Breakfast of Champions

The end of school is always kind of crazy. There are many things to attend. Tanner had a viola recital that my camera battery died on so I have no pictures of that. But he dressed as a hillbilly and played fiddle songs. It was at a park in Hyrum. It was a lot of fun.
This morning at 6:30 Tanner was invited to a Breakfast of Champions. It is for all students who received a 4.0 during the year. I will brag a little and say he had a 4.0 each term. He gets those brains from his father. He received a medal, a Wheaties box with his picture on it, a letter written by his English teacher, a big "Honor roll and milk. They had a little program. I am so blessed to have great children. This picture is funny because I took it when all the other students were getting off the bus in front of the school and he was embarrassed. So he made this funny face and I snapped the picture.
GOOD JOB Tanner. I love ya

My Hero by Tyler

Wednesday this week, Tyler had to write a letter to his hero. He decided to write to his father. I thought he did a great job and I was very proud of him. There was a dinner of lasagna, salad and cookies and the kids in the class read the letter in front of everyone. Then the hero came up to the front and got their letter. It was very touching. This is what he wrote:

"My Hero
Have you ever met someone that can fix a mail jeep as fast as my dad can?
My dads name is Wayne Nielsen. He was born June 26,1971 in Provo, Utah. He married my mom, Utonya, November 11, 1994 in Clinton, Utah. He has black hair, hazel eye (like mine) and is 6 feet tall. He loves to tickle me and wrestle with me.
My dad always goes to work for my family. He watches me play flag football, goes to my soccer games, school activities and we watch movies together. He takes me camping, bowling, to play mini golf and my favorite to the demolition derby.
My dad is my hero cause he is my dad and I want to grow up and be just like him.
I want to thank my dad for all the things he does for me."

So sweet!

Memorial Day Camping

This year for Memorial Day we went camping up Currant Creek, its down by Strawberry. It takes a while to get there but it is so worth it. We went with great friends the Binghams and Ekstroms and had a BLAST. There were also 6 children. It rained each afternoon but no worries we played tons of games in the trailer and the kids even watched movies. We ate way to much food and junk. All in all a good time was had by all. And I am happy to report no body got hurt which is a concern when the Nielsen's go camping. Here we are having breakfast. Karsyn, Ashley, Matthew and Dakota.

Mike and Kelly were the ultimate fisherman. They caught a lot of fish. Mike cooked them up and we ate them.

Kelly, Monica and Tanner. Tanner wants me to delete this pic but I don't have any other pic of him so it stays. Sorry Tanner!

The Wellsville Mile

Tyler and his good friend Rodolfo.

Here is Tyler racing with the Mt. Crest track team.

Yeah, Tyler crossing the finish line. Way to go Ty.

Up here in Cache Valley the elementary schools do this Wellsville mile activity. It is for all 4Th and 5Th graders. They start running in school about February and time themselves for the mile. Each time they try to get better and better until May when all the schools at the south end of the valley, I think there are 8 of them, get together and race. It starts around 10 am and runs till noon-thirty. When it's hot it is a very long day. This is my third and final time of attending this event. Tanner did it the last two years and today was Tyler's last time. Lucky for us the clouds came out and it was nice and overcast.

Well, poor Tyler has been running his little heart out. His best time in school is 7:20. WAY better than I could ever dream. They put these kids in heats and Tyler was with all the fastest boys from all the schools. So I don't know what happened, if it was his nerves or what but he had a hard time. His final time was 9:45. Still WAY better than I could ever dream. He was pretty upset but I want you to know how very proud of him I am. He worked so hard and he and I both know what he is capable of doing. So way to go Tyler keep up the hard work and lets run the 5k next month for the Nibley days.