COUNTY FAIR TIME

 We had to get Tia all spruced up for the yearly county fair pet show.  Tia really likes Tagg and so he decided that he would be the one to show her.  Besides that Treyson was going to show Rusty.  Doesn't she look cute in her "RED WHITE AND BLUE"
 Tagg was all cowboyed out but did not have a smile for the camera.  This was at 9:30 A.M. and I think it was a little early for him....
Here is Treyson ready to show "Rusty" (the dorkie dog)
I am not entirely sure what the problem was with this picture but thought it was blog worthy...  (I think it was because TIA did not win the big award like he thought she should have)  jk

Night at the Movies

We finally found a Friday night to go to
a DRIVE INN movie.
Rylee has been wanting to go to one
of these for years. Hence the "deer in the headlights look"

I think that the lastone we went to was when the
72 Chevy Blazer
was still in condition to go. (That was quite a
while ago)

We sat in the back of the truck in lawn chairs and had a gymnastic pad laid down in the bed
of the truck for Rylee to lay on.

We had a really good time and it started to rain just at the very end of our movie. We had just enough time to pack up and
get out of the parking lot.

Thanks Jim for taking us and having a great night out.

West Valley City

This is where our day started out.

We were playing in a Tournament in West Valley City.

Our team did really well. They had to play Thursday night.

Friday night and again on Saturday morning.

We won the first two games and held in there pretty well for the third game.
Well after the second game................... Here we go
We had gotten a hotel room down sort of close to the "Maverik Center" cause our
playing field was not far from there. After the game we were headed up 3500 S to
our hotel so that Rylee could do some swimming in the pool. (this is what he had really

wanted to do all night). We were stopped at a light and all of sudden here come a couple

of cops. We thought well they are going to escort an ambulance or fire truck thru the busy
intersection but NO!!!!! there were about 12 to 15 cops in unmarked and regular cop cars
that came rushing to the intersection. Some turned to the left, some to the right, and some
just flipped a U turn and raced back up the road. Pretty soon here they came back for
a second time. Kind of did the same thing. All the while we were just sitting at the light
watching all of this happen. Pretty soon they came back a third time and then we

realized that this was a high speed chase and they had finally located the car they were

chasing. He turned to the right and headed down past a few strip malls and the cops followed him.
He then proceeded to come back onto 3500 S, only this time he was behind us.

This is supposed to be a picture of the cop car that he took out behind us by pushing him into

a ditch and into a water line that broke and spewed water all over. Then I could see him barreling

up behind us. I kept looking in my side mirror and thought "we are about to be rear-ended".

I think I told everyone to hold on cause here he comes....I looked at the young couple next to us and yelled "he's

gonna hit us" and then I thought I told Rylee to look away as I really thought that the kids next to us would be killed.

They were in a little grey car and no one behind them. He would have hit them straight in the back..But no

He decided to barrel right between us. Unbelievable I could
not believe that there was enough room for him to fit thru there. In hitting the cop car behind us,
he lost his whole front end and maybe that is how he fit between us.

This the the bumper of the car that was running from the cops.
When he hit us it kind of blew apart and there were car parts
everywhere!!!

It tore up our running board and left scrapes
all the way up the side but it was still drive-able.

He raced down between us and kept going. We were traumatized but totally unhurt. There were
car parts everywhere and I was not sure if they were mine or not. I did not dare get out as there
was still a lot happening and it is a very busy street.

He caught our car pretty well all the way up the side and I was not sure if there was any car left.
Well after seeing the damage I really cannot believe that this is all it did. The little grey car
next to us only lost the mirror.

This was the tow truck that was trying to haul the cop car out of the way.

 

 

Happenings of the Day

I went home for lunch today and found Jim working with
the Direct TV guy to hook up our new system, Rylee playing
baseball on the phone while dressed and ready for his game
that isn't till 7:00 pm tonight.  (this was 12:30, 1:00 mind you)





So I made my lunch, a ham sandwich on pita bread, some pepper
cheese and a couple of apples, in case you cant tell due
to the fact that it all blends into the granite....

This was also going on outside

We are tearing off our old back porch and putting on
one that will look better, we hope.


See Old Porch torn off. 


Looks kind of funny!!

Looks like this is the way it will stay until Monday.  They ran
into a snag and need more material from Ogden that they cannot
get today.  oh well

and now Rylee is off to Salt Lake for baseball.  We will send
him down with Trent and Jim and I will go down after I get off work.

Good Luck Rylee (ps they won 10-7 last night)

Ragnar 2011

CJ and I were lucky enough to help volunteer at the RAGAR 2011 race this year.
We were "THE V SQUADS" official volnteers.
(Mary Kaye was a volunteer also but she did not get to work with us.

When signing up for your shift you were supposed to go online
to the official volunteer site and choose a shift.  I signed onto
the website and saw this shift and thought this was perfect...

X  1:00 to 6:30 at the Morgan High School

So I signed us up for this and soon got an email with our comfirmation.
The only thing that I could see wrong with it was that I thought the shift for the
afternoon and it was actually for 1:00 AM to 6:30 AM by the time that
I realized this it was too late to change.  So according to the Clock in the little
car we started our shift promptly 1/2 hour early.....

We had actually left our house at about 10:30 pm cause we were
so excited and did not want to fall asleep and miss our shift.  Kenzie's
team was at our house to shower, eat lasagne and just rest so we
did not want to disturb them.  We tried to park by the school and go
to sleep but we could not do it.

This was VOLUNTEER HEADQUARTERS (in the middle of the night)


I am not sure but I think that this was us.  We were in charge of stopping
traffic and crossing the runners.  I had to guide them and get them in and
out of the chutes.  Now I am not a runner and don't even profess to know
what running in the middle of the night does to your mind, but some of these
runners were very disoriented.....they looked like deer running into headlights
most of the time.  (Good thing we were there to guide them)  CJ had to stop the cars
and did alot of dancing.  (I even think that her arms were very sore from all the fancy
traffic directing)


This is the lovely gear that we were fortunate to wear.  Thanks to Rog for the
fancy headgear that kept me safe from getting ran over.  (see the car in the background)
I am sure that they only saw the little head lamp on my forehead and not the very large and
bright florescent vest I was wearing.....

Our truck had a little hiccip going up over RAGNAR HILL and GUARDSMAN PASS.

Jim and I had to go up to Park City the next night and rescue it.  This was the very last
chute for the runners as they began their final descent into Park City.  I wish that we
could have been there to cheer Mackenzie on to her victory finish.

They had to run down this hill into the last chute.


Here is the poor worn down FORD.  Notice the skilled mechanic
climbing into the drivers seat to investigate the damage.


Key in the ingition, baby starts right up.....They had left some
transmission fluid on the floor board (thanks Dr Jed we owe you)

After putting in some more transmission fluid we (the skilled mechanic)
had to check to see how much was in there.  We checked many times
before it finally registered.


I am glad that the skilled mechanic was there cause I could not
locate the hole that the big long reader thing had to be put back into.

Good thing I am married to him.

We then rode into town while the transmission fluid was settling.
We went to Maverik and got a drink and some gas and then back
up the hill to start the big truck again and see if we thought we could
make it home.  You really hate to be towed out of Park City in shame as
all the runners are running by..... (please note below,  others were not
as fortunate as we were and did have to make the TOW OF SHAME)

I tried to take these pictures while driving a stick shift out of town.  I just held the camera up to the window and snapped.  I was hoping for some nice pics from the finish line.  Oopps doesn't look like it turned out like I thought it was going to.

Day in Logan

We had a double header in Logan, UT today.
 





 The park was very nice but it was very hot and
our game was supposed to start at 3:30.....


 



 They had some nice batting cages for the boys to
warm up in.


 


 This I guess is Rylee all warmed up???


 


 This was my view from under the awesome
Sport-brella that I gor for Mothers Day.
It is so easy to set up and saved my face and arms
from SUNBURN!

 


 Another view from under the tent at the boys getting
all prepared for the big game
 


 Rylee came over and decided to enjoy the shade
before he had to go and endure the sunshine.
 


 Rylee is quite the "Utility Guy" (that means that he can
pretty well play where ever you need him) He does pretty
good at catching.
 



 I love it when is comes up for the big throw to 2nd
base to get the runner.....
 


I sometimes wonder what he does to fold his legs
up to allow him to crouch down like this.....








YES LADIES (at work) THIS IS THE FAMOUS "ANGIES"  I could not resist taking a pic for you guys......Looks like a nice place but I am not sure if he was there that night or not.....jkjkjk