It's Almost Christmas!

Wow. Have I ever been delinquent. We have been soooooo busy all fall. This school year has been overwhelming with Minerettes. Senior parents take over a lot of the duties of the coaches, and we never realized how much the those parents did until we became senior parents. One of the moms is making all of our costumes and so all of us have to help in the rhinestoning process. I have glued on so many rhinestones this year that my fingers sparkle.

The girls have competed in two competitions so far this season and they have taken first in both. They look awesome. This is a picture of last week's competition at Jordan. Santa was there to hand out the awards. It doesn't look like Hailee trusts him much. I bet she won't be getting much under her tree.:)

Have a very Merry Christmas!

Senior Dance Photos

Amy the Senior

She gets her talent from her mother.

Amy is sort of in the middle, off to the right.

Happy Birthday Bingham!

Bingham High School turned 100 years old on September 9, 2008 and the whole school had a huge birthday party. The Minerettes were asked to do a late 1960's routine complete with marching, formations, and slow ripples. It was so easy compared to what they usually do, and Amy thought it was quite hilarious. Everyone really enjoyed it.

Gotta love the ending pose!

First Day of School

Remember the day when Amy would pose in her new school clothes and hold up as many fingers as the grade she was in? Those were the days. Here's Amy's best "first day of school" shot. I guess this is how most teenage girls would look on the first day of school if they were going to have their father for AP English all year. I hope you have a great senior year, Amy.

Trip to Idaho

We went to Idaho last weekend to see Lisa and Tyrel. Amy was so thrilled...Not! But once we got up there she had fun. Floating down the Warm River on tubes was definintely the highlight, but she also loved hearing all about the potato harvest and sitting on this cute tractor. She would make a great farmer's wife someday. Ha ha!

We camped at Warm River and got to eat lots of Tyrel's good cooking.

We even went to Yellowstone--the first time for all three of us.

Amy spotted this huge field of sunflowers so we stopped and had a Kodak moment.

Operation Choo-Choo

A few weeks ago the Minerettes had to go downtown to have team pictures taken. Astra's mom is a photographer, so she decided to take some friend pictures while they were dressed up for pictures anyway. They ran across this train and got some cute shots.

Lisa's First Wedding Cake

Last week Lisa came from Idaho to try her first attempt at decorating a wedding cake. It was a bit stressful for her at times, but she did a nice job. She had to make two sheet cakes along with a three tiered wedding cake. It was lots of work.

Finished product!

And that's the end of that! It's amazing how something that takes so long to make can be destroyed in seconds. Hope you're up for another one someday, Lisa.

Russ's Birthday, etc.

Last Saturday, June 21, was Russ's birthday. Grandma and Grandpa Haycock came and we went to Texas Road House for lunch and then we had what Russ has been craving, strawberry shortcake. He's a big 23 now!

Psycho Boy!

More Minerette Stuff--this time in the shape of a quilt. Morgan, the drill coach, is having a baby in August. I made her this quilt for a shower they are having for her in July. Pretty cute, eh?

We had yet another Minerette party--this time with the parents, too. Sorry, no pictures of parents. The girls are much cuter than we are and they actually enjoy being in front of the camera.

Amy spent this week at drill camp in Ogden. She had tons of fun and was picked to be in the Top Corp (top 5 girls at camp) for the second year in a row. Way to go, Amster!

Cancer Benefit

On June 13, the Minerettes performed at the Relay for Life Cancer Benefit. They also put a team together to walk as a relay team from about 8:00 pm until 6:00 am. They performed last year's lyrical which everyone loved. They were pretty good about taking their turns walking until about 2:00 am and when most everyone fell asleep. A few of us kept our relay team going until about 3:00 am and then went to bed. David tried to single-handedly keep our team going, but he finally gave up at 4:00 am. We still managed to raise a nice chunk of change.

After performing "In Any Other World"

They woke us up at 6:00 am. Here's a happy camper!

Right before the final lap. Enthusiasm abounds!

Breakfast--where Amy and Karly ham it up (as usual).

Amy, Our Senior

Well, it finally happened. Amy is officially a senior. The yearbook stomp was last Monday, graduation on Tuesday, and Wednesday morning at 5:00 am was the Senior Sunrise Breakfast. A lot of the new seniors pulled an all-nighter Tuesday night, and of course, Amy was one of them. She spent the night with a bunch of friends, both girls and guys, in a place they call "the barn." It's a huge garage-type building that has been converted into a teenage hangout. They had an absolute blast, but they got really tired and had to go get energy drinks in the middle of the night. She has some really good friends who know how to behave themselves, so it was good, clean fun.

Amy and Adam at the yearbook stomp.

Heading to graduation with the girls

Always a comic

Buddies: (starting at top and going clockwise) Astra (She's the one with cystic fibrosis. She has a hard time dancing, but she still does on about 40% lung capacity. She's one of Amy's best friends.), Karly (Amy's best friend), DJ, Keith, Nick, Jack, Amy, Haylee. There were a whole lot more kids coming and going. They all had a great time.

Minerettes

A new Minerette year has begun. It's our third and final year. Last year was kind of a disappointment, so the senior parents this year are determined to get the girls united as a team and hope that good things will happen. At the very least, they will have a more positive experience. We started the year with a social based on Survivor. It was a lot of fun.

The girls were divided into two teams, and they painted their faces.

Motto for the year.

The girls had to do a bunch of challenges. The last one was grabbing a gumball with their mouth out of a pie tin full of whipping cream. The winner was the first to blow a bubble. The gum sort of fell apart sitting in the cream so no one won. Just as everyone thought it was over, one of the girls smashed a pie tin full of cream into Amy's face. Amy immediately got her back and then bedlam broke out. It was hilarious. They were all such a mess. The mom planning the whole thing just stood there and cried, "This isn't on my agenda!" Sooooo funny!

The girls ended with a nice pep talk from their coach and a bracelet with the word Lanakila on it. Lanakila means "to bring victory" in Hawaiin. It was a fun way to start the year. The next day was the car wash. We washed cars all day. Being a Minerette mom is a lot of work. I'm pooped.

Memorial Day

We had another exciting Memorial Day. Amy got to spend the first half of it in Centerville being tutored in math by Grandpa. She has to pass her 1050 final. Even though it was pouring rain and cold most of the day, we planned a barbeque and invited Brad, Sue, Russ and Alyssa. Amy invited Adam. The event was topped off with the usual game of Guesstures. The girls won easily and there was a lot of mumbling from David that we should be playing Trivial Pursuit instead. Yup, pretty much a normal Memorial Day.

Alyssa and Russ

Adam and Amy

Pole Vault

So in the off-season for Minerettes, Amy decided to learn to pole vault. Much of that decision was based on the fact that Keith is a pole vaulter. She hasn't had a lot of success in vaulting, but she has had a lot of fun and she has met some really nice kids.


This is Amy vaulting at the Riverton meet. Their bar doesn't go any lower than 8 ft. Amy can pretty much make it over Bingham's bar because it can go as low as 6 ft. 8 in. All the girls have a rough time getting over.
Keith is Bingham's best vaulter. This is him winning Region at 13 ft. 6 in. The season turned into a soap-opera when Amy and Keith decided to take an official "break." Once all the guys realized that Amy didn't belong to Keith any more, they all jumped into the picture.
This is Jordan, Bingham's second best vaulter and a big fan of Amy. He took Amy out last weekend.

This is Adam (the guy in beige standing on the right). He got cut from the tennis team earlier this year by some really mean tennis coach so he decided to start pole vaulting. Most of the time he is on the JV team. He was working here at Region as the video guy. He is also a big fan of Amy's. He is a really nice boy and David has him in class. Adam's dad teaches at Bingham too. Amy was much more excited to watch the video guy than any of the vaulters. He asked her out for this Saturday night. Hmmmmm.... I wonder who's going to win. We'll keep you posted.

Birthdays

Happy Birthday, TeriDel (April 20). We hope you had a happy one. Keith's birthday is April 19th, and he wanted birthday dough (as in cookie dough) so we decided to make him pole vaulting dough. We took the picture of him that was in the Deseret News and tried to make him look like he was pole vaulting. He loved it.

Conference Weekend

For Conference Weekend we made our usual trip up to Centerville to go see Grandma and Grandpa Haycock. Since a few of us had missed out on the festive Easter fun, Grandma had a reinactment for us. Amy had to find Easter eggs again even though she just wanted her candy handed to her--lazy butt! As you can see, Kolten hid them really hard for her.

We had to take the traditional picture on the porch.

Here's Bruce with the Haycock disease--every time a camera is pointed in your direction, you cover your face.

I also wanted to include some pictures of the real Easter. Tyrel LOVES hiding Lisa's eggs. She was a bit frustrated by that orange one.

Cute boy.

Cute girl.

The tradtional porch picture with all the folks who were there at Easter.