In a nut shell...............

There have been several reasons as to my lack of blogging. The biggest being I had no computer for several months, yes months. Then I lost my camera, yep and about 60 pictures. That being said I need to have a few important things documented for my family, because this blog is our only source of "scrap-booking" I do.

May

Ashton had her 4th grade program "Utah a Celebration"

She chose Piute County for her research project and "float".

Rylie was selected to receive the Mayors Youth Award.

Davin turned 8 and got baptized!

The BIG DAY!!!!

June

Ashton's regular season team took 2nd place and she was selected to be on the All-Star team!

Ashton had a few singing performances with a solo part!!!!

Ashton turned 10!!!! Rylie and Lexi greeted the guest as the tacky tourists!

Davin's Mudcat team took 1st place!!!!!

Davin was selected as an All-Star!

I ran in the Provo half marathon! This is my awesome team freezing at the starting line!

Here we are the night, well actually the morning of, our run.

Trying to stop laughing and get some sleep!

This is actually what happened all night until we only had 3 hours before we needed to get up and run. It was not the best strategy but it was fun!

Doug and the kids could not come down so they made me this really awesome poster

for when I got home! THANKS GUYS!

July

We all enjoyed a 4th of July with temp not in the 100's!!! Davin and Ashton both rode on floats. Davin with his All-star team and Ashton with her singing group. Rylie was on the four-wheeler selling things to raise money for the Anti-Bullying group she is in! So it was all up to Skylar to get candy for everyone! She did a great job!

Ashton broke her finger during a softball game! We did not know it was broken

so she kept on pitching, and did great!!!

More, more and a little more softball and baseball!

Davin pitching!

Ashton pitching with a broken finger!

August

Davin finally decided what to spend his birthday money on...... A rat! His name is Rascal and believe it or not rats aren't that bad of a pet, and it beat out a tarantula hands down!

We started a new school year!!!

Skylar is in Kindergarten her teacher is Mrs. Dahle.

Davin started 3rd grade with Mrs. McKeaver!

Ashton is in 5th with Mrs. Aagard!

Rylie is officially a Jr.High student. Big 7th grader!!!

September

We went to the Taylor Swift concert! We had a blast, We met all of our friends in at Archibalds for dinner before the big show!!! It was a great way to start the funnest night ever!!!

We waited in line forever for t-shirts but it was worth the wait!!!

We did all we could to get chosen for the "T" party but we did not make it, maybe next year!

Davin won the Punt, Pass and Kick competition for the 8 year old division!!!

"Go Big D!!!!"

Believe it or not, I had my 20 year Homecoming reunion! The tradition of riding the firetruck in the parade is still going strong!!! It was fun to see all of my great friends again!

SpRiNG!!!! (I think)

I love this time of year!!! And about every 2 or 3 days it actually feels like spring, then we have winter again, then spring, then winter, you know how it is, very frustrating.

But it was great weather for the opening day of BaSEbAll!!!! First we had the parade of teams, followed by the traditional crowd serenade of Take Me Out to the Ballgame. Then the Mayor pitched the first pitch and we watched an exciting game of major leaguers under the new baseball field lights!!! It was hot dogs and snow cones for everyone!!! It was a great day!

Davin is on the Carolina Mudcats! Coach Rounds, Grandpa Rounds, Doug and his Uncle Bubba are the coaches!!! We are kid pitch this year and Davin is one of our pitchers, and he does a awesome job!!!!

We of course would have loved a little warmer temps for Easter but we survived. I think lots of sugar makes kids unaware of surrounding conditions. They were in their shorts and flip-flops while I had on long sleeves and a jacket!

Easter egg hunt at the Ekins! This year Davin and Ashton were the big finders of the GoLDen EGGs! Adding a little cash to their candy loot!

The Easter Bunny found us!

Rylies basket was behind the couch in as secret closet!

Ashtons basket was hidden in Rylies window seat!

Davins was outside in the garage in top of the freezer!

And Skylars was behind the kitchen table!

We also had a fun SuRviVor EaSteR Party at my mom and dads. There were difficult stunts, gross things to eat, difficult voting offs and of course sought after immunity idols! All in all my team lost, and I consider anyone who actually ate that crap a winner!!!!

It has been difficult to remember that we are still in school! But Rylie completed her Solar System project! She had to come up with a creative way to display all the planets. She choose sugar cookies! It turned out very cute and it was super yummy! (Well only Davin actually ate the cookies off the poster after who knows how many kids touched them while it was on display, YUCK, I think he does stuff just to gross me out)!

Rylie's first Turkey!

Rylie drew a Southern Utah Turkey tag this year. Her and Doug went down and met up with Doug's brother Mark who lives down there. She has had quite the first year of hunting. Hunting turkeys has been her favorite so far. They called in some jakes the first day, but she whispered to Doug that she wanted a "big one"! So she passed them up. That night she had some hens just about walk right over her. But the next evening was when the real action happened. As you can see in the video, that turkey was ticked and a little protective of his women, he beat up Marks poor decoy. Doug and Mark were just as excited as Rylie, if not more!