Peyton Turns 6

Last Friday, September 17th, Peyton turned 6 years old. Wow how time has flown by. She is really growing up fast and is so much fun. She is such a little smarty pants and keeps us laughing all the time with the stories she tells. I don't know where she comes up with some of the stuff she says. She also has a little attitude and a hot temper on occasion. Must be the age is all I can say because Bradyn and I both swear it doesn't come from either of us :).

For Peyton's birthday day she woke up and wanted pancakes.


Grandma Jill said Peyton could open up a couple presents early so she could wear a new outfit to school that day.


Peyton was really excited to go to school on her birthday since they had been counting down the day all week. She wanted to take cupcakes so I went to Walmart and bought the mini cupcakes in the bakery for her to take to class.

After school she opened presents from us and the rest from my parents before we headed out to my Grandma Carolyn's in Hanna to pick up a horse for the sale.



Of course Grandma Jill had to throw in a present for Houston too




After the horse sale on Sunday we had a family birthday party with cake and ice cream at the park. Besides it being really windy, it was nice to be able to have Peyton's birthday party outside since it usually hasn't been warm enough to in years past.


Opening tons of presents









Pretending to blow out candels since it was so windy


Peyton, Raylee and Preslie

Thanks you everybody for all the great gifts you gave Peyton and for making her 6th Birthday so special!

State Riding Club Show

September 10th and 11th was our State Riding Club Show which was held up in Logan. Our club did really well especially for our first year as a club. The drill team that I was on were the State Champions. Woo hoo!!! All that practice paid off. We were 2nd at District and Region and were really hoping for a win at State and got it :).


Our Drill Team from left to right: Collette, McKenzie, Valynn, Codi, Tiffanie, Lisa, Me, Kellie and Tana (not pictured: Cindy C. and Amber)

A lot of our other teams placed as well. For State we ended up 2nd Place High Point Club. Our friend Jimmy was 3rd Place High Point Man. Lisa tied for 3rd Place High Point Woman, our friend Tiffanie was 2nd Place High Point Woman, and our friend Valynn was 1st Place High Point Woman. Also, Bradyn's cousin Jake and his wife Tana's horse Marshmallow was 2nd Place High Point Horse.


BLUFFDALE BRONX, 2nd Place High Point Club for State 2010

While there, we found out that our club was High Point Club for Northern Region. Bradyn's cousin Jake and his wife Tana were High Point Man and Woman for Northern Region and their horse Skeeter was High Point Horse for Northern Region.

Way to go BLUFFDALE BRONX! Can't wait for next year.


Parade Team


Collette and Me after Parade


Me and Jet in Drill


Drill Team doing the wave


Tana and Me in Drill


Bradyn and Adam warming up for the Relay Race


Bradyn and Ostertag warming up for the Relay Race


Bluffdale Bronx Relay Racers




Relay Race Team B (Bradyn, Tana, Dee and Adam) out on the track


Bradyn and Tana


Adam (in gold helmet) and other team breaking out of the gates for the Relay Race


Bradyn passing the baton to Dee


Bradyn after the pass


Relay Race A Team warming up (Jake, Chase, Jimmy and Ty)


Bluffdale Bronx cheering section during the races


Jimmy (in gold helmet) racing other team


Bluffdale Bronx Potato Racers


Bradyn waiting for the Potato Race


Potato Race A Team (Chase, McKenzie, Bradyn, Jimmy and Valynn)


Me in Team Poles (this was actually from Region but I bought the picture at State)

Peyton's 1st Day of Kindergarten

Today was Peyton's 1st Day of Kindergarten. She has been so excited to go to Kindergarten and to ride the bus. She has been on the count down of days since last week and since this morning was on the countdown of hours.

A couple stressing but now we can say funny things happened today. First of all, Peyton got to bed a little later than we had intended last night so I told her that she would need to sleep in this morning so that she was rested for school. Well Houston had other plans as far as sleeping in and was awake at 6:45 a.m. He woke Peyton up with his jabbering so she came and crawled in bed with me. The later it got this morning the noisier it got and she started to get frustrated saying "Hooston (as she prounces his name), be quiet. I am trying to get rested for school".

After we got all ready we proceeded to take the traditional "1st Day of School" pictures on the front porch. But we immediately became startled by a baby snake believed to be dead as it did not move after multiple attempts from us throwing sticks and rocks at it.


After we realized the snake was not going to eat us we continued on with the photo shoot.






After the front porch pictures, Houston and I walked Peyton to her bus stop. Where we waited and waited and waited until finally I decided when it was 3 minutes to when school was supposed to start that I better just run her to school myself.






While driving Peyton to school I noticed an Alpine School District bus pulling out of the subdivision across the highway. I stopped to find out if it was her bus. The bus contained an old man that indeed was her bus driver but not another soul. He was lost holding a map asking me for directions but did ensure me that he would do better tomorrow. Yeah, that made me feel better. He also told me that Peyton could hop on the bus and he would take her to school after he went to all the bus stops. I felt it was a better idea to take her myself. So she only ended up being 10 minutes late for her 1st day, but here she is in class finally.


After I dropped her off to school and was on my way home I noticed an Alpine School District bus driving slowly along the highway. I looked and it was her bus driver holding his map across the steering wheel reading it and there was still not another soul on the bus. Thank goodness somebody from the school told me she would have a different bus driver coming home. Phew!!! At least I thought. Houston and I walked down to the bus stop to meet Peyton and just as we got there a bus went by and turned to go out on the highway. I just assumed it wasn't her bus until it stopped for a couple minutes and then proceeded to do a U-turn, came back to the bus stop, and there was my little Peyton standing in the door.


Not sure if the bus driver didn't know to drop her off or if Peyton forgot to get off when the bus may have stopped there the 1st time before me and Houston got there which means the bus was early. She now tells me that she forgot to get off the bus. But anyways she is home and she had a fun 1st Day of Kindergarten. Let's hope for a smoother day tomorrow especially since my sitter's carpool will take her to school and I will just need to worry about her taking the bus home.

So there you have it. Our story of the 1st Day of Kindergarten. I have heard others scary "1st Day" stories especially with the buses and never really believed it until now.