GOULDING FAM

GOULDING FAM

Monday, June 29, 2009

WYOMING TRIP

A few weeks ago we went to Wyoming with Trevor and Selena. Dusky went out a day early because his truck was in Utah and he wanted to drive up so we would have a car, so it was my first time flying with the girls by myself (besides short little Alexandria to Atlanta flights)
They did AWESOME!!! We had to take 3 different flights and they were angels on all of them. They made friends with everyone around us and Kaia sang ABC's the whole time.
We flew into Jackson Hole and met Dusky, Trevor, Selena, Jaxon and Ryan.
It's so beautiful there. It was really cold. We left Louisiana and we were sweating like crazy and we got to Wyoming and we were freezing.
We spent the first day hanging out in Jackson Hole. We went shopping, went to Ripley's Believe it or not Museum, and went sightseeing. We saw tons of animals. It was really cool.


The next day we went to the Grand Tetons. We went hiking up to the waterfall and Inspiration Point. Kaia hiked almost the whole time by herself. She did awesome. She was totally exhausted by the time we were done. The last half a mile I put her on my back and she was out cold. When we got back to the parking lot she layed down on the ground. She loved every second of it though.




The next day we went to Yellowstone National Park. We saw Old Faithful (it was really cool) along with the rest of the geysers, went to the visitors center, and saw the waterfalls. It's really beautiful there.


The next day we drove down to Utah. We stopped at Bear Lake Pizza for old times sake.
Then we stopped in Salt Lake. We went to the temple with the girls, then we went to Stacie's house. We had a BBQ. Andrea and Lana came up. It was so fun to see my friends.
Then we went down to St. George. Dusky worked on the house a lot because our renters moved out. The girls played outside the whole time. They loved the swing out back. We celebrated Dusky's Birthday (he's an old man-27), got to see Sara Holt come home from her mission, I got to go to Sara Poole's baby shower and the family reunion. We also went to the Manti Pageant. Well, we actually stayed at the pageant for about 5 seconds because the girls were so loud that nobody around us could hear what was going on. But it was the first time taking the girls camping. It was so much fun. I haven't slept in a tent forever. The girls loved it too. They got to see all their cousins and it's always fun hanging out at the campground. Thanks Austad's!

Monday, June 1, 2009

GOULDING FAMILY OLYMPICS!

Okay so this is a little late...but here we go anyway. A few weeks ago Dusky took off with Kaia. She's such a big girl. She drove all the way to Utah with him and she was a CHAMPION. They went straight through except for a few little sightseeing stops along the way.


BUt it did wear her out. THis is what she did as soon as she got to Grandma and Grandpa Goulding's house.

Sienna and I are a little bit smarter. I was raised to fly. We don't drive in the Holt family. So we left a few days later and flew out and met them.

Then it was time for the festivities to begin......

Sunday night we had our
GOULDING OLYMPICS-Opening Ceremonies
It was awesome. Helayna and Dustin did an awesome job. We lit the torch and all.

The next morning we had our Breakfast of Champions.

Let the Games begin....


Bring it on SUCKERS!And the teams are as follows......

The Champions
(Rob, Sally, Sisalee, ALex and Ammon)
Song: We are the Champions
Color: Yellow
(Sissy's)

The Dog Pound
(Dace, Laurie, Mary, Alexa, Saselah, Kire)
Song: Who let the Dogs out?
Color: Black
(Sissy's)
The Blacktops
(Joseph, Robbie, Adlai, Noah, Abbie, Nathan, & Katie)
Song: The Blacktops
Color: Black
(Sissy's)

The Winners

(Luke, Rennie, Lainie, Shelby, Carter, Creed, Little Guy Hallows

Song: We are the Winners

Color: Green

(Sissy's)

The Buccaneers

(Dustin, Helayna, Bristol, Ayden, Dashden)

Song: Pirates of the Carribean

Color: Orange

(Sissy's)


The Goulding Nuggets
(Dusky, Nicole, Kaia & Sienna)
Song: You're the best around!
Color: Red
(Bad to the Bone)
It was seriously a BLAST! It was a great olympics-complete with family flags, songs and metal ceremonies after each set of competitions. The family that won the Gold would stand on the podium and their song would play as they received their metals. Dustin and Helayna did a lot of work.


The first day we did a team race, bounce house, bunjee pull, sock off game, and the pool competitions.
The next day we did another team race, slip-n-slide, dunk tank, bbq.
Later that night we had a fair. Each family had a different booth. We had navajo tacos, melon eating, candy store, ball shack, carnival games, and lots of fun prizes.
Then we had closing ceremonies of course
What a HOTTIE! Back off girls, he's mine!



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