Tate's Itty Bitty Soccer

My favorite part of watching Tate's soccer was at the beginning. The coaches would have them stretch and do sit-ups, push-ups, and jumping jacks. Most of the kids were hilarious because they didn't quite have the coordination to do anything the coaches were doing, but they would all try. This is a pic of Tate trying to do a sit-up.



Tate wasn't really sure if he liked playing soccer in a gymnasium with like 50 other kids running around. But he was really cute when he tried to play. Everyone just runs after the ball and kicks it where ever they want. Not many of them understood what was going on even though the coaches tried to teach them.



Haylie wanted to play soccer just like Tate, she kept trying to be the goalie.

Family Vacation at Flaming Gorge

We spent the last week up at Flaming Gorge. It is a long standing Harper tradition to spend a week every summer up there, I've been doing it as long as I can remember. This is probably my favorite place to go. When we come around the corner and see the lake, it just feels like home. I feel like a kid on Christmas morning and I just can't wait to ski my guts out until I am so physically exhausted, I can barely crawl back into the boat. Sounds fun doesn't it? Anyway, this year was no exception, we had a blast and skiied and skiied and skiied. Staying in a tent for a week with 2 little kids is always a bit interesting, but we still all had fun.

Summer Fun

For those of you who don't know, Kyli is out here visiting us. We have been doing all sorts of fun things. We have gone to the dinosaur museum, scera swimming pool, the children's gardens, grandma's pool, legacy pool, cherry hill water park, farm country, and kangaroo zoo. So as you can imagine we have been having a lot of fun! Here are just a couple pictures from all of our adventures.

4th of July

Tate and Kalun

Haylie and I

Austin (our nephew) and Haylie...They weren't quite brave enough to run through the water, they just wanted to feel it with their hands




We had a fun 4th. I got to go skiing that morning which is my favorite way to spend the holiday. Then we went to my parents and played with the kids in the sprinklers. That night we had some friends over for a BBQ and fireworks, we had a really fun day. Tate is has been afraid of the fireworks every year. This year he still didn't like them much but at least he stayed outside and watched some of them. Haylie loved them.

We love you Kandra

Today was the three year anniversary of Kandra's passing, so we went to Los Hermanos which was one of her favorite restaurants and then we went to the cemetary to put flowers on her head stone.

Haylie was really fascinated by Kandra's picture. She just kept staring at it and pointing to it.

Backyard Pool

Tate loves the water!!

Haylie wasn't too sure about the water at first, she just wanted to splash her hands in it. If I put her in the water she would hurry and crawl right back out onto the grass.

She finally got the hang of it

Da Bears

Last Saturday we won the 8vs.8 A dvision SLC Flag Football Championship! We won six straight games coming into the tourney. Last week we dominated in the first and second rounds with 38-0 and 21-0 wins. For the Championship we had a good battle with the Platinum Hornets and won 24-21. This is our second title with the first coming in Fall of 2006. Last January we went to the Western finals in Las Vegas and went 2-2 in our first national appearance. Our only losses came to the #1 and #2 (in OT) ranked teams in the west coast. In August we plan to attend a state tourney in Ogden.

Finally, We're blogging

I am just starting our blog, so stay tuned......