Thursday, July 17, 2008

Thanks for coming Aunt DiDi!

On Monday Carson and Callie had their first Junior Golf tournament. It was held at the McCloud golf course about 20 minutes from where we live. It is a really neat program here. In June they 6 golf clinics teaching them different skills. Then for the next 5 weeks on Monday afternoons they have tournaments around the area. They are learning all the etiquette for the game which is really nice. It cost $40 dollars for the first child then $20 for any additional siblings and will not go over $80 for a family. And with a family our size that is always good. George will do it next year after he is 8. Also if they don't have clubs they will take old ones and cut them down for the children. So they got clubs as well. Carson and Callie are really enjoying it. They were excited to have Aunt Diannah here for their first tournament. They did pretty well. Although, I don't know how they compared to some others out there. I guess we'll find out at the barbecue they have at the end of the summer.




I wasn't feeling very well that day so I thought I would rent a golf cart but they ended up letting me use one for free. It was really nice to have. I could only have one child at a time on it with me so we all had to take turns. I even let Diannah drive it for awhile.


The lady(Christine) behind Carson was our score keeper. Her daughter to the right was also competing. She knew a lot about golf and things so I am sticking with her throughout the other tournaments. I am learning a lot. I did a little golf course in high school but that was so long ago.

On our way back from taking Aunt Diannah to Sacramento to catch her plane home we stopped at rest area to give Laika a potty break. It takes us three hours to get to the airport and three hours back plus a little running around we did between stops, we were in the car for about 8 hours total. It was a long day but it was SO nice to have Aunt Diannah come visit. Diannah is probably exhausted from her travels. I'm just glad we had lots to do with her. After we dropped Diannah off we were looking for somewhere to eat but all the food places looked unappetizing in the heat until we spotted JAMBA JUICE. The kids let out huge screams of excitement. Coming out of our little town for a little while is exciting to see all the options we have. We love Jamba Juice. We got our little treat then we headed on the road. About 1o minutes down the road we hit construction traffic for a hour. Not fun! But we watched all the dragon flys that were out and enjoyed our little Jamba treats. I didn't mention that the realtor for the house we are renting showed the house while we were gone so before we left that morning we had to have the house spotless. That was not fun but it was nice to come home to a clean house. We also got a call from the Elders while we were on the road and we were suppose to feed them so David feed them left overs in the frig. We made it home in time to have a prayer with them and for the kids to burn some energy playing with them for a few minutes.


Here is another helicopter that we saw in flight on our way home. Pretty cool!

1 comment:

Nick + Liz said...

What a great opportunity for the young golfers... I like Carson's style.