Sunday, June 28, 2009

Rainy Rodeo






Aimee Mollee and I went to the Riverton rodeo on Friday night. We were met by the Chick-fil-a cow and shook his hand. Mollee had to go back and see the cow at least once more, although you'de think she was really scared from the picture. (nice port a johns in the background).


We had a blast even though we got soaked from the rain. Luckily, Aimee's mom brought extra blankets so we had something to hide under for half the rodeo while it dumped rain on us.

Mollee really liked seeing the "big cows" (bull riding). We had to take several trips over to the pens to see more big cows. She tried on a couple of different pink cowgirl hats that were really cute. She got some cotton candy, but then refused to eat it cause it looked like fuzz or hair. So Aimee and I had to polish it off.
Once the rain moved though it ended up being a nice night. The skydivers came for the last part of the rodeo once all the lightning had passed.

It ended up being a fun night and we plan to go back again next year. Mollee enjoyed seeing all the horses and cows and asked me to show her the chick-fil-a cow picture at least 5 times while I was typing this blog. I asked why she acted like she was scared of the cow. She said "because I have too."

Saturday, June 27, 2009

WHAT ARE YOU AFRAID OF??


#1 - Get ahold of this book.
#2 - Find 1 hour to read this book.
#3 - Ask yourself, "What I am afraid of?"
#4 - Ask yourself, "What I am going to do to overcome this fear?"
#5 - Do it!!
One of my biggest fears that has prevented me from living a happy, normal life is building relationships with people. I have never let many people close to me. Recently, my fear has so hindered me that I get anxiety before going to events, going to church and Relief Society functions, and pretty much anywhere else. I don't like to run into people that I know and I can't even stand in my own front yard without Jon for fear that someone might walk by.
It's not that I'm really shy or that I don't like people, it's just that I've built my own wedge between me and the rest of society by telling myself over and over again that I'm different because I'm a working mom, or because I don't like to cook, or because I'm a girl that likes sports, and so on and so on. I then talk myself into the farce that I have nothing in common with anyone and therefore nothing to say.
After years of wondering what the root of my problem is, I first read this book and then I opened up to some really wonderful neighborhood ladies who had some really great advice. From these two things, I learned:
a) Why do I need to know what the root of a problem is in order to get past it?
b) There are a lot of people that feel the same way I do, I just don't know it.
c) Mollee is picking up on my fears and exibiting the same behaviors as she is just learning how to build friendships.
d) My fear is preventing me from serving the Lord.
I made a goal to get over this fear. I picked a really challenging thing for me, go to the park. For some of you, you may gawk at this simple task, but for me, I break out in a sweat thinking that I may run into someone and not know what to say. Soo . . . I'm going to do it. I'm going to work on this fear and hopefully you will take on the challenge to determine what fear it is that is preventing you from living life and to do something about it!!

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Mollee had that look in her eye




Aimee had signed up to play mini golf for Olson-Shaner (her company) in the Metro games. She had recovered from the bruises on her hands and arms from volleyball, and was ready for another medal.
I watched Mollee while Aimee was golfing. At Boondocks they have bumper boats, and as soon as Mollee saw them she gave me that crazy look and I knew she would not take no for an answer. Mollee lucked out and was just at 36 inches so she could ride them. Needless to say we had a lot of fun. The bumper boats were set up with squirt guns that could launch a stream about 10 feet. Once Mollee realized that, she tried to squirt people until she figured out that everyone squirted her back, and there was no mercy for 2 1/2 year old kids. In fact, most everyone found it more fun to make her scream. But she had a lot of fun anyways.
Aimee had fun golfing, but her team didn't come close to any type of medal this time. Then the next night we went to paintball and Aimee, Mollee and I watched Preston (Aimee's brother) and some of her co-workers play four qualifying games. They ended up missing the bronze medal match by just two points. Ah well, it was still a lot of fun.




Wednesday, June 10, 2009

2 Time Gold Medalists


The bruises are finally healing. This weekend Jon and I participated in the Metro Games Volleyball tournament. Now, you may ask, from what professional volleyball background do the two of you come from? Well, the answer to that is . . . besides dinking around, none. We decided to sign up for the Metro Games because all of the sports that we were always told that we weren't good enough, strong enough, fast enough, or tall enough for, we finally now get to play.

As we watched the other teams high-five way past our reach and perform spike drills, we stood up to the plate (or rather court) and guess what . . . we actually, lost and then, we lost again. With the third times a charm luck on our side we played the third team and lost again. Then, some sort of miracle happened. I gave Jon a pep talk on the side and our team came up with an immaculate strategy, do whatever it takes to hit the ball over the net. We followed that strategy and won our next three games which placed us in the fourth seed going into the single elimination tournament.

With knees bloodied and arms bruised, our team played until we were elimated by the #1 seed. We then fell to the "non-winners bracket" and hit, bump, and . . . okay, so we never actually spiked the ball, but we managed to squeak out a victory to win the bronze medal!! It looks really nice next to the tennis bronze medals that Jon and I won in the Metro Games last year. Misty May and Karrie Walsh, watch out, we're coming for you next!

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Taking Our First Blogging Steps

After making a New Year's resolution to start up blogging, we have finally gotten started now that it's half-way through 2009. So . . . be kind to us since we are newbies. The wisest advice that we received when talking about starting a blog was, "Write to your audience." We still need to consider who our audience is . . . if we are writing to Jon's family, our favorite color is BYU blue, my family, Runnin' Utes red all the way . . . I think that we have settled on our favorite color as green (we are choosing this because, of course, it's Mollee's favorite color - Go Tinkerbell!)