Friendly vandalism

 

It's that time again! College football season!

With every football season there always has to be some kind of friendly rivalry. This time we woke up one morning to this horrible sight.

Yep. We were tagged with an Aggie A!

Since we knew who was responsible for this crime, we had to retaliate.

 

 

Ah! This is a much better sight!

I'll just end with this................

 

Natural

Bailey decided that she wanted to play soccer this year. We signed her up and waited to see what team she was going to play on. She has never played soccer before but really really wanted to try it out. I was a bit nervous for her to start playing at ten years old. I was afraid that she wasn't going to be able to "hang" with the other girls. To our surprise Bailey is a natural soccer player!! She scored four goals her very first game!  Wheels must run in the fam because Bay is super fast!

Bay's favorite position is playing forward. It's funny because this game is all new to Morgan and I. We have never played soccer and had no pointers to give her or had any idea what was going on in the field for the first month of soccer. All we knew was where the ball was supposed to go. In the goal. Lukily Bay picked it all up super fast.

 The girls got to come up with their own team name. First the girls voted on the green aliens, but after sitting on that name for a week they changed their name to the fireflies. Much better I say.

 Here is bay getting ready to play goalie.

 Lucky number 7
Our Saturdays have been full of all day sports. With Bay having games on Saturday mornings and Logan with double headers that follow, we spent our Saturdays out at the ball parks.
Now that the season is over for outdoor soccer, the coach has asked if we would like to play indoor soccer. If he can get a full team together our sporting days are far from over.

 

Bulldogs

Logan tried out for a comp baseball team a few months ago. (yeah I'm way behind on my blog)
This tryout was a lot different from his tryout for All Stars. All Star tryouts were a joke. Logan had about 3 min to show what he can do in the field. Not enought time! The tryout for the Bulldogs team was close to an hour and a half. And boy did Logan SHINE!! We left the tryout feeling pretty confident. A day later this is the e-mail we received:

 

On behalf of the Davis Bulldog's 8U team we would like to invite Logan to join our team. He had a great tryout and will be a valued asset to the team. Please let me know as soon as possible if Logan and you will accept the invitation.


Coach D
Go Bulldogs

Heck yes we will accept this invitation!! Look how happy these two are!

 

With any comp team comes a lot of practice. Logan typically has practice two-three times a week. Each practice is an hour and a half. Logan currently is playing center field and first base.

Logan has an incredible talent to track a baseball. Most 7 year olds can't even catch a fly ball let alone one that is hit out into the out field. Speed plays a HUGE role in being able to track a ball and this boy has been blessed with wheels! (sorry to brag)   

Aside from the on the field practice, the boys also have fun while secretly practicing. Here are the boys at Farmington pond skipping rocks. Helps with throwing :)

First game of fall ball. we played in Lehi. Let's just say this was a 8 hour day at the baseball field!

We have double headers on Saturdays. Each game is two hours long.  

Here is Logan's first time pitching. Did pretty good.

Being on the Bulldogs takes a lot of dedication from the boys and their parents. The boys will play all year long. Come spring we will play in St. George and possibly Mesquite.
Logan LOVES baseball so this dedication is something he wants. As he said, "baseball is my life"
He has such a passion for the game and it shows on the field. He will play a four hour double header and get in the car and ask to go practice at the park. Now that is dedication!!

Tooth fairy?

This was a big day for Carson!! He lost his first tooth!!

Carson was so happy and had lots of questions about the tooth fairy.

*Does she have wings?

*Is she small?

*Does she have a stick with a star on it? AKA a wand (silly kid)

*How will she carry the tooth?

*Is she nice?

And then when it was time for bed the terror set in. He was so scared of her coming in the night and taking his tooth. Eventually he got over being scared and made me laugh with this line of the night.

 Carson: Mom, should I wear pants to bed so the tooth fairy doesn't see my underwear? I would be really embarrassed if she saw me.

Love this kid!

 

 

 

First day of School 2012

 

I can't believe that all of my babies are in school!
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This was a big school year for Carson. He started kindergarten this year! He was super excited to be going to the same school as his brother and sister. Carson got the same teacher Logan had for kindergarten. Mrs. Grey.
Little sis started her first year of preschool. She goes to little steps preschool. Her "school" is actually across the street at one of my good friends house. She goes to school on Mondays and Wed from 9:30-11:00. This means I get an hour and a half to my self on those days! I know it doesn't seem like a lot of time alone but to me it is!

 

 

All about me:

Bailey
Age:10
School: Creekside
Grade: 5
 Teacher: Mrs. Hepner

 

Logan

Age:7

School: Creekside

Grade: 2

Teacher: Mrs. Beautler

 

 

 

Carson

Age:5

School: Creekside

Grade: K

Teacher: Mrs.Grey

 

Avery

Age:3

School: Little Steps Preschool

Grade: Preschool

Teacher: Mrs. Michelle

 

 

Happy birthday papa!

 Happy birthday papa! Big 31! You have finally caught up to me ;0)

 

BBQ cupcakes. Silly but cute!

 

Fragile

One of the most scariest moments in my life happened on a nice family hike up Ogden Canyon.
After hiking about an hour or so we finally made it to the waterfall! We were so happy to see what we hiked so hard for.  I decided to take some pictures and saw a beautiful picture opportunity for Morgan and I. I saw a ledge right under the waterfall. I told Bay to take a picture of us once we climbed up to the ledge. As we approached the mountainside I realized that it was too steep and really wet and slippery. I didn't feel comfortable having Morgan or myself climb such a dangerous slope. I backed away and I tried to talk Morgan into turning around. I kept telling him it wasn't a good idea. It wasn't until Morgan was about 18 feet up that he too realized it wasn't such a good idea after all. As he begun to turn around to come back down, he slipped on the wet rocks and fell 18 feet to the ground. It happened so fast and all I could to was run over to him and hold him. I was so scared I was going to see bones sticking out or a head injury of some sort. As I'm holding Morgan he kept saying, "I think I broke my legs" I was so scared. The kids were crying. They had just witnessed their dad falling off of a waterfall and landing on a pile of rocks. As I let go of Morgan to check his body it was a miracle that he had no serious injuries like I had thought. He was bruised and scrapped. His shin was bleeding pretty good but he had no head wounds! I was so surprised! The one thing we did know was that his ankles were not working. We also knew we still had to walk back down the mountain some how. Luckily, Carson had carried a perfect walking stick the entire way up to the waterfall. Morgan was able to use the stick and walked, with one broken ankle and with torn tendons in the other. It took us a long time to make it back down to the car. With every step Morgan's ankles would get bigger and bigger. There wasn't time to sit and rest because the adrenaline was wearing off and the pain was getting unbearable. By the time we got to the car it had taken us close to two hours to get down the mountain. Once we got to the car I raced home to drop the kids off at the neighbors and hurried to the hospital.
The doctors couldn't believe that Morgan had survived such a long fall. They told us of a man who had died doing the same thing at the same waterfall a few years back.
Morgan is extremely lucky to have been able to "walk" away from such a horrific fall. I know that he was being watched over by our guardian angels. I know how lucky we are that Morgan is alive. This accident has really opened up my eyes as to how fragile life really is. In a second I could have lost the love of my life. My children could have lost their father. I'm so grateful things didn't end up that way.

Morgan had to be off of work for a month. He couldn't use crutches due to having two bad ankles. I had to bathe him and basically do everything for him for some time. It was OK because he is with us and I'm eternally grateful to my Heavenly Father for letting me keep him. 

 

About a week before our Morgan broke his ankle, Morgan H had broken her leg. Here is a picture of the two crippled Morgan's :) Must be the name.

 

 

Morgan learned how to get around. I teased him so bad this day because his cart battery died in the middle of an isle in Sams Club! I had to pull him as I pushed my shopping cart to the checkout stand. Yes he was one of those people! Ha ha!