Minute to Win It--Kjar Style!

First, I want to thank Lacey and Maddie for getting this all organized for us. We had a blast! I wish I had gotten the best pictures of A.J. and Chris trying to hit the orange with their softball-laden pantyhose (that had NOT ever been worn, by the way). Oh well, you get the idea.
Hummm, this is a better angle. I honestly haven't laughed so hard in a very long time. I couldn't even breathe.
Maddie and Audrey "shakin' it up!"
The sign to go along with the games.
Three very cute boys.
Carter, you crack me up.
Shake it, baby!

Tossing marshmallows.
Cute cheerleader in the background.
Stacking nuts?
Way to go, Spencer!
Get dowwwwwwn!
Look at the concentration on his face.
M&Ms and straws.
Carter would realllly, like an M&M right now.
The cookie on the face game. Jayleigh decided to eat hers.
Thomas could stack like a pro.

Thanksgiving 2011

Granny and Candy looking for something to put on the table.
Cody taking Carter on a 4-wheeler ride. Carter was really hanging on.


Ummm, the turkey being carved. I didn't get a picture of us at the table. It was a great Thanksgiving.

Phoenix NASCAR and the Grand Canyon

OK, this post is totally messed up in the order. Bear with me--I didn't want to start completely over. This top picture is of me hanging on at the Grand Canyon. My knees were shaking so bad I could hardly stand there. Curt kept saying, "Get closer!" Yeah, right.
OK, now we are at NASCAR. Cary was gracious enough to let us stay at his house in Phoenix. We left after work on Friday and got to Phoenix about 12:30 a.m. I was worried about running into some Skinwalkers on the way down after reading an alien book Lacey and Landon gave me, but we made it just fine. You wouldn't believe the number of trailers there. Cary took out his trailer so we had somewhere to hang out. We had to ride a shuttle to get up to the racetrack.
It was hard to get good pictures the cars were traveling so fast. At the end of this post I have downloaded a little video from my camera that shows the starting of the race.
The stadium is in the background. In front is a picture of one of the shuttles. Trailers, trailers, rednecks, rednecks, everywhere!
OK you can see some (a very, very few) of the trailers in the background. Look at the semis lined up in the infield, or whatever you call it
Dave with the racetrack in the background. Notice his cute little ear plug? You absolutely HAD to have earplugs. IT WAS SO LOUD!!!!
People camp out on the hillside. It does cost them to sit there.

Just look at the people! Thousands of them.
Cary, our host with the most.
Now, to the Grand Canyon again. We stopped at a trading post and Curt saw a watchband he liked. He didn't buy it, so we started back on the road. About 20 miles later, he decided we ought to go back and get it. After we turned around and got his watch, I knew the Grand Canyon was only a 30 mile or so detour to the west. So we decided to take it in. We only saw one small portion, but it was well worth the detour.
Beautiful---for miles and miles and miles.

Here is the video. The pacer car had just left so you get to see the first lap. Hope it works.

Cedar Parade and Slide

We took a trip down to Cedar to see their annual sheep parade. It was really a lot of fun to see all the sheep wagons, farm equipment, animals, etc.
Curt really enjoyed seeing the teams pulling wagons.
Can't forget about the sheep.
Later, we rode up Cedar Canyon to get a look at the massive land slide. This is on the Cedar side. It completely covered the road. I bet it will take a long time to get a new road built. I think they are going to try to go around the bottom of the slide.
One of the massive rocks that dislodged.
At the bottom of the ravine you can see a road. I think this is where they are going to try to build a new road.
Whoa, this one's out of order. This was a "modern" sheepwagon.

Nebo Loop 2011 & Springville Cemetary

The first weekend of the deer hunt, we took two carloads up Nebo Loop to see the pretty leaves. In my car there was me, Lacey, Amanda, Jayleigh, and Carter (Cody was up the canyon hunting with Grandpa and Chris). In the second car was Kelly, Grandma, and Josh. It was so pretty.




After we got down on the Payson side, we went to the Springville cemetery to clean up Grandpa and Grandma Martius's headstone. It was so overgrown you couldn't even see it. We trimmed the trees up from the bottom so you could see it better and took out the dead grass from around the outside.
Grandma was our supervisor, lol.
Looks much better!
Jayleigh and Carter had so much fun running around on all the green grass.

Curt's Birthday Party

For Curt's birthday, Lacey and Landon decided to have a birthday party for him. They brought up steak, salad, and a birthday cake. Jerry and Shelly came up, too. Mary and Maxine were at Grandma Kjar's (Maxine's birthday, too!) and came over so we all had dinner together.