BASEMENT COMPLETE

Even as I type these words, I cant believe the basement is finally done. It seems like a lifetime ago, we started it. We had our first party on Saturday using the new found space in our house for my birthday, it held alot of people very comfortably. There was room for the poker table, people playing foos ball, people chillin on the couches, and those who choose to stand and chat in the kitchen area, and everybody had own personal space. It was a very trying 9 months (specially with me being pregnant for 6 of those months), but I'm so happy we kept going forward and got it done! We had been swimming the day I took the pictures and didn't realize until after there were water spots on the lens. Ill post a better picture later.

VOTE KAREN MAYNE

Another step along the campaign trail, we were in the Kearns parade on Saturday. I have been going to this parade for as long as I can remember my grandmother use to live on 5400 s, so as a little kid I can remember getting to her house because we always had a prime seat for the parade. My aunt Shauna drove my mother in her 1980 Corvette. While Paul and I walked along side throwing candy, my in laws Tyler and Sara passed out literature along the way. My mother has so much support in this community, the whole way through the parade there was non stop yelling “Go Karen” “We love you Karen”, and even all the kids she has taught at South Kearns Elementary through the years yelling in excitement. My brave sister in law Jana, had all the kids watching the parade. I let Maddy get on my shoulders and throw some candy; she thought that was pretty cool. We then went to the Fire, Water and Ice at the Kearns Recreation center with my neighbors. Swimming was fun, but there were so many people. But Trever got to join us for swimming, so that was nice to get to spend some time with him before he was back to work. Later that night, I was invited to play poker. I took first, that’s always a nice ending to a long eventful day J

Lagoon!

This past weekend we took our second trip to Lagoon of the season. The first time was in June, we went with my brother and his family. Saturday, we traded Kennedy for my neighbor Kylie who is 8. Of course Maddy was fearless, wanting to ride all the rides. She was pretty bummed she couldn’t ride the “big kid” rides, but she sure loved the ones she could ride. We rode Tidal Wave 4 times. The girls got their picture taken in Pioneer Village, I told Maddy to give a “mad” look. Im think we need to get her into acting, what a look J. Ice cream followed the pictures, and then it was back to the rides. It was a hot 102 degrees, but I think it actually kept people home as the lines were pretty short. The kid rides had no lines, I walked right on the roller coaster, and we only waited about 15 minutes for Rattlesnake rapids. All in all, it was a very fun day.

Trever’s Grandpa Jennings died last week, so we headed down to Price on Tuesday for the funeral. It was a very nice memorial. We left at 5am to get down there in time, what a long day. But I was glad we made it down there for his grandma.