Wyoming Golf and Fishing

We're up in Star Valley, Wyoming hanging out with Brandi's family. Boone, Mark, and I took Jacob, Ashley, and James golfing at Aspen Hills.

James hopped in the cart, didn't know it was on, stomped on the gas pedal and rammed into my truck.
Ben Hogan-like swing. Sandals by Teva, shorts by Wrangler, shirt by Redsand, and hat by Nike.
James' favorite part was riding in the cart....and putting on the greens.
Teeing off with the mountains looming.

Boone's power swing.
Joe's sweet stroke.
Mark teaching Ashley the art of putting.
Boone and Jacob.
James loved putting, but he didn't understand how to place his feet.
Riding the cart. My favorite part, too.
Group photo. Mark and Boone are Brandi's brothers.

Boone, Brandi's dad Eric, and I took Tyler and Emmy fishing up the Little Grey's River.
Boone, Tyler, and Grandpa fishing upstream from me and Emmy.
Father and son.
My "keeper" golden cutthroat trout. We could only keep 1 over 12 inches. Fishing in Chacos!
Emmy's first cutthroat trout! She thought her line was caught in a pool behind a rock, and it was....on a fat trout!
Father and daughter.

Colorado River with the Kids

We went out on the Colorado River here in Moab today. Several families from the ward went thanks to the Hazletts. This was our kids first time on the river. Some fun rapids, but nothing too scary for the little ones. Good times.

Mill Creek

Went swimming in Mill Creek with Jake, Emily, Joseph, and Eddie when they visited. Beautiful Moab.

Huntington Beach

We made a quick trip down to Huntington Beach before the Heywood family reunion back home in Cali. We met mom and dad there Thursday night and had a little BBQ on the beach. Then we stayed with Eric and Kacie at a hotel and spent Friday in the waves. Morning was cool and overcast, but it burned off around noon.

Daddy-Daughter Week

I took the girls up to BYU soccer camp this past week. The Top 25 BYU women's coach runs it, and the men's coach assists. BYU men's and women's soccer players coach the camp. They had a blast. Camp was 9-12 each morning, and I ran errands and did whatever til 11. I then showed up and watched the last hour of scrimmages. Every day we went out to lunch (3 times we went to In-n-Out!). We also went to Brick Oven Pizza, Panda Express, and El Azteca. We stayed the week at Dave and Erin's house. On Wednesday, we went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point. On Thursday we went to Seven Peaks Water Park (thanks to free tickets from our friends the Wakefields) and spent 5 hours getting sunburned and having a blast riding all of the water slides. The best one was Boomerang. A giant hydro half-pipe that you drop into on an inner tube and rocket down in and back up the other side; it feels like you are going to launch right up out of the 3-5 story far side of the pipe. Total adrenaline rush and the coolest water ride I've ever been on, including Raging Waters back home in Cali. Thursday night, we drove up with Dave to my bro John's house and hung out there for the Lakers game. Shot some hoop, then watched the game on John and Sunni's 5X9 foot HD projector tv. Waaaayyyyyy cool. We squeezed in a couple of days at shooting ranges in Orem and Nephi to get the girls ready for Hunter's Safety class on Saturday. Dave and Erin hosted a BBQ with a bunch of the fam coming in on Friday night. Saturday, we spent the day in SLC completing the girls' Hunter's Safety class. They rocked the 50 question written test after a morning of class, and then they completed the rifle portion where they have to get 15 out of 30 shots into the kill zone from 50 feet with a .22 rifle. All in all, it was a really, really fun week.

Emmy dominating the goal. Nobody scored. She was overly concerned that they were playing 7 year olds that game, and asked her team if they could let them score after Emmy's team went up 5-0. Her team freaked out and said no way. Emmy was really concerned that the other team's kids were feeling bad.
Annie in the red at center.
Annie playing defense. She likes defense best.
Annie at center. The goalie on her team was amazing. He's the short kid in the light blue shorts to the right.
Emmy at center in red coming out from goal to stop the ball.

Taiko Chicks

Annie and Emmy have been studying Taiko drumming for the past two years. It's a Japanese drumming style on a variety of large drums. There is a local Taiko Dan (group), and one of them is a teacher at the charter school. The girls have been going up to the middle school to practice and perform with the older kids. Today, we had a huge Arts Festival in Moab, and the girls performed. Here's the pics....

Annie and Emmy (above) with their drums on stage in front of a pretty large crowd at Swanney Park.
Emmy playing alone (some songs require the drummers to begin a line or processional as the group joins into the song one by one and the drummers use multiple drums, moving from drum to drum as everyone joins in gradually leaving just one drummer again).
Annie drumming. Some of the traditional Japanese songs have the performers wearing animal "masks" mostly for fun, but also out of symbolism to a particular song's message, origin, or purpose.
Annie rocking.
Emmy rocking - green masked.
Emmy crouched down smiling. During some songs, as participants move into and out of the drum line, they will duck down behind the drummer or drummers waiting their turn to jump in.
The middle school group with a few younger kids - Annie 3rd from the left in an orange mask. Emmy is second from the right in a green mask.
The two hosers.