VANCOUVER 2010 OLYMPICS- Here we come!

Needless to say we have really enjoyed the Olympics and are already looking forward to the winter Olympics in Vancouver. We're sad to see them over, but I'm not going to lie it's been a sleep deprived two weeks. That's been tough considering it was my first week back from maternity leave. It was hard to leave that little girl that I love so much.

But it's been a lot easier to be at work when I know she has her daddy to take care of her at home. I'm so proud of Derek. He is such a good father and I know they will always have a special bond because of this time they have together.

Happy Birthday Tara!

Tara's birthday was on August 16th. We had a fun day. Around noon we went to the airport to pick Chad up, who flew in special for Tara's birthday (ok, maybe for a few other things too) then we went to the Capitol building to see one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence. It was our first time at the Capitol, so we took some time to walk around and check out the building. Afterward we went for an early dinner at the Market Street Broiler. It was about 4:00 in the afternoon, so it was just us and some old people at the restaurant (sometimes we like to go eat early on the weekends because we avoid waiting and we prefer eating dinner earlier than later and then we have the rest of the night to do stuff. Is that so wrong?) On Sunday night we had some family over to enjoy some cake and ice cream.


Happy birthday Weetie! I love you and I hope you had a fun weekend.


The birthday girl and the mini weet going into the Capitol.
From the third floor at the Capitol. There are some pretty cool paintings, the one in the background is of Brigham Young.
Take that, King George.
Honest Abe and Chad.
A lovely shot with Old Glory.
The view of the outside.
I had to include this picture because it's awesome. We were trying to get a picture of Chad with the statue in the background (which you can't see here) and some kid was all over it for like 5 minutes. Check out Chad's grumpy face as he waited for the little duder to vacate.
This ice cream after dinner was so good!I made that! Double decker baby.Eva gave Tara a little help with the candle blow. Happy birthday my love!

OLYMPIC GOLD!

I did it! You may be familiar with the Chinese gymnast age scandal. I'm here to put the story straight. Here's the scoop... I had great aspirations to compete with my nation in these 2008 Beijing Olympics, but the USA would not allow me to participate because I am underage by a few years. As my parents had traveled to Asia last fall and made the acquaintance of a Chinese government official they were privy to an inside tip to fast track me to the Olympiad.

I was able to receive appropriate documentation to falsify my age. You may know me as Eva Bleazard, but my Chinese passport says Lu Xang born May 8, 1991. As an alternate on the Chinese women's gymnastics team I received gold in the medal ceremony following the team competition. Unfortunately my routines would not have been aired on tv.

Balance Hands 16.025 (tenth of a point deduction for drooling)

High Hands 15.725 (deductions for uncontrolled flailing of limbs)

I'm here to say that yes there are underage Chinese gymnasts competing. Our underdeveloped bones and muscles make us nimble and the short stature lowers our center of gravity. It's been a great run though. To hear more about my amazing story I will be interviewing with Matt Lauer on the Today show tomorrow morning. Check me out!

Chad's Back!

This post is about 2 weeks late, but I'm going to do it nevertheless. We recently went up to Boise to welcome home our little brother Chad after 2 years in El Salvador. We were able to stay for over a week and spend some good quality family time. We played golf, went shooting, went shopping, and had family pictures taken. We had a Wii bit o' fun playing the Rock Band and Wii Sports on mom and dad's new Wii. Diversion para la familia entera! And oh yeah, we had our home run derby and footrace at the park. I was disgraced in the footrace (better luck next year?) but I did show up for the home run derby.
















The bowkster is looking good.















Hey hermano!















The 6 kids, reunited at last!















Chillin' at mom and dad's.















My pretty girls.















Chad's awesome "Policia" shirt from El Salv.















Walther P99.














Enjoying dad's famoso BBQ'd turkey and homemade BBQ sauce.















Playing catch in the front yard.















Robby looking on while Chad reacquaints himself with a baseball.

Welcome home Chad! Great to have you back.