Okay, this is the weirdest "sport" I've ever seen, but you've got to see this to believe it. speed stacking You need quicktime to see this 1 meg movie.

Okay, this week's topic, in the spirit of aunt corrie, "my child is a genius because..." Discuss amongst yourselves.

Ben, thank you so much for all the great photos! You are quite the photographer. I enjoyed looking at them here on the blogger, revisiting the middle fork! And I really appreciate the ones sent to me. It was truly an incredible trip. Great company, beautiful scenery and so many fun memories. I need to rty and write it all down before time fades the trip. It will be a few years before I can scrapbook that week. My new calling seems to keep me pretty busy. I am also getting swamped with candles now as Christmas draws near.

I really want to come down for the "Return of Jake." I have a few conflicts I will try to work out. Kip will not be able to tear away, that is the final cutting of Hay and fumigating is full on. I dread the long trip on my own but the kids are getting big enough to be helpful. Kip prides himself on the trip to Salmon in 7 hours flat. My Triips to Salmon take 14 hours!

Any way it is nice to hear from all of you. I am not the tard that can't be a part of this party!
love Gigi

We will be there Friday morning. We took Friday off and are planning on staying at the Fairfeild Inn in Draper in case anyone is looking for a hotel. It was $59.00 a night. Hope to see you all soon.

Hey all would not miss comming to Utah. I am not looking forward to the drive though. Well everything is going well. We had Andy's parents come to visit this last weekend. It was fun. They sure love our kids. That is great news Julie. That is great. (expecting and comming in 10th!) So when are all of you going to show up? I was thinking of comming on thurs. I hope to see you all soon.

New pictures of the Middle Fork are up at my home page middle fork.

Geez Julie, you make the rest of us look bad, running a 5k 2 months pregnant??? Congratulations on doing so well, AND the new baby! When is your due date? We are definitely planning on coming to Jake's "homecoming" conference weekend, I can't believe it's been 2 years already! Things are good here, school is speeding up, and we are trying to keep afloat...I recieved a 97% on my first Spanish test! It wasn't too difficult at all, and I am glad I have a prof. that moves fairly slowly for us ignorant white folk. We have Conner in soccer, his first game was Saturday and he scored 3 out of 5 goals on his team! He is a quick little bugger and enjoys it, I wasn't sure if he would or not- he is actually the youngest kid on his team too- they are all 4 year olds, and he won't be 4 till next month. I am such a proud mommy...:)

Congratulations to Jarom for passing that test thingy. Truly incredible. Good job. Everything else here is going fine. Work is good, and biking is still fun. I have yet to actually pay money to enter a sanctioned race where the winner actually gets money. Julie ran in the LSI Logic Colorado run. First prize was $1000, 2nd $500, and so on. Then in each age group there were similar prizes. We took Lacey and Alan and watched Julie run. She got 10th in her age group, but she ran a 25:15 5k, which is really good. Libby Hickman was first for the women, she's an Olympian and world class runner. Her time? 16:20. That's right, unbelievable. The fastest man on our team ran a 17:55, and he is fast. Here are some pictures, you can see Libby giving Alan and Lacey autographed pictures. Colorado Run Julie was on the LSI team, and did great for her personal time. She's also two months pregnant, so she felt a little drained.

Looks like everyone is sort of planning on being at Tyler's house for Conference weekend. I've heard Jacob gets home 10/2 and conference is 10/4-10/6. Plan on stopping by if you can. Tyler assures me everyone is invited.