Each time I update my blog, I tell myself I'm going to come back in a week or so and update again. I'm going to take more pictures and remember everything, but then about a month passes and I'm kicking myself for not updating more often. So I'll do my best to remember the highlights of our last days of summer, but I didn't take very many pictures.

Last week, Josey and I went down to Salt Lake to watch the U.S. national soccer team play El Salvador in a World Cup qualifying match. When Josey originally told me he wanted to go to this game, I was a little surprised, because usually we just do one thing like this each fall, and that is for a BYU football game. But he insisted, and so I don't know if we'll make it to a BYU game, but he said this was worth it. I have to agree; it was so fun and exciting, and who knows if we'll get to see the national team play live again anytime soon! I played soccer all my life, but I've never been into watching soccer that much. Josey has been following the U.S. team since a little after we were married, but lately he's gotten into it a lot more. The atmosphere at the game was unlike anything I've ever been to before, probably because we were sitting by a huge section of El Salvador fans. And they were NOT NICE! If Americans would walk by some of them, they would flip them off right in their face and yell things at them. Bad swear words. So that wasn't so fun, but what was fun was that the U.S. won 2-1. And then we rushed out to the car to find out that BYU beat Oklahoma! It was a great day overall, and a fun date.

At the end of August, I ran in the Top of Utah Half-Marathon. My goal was to beat 1:40, and I ended up running it in 1:37:27 (7:26/mile). This was 6 minutes faster than my time at this race last year, so I was really happy. It helped that I knew the course, and knew what to expect. I went down with a couple of friends from Kemmerer, who I also trained with. Kayla (on the far left) is a high school senior and one of Josey's track stars. She's a sprinter, and she says she will never do another distance race. We'll see about that. Amanda (center) has become one of my really good friends, and I think we'll continue to run together when we can. Her little boy is one of Jordan's really good buddies so that is fun. This race was going to be my last of the season, but I might decide to enter the Pinedale Half-Marathon at the end of this month because I really love races!


Just a picture of Jarrett being his goofy little self. This boy loves to be a clown, and some days I don't know what to do with him. He thinks everything is a joke. But since he's so cute, I guess it's okay for now.


One night we went with another family to catch crawdads in the Ham's Fork river. I had never seen them before, but we knew the boys would have fun. Josey says he used to catch them when he was little. He read on the internet that they eat meat and you can bait them with hot dogs. Well, this didn't really do any good because he just caught them with his hands. But while he was looking he still had the hot dog (just a small piece) tied to a string that he was pulling through the water. When they had been in the water for about a half hour or so, Josey noticed the hot dog was suddenly missing. He asked Jordan if he ate it. Of course he did, "because the crawdads weren't eating it"! YUCK!! Luckily, he did not get sick.

Jordan has mastered the art of the monkey bars. Here he is on some rings doing his thing. He will swing on the monkey bars until he has blisters. I'm very proud of his skills!