldn't smile. I don't think they got her to smile even once. And we were there for an hour. They must have taken a hundred photos of us! The ad was published today in the Salt Lake Tribune on page A10!

Surprise!

My brother in law, Nathan, wanted to throw his wife Natalie a surprise Birthday party for her 30th B-day! I did all of the decorations. This was the fastest I've ever thrown together a party. I started on Friday and the party was on Monday! Nathan bought Rock Band for Natalie's B-Day present and so he wanted a Rock Star themed party. I couldn't find any ideas online so I had to completely come up with everything myself. I thought Leopard print and red would be a fun RockStar like theme.

Here's Natalie when she first walked in. She was completely surprised.

Here's the Buffet table. The party favors were Leopard Print Chinese take-out boxes tied with red ribbon. It had a candle from For Every Body in it.

The Rock Star banner I made.

The Paint can balloon anchor.

30 Banner!

I decoupaged Leopard paper on the bottom of the glasses and added glitter around the edges.

We all played Rock Band and had a great time. Happy 30th Natalie!