Ready, Aim, Fire

According to Davin this is the only way to pull a tooth out!

First: You must have a loose tooth!

Second: Tie a string around the "said" tooth

Third: Tie the other end to a foam bullet!
Fourth: You got it! stick the bullet in the gun and
Fire!!!!

Boys are so much fun! He is always coming up with crazy plans and schemes! I want to kill him 90% of the time but I just can't he is so dang funny! He gets away with murder around our house because we start laughing before we can start disciplining and he knows if he can get us laughing he has got us right where he wants us!!!

Utah Summer Games!!!!

Cedar City or BUST!!!!!!

This is the second year Rylies team has gone down to SUU for the summer games, it is a fun trip. I love Cedar City and SUU so it is fun for Doug and I to go back and show the kids were we first lived after we were married, were we lived before we were married, were we worked, ect. Yeah they were pretty uninterested in all that, all they wanted to do was win some soccer games!!!

Opening Ceremonies is always a blast!!! They hold an opening social for all the athletes, were they feed them and they have big blow up slides and bouncy houses for them to play on. Rylie went to that with her team so no pictures!

At the ceremonies they have the running of the torch, this year one of the runners was Amy Christiansen Palmer, a Grantsville celebrity, and someone my kids knew!!!

Each and every player down at SUU for the games gets to walk around the track for the "Parade of Athletes" there are a lot of kids down there doing everything from soccer to gymnastics to paintball to fencing. It is pretty exciting when they all get together to party!

All the athletes get to stay down on the field for a concert and fireworks show! We peons have to stay in the bleachers, but that did not stop us from singing and dancing all night!!!

Preparing for the game was very important or maybe just a lot of fun!!

Painting up the cars is a must!!! We did our car and the team did all the coaches cars!!!

Face paint and blue hair die I am sure will help us win and if not we look unified!!!

Blue and white pok-a-dot fingernails and toenails was the super secret weapon the girl were sure would get us a win!!!



Game time, was not so great!! We played ok but not how these girls usually play! Maybe we partied a little to much??? But it was fun and a great experience!

Killing time in between games was a lot of fun!!! Last year we found this little "pond" full of tadpoles and the kids caught a bunch of them, so this year we had to go back and see if there were any more. Lucky us there were thousands!!!! So the kids jumped in a caught a bunch to bring home.... yeah stinky, smelly, wet and slimy, tadpoles in the same car with sweaty, stinky smelly kids, we hardly even noticed they were there!!!!

I think this was probably Davin favorite part of the trip!

We had an amazing park right next to one of the soccer fields we played on,

the kids were loving it!

Well the games are over, we did not receive a medal, but we'll be back!

I am not sure who these guys are that hitched a ride home with us!!!!!

Way to Go ASHTON!!!!

We finished the softball season with a big Splash over at the complex. It may have been 68 degrees outside but that did not stop these girls from swimming.

After swimming for a few hours they had the awards ceremony and announced the first, second and third place teams in each age group. Then they announced the ALL-STAR team!

ASHTON was so excited when they called her name!

Each girl was called up and got to stand on the table benches so we could all see who they were then they announced the Coaches. I only knew one of them but it should be fun!!!

Here is the team, they may look like drowned rats right now but I think we will have a great team. Ashton was thrilled that her best friend Hannah made the team too!!!!

What a way to start the Summer!

I do not know how this happened I put sunscreen on at least 200 hundred people during the End of the School Year Party but some how I managed to skip my red-headed, freckle-faced, fair skinned little boy!

OUCH!!!!!

Don't mind the spiderman tattoo. I hate those things but he loves them so he sticks them in places I won't see them, like on his stomach!

Yeah, I new it was bad the first day but the second day brought forth a new level of sunburn that I have never witnessed before. Blisters the size of silver dollars.

He has been pretty dang tough considering his situation in fact I have cried more than he has over this whole thing!


Things are getting a little better, the third night was his best night sleeping, he only woke up once needing a new cold rag and a Tylenol! I know that life is full of live and learn situations I just hate when my life lessons hurt my kids. I will never ever forget sunscreen again. I hope this can be a friendly reminder for you all to

WEAR SUNSCREEN!!!!

Schools OUT!!!

The End of the School Year Party has become a tradition of us. It started when Rylie was is in Kindergarten. My friend and I thought it would be fun to have a little swim party for Rylie and Abby (her daughter) to celebrate school being out. Each year we have continued the "tradition" as the girls call it, adding new friends each year. This year Rylie and Abby completed fourth grade, Ashton and Hannah completed second grade, Davin and Chloe completed kindergarten. So needless to say the party keeps getting bigger. This year we had over 50 kids swimming and having a blast!!! Its a good thing our kids are all the same ages so at least we are stuck in this together.

Some of Rylies best friends are boys and every year they have came and swam with us but this year Katie and I noticed that the girls seemed to stick together and the boys stuck together, I guess they really are getting older and boys are BOYS and not just friends.

We have recruited help to get everyone fed. My mom loves to stop by and check out the happenings and now that Paige lives here I am afraid she is a regular after school party mom. We initiated her last year and now she is a pro.

We had hot dogs, chips n' dip, drinks, fruit, and more treats than even ALL of US

could eat in one afternoon.

Between the big water slide, the pool, the trampoline, water balloon volleyball, and of course a water balloon fight everyone was soaked and smiling all day!! Can't wait until next year!!!

Caution SNOW ahead!!!

Lucky for us Doug works with some really great people, one of whom is Martin Snow. Martin and his wife Melanie are race car drivers in the American LeMans series. Their logo is a caution sign with the words "Caution Snow ahead", all their fans, family, friends and crew wear shirts with this saying on it! When they race at Miller Motorsports Park we get to go!!! We get celebrity treatment with access to their private suite, catered lunches, and passes that allow us to go into the pits so we can check out all the behind the scenes action. The Snows are really nice and both are awesome drivers they each won a 30 min. sprint race in separate cars (Porsche is their preferred racing car, of course) and as a team they won the 2hr and 45 min. Challenge Class race. It is a blast to watch and the kids love it!!!

This is just one of the hundreds of amazing cars at the race!

Melanie Snows car and pit crew getting it ready for the race!

This picture is taken from the suite, it is right above the start/finish line!

Even Skylar has a love of fast cars!!!!

Where dose the time go??

It felt like just a few days ago I was on here blogging about Easter, I can't believe I has been a month already! Spring has Sprung and so have Spring Sports! In the past few weeks my appearance has changed a bit, you wouldn't recognize me unless you were looking for someone caring several chairs, a bundle of blankets and jackets (for the Utah spring weather that goes form 80 to 30 without a moments notice), a bottle of sunscreen, a hefty stock of bug spray, water bottles, and most likely two boxes of Capri Suns and enough rice crispy treats for which ever team we are watching at that moment!

Rylie is still playing with her comp soccer team the Crushers who have had a great season!!! Ashton is playing both soccer with the Red Hot Fire Girls, and softball on the Hawks team. Davin is playing t-ball on the A's team. And Skylar just finished her season of gymnastic with a darling year end review program. So we are out hoppin from games to practices to games and back to practices every night of the week! And we love every minute of it.

Here is Skylar with her class and during her performance, check out that form!

Rylie playing in her last game for this season! But there is no rest for soccer players, tryouts for the next season were two days after the last game and practice starts next week for the new season!!!!

We also had our Spring piano review! Ashton and Rylie both did great!!!

(Yeah I know, no picture of Rylie ,I can't find it, why it is not in the same folder with Ashtons piano recital pictures I do not know?????

Ashton loves softball!!! She plays first and third. She is a pretty good hitter too!!!

T-ball is always good for a laugh. Some of these kids are so little they make Davin look like one of the coaches. Especially compared to his team, they are all the size of this kid standing next to Davin, it is so funny to see them in a huddle. Most of them don't even know why they are there. Some are out picking dandelions, some playing in the dirt and last week one of our players got down on all fours and licked the dirt, yeah no one knows why, its just what happens at t-ball!!!