RSL and The Spaghetti Factory

I am officially addicted to major league soccer. I have always liked soccer and played soccer until I was in high school when I had to choose if I wanted to play soccer or volleyball and I chose volleyball. Since I am starting school I had to change my work schedule so I work every Saturday so my friends from work and I decided that we should do something before school started and we would all be too busy to hangout. We usually just hangout and watch Chuck at someone's house but this time we decided to invite our husbands since they all have a lot in common and since we all like soccer we decided that it would be fun to go to a RSL game. I also convinced them to go the The Spaghetti Factory since its my favorite restaurant and we were going to be in Salt Lake for the game. We decided to ride Frontrunner to Salt Lake since we would have had to take two car otherwise. It took a little longer to get there because we rode frontrunner but it was definitely fun riding together. I was a little nervous because I was in charge of knowing which train to get on at each stop and to make sure that we made it the game on time but everything worked out well. I was a little disappointed with our meal at first they tried sticking us in a little booth where we could hardly move our arms so we asked to move and the waitress who's table we were originally sitting at kept giving us dirty looks the whole time we were eating. Then our waiter seemed to be rushing us a little bit I was only half done with my food when he asked what type of ice cream we wanted and brought us our checks. I am going to eat at the spaghetti factory again tomorrow so hopefully it will be a better experience. The train on the way to the soccer game was really crowded and I got separated from everyone I was trapped in the corner and when I was finally able to make it to where everyone else was sitting my friend Nicole's husband cheered for me. Our seats at the soccer game were right behind the goal and it was awesome we could see the action really well. We were all really into the game and at one point one of our players got past the goalie with the ball and had a chance to shoot on the open goal and somehow during all the excitement Sarah hit me and smacked her knee on the chair in front of her apparently she is very dangerous to watch a soccer game with. I hope that someday soon I can have season tickets because MLS is officially my new favorite sport to watch. Riding trax to the game Sarah wasn't trying to hide she was trying to lean into the pictureAdam on the train doesn't he look thrilled?

Our view of the field

Roy Days

For Roy Days we always go to the parade early in the morning and the last couple of years I have been in charge of saving our spot. This year I didn't know who was coming to sit by us so I just saved a really big spot and I'm really glad that I did because we ended up having quite a large group. The parade was a little too long and there were some really big spaces between the floats. I really enjoyed helping the little kids get the candy and they definitely all got plenty. It was my job to go out into the middle of the street and throw the candy closer to the curb that would have just gotten run over otherwise. Larissa's little girl Mylee was hilarious at first she didn't like the parade but by the end she was totally into running out into the road to get the candy. After the parade we decided to go over to the park and see Calvin's motorcycle in the car show and of course get some cotton candy. On the way to the park I had a few extra passengers and Jacee and Addisyn were both getting tired and started to fight because one person was touching the other, it definitely reminded me why I don't want kids anytime soon. After we all hung out at the park for a while we went school shopping for Whitney which was really fun because Whitney and I have very similar taste so I liked picking clothes out for her.This is us wasting time waiting for the parade to finally start.Tanner was entertaining us before the parade. If you go to a parade and want a lot of candy invite Tanner he will cheer for all the floats and then they throw you lots of candy.

Mylee didn't like the fire trucks
Oakley wasn't so sure about the fire trucks either so she hung out on my dad's lap

The aquatic center always has a float in the parade and they always have water. When I saw that they were coming I told everyone sitting by Brittany they may want to move because she was about to get wet. She tried telling everyone that the people from her work weren't going to get her wet because they respected her. Ann and I totally didn't believe her so we moved her out into the middle of the road.This is Brittany waiting in her chair in the road. I think that she was starting to doubt how much the people that she bosses around everyday respect her. This is one of the people showing Brittany how much he respects her.
This is Brittany after everyone showed her how much they respect her. She was just a little wet.

We also knew a lot of people in the parade this year.
This is my mom's boss he made sure to throw us some candy.
This is Whitney she is an officer at Rocky Mtn. Jr. High
Jacee riding her scooter and Ann was putting Anika on the trailer. Anika definitely knew what she was doing she watched half of the parade and got tons of candy and then she rode on the dance trailer for the other half.Alayna was on a float with her soccer team.

Hopefully I fixed all the grammatical errors in this post I was really tired when I was writing it and I was having a hard time making my sentences make sense.

Snakes

So this summer I have tried to go hiking at least once a week usually just after work one night a group of us will hike up to waterfall canyon it has been really good exercise. Well since sadly summer is coming to an end it is starting to get dark earlier. Last week I made it to the waterfall in record time thanks to Austin making me feel old and out of shape by asking me if I needed to rest all the time. This week the hike totally kicked my butt it felt like I had exercised in years. On the way down it was starting to get dark so we were trying to hurry but we didn't want to get too far ahead of my mom and Linda who had just made it to the top when we decided to start making our way back down. About half way down we saw a guy with a snake on a stick Jenn and Austin were totally excited to get a closer look I just wanted to get past. Apparently it was a rattlesnake and it had been coiled right by the trail and he was afraid that it would bite someone so he killed it. He cut of the head and put it under a rock since apparently rattlesnakes can still bite for 24 hrs after they are dead. He took the rest of the snake since he wanted the rattler after that I was terrified of there being a snake on the trail. We decided to go down and throw rocks at the containers and waste sometime while waiting for my Mom and Linda. Right as we got to the containers Austin saw a rattlesnake and screamed which caused me to scream and as we were trying to run away Austin was pushing me towards the snake.I already hated snakes before this hike but after seeing two snakes right of the trail I was petrified and it was starting to get really dark. I carried a rock the whole rest of the way day just in case we saw another snake and needed to throw something at it. After that Jenn was in the front of the line and I really wanted to be in the middle but since Austin is such a baby he got to be in the middle and I had to be on the end. I was right on Austin's heels the whole time and was so relieved when we finally got to the bottom. When we got to the bottom their was a guy from animal control he was talking to the guy with the rattlesnake apparently its illegal to kill rattlesnakes in Utah luckily that isn't actually the reason he was there he was there to give citations to anyone without there dog on a lease. When I got home and stopped to get the mail and I was still a bit jittery so I had to check to make sure there were no snakes outside my car before I got out and I almost checked in the bathtub for snakes before I got in it to take a shower. Luckily I think I am recovering from this very traumatic experience I only had two dreams about snakes last night and I have stopped checking for snakes everywhere I go. Hopefully tonight I won't have any dreams about snakes. I took the pictures I added on the way up to the waterfall I didn't take any on the way down because I was took busy looking for snakesAustin wasn't actually throwing a rock he was just mimicking Jenn.

Austin's trying to look cool throwing his rockI love that Jenn's mouth is open in this picture