Getting to know Sarah Palin

Governor Palin's speech at the GOP Convention last night: (Part 1 of 5 - She introduces her family)



(Part 2 of 5 - She talks about her experience as "hockey mom" and Mayor & Governor)



Anyway, I won't post all the videos here but her entire speech was great.

My initial reaction when I heard McCain chose Palin for VP running mate was I felt kind of insulted. It seems that McCain believes that the women of America will vote for another woman blindly. But after watching her speech last night, my first impressions of her were:

smart, articulate, relatable, bold w/o being brassy, likeable, straight-shooter

I think I like this girl. It's going to be fun to watch the debates.

First Day of Kindergarten

Guh, I love this kid!

Wyatt was super excited this morning to go to kindergarten. He had a great first day. He absolutely LOVES Mrs. Hillyard, she is like the most perfect kindergarten teacher, ever! I'm soooo impressed. And Wyatt in his little school uniform, oh the cuteness.

I did well, too. I shed a few tears but not in front of Wyatt, so I was proud of myself. I basically took it out on my treadmill and my bike. It's all about the endorphins, I swear they are all I need to get by.

And I'm a dip. I told Steve I wanted to go on a bike ride to get my mind off of it and so he went with me. When we got home I looked at the clock and we were 5 mins. late to go pick up Wyatt from his very first day of school! Very effective at getting my mind off of my worries, effective at motherhood? not so much. So. embarrassing.

Park City Mountain Resort

Mini vacation in Park City last week. Wyatt goes to his first day of Kindergarten on Tuesday - I'm already having summer withdrawals.

All I wanna do is have some fun

Amber and I hit the Sheryl Crow concert last night. She is a writer for Usana and gets free tickets every now and then so it was a very last minute thing - but we had a great time. Thanks Amber!!!

This was the perfect way to wrap up this summer! Sheryl Crow's lyric has been my theme for this past summer. Several months ago I realized that my life is cruising by at warp speed. So I decided that my new focus would be making memories with Wyatt. I was not going to worry if my house/yard was perfect, etc. just wanted to make memories with Wyatt b/c he's growing up so fast and when I look back it's the fun activities/vacations, etc. that I remember (and I bet he'll remember). So early Spring I sat down with a calendar and thought of all the places I wanted to go, fun activities I wanted to do throughout the summer and got them planned and on the calendar. I also scheduled a regular time each week to go on a hike, a regular time to go boating each week, and a regular swimming day at Murray Pool with Wyatt. As I look back over the past summer, we missed a few of the plans I had originally made but overall we really made a lot of memories. Steve calmed down quite a bit from his usual workworkwork frenzy and we really had a blast. I'm definitely sticking with my theme next summer.

Hidden Falls

This is more of a jaunt than a hike. The best part about it is the rock climbing. Wyatt could free climb around on the rocks forever.




BTW - Little interesting tidbit about my husband. Talk about a sports freak! Steve stayed up til 4AM the other night watching the American Basketball team win the gold medal. And he's already getting pumped for football season. I feel like I lose half my husband every Fall!

Kindergarten Orientation

Went to Kindergarten Orientation last night. I'm going to need a BooHoo room. Seriously, how am I going to get through this????

Catchin' up on the blog

Boating, Hiking, Mountain Biking - same ol' same ol'

We aren't very original, we keep doing the same stuff week after week, but we're having fun! (makes for a boring blog, however! oh well!)

Oh yeah - last weekend we did go to a movie- Dark Knight. TOTALLY disturbing! Pretty good though, if only I could get the mental picture of that freaky joker out of my head. Yikes!

And seems like forever ago (but I just uploaded the pics) but we went to the zoo.



And we had an awesome time at my good friends' street party last night! He plays in a band and they block off an entire street and the band plays all evening and its super fun. Tons of kiddos with glow sticks dancin' in the street. I wish I would have taken pics - tons of cute moments. I love getting together with great, old friends. Except it always gives me "big family envy" because they always have lots of kids that are totally growing up fast and I still feel like nothing's really changed for me in the last 10 years! :) (Oh ya, I guess I have one kid of my own - why does my 1 seem less significant than their 6???) And, BTW, I can't believe my friends have kids going through puberty, but it's true. Yikes! It really freaks me out to think that in a blink of an eye its going to be Wyatt! Heaven help us all.

TWIN LAKES HIKE





ROCKPORT

We actually went to a different lake (other than East Canyon) a few weeks ago. Totally rained on us. You know you are a die-hard when you are wakeboarding in the rain! :) And especially Mark b/c he was hit by a truck just 5 days before this day... He was hit by a truck at 40mph while riding his bike downtown. Luckily he walked away from it - thank goodness!



We've ridden WASATCH CREST and DOG LAKE via MILL D the last two date nights/days. Since I've never ridden Dog Lake from the Big Cottonwood side before, short trail recap (for future reference): Good ride, worked my wind (to say the least), steepest at the top and the bottom, pretty meadow in between.

Can't think of anything else of interest lately... except that I've turned into a couch potato watching the Olympics every night. And BTW it's really getting in the way of my sleep!

Oh yeah, I turned 34, bleh.