School has begun...& Cambri's getting Baptized!

Wow! Has time flown by or what. I can't believe it's already almost September. School has started and so has dance, soccer, piano, scouts, and activity days...whew!
Chris spends M and W nights at Hunter Junior High for soccer practice. Their first game is next week. They travel this year so he will be here and there until snow covers the ground.
Marie gets up at 5:25 each morning for Drill Team, leaves the school around 9. Heads home to get all of those last minute daily things done and then picks the kids up at 3:15 to head to SL for dance. She rolls into bed around 10:30 and wakes up to do the whole thing again the next day. She just finished Breaking Dawn for the 2nd time. (when she reads aloud, she doesn't internalize everything, so she had to read it again for herself) Yah..yah..she's a little bit nuts!
Kaili has started Middle School. She is learning to play the clarinet and just started back up with all her dancing. She is on 2 competition clogging teams, a competition jazz team, a competition cheer team, takes tumbling, and technique, squeezes in a solo, starts piano lessons, oh and did I mention keeps up with her homework at school...one of these days she's going to snap. When I asked her what she'd like to drop, it seems the list only gets bigger. She unstoppable! :}
Dallin is loving the 4th grade. He does soccer M and W with his dad, scouts, hip hop, & tumbling. He would much rather stay at home and watch the wildlife in action. Did I mention there is a bear warning just on the mountain side above where we live. Dallin, and his dad have gone to look for it many times...I know stupid, I keep telling Dallin he only has to out run his crazy father.
Cambri just turned 8! She is going to be baptized on September 6th at 9:00am at the church on the main road between Kamas & Oakley. (It's the only one.) You are all invited to come and if you'd like to bring anything...just do a salad or a dessert. :} She is very excited. Her kittens are growing so fast and are just about ready to find loving homes. (I tried to take pictures to put on the blog, but they are lost in the computer somewhere.) Soccer and dance have started for Cambri. I have to chuckle because every year she tells me that she's not going to do dance and then somehow every year she still does it. (you all know I am smiling inside!!)

Well Hello Hello, I have emerged from the Book. Well ok ok I started the book "Breaking Dawn" and read straight through Saturday...into the night and finished it about 4:30 in the morning. I think I would have been done faster if I had not been reading out loud to Kaili, Kyrsten (neice), CarrieSue (sister) and Susan (my mom). They one by one feel asleep on me and I lost the last one about 3am so hooray then I didn't have to read out loud anymore and I breezed through the rest. I loved it. Kaili and Kyrsten woke up Sunday morning and finished it together. :}

Chris was very patient. He went up the mountain looking for bears. Then he went with his dad, Doug, & Dallin on a hike. He made me break away from the book for an hour while we went to dinner (yep, you heard right he took me to dinner...I didn't even have to find something to cook) and then he kept the kids in the other room and watched a movie. He was grr8!

Kaili was right with me every step of the way...until her eyelids couldn't take it anymore. She was just as excited as I was and would go online every day to see what the phrase of the day was. As I read she was so cute and promptly told us all when one of the lines had been covered. We had a super time.

Dallin was just glad that his dad was around and even more excited that he was able to go with him.

Cambri spent the night at Matt & Amy's (her uncle & aunt) and came home late in the afternoon. She didn't want to be a part of the book reading so she played with the kittens and watch "The Avatar". She thinks she Saka...which of course is a boy!

Well, k, so if you've had the chance to read "Breaking Dawn" I'd love to chat...and if not I don't want to ruin it for you. Call me when your finished! Hopefully I'll pick up...between soccer, swimming, Drill team, & Dance. See you all soon! *Marie