Well, the Celebration has come and gone, just like that!! Thursday night they had what they call a Kick-off Social, but we didn't attend it. Then Friday morning they had the parade. Hayden was a little hestitant at first about riding the float, he wanted to just ride in the back of Papa's truck like he did last year. But after a little bit of coaxing from some of the other kids and my sister-in-law's dad, he found his spot on the float. And he was a pretty darn cute cowboy too on there!! He had a lot of fun riding the float, and was excited to get a pop at the half way point. --The parade goes through town (which is about 9 blocks) then it turns around and comes back through. Just in case you miss it the first time!! Later in the afternoon, me and the kids went with some of Waylen's family (Waylen had to work on Friday) and took the kids to the carnival for awhile. Then around 3, we all went back to my in-laws, and me, and my MIL & FIL headed down to work our two-hour shift in the hamburger stand. After working there, we all went out to the rodeo. It wasn't a very good rodeo this year. They had 14 bull-riders, but none of them lasted the 8 seconds. We needed some real cowboys in our rodeo!! The kids seemed to enjoy the rodeo, but luckily it didn't last too long because they were starting to get a little restless near the end. After the rodeo, we went back to the in-laws to visit for awhile before heading home after our first day of the Celebration.
Saturday started off with a 5k, which Waylen ran in. It started at 8, and I was hoping to get down to see him start and finish like we did last year, but Hayden didn't wake up until after 8:30. I guess it had been a long day on Friday!! Anyways, Waylen made it home around 9. He ran the race in just over 30 minutes, which is really good considering he had only been "training" for about 2 weeks. He said it about killed him this year, and I had to remind him he is a year older now!! Great job Waylen and everyone else who ran -His sister Melody took 3rd in her age group, and his sister Jacki took 5th. His brother and his wife also ran, and did really good and had decided at the last minute they would run.
After Waylen got home, we all finished getting ready and got Hayden down to the float again, and headed down to watch the parade. Kayla loved watching the parade both days, and loved all the horses. The second time by, we were going to get Hayden off the float, so he could watch the rest of the parade, but when Waylen asked him if he wanted off, he said "No". I guess he was having too much fun!! After the parade, we went out to the motocross for a few hours. The races were o.k, they've been better in previous years. They did have several wrecks, and one of the kids in Waylen's young men's class wrecked and ended up with a broken arm!! But it lasted a little longer than needed, it took them over 2 hours to get to the intermission. So, we left not too long after they started racing again, it was starting to cloud up, and we wanted to take the kids to the carnival before it rained. --But it ended up starting to rain while we were at the carnival, it rained for about 10 minutes, then just drizzled for about 15 minutes, but then it started raining hard again, so we decided to just go back later. So, we went back again later, with Waylen's family, and Hayden had fun again riding the rides with his cousins. And we finally managed to pull him away before we went broke buying tickets!! Later that evening, we went back to the in-laws and everyone enjoyed watching the fireworks. On Sunday, they had a special two hour meeting with all 3 wards combined, but we skipped out last year and this year. Shame on us!! But it is way too hard to wrestle with Kayla for that long. After the church meeting, we went down to the in-laws and had lunch, and spent the afternoon and evening visiting with everyone. And that pretty much sums up our adventures for the Celebration.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Parade Floats from the Past
So, in one of my last posts I mentioned about the Pioneer Celebration that our town has every year. One of the highlights of this two-day event is a parade. When I was younger we attended many parades in Waycross, so when I think of a parade for a town it was like those: marching bands, T-ball teams, cheerleading groups, and such. Well, the parade here for Manassa Pioneer Days is nothing like that. There are Floats, and more floats -built by the local businesses and then each organization in the church in 2 of the wards build floats also. So, there's usually somewhere around 15 floats in the parade. And that's about all besides all the demolition derby cars!!
I thought I would post a few pictures of the floats that have been done for Larry's Garage (my father-in-law's buisness). My mother-in-law and her kids have been doing these floats for many years, and have had many great ones. They took a sabatical for a few years, and started back a few years after me and Waylen got married, so these are ones that I have helped on with all the rest of the family.
This is known as the "comeback" float - it was the done in 2003- after a few years of them not doing one - this is the first float I ever helped on.
Float from 2004: It's an octupus if you can't tell
This is the Riverboat float from 2005:
I thought I would post a few pictures of the floats that have been done for Larry's Garage (my father-in-law's buisness). My mother-in-law and her kids have been doing these floats for many years, and have had many great ones. They took a sabatical for a few years, and started back a few years after me and Waylen got married, so these are ones that I have helped on with all the rest of the family.
This is known as the "comeback" float - it was the done in 2003- after a few years of them not doing one - this is the first float I ever helped on.
Float from 2006:
One of my favorites - Mater from last year - Definetly going to be hard to top that one -Lots of people loved it!!!
And this year we are doing the toys from Toy Story - Woody, Buzz Lightyear, the dinosaur, the pig, slinky dog, and Mr. Potato Head. It's all starting to come together slowly but surely, and hopefully we'll have it all done by the end of the week. Then, we can relax and get a few other things done before the Celebration begins next Friday. So, once again - Stay Tuned for how Woody and his gang turn out!!
Monday, July 07, 2008
End of T-ball Season
Hayden had his last T-Ball game tonight, and it was a really good game. He did really good, and had a lot of fun!! It was a nice little activity for him this summer, and he really enjoyed it. It was fun for us to watch him and his teammates off in la-la land at each game, but also see how they improved from game to game. However, it is nice to have it over and done with, so we don't have any more games or practices to worry about during our busy month of July. I put a couple of videos on here, the first one is Hayden batting, then running to first base. The second one is him running from second to home, with the boy behind him hot on his heels.
Celebrating the 4th of July
We had a good 4th of July holiday. Both of the kids were still sound asleep at 7 when it was time for the flag raising ceremony and pancake breakfast at the church, so I stayed home with the kids while Waylen attended that. Then, we went up to Alamosa 
for the parade. Hayden enjoyed getting all the candy, and Kayla enjoyed clapping for everyone that was in the parade. After the parade, Hayden asked when the big parade was going to happen. (Note: to those who may not know - Every year our town holds what we call Manassa Pioneer Days, which celebrates the anniversary of the Mormon pioneers reaching Utah all those many years ago. Anyways, during this celebration - ou
r town of less than 1,000 goes to well over 10,000. The days' events include a rodeo, demolition derby, motocross, carnival, and a parade -which has lots of floats -More Info.to Come Later - so you will then know what Hayden means by the big parade. Stay Tuned!!) Later that afternoon, we went over to Waylen's parents for a barbecue and hung out for the rest of the day visiting with everyone. That evening, Hayden had fun lighting sparklers and watching the "fireworks show" that the guys did. Kayla also had fun watching the fireworks, and clapped for most of them.
for the parade. Hayden enjoyed getting all the candy, and Kayla enjoyed clapping for everyone that was in the parade. After the parade, Hayden asked when the big parade was going to happen. (Note: to those who may not know - Every year our town holds what we call Manassa Pioneer Days, which celebrates the anniversary of the Mormon pioneers reaching Utah all those many years ago. Anyways, during this celebration - ou
r town of less than 1,000 goes to well over 10,000. The days' events include a rodeo, demolition derby, motocross, carnival, and a parade -which has lots of floats -More Info.to Come Later - so you will then know what Hayden means by the big parade. Stay Tuned!!) Later that afternoon, we went over to Waylen's parents for a barbecue and hung out for the rest of the day visiting with everyone. That evening, Hayden had fun lighting sparklers and watching the "fireworks show" that the guys did. Kayla also had fun watching the fireworks, and clapped for most of them.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
Diaper Dilemma
Kayla's newest favorite thing to do is take off her diaper. We can't seem to keep it on her. She'll take off her pants, then her diaper. The other night at Waylen's mom's, she had gotten into the flour (which is another favorite for her), so we gave her a bath, but then 
all she had to wear was just her diaper. She kept sneaking off and taking it off, or if she hadn't taken it off for awhile, someone would say to her "Kayla take off your diaper." And there she would go running off to hide!! Waylen finally got some tape and taped it on. Then yesterday afternoon after her nap, she took off her wet diaper, so I put a new one on her, and then about 20 minutes later, I found her with it off again (and that one was wet too). It is a constant battle to get her to keep it on. We've considered starting to potty-train, but she freaks out anytime we try to sit her on the potty seat on the toliet. So who knows what we'll do with our little imp!!
all she had to wear was just her diaper. She kept sneaking off and taking it off, or if she hadn't taken it off for awhile, someone would say to her "Kayla take off your diaper." And there she would go running off to hide!! Waylen finally got some tape and taped it on. Then yesterday afternoon after her nap, she took off her wet diaper, so I put a new one on her, and then about 20 minutes later, I found her with it off again (and that one was wet too). It is a constant battle to get her to keep it on. We've considered starting to potty-train, but she freaks out anytime we try to sit her on the potty seat on the toliet. So who knows what we'll do with our little imp!!
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