Pioneer Day

Sophie was in the Ogden Pioneer days parade with her grandma and grandpa Strong on the 24th. She looks adorable in her little dress and she was so excited to be in the parade and wave at all the people. She was right at home being the center of attention not surprisingly until someone from the newspaper came to ask her questions and then she had nothing to say. Thanks for the fun memories Grandma and Grandpa Strong.

Lagoon

Sophie had so much fun at Lagoon this year she was much more brave about which rides she would try. Her expressions were hilarious and I hope these memories will always be remembered. She absolutely loved Dinosaur egg drop with dad but hated ladybug bop with mom (they are the exact same ride mind you). She begged to go on terror ride but wouldnt open her eyes once inside. Her and dad tried out the new dragon ride which is a ride similar to music express (goes in circles and up and down but then it stops and goes backwards and it is really fast). She came off of the ride with this angry face and told us that she would not ride that ride ever again! She is so dramatic in everything she does she is always making us laugh. Classic mad Sophie face I cannot promise that I will not one day be using that photo as blackmail.

Dance

Sophie started a dance class with her little friend Maklee Rhoades. She is having so much fun and is always excited to show me what she learned. She is hilarious to watch she has no coordination and just watching her try to figure out how to jump through hula hoops proves very entertaining. She wears herself out every week and I caught her fast asleep in her tutu.

Large cockroaches

One day I walked out on my front porch and glanced up to see this above me on my archway. I ran back inside the house freaking out and called jeremy to tell him about these large cockraoches. He laughed at me and told me to take a pic because he was certain they were some other kind of much smaller bug than I was describing. I tried to take a pic with my phone but I was not about to get close and you could not see them on my phone camera. I took a pic with my digital camera and ran down stairs to show da he looked at the pic and said are you sure thery are not bats and I said no they are HUGE cockroaches. He gave me some bug spray and sent me upstairs as I was getting ready tp spray them I took a closer look and saw this

yep not cockroaches BATS!!!! If I wasn't freaking out before I was now! UGHH!

Barn Dance

Jeannie and her kids got here just in time for the annual Fowers barn dance. Everyone had tons of fun. Sophie wore her new pink princess cowgirl hat and loved dancing with the big people we even caught a clip of her dancing with the bishop she did pretty good. The kids all raced stick horses and little Olivia beat everyone. Josh wanted nothing to do with it but somehow we got him out there anyway. Kellie made a friend and spent most of the night with the horses.

planting the garden with Grandma and Grandpa Strong

Sophie was so excite to help. She helped a little more than daddy wanted accidently stepping on our only two cantalope plants, woops! Sophie runs to the window to check on our garden quite often and stares at the plants in amazement that she actually grew her own veggies.

Mark's farm

Mark was nice enough to take us around the farm not once but twice. Once for Jeannie and once for Kassi. They all had a blast and I think I can speak for everyone and say the crowd favorite was the horses. Although I'm not sure I'll be riding again anytime soon. They stuck me on Brookes horse Shorty sweet horse but has a mind of her own she wants to run not walk and when you try to slow her down she starts turning in circles and shaking her head I was certain she was going to buck me off. Chicca was the perfect kid horse and did great. Mark showed the kids some fresh chicken eggs, some piglets, baby goats and even baby mink.