Fire Department

The Fire Department had another successful Open House. Here are a few pics from this event.

Everyone roaming around checking out all the events


Richard giving lessons on the safe house
Visits with Smokey the Bear
The Crew

Thriller

Me and Mike got a chance to go see Thriller at the Kingsbury Hall with the Drill Team. It was a lot of fun. McKenzie and her mom Melissa rode up with us. We left about 10:00 in the morn, rode to Sandy, then rode trax to the Gateway Mall. We had lunch there at Panda Express, did a bit of bumming around, then headed back on trax where we were totally surrounded by Utes fans! Their game started the same time as the play and got off at the same place. So we rode trax up by Kingsbury Hall and walked a bid to get there. We met up with the Drill team outside the building. While we were waiting, the Thriller characters kept creepily coming up and and scaring everyone. It was fun! There were weird parts to the program, but the dancing was great. Here our a few pics of our day.

McKenzie and Mike Riding Trax from Sandy Station
Eating at Panda Express
Gateway Mall
Waiting for Trax to take us to Kingsbury Hall

Kingsbury Hall
Meeting the "creeps" of Thriller
The Drill Team Group having the "CREEPS"

In the Balcony seats
Still getting the CREEPS inside!

It was a lot of fun! Hope we get to do it again!

Vegas Trip

Ok, I know I am late with this, but I am late with everything lately so I am trying to catch up on a few things that need to be posted. The post is about our Vegas trip. We were a little worried if we were going to make it down there or not, Mike was on the tail end of Strep but she was feeling well enough to go so we kept our reservations. We had plans to leave on Thursday morning around 5 0r 6 am to get down there in time to have some fun, but....things changed. Sam ended up with food poising around 12:00 midnight, and was throwing up all through the night. By about 5 or 6 in the morn, she finally stopped throwing up we debated rather to go or not. At 10:00 in the morn, we decided to put her in the back of the van and just let her sleep all the way down. I think all the sleep did her well. She still wasn't feeling back to normal, but she was being a trooper. I on the other hand was having some issues with my reflux issues and my throat lining was very irritated which was causing me to do some serious aspirating. But we got there and our first stop was finding the PAWN STAR pawn shop. Yay...I was so excited to see it. We have been watching that show on the History Channel lately. It's quite an interesting show. Sam stayed in the van because she was still in her pj's and still not feeling quite right, so we hurried in to check it all, saw all the stars of the show, then left cuz Sam was getting nervous. We decided we would stop back on our way home from Vegas. So we got settled into our Hotel room at Circus Circus. We went to a couple of Circus acts that night. They had a lot of good acts this year. They added a few new ones.
So...Here we are hanging around our Hotel room

Then the next day we spent the day at the Adventure Dome in Circus Circus. It's is one of the largest indoor amusement parks. Our first ride was the hot air balloon to see if Sam could handle the rides ok. That one worked.

Then we tried the Merry go round. Sam said no! No round and round for her!

Then we hit our favorite ride...The bumper cars. We had a blast on these and probably spent the majority of our day here.

We also rode there 3d movie rides. The movie this year was a weird one. Cork neck hill. I like it when the do the haunted castle ride. We also rode the Pirate Ship, but after so many times on this, I started feeling woozy..that's not normal for me. (I must be getting old) I love these rides! So we took a break from that.

Then of course we have to ride over and over the ride that gives you a major headache...The canyon blaster. This is an awesome roller coaster ride, but also beats your head to death with all the jerkiness. But hey we endured it, and by the end of the day, Sam even rode it a few times. Sam's coming back to normal. Other than now I was really starting into some coughing that was really messing with my lungs. I was struggling, but we were having a great time.


That night we hit some more circus acts and this one below was awesome. They were from Nigeria and boy could they put any cheerleaders to shame! (No offence anyone!) But they were amazing. These pics don't even do them justice!
The last day of our trip after we checked out we ran up to MGM and checked out Some of our favorite things there. They have the new CSI Experience now at the MGM. We were really considering going to it which opened up that weekend, but we didn't get to leave a day early to do it because Mike had drill. So we decided we would catch it next trip.
This is one of our favorite souvenir shops in MGM. We spend a lot of time here! Of course Mike is loving all of the Elvis Magnets. She wishes she could buy them all.

Sam had a great time checking out the sunglasses.

We then took a stop at the Lions, but as always it was to crowded to see anything. This was the best pic Mike could get.
We then headed over to New York New York. Kurtis finally bought him a souvenir from there. A New York Fire Department shirt. Surprise surprise.


Me and Sam found us a new friend.

Then we stopped at the pawn shop again. Yay all of us got to go in. We even got a singed picture.


But instead of heading on home, we stopped in St. George and stayed at Moms. I had a great trip, but it is always nice to get out of Vegas and back to reality. I was thankful to stop at Moms, because by then I was not feeling well at all. I think I was on the starting point of Pneumonia. Luckily the doctor had given us some antibiotics in case in of us started feeling like we were getting strep so I had been taking those. So we stayed the night at moms, then the next day we headed home with me in the back seat this time sleeping all the way home. But even with all the sickness, we had a fun time.

Mikes Homecomeing

Here are some photos of Mikes Homecoming Parade for drill team.



This time we took video of the whole dance group. It's an adjustment learning to watch the whole group as a whole instead of just watching my daughter. But in dances like these it is much better to watch the whole group and not just one person. They did a great job!

Mike and Drill Team

Mike performed at her first football game with the drill team. It was fun to go watch. I think she is doing such a great job. It was a good night altogether, drill team did a great job and the football team won the game. I am so proud of Mike for the good job she is doing in drill. It is a lot of work. She is at the school every morning at 6:00 or so.....well she is now actually there at 5:30 because that is what time I go to work out, and if she wants a ride she has to go when I go. (POOR GIRL). She also has lots of after school practices, and other practices mixed in. But needless to say she is doing it! Here is her kick line routine, and then her sidelines. Double click on the picture to direct it straight to youtube, otherwise it cuts off half the routine. Also pause my music....sounds much better.

BACK TO SCHOOL BACK TO THE LAB

Yes, school is in motion as am I in the lab. I have actually been in the lab for quite sometime now getting everything unpacked, hooked and and ready to go. Lots of Computer IP number changes and Teacher computer changes and printer changes. But it's up and ready to go. Still coming across a few bugs here and there, but that is to be expected. I'm still waiting for the police department to return our 4 laptops that were stolen and recovered in a drug bust in Salt Lake. We also had stolen 1 emac. Why in the world would any one want one of those computers is beyond me. They are awkward to carry and weigh a ton. Believe me I know, I moved about 35 of them around in the move. But now that it is all set up I would like to show it off a bit. Here are a couple pics of the 1st computer lab
Here are a couple of the 2nd labHere is what the laptops look like that were stolen
Here is what the emac looks like
So if you see any of these roaming around a pawn shop or such let me know!

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Our Girls Day Scavenger Hunt

We had a Photo Scavenger hunt during our girls day. We all had a camera and a list of things we needed. Me, Mom and Steph got into it and had a great time. Mike and Sam didn't want to do it. They missed out. Here is our hunt pictures.

First is Grandma Kathy's photos

These are mine
and here is Stephs