Taking One For The Team!

Since the morning school let out for summer...We have lived at the ball park! Dallin got to grab a quick hug and photo with his "FAVORITE TEACHER" Mrs. Louder and left the last day of school early to go play in a super league tournament.

We sure did love Mrs. Louder. She knew how to bring our state, math, reading SCIENCE to life and Dallin reatined it ALL!!!!!!!!!! Thank you and we will never forget you! EVER!

So as mentioned we have lived baseball day in and day out! It has been great! Dallin loves to play and we love to watch! Dallin took one for the team as a pitcher through a pitch right at his leg. He held stance and crack we thought his leg was broken. But he ran to first place and then played the rest of the game like a champ! This is the result when we got home about an hour later and had him change to relax before the next game later that night...It had already brusied! Dallin thought it was soooo cool! It left the stivhching marks from the ball!

This season has been awsesome. He has developed and grown in his skills as well as his love and understanding of the game. Thanks to all his coaches for your time adn great coaching, because of how you coach he has a great respect for you! Also the MANY hours dad spends playing catch! ( which was usally his breaks from homework!!!!!!!) We are in the middle of city tournament, we are first place going in. We are praying for a consecutive title for our Tigers!

Holy Cowzers!!!!!! What a Journey!

WELL.....3 years ago when Scott's biggest hang up about going to get his masters degree was that he would be 40 when he graduated.......Hes 40 and....

He GRADUATED!!!!!! But...he did it with and earned ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE...Yes graduating with HONORS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not express the feelings I felt as they announced and presented him with that honor. Nor did I realize what a sacrifice it had been on our family. It has been and incredible journey...A journey that has meant a lot of single parenting. But knowing that all of those sleepless nights...putting kids to bed for days in a row by myself...attending YW evenings with three children, homework, holidays, missed events, birthdays, games, on and on. But seeing him honored in that way filled my soul with joy. Not to mention the shock on Scott's face as he came back white as a ghost and tears in his eyes. He worked so hard!!!!!! As he sat back down they then honored him with the ONLY student in the his MPA program to graduate with 100% attendance! Again made all those Tuesday activity nights full of frustration that I had all three children running from dance to games to YW SOOOOO WORTH IT to see him honored. Scott thank you for being who you are. As we heard from one of his professors that night, he challenged us to Celebrate every day and not live for the "I will be happy when moments" If there is one thing i learned over this experience is just that....to find joy in everything. We had few and far moments as a family and now that he has accomplished this amazing task we are celebrating every day as if it were the gift it was meant to be. "Adam fell that men might have JOY!" We are searching for that joy every day...we are supposed find it!!!!!!!! We are blessed to have it! And we relish it more when it is found after sacrifice. Holy Cowzers Scott. It was a privilege to sit by your side as you were honored!!!!! Thank you for this Joyous accomplishment and teaching and showing our children that you can accomplish what your heart desires...with the LORD by your side!

As for the old Ornery Guy! think he has officially resigned. I do not know where he has gone! As soon as I figure out how to download the video I shall treat you all to Scott's musical number at graduation banquet! Yes he got up and shared joy with EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!

What Now....Ph D.....Becasue its fun to go to school!!!!!

Well....

We have moved and things are beginning to settle down for a while. We will be able to enjoy the summer at the baseball fields and play in our new backyard....Abby finished up her track season with a big WOOT WOOT! Her and her chicas on the 4 x 400 relay kicked it at Alpine days. They took first and their time beat every girls team from 7th to 9th grade and even some boys teams. It was the coolest race!!!!!!! When i get some pics we shall post them. Abby has never smiled in a race but as she came around her final turn she has a grin. She knew her team was gonna DO IT!

This is her last night after getting home from shopping with Grandma!

She had a Graham Slam Birthday!

She has finished up with BYU dance for the year and is still busy getting ready for cheer! She loves it! We have her big concerts for ballet and then its just Goooooooo Tigers!!!!

Emma did a fantabulous job in her BYU dance recitals. We sure do love our Miss Miriam!!!! Thanks Grandma for coming and watching our little blueberry dance! It was her moment to shine!

Dallin has been bummed because the past two weeks all games have been canceled due to rain...All well that just means we get to play longer this summer...EVERYDAY! He loves baseball! In the meantime he has taken up Guitar hero. What a rock star!!!!!!

Dallin was soooo excited to finish up his Utah book. They work all year putting it together and last week the wood burned the cover. He did such a Grandio job!!!! We love ya bud! Well off to unpack some more boxes!

Unbelievable!

Our Baby Bumm In Air cannot be 14!

Its unbelievable and Inconceivable!

I am constantly blown away by her!

I hope you remember how much we love you and want you to become ALL you are meant to be! Abby you are AmAzInG!

You have great things to do so JUST DO IT!

I hope, pray and wish for you an amazing year! LUV ROO ROO!

Abby and I stayed up late a couple nights ago and found this...She wanted me to post it for ALl my Chicas!!!!! ENJOY!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80olbDws8r0

Where Our Hours Are Spent!

Track Practice, Track Meets, Super League baseball practices, City League Baseball Practices, Scouts, Super League games, City League Games, dance practice, cheer practice, tumbling classes, YW!, early morning homework labs, School, Miss Orem Workshops, Master Degree classes, laundry, dishes, late night dinners, PTA meetings, work, home showings, church meetings ....ANYWAY

For those of you who may be concerned as to why we may not call, write, text, or email....Somethings have to give.=(

We are doing great just enjoying the heck out of our babies!

Abby in her 800 meter race. She took second to Miss Jab! She got jabbed by her through the entire race. Her 4 x 400 meter relay is doing it again beating all grade levels in each meet. Keep it up girls!!!!!!!

This is Dallins first Super League game! What a handsome bunch of boys! Best of Luck Utah Smash!!!!!!!!! They won 16-4 first game and lost 14-5 second! Win some lose some its how you improve your game that counts!!!!!!

( Dallin is second baseman for the Smash!)

Goooooooo Roo!

Yea to our little Abby!

A couple of weeks ago Abby quietly made the decision to try out for the cheer squad for high school next year. She told no one but me her dad, her track coach and school administration, in fear of not making it she didn't want to let anyone down. Her Entire life she has wanted to dance and cheer. Needless to say it seemed like an easy decision to let her go and do this. I thought well why not .... she will learn from it and then next year know exactly what they are looking for....right.....Well she ran from cheer clinics to track meets, to dance rehearsals to track practice to homework to YW to ya she was running nuts...After the Thursday Cheer Clinic I picked her up and she looked overwhelmed and scared....There were a lot of girls and they were good...I don't know. Her dad told her that it is good to try scary things and sometimes its even better to fail at scary things because that's what makes you stronger. SO

I picked her up right after school and we did her hair in the cheer ponytail, bangs back, and of course blue and gold glitter, helped her walk through her stuff, had prayer and dropped my baby off to what she calls" THE scariest thing I have ever done in my entire life!"

She kept in contact through text...She got put in the first group to try out...AHHHHHH Mom was so worried for her! Then around 5:30 she said call backs were coming........NOTHING for almost 2 hours!!!!!! I think I must have checked down the street a million times to see if she was coming home in tears...I kept looking at my phone to see if it was on..Then all of the sudden my phone buzzed....Scott said look at it.....

I MADE IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Our reply " Made what?"

Her " I don't care!!!!!!!!"

Our Roo made it she said she got called back in over and over and she decided "This is it girl rock and it and show them what you got" and she nailed everything. They called out jump after jump she did it...."Mom I have never been more confident in my entire life!" We walked over to her coaches and asked which squad she made and they smiled

VARSITY!!!! Only Freshman!

Scott and I got in the car looked at each other and said " Holy Cow!"

We are so excited for her! WE will post pictures as soon as we can I was so anxious to get to her that night I didn't even think of course to take a picture.

It was a parent pay day..Then of course as I mentioned no one knew she was even trying out sooooooo first things first she had us take her to her very good friend to share the news with him first...It was a sweet moment! I think that shall be a day Abby Never Forgets!

My Boy!

I can not believe my baby boy is 10!!!!! It just can not be!

I am so pleased with the young man he is becoming. He is such an amazing kid!

We love you bubba and hope this year brings you all the joys your heart desires!!!!!!!

I remember your first word...Ball! To this day you cant find Dallin with out some sort of ball going on or wearing some sort of sport gear! not to mention his very ranky stanky BYU lucky wristband! Yuck! But whatever works right!

10. His love for Pooh Bear

9.He loves to HUG!

8. He is so smart! and loves to learn!

7. He loves his dad!

6. He is full of team spirit and believes the Utes to be evil!

5. Such a good listener

4. Looks up to and loves his Big Sister

3. Loves to tease his little sister

2. Loves Steak

1. He is our sunshine!!!!!!! What a blessing you are in our lives! Happy Birthday Dallioni!!!!!!!!

Randomness

Abby had to fun school projects this last month one and Autobiography in a box. She choose Audrey Hepburn. She had such a great time learning about her. We watched My Fair Lady together and we now have the next generation hooked on old classics!Another assignment was her egg baby. She took it very serious and made her the cutest carrying basket. Her teacher awarded Abby's baby Olivia the cutest egg baby and got a giant candy bar. Abby with her flowers from "Her Valentine" She loved her flowers. He was very sweet and brought them to her on Valentine Sunday. He also brought her cupcakes and she saved them for days when she need a little more "sunshine"

Scott was such a sweetheart and came home with a dozen gorgeous roses, balloons and my very favorite carrot cake! Such a romantic! Such a SURPRISE! Even though he wanted to have it all set up to surprise me, he came home while I was standing at the sink doing dishes an he looked at me as he came through the door with all of it in hand and said " Your not supposed to be in the kitchen!" I responded " I am ALWAYS in the kitchen." :) Emma was feeling a bit left out so Scott gave her my roses and kisses and let her be the princess! Like she is EVERYDAY!

Once there WAS a Snowman!

Once there was a snowman,

snowman Snowman.

Once there was a snowman

Tall

Tall...TALL!

Then mean children wrecked them,wrecked them, wrecked them,

Then mean children wrecked them small small small.

During our last big storm the kids built these snowman. Along with about 5 other families along our street. Well as we all found as we left to Sunday Morning Church, our snowmen had be decapitated during the night. Causing all children on our street to have sad hearts as we drove to past each mutilated snowman. My kids were so sad. "What kind of person goes around destroying snowmen?" We simply said "mean ones" Really this just gives me an idea for a new Grinch book " The Grinch who stole joy from children!" As we drove around about a 5 mile radius ALL SNOWMEN had been ruined. What is wrong with people!

Setting the Record Straight!

For those who have questioned who builds the pinewood...answer...All of us TOGETHER!

1. Dallin names the years car.....Collie....

2. Dallin and Dad spend countless hours researching arrow dynamics and ways to make the car the fastest on what kind of tracks.

3.Dallin and Dad go to the local crafts and hardware stores to get tools.

4.Dallin and Dad miter saw the cut for the car...TOGETHER!

5.Dallin and Dad polish the wheels...together

6. Dallin sands the car to baby smooth.

7. Dallin and dad put in the weights and putty the wholes once again TOGETHER

8.Then Dallin sands again with a finer grit.

9. Mom and Dallin paint the coats on the car...there is about 20 coats.

10. Dallin and mom decide what the car should be detailed with,dad adds the wheels wala the car! Dallin Two Year Reigning Champion! For the record the Cougarmmobile is still undefeated.

It raced against the Collie and won!

And one more the record! I am gonna cheer and I am gonna cheer loud and jump with excitement. In all things these are my babies and if we arent here to cheer our babies on who is! Go Bubba! We have a had blast every year building the car!

Christmas in March!

Christmas Eve visit to Santa. We also went out to Breakfast with Aunt Glenda and Uncle Jason to Mimis Yummmm.

Christmas Eve Jammie's!

Emma's Christmas treasures Brittany and Fancy Nancy! Dallin and his Christmas Happy's...Tech Decks and Nintendo DS Abby and her Christmas..Her laptop and her favorite around her neck from her "favorite";)

For Christmas we rented a cabin up in Heber to go sledding with kids. It was soooooooooooooooooo Cold But we had Sooooooooooo much fun!

We soared down those hills!

Definitely now a tradition!