End of the season

The football season has come to a close. Unfortunately, Zach's team wasn't able to pull off a win today, but they played a good, strong, close game. We had a great season and are proud of Zach for his dedication and hard work this year. We look forward to another great football season next year.

Are you ready for some FOOTBALL?

Now that football season is coming to a close I thought I'd post a few pictures of Zach. It's been a busy, fun, exciting past few months. I wasn't sure how things would work out with his hearing aids, but it's been fine. We have all had a great time. Zach has done really well playing defensive end and his team has had a great season. This Saturday his team (Bingham Black) takes on Alta in their first playoff game. (The FON's son Landon is on the Alta team.) Zach's number is 19 and he's tough. GO BINGHAM!!!

Happy Birthday, Ryan!

Ryan turned 7 this past weekend. He didn't have a friend birthday party, but he did get to celebrate all weekend. First, I took him and a couple of his friends bowling. They were very competitive always wanting to know who was winning and running smack at me. One of his friends even told me he thought I needed to take bowling lessons. Yeah...but I didn't have to have the bumpers up! Ryan was even running smack about an older lady a few lanes down from us until he went down and looked at her score. He came back to our lane with an astonished face and said, "Whoa, that lady has three strikes in a row!" That was the end of the smack talking.

The next night we took Ryan (and the rest of the family) out to dinner at his choice of restaurant. He chose Cafe Rio, or just Rio as he calls it. He snarfed down his salad like he hadn't eaten in a week. I think we need to work a little more on table manners.

Finally, on Labor Day we celebrated his birthday with family. He wanted a guitar cake this year, so I did my best. I know I'm not the "Ace of Cakes", but he thought it was cool. It took forever to make and only minutes to eat. All that hard work so quickly destroyed, but it was fun and Ryan liked it.

Fun in the Sun!

Last week our friends had a birthday party for their son Amani. For the party they bought this waterslide and the kids had a blast. They spent HOURS racing, sliding and having a great time enjoying the water. At first Owen was too scared to climb up the "ladder" to go down. We tried and tried to get him to climb up. Finally, Jason just lifted him up to the top and then he had to go down. After that we couldn't get him off the slide. Thanks for a great party. And thanks to Jason and Andrea for these pictures. I forgot my camera, of course.

Ryan got some good air up there at the top.