Flooding

During the week A.J. had his soccer practice. He is still loving 1st grade. Val told him the other day that he will be going off track soon and he got a little mad and said he doesn't want to go off track. In the last couple of weeks Peyton has been really attached to Val. She can't go anywhere with out Peyton being right behind her. It's like she thinks Val in going to leave her and not she her again. Shawn started football on Saturday. He seemed to be in a lot better shape this year, not as winded at the end of practice. I might be an assistant. It just depends on what coach picks Shawn. We had some flooding in our neighborhood. Luckily it didn't effect our house but the people from our old ward it effected a lot. One member lost there basement because the water broke in through window well. Friday I was bailing water out of window wells, it was pretty crazy.

Un eventful week

Two days ago I was mowing the lawn and twisted my ankle. Shawn was on the porch and saw me go down and thought that I had ran my foot over with the lawn mower. I have such bad ankles. I played ball last night which is always fun. Val went to the doctor yesterday because she thought she had pink eye and she did. She also found out that she had lost a couple more pounds. Sooner than later we will have to buy her new clothes because her clothes are falling off of her. She also found out that if she keeps up her eating healthy that she will eventually be off of her diabetic pill, ya!! Shawn ended up earning all of his money for football. Now he just has $30 left to pay us back for his football gloves. He is realizing what it takes to earn the money and be able to get the things he wants. Hopefully he will take car of the things that he works for. Kelly spent a week and a half at her Aunt Lauren's house. She said she had fun. She's been a real help since she came back. Sometimes it's hard to separate Peyton from Kelly.

Beginning School

A.J. Started 1st grade on Wednesday. Val took him to school because I think he was a little nervous. But as soon as he got there and saw his friends he was giving them high 5's and huggin them. When he got home he was tellin us about his first day. He said he had a good lunch. He had chicken fingers on something to that effect and was excited that he could have ketchup and barbeque sauce. He was funny.

Peyton has been sick lately which means Val and myself haven't been getting much sleep. Last night I think I got maybe 2 hours so I am kind of tired today. They Finally split our ward last week. It's kind of sad but it's not like we won't see those people every week anyways. We went to our Stake building dedication last night it was pretty cool. Someone had taken pictures of all the different stages of the building being built. Shawn has pretty much earned his money for football this year. He also picked up a couple of weekly jobs to do during the week to earn a little more money for himself so when his friends want to go to the movies he has the money to do those things.

Merit Medical 20 year anniversary

On Saturday Shawn and I went over to a buddy of mines brother to weed his back yard. Shawn is trying to earn money for football. He got $40 for doing that. Then we went over to the In-laws to mow the lawn. After that we went to go see the new Harry Potter Movie on Merit. It was really good. Than later on that night we went up to Thanksgiving Point for dinner and fireworks. That food was horrible. They had big turkey legs, and chicken legs. They aslo had corn on the cob, watermelon and vegetable cabobs. They had cotton candy and snow cones and some games for the kids to play. I didn't win anything when they did the drawing. I was hoping to win the Flat screen 46 in t.v. We ended up stopping off at Wendys because everyone still hungry. The fire works were probably the best thing @ Thanksgiving Point.

Week

We really haven't had anything exciting going on. A.J. started his Sparta United comp team this week. Alot of what he does right now is training and learning certain skills that when he has games he will be able to perform like he's suppossed to. Val went to the doctor today and found out she had a Kidney infection so she won't be going to work today. Merit is having it's 20 year anniversary tomorrow and instead of goingto Lagoon, Fred rented out a couple movie theatres to watch the new Harry Potter movie. Then we are going down to Thanksgiving Point for dinner and fire works. It should be a fun day. Shawn has been doing a lot of work around our ward earning money for football this year. His grades dropped below a 3.0 so he new that he had to earn money for it becausethat was our deal with him. If he keeps his grades abouve a 3.0 he doesn't have to pay. Our ward is splitting for the 2nd time since we have lived there. So on Sunday we will find out what our new boundries will be.

4th of July

We went over to Dad and Shauna's for a little pre-dinner. We had hamburgers and hot dogs. Of course Grandma Tapp brought her famous baked bean's. I had two plates full. Michael's girl friend was there her name is Rose. Julia was there also. Then we went to Grandma & Grandpa Doyles for some taco's. It was Grandpa's birthday. They gave us a Norway Maple Tree to put in our back yard. I will probably plant it next week as soon as the blue stakes people come out.