ZEHNOS!

Last week our cute U9 ZEHNOS played in their 1st competitive league soccer tournament! The girls were soooo cute in their new uni's and with their "bags"!!! The first game was against the home team Rampage #1, we whooped them 15 to 1 (& the one goal was off of our player)!! The second game was against another Rampage team, we put the hurt on them too!!! ....11-1. Then the 3rd game we got the chance to play La Roca, from Layton, they were amazing, like us, just a little more experience. We lost to them 9 to 2....ya, ouch! Our 4th game was against ANOTHER Rampage team and we BEAT them 9 to 1. This put us in the CHAMPIONSHIP game against La Roca! The coaches had a little different stratagey for this game.... MORE DEFENSE! The plan did work but the ladies~in~red were still scoring against us. At half time the score was 3 to 1 for La Roca. The second half we did a lot better, more aggressive and more bodying~up!!! We scored 2 more goals (by my sweet Ry...gettin the give-n-go down)!!!!.....but, lost 6 to 3!!!!!
It was an awesome game and we could not have been more PROUD of the girls EFFORT!! For our 1st games together and our 1st tourney....we were incerdible!!!
What an awesome experience and education we are having with Morgan and the Zehnos!
FANTASTIC GAMES ZEHNOS!!!!

BFF!

Have you ever had friends who you LOVE sooooooooooooooooo much that you consider them FAMILY? Seriously! The Butterfilds are our MoST bEstEsT fRieNDs!

Dave is this CRAZY, wild~hair~Republican, music connoisseur, Alaskan Heli~skier!, Ornery~Attitude, speed~demon water skier, bishopric leader, passionate soccer~dad/coach, emotional/big~hearted guy!

Trisha is also CrAzY...but, NOT crazy enough to show me her butt-crack for a pic! She is a rigid~schedule keeper (unless I try to "shake" things up a bit)!! ,house project/interior designer, aLmoSt "enthusiastic" soccer mom, awesome downhill/water skier, USU special-ed instructor (being a bit "special" herself helps)!, primary partner, organizer extraordinaire, diet~coker, mother/wife of the year, AND most lovable,fun,sincere best Friend!

We are going to miss them sorely when we are gone in a few weeks! What are we going to do without them? I guess we will be planning a lot of trips back to Logan! Love you Buttersons!

InDEpEnDeNCe DaY!

So this past weekend we celebrated the 4th of July! We live in the land of the free and easy! Or is it just the free? Anyhoo, I'm not going to bear my testimony or anything....but, we are so lucky to have all the luxuries and choices we enjoy! I am grateful for all of the service men & women who are protecting our rights and country....Dan has served in the Nat'l Air Guard for 24 years! ...My Dad who is now retired Army served for 40 years! And my bro's-in-law who have been to Iraq and serving now in Carasau (sp?)..!! So, lets all thank our lucky StArS we live here in the great USofA!!!

We did go to Romney Stadium for the festivities and fireworks! It was great, as usual, thanx to Holly Fejelsted! She is so awesome!

On the morning of the 4th, we had our usual a.m. spectacular ski/wake board event! Holy GLASS!...........we tore~it~up! Thanx Peterfields! hahahaha!!

Here are a few pics of our fun FrEeDOm WeEkeND!

WhEre Did JuNE gO?

Ok, I know I have been a total slacker on my blog...but does anyone REALLY care? The last time I posted was the end of May. Since then, we have been busy PLAYING!...& Even though the weather did NOT feel like summer for the better part of June...it was still time to PaRTy!

My sister Jami was here for a few weeks with her boys. It was fun to see them & to hang a little with my little sis! We did go shopping one day, Me, my mom, Mandy & Jami....it was the same old thing....shopping for what about 2 hours and then Jami was DoNE.....so we did lunch and laughed a lot at each others misfortunes and shortcomings! We can be so ruthless sometimes! Mandy and Jami had to remind me of my potty-mouth and party-days and how they thought I was going to hell! Why do they have to be so judgemental???? Like THEY were angels!?? ya right! They just had a different kind of fun.....you know, orange jello, rook, rOoTbeEr, bArbiES!

Dan came home from TEXAS for a couple of weeks and we have been having a ton of together time! The kids can't get enough of him! Neither can I!! ;) he got home just in time for his Birthday on the 23rd! the kids picked out his presents this year.....a Smoothie maker and the new UnderArmor Crosstrainers! We all went to lunch and then out to CuTLeR for some serious WaKEboArDinG!!! That night we had a little fire in our fire-pit, roasted smores and watched the sky for shooting stars! We talked a lot about moving and how hard...but FUN and EXCITING this new change is going to be!

ANyHoO....This past month has FLOWN by and now it is JULY 1st!!! I can't believe it! Dan will be leaving on the 6th to go to Chicago for a week. He will comeback for the Bees Game at Franklin Covey on Sat the 12th. Alec and his baseball team get to go out with the players in their positions for the national anthem and then get to throw out the 1st pitch! They did this last year and then got the tour of the stadium....it was VERY COOL!

We will then be getting ready for the biG move! YIKES!!

OKEEDOKEE...here are a few pics of our recent FUN!

FaMiLY PiC's!

Taking family pics is ALWAYS a fun experience! Dan's mom arranged a day and photographer and we were all set! We went to this ABSOLUTLY BEAUTIFUL location just off Wasatch Blvd. It was someone's residence and horse property....someone with a lot of MOOLA!!

These pics are 1) Mom's getting their kids to look and smile...:) 2)All the grandkids with gram&gramp..3) my CUTE sister-in-laws!! ...however, there are a couple of cuties missing! And 4) the one at the bottom...the location

We all grabbed some lunch after pics and met at the park to chat and play. It was a fun day!

Thanx Mom Peterson for having such a fun, crazy, beautiful family!

David Cook rocks!

OK, we all knew that David Cook was going to win right! He was clearly (in my opinion) the more "creative one" with his singing talent! I was going to take my kids to the movie last night but they decided they just wanted to eat dinner, go get Aggie Ice Cream and watch American Idol! ....What good kids! Mckall, Alec and I watched it together.....with Ryann and Kaden coming in every so often to annoy us all! After we all got done saying "shut-up" to each other we could enjoy most of the performers! My favorite part of the show.....besides George Michael :)...haha!
Was when the USC Trojan Marching Band and Cheer Squad enlightened us with their hoop-laa!
I too loved the quick-looks back to the try-outs when all the completly HIDEOUS performances made everyone pee their pants laughing...even Simon! Anyhoo....loved it! And NO I did not cry!

Twilight Series!

Ok, Mckall has been pratically begging me to read this series for a month now! I finally decided to start. Well, let me just tell you that It took me only about 6 days to finish all three of them!

I could NOT put them down. I LOVED all of them! My house and family all suffered...or really was just put on "hold" while all I did was enthral myself and READ!!! I haven't read a book for almost a year, I just haven't had the time! I forgot how much I love it. I think being able to fantasize and not be in the "real world" for a short time is amazing! ....I also think I want my husband to be a Vampire! hahahahaha! JK honey, you are every bit as HOTT as Edward! Maybe, just maybe, more!!!