When in Indiana......

You just have to LOVE the county fair. The Vigo County fair started today. Bailee and Elly both won blue ribbons (thank you Newton's).

Elly's blue ribbon for photography.

Bailee (who we were embarrassing so she couldn't stand by the basket--gotta love it!!) Blue ribbon basket.

Picture of Rowen taken by Hillary and it won reserve champion. (A little glare from the plasstic covering)
Here is one of the fireworks we lit off last night. These are the kind of fireworks you can light off in you front yard in Indiana. It is amazing. We have never lived anywhere that these are legal. We can hear fireworks almost every night and have had a great time watching and lighting them.

Running and Sunning

So we have officially lived in Indiana for one year. It has been a lot of fun and definitely an adventure.

This was a fast week. On Tuesday, Mary and Sam Moss visited from Iowa. It was so good to see them and we hadn't seen them since February of 2007. That is when they left on their mission and then we moved. Time goes way too fast but it was like we just saw them yesterday. I am sad we did not get a picture. I realized that just as they left our house.

The kids played a lot of tennis and swam every day that it did not rain. Lots of rain this week. Bailee won her basketball game on Tuesday and Thursday and really put up the boards scoring 8 points in both games. Just one year ago we took her to every game crying --oh what a difference a year makes. Since we had just moved here she did not want to go but has since told us "Thank you so much for making me go--I love basketball now." So some things are good to force or strongly encourage.

Bailee (51) shooting.
Saturday Peyton and Elly were in a triathalon on a team with friends. Peyton swam 100m and ran a mile and his friend Tyson biked 3 miles. Elly biked 3 miles and her friend Tanner swam and ran. It was a lot of fun and we got the race in before a big storm hit. It was soo cool to watch. Elly's favorite part was that she had the numbers still on her arms for church today--so nice.

Pre-race picture elly, Tanner, Tyson, Peyton

Elly dismounting to pass off to Tanner for the run.

Peyton just finishing the swim.

The boys are all smiles after the race is over. Did I say that they liked the free cookies the best!?!?

Tanner and Elly show off their medals!!!

AWE-summer

All of my pictures that I took this week got deleted so... this is a pictureless entry. so sad!! This has been another fun week of summer. We had a fun time going to McCormick's Creek State Park. It is about forty minutes away and so much fun. We went on a tour with the park ranger and saw an old limestone quarry. I am amazed at how much work they had to do to just get the rocks out. Then we had a picnic by the playground. The highlight was hiking to the waterfall. It was so beautiful and the best part was that the kids could all play in it. We left wet and smiling. On Wednesday, we saw the Hannah Montanna Movie at the $1.oo theater and loved it. Maybe not the theater so much as your feet stick to the floor and it is hard to find a row of chairs that is not torn up. Thursday was a fun filled afternoon at the Library. On Friday, we worked in the yard and the kids had fun playing in the trees (favorite passtime). The Rodebush's arrived from Iowa. It was a fun time! We grilled and then did fireworks with the Gage's (our new next door neighbor's-- who we just love having here!). Fireworks in Indiana are incredible and beyond what we could ever do in Utah as a kid. After we we finished, the kids set all of the remains on fire and had a mini bonfire. They danced around it and pretended to be wild Indians. That may have been their favorite part! On the fourth of July, it rained all day and I mean every minute of the day. It was fun to hang out with the Rodebush's. We miss them already and it was sad to say goodbye. We sure hope to see them soon!