Boating w/ Callaways

We busted out of here around 2:00 ready for a night on the lake with the Callaways. We didn't plan a whole day because we didn't know how Eva was going to like it. She is only 1 and it can be a long day when your that little. But we made the most of it and played until we were all just so tired. Conor and Tara are so cute we loved hanging with them for the evening. Thanks for putting up with us we hope you had as much fun as we had.

Swim Meet #3 Results

Today was one busy day for our family. At 8:00am Bowdee had a football camp at BYU with a BUNCH of NFL players. He thought he had died and gone to heaven. He was on Brian Kehls football team, they didn't take place but man they did great. His buddy Dylan went with him and they were both none stop talking all the way home. This is them with Austin Collie. The best piece of advise they got was to always obey and listen to their parents because that makes the best football players. I liked that part! The Terry had a interview at Novell which seemed to go really well. Tia had play practice from 10-12. Bowdee got home at about 2:30 then we had to hussle to shave his head get stuff ready for our 3rd swim meet this summer and head to the pool at 3:20! Wow we hardly had time to eat I tell ya. The kids did great at the meet not their best but they did great!

Bowdee Townsend (10) B
1:33.15 Boys 10yrs 100 Free 3rd Place 4.59
54.01 Boys 10yrs 50 Fly 1st Place 3.17
2:02.93 Boys 10yrs 100 Breast 1st Place -0.29

Matia Townsend (8) G
1:01.42 Girls 8yrs 50 Free 7th Place 3.75
33.78 Girls 8yrs 25 Breast 4th Place -3.50
41.64 Girls 8yrs 25 Fly 3rd Place 0.34

Treg Townsend (6) B
48.81Y Boys 6yrs 25 Back 4th Place 9.27
56.30Y Boys 6yrs 25 Breast 1st Place 11.14
54.77Y Boys 6yrs 25 Free 5th Place 11.68

Birds of Prey

After a day of fighting the weather for a chance of wakeboarding (which Terry only got 2 quickies in) we finally gave up, came home, took a nap, then headed to the canyon. I have heard about the Birds of Prey program they do a couple times a year. It sounded really cool and we just happened to have the night open so we took the kids up there in my jeep (which started acting up on us again).

The drive was beautiful and the nigh was perfect. The show was amazing, the guy who puts it on was amazing, entertaining, funny and full of knowledge. It was a great way to end a so so kind of day. P.S. I love American Fork Canyon!

Steel Days of A.F.

So as I was a teenager I remember saying I will never live in A.F. because it is just too big... Well here I am living here and loving it. I guess I am proof that you can change your mind about things and it is okay. Today Terry and I participated in the Bob Phelps 5K run.

Terry took 5th in his division, his brother Troy took 6th, and I took 10th. I didn't mind being 10th I am just glad I wasn't last. Ya know even if I was last that would have been just fine with me as long as I finished it. It was still not something I call fun but I guess it was a little fulfilling. I was happy to get a runners number and a finishers medal! But most of all I loved doing it with my whole family!

Right after we ran Terry drove home to get the kids for their 1/2 mile race. They were excited and they did their best. It was fun to see them lined up at the beginners line and then to be at the finishing line to watch them cross. We ran it with our friends the Callaways. The kids loved having their friends there to run it with them.

Directly after the race we had to rush down to the parade line-up for Tia, Daisy, & Annie to be in the parade with the A.F. Theater group they are in the Jungle Book Play that will be playing at the end of this month. This was Tias first parade and she was so excited to be part of it. I wish I would have sat out on that one because I was still all sweaty and gross from the 5K but what do ya do? I sacrificed so I could be there to help watchout for the kids.

To complete the day of celebrations we came home and fixed the jeep so that we could go watch the fireworks in it. We drove up by the temple and waited for 1 hour for them to start... What time is dusk anyway? I wish they could be a little more specific on the start time.

It wasn't until 11:00 that they started it. Treg and Tia had both fallen asleep in the back of the jeep. But it was well worth the wait. We loved the fireworks that A.F. had given us.

Yesterday we also participated in the downtown carnival. It is nothing like Salina's carnival it was the one with the rides and scary people right. Well the kids loved every minute of it. They were just taking 1 ticket per ride so we got to go on more rides then we expected. Again we went with the Callaways then had snow cones after.