Birthday Bash

We are having a family birthday party for Shaylie on August 15th at noon. BBQ, Cake and Fun! All family members are invited! Please come if you can! We'll see you there!

Jesienouski Family Dominance continues...

For the third year in a row, a Jesienouski is standing at the top of the winner's stand in the annual Holden 24th of July Water Rocket Competition.  For much of the competition, Shaylie was leading with a launch of 282'.  The next closest was only 260' with everyone else under 200'.  Then Taylor came up and her rocket set a competition record of FOUR HUNDRED TWELVE FEET!  No one had ever gone over 390 ever!  It was great to see my daughter's do so well.

The 24th is probably my favorite holiday.  The entire town of Holden shows up for the Children's Parade and then the town puts on a free breakfast at the park.  They have omelets, pancakes, scones, biscuits and gravy, eggs and bacon and sausage, and other stuff.  It is so great!  Then they have children's races and then sack races that Tonya and I did (but not so well) and then the rocket competition.  All in all, a very fun day!

Even Shaylie was able to have a twinkle in her eye in defeat!

Layout at the Library

As part of the Summer Reading Program at the St. George Public Library, on Monday, July 20th at 6:30pm we will be displaying our T-Trak layout.  I will be taking all of my modules, and James will be taking his, plus we will be adding several new modules that are in the process of being built that will allow us to make the layout have 4 trains running at once on each of the their own tracks, so we don't have to worry about the trains running into each other.

We will have handouts for the kids to color and cutout.  We hope that you will come out and attend! This has been popular in the past when we have done this, and we hope that it will continue to grow.

Cartoonizing!

I have always wanted to be able to cartoonize a photograph, and now I found a website that will do it! befunky.com.  Here is our family picture with it:

Lagoon Trip

We went to Lagoon for our annual trip.  We took along Dawn, Chad, Anissa, Anje, Shaylee, and Kaitlyn.  It was very rainy, but we still had fun.  On the trip we stopped at JC Mickleson's, on a tip from a train club member that they had an awesome layout, and it was great to see, and the food was good as well!  Here are the pictures from the trip.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Family Trip-Day 2

I took the daughters to Murray Park and we went around the park playing with the ducks and then went to the playground.  Taylor made lots of friends with the little kids as she was giving rides on the spinning wheels.  Then some older kids layed down plastic on the side of the hill and got a hose and made a giant slip and slide.  Shaylie asked if she could go and she had a great time!



Later Taylor and I went to the Real Salt Lake soccer game.  It was a really big deal night.  They had people parachute in.



And the main reason we were at the game, David singing the National Anthem:



Here is a picture at the start of the game.



Picture of us at the game.



Then after the game, which ended in a boring 1-1 tie, They had a mini concert, the real reason for the sold out stadium.



While Taylor and I were at the Soccer Game, Tonya, Shaylie and Grandma went to see the movie UP.  So everyone had a pretty great night!

Family Trip Day 1

After traveling late into the night (We got into Salt Lake at midnight) we slept in.  We traveled up to Salt Lake to go to the Gateway Mall.  We went to the Planetairum and then ate and then went to the children's museum.  After that we watched the fountain for a while and then the girl's went shopping for shoes. 

After that, we traveled down to a Trax station and left the car and hopped on Trax and rode that to FrontRunner, which we then rode to Ogden and back, it was fun passing all the cars on the freeway. The girls were happy to see lagoon (we will be back up here to go to that in a couple of weeks) and it was a nice relaxing ride.  We sat way in the back, so that when we were coming home, we were in the front and were able to watch the track out the front window. 

Tonight we are going to the Real Salt Lake game with David Archuleta singing the National Anthem before the game and having a mini-concert afterwards.