Strike three! Yer out!

Karter's traveling team participated in a tournament in Spanish Fork over the Labor Day weekend. They lost 3 of their 4 games, but they actually played very well. They were up against some really good teams from Salt Lake and Lehi.

They boys had a great time though. Karter, Ally and I stayed in a hotel room with Kara Campbell and four of her kids so that was fun. We got an "executive size" room in Provo and stayed two nights. The Saturday games weren't until 6 and 8 pm, so Karter, Ally and I went shopping and bought some way cute clothes for Ally at Justice (Just for Girls), and Old Navy. She loves to shop and was mad at Karter for complaining that we were taking too long. LOL

But, since we chose to stay the extra night on Saturday, we let the kids swim on Sunday morning before we went home and Karter thought that was alright. He even woke up at 7 to hit the pool.

Here he is playing ball. I was keeping score so these are some of the only pictures I snapped of him.

On Deck....


Watching his coach for the signal....


About to smack a double....


Hey Uncle Rico! He would've worn that thing to play the game in if I'd let him.




"I bet I can throw this football over that mountain!" (you HAVE seen Napolean Dynamite, right?)

Croc Haters UNITE!

41% of the respondents in my Crocs: Love em' or Hate Em' poll HATE Crocs and think they're ugly.

I concur! UGLY!!

Teddy Update

Teddy went through a few tests at Primary Children's Hospital this week and was a little trooper throughout the whole ordeal. The doctors will convene and go over all her blood tests, urinalysis, scans and ultrasound and get back to Grizz and Cindy by Friday, but they're pretty sure they're dealing with Neuroblastoma. She may have to undergo a bone marrow aspiration and possibly a biopsy, but Cindy said they may not have to biopsy.

Neuroblastoma is the most common form of childhood cancer but, most children under the age of 12 months who are diagnosed with it are cured. If Teddy's tumor hasn't spread they may just take a 'wait and see' approach. That is pretty much all Grizz and Cindy have found out so far. More info will be coming Friday.

Your prayers and positive thoughts mean so much to our family at this time, you'll never know how grateful we all are. Especially Grizz and Cindy. And you know, they're handling it all very well. I know good priesthood blessings and prayers are all a factor in this. Don't get me wrong, we're all scared to death and there are still tears, but Cindy and Grizz are facing this bravely and are hoping for the best for their beautiful daughter.

At any rate, keep them all in your prayers, please.

Thru the years....

Past first days of school....

Here's my sassy lil' girl on her first day of Head Start when she was 4.





And Kai waving bye to her as she goes....


Big 3rd Grader!


Kindergarten! Awwww!




Ally's first day of Kindergarten, but Karter's 2nd week of school. Kindergarten started a week later than the rest of the school.


1st day of 1st Grade


1st Day of 4th Grade


And Kenyon stayed home to drink pop from mom's big ol' mug...


Or was it to play with Karter's football equipment?


Or all of Ally's stuff?


When the kids got home they played with the camera....


Definitely funner to be one of the little boys who stays home, huh? lol

1st Day of School

Yay! School's in!



Ok, so I'm not really happy that I have to wake up early every day, but the kids are excited to be back in school. Karter loves school and couldn't wait to get there and Ally was very excited to meet her new teacher. They split her 2nd grade class last week so she has a different teacher now and she heard really good things about her so she was excited to meet her. Also, she found out that Marleigh, Jaicee, Brindy, and Shyanne were in her class so she was even more excited to get to school. Ally is friends with everyone in her grade though so it really wouldn't have mattered whose class she was in. The girl makes friends everywhere she goes. She loves when new kids show up too. She is like her mother.





And here's what the little boys are up to while the big kids are at school.

Kai is cleaning up after the weekend wind storms.


And Kenyon just barely got out of bed.

Last Day of Summer

We got in a camping trip this summer...finally! We always go camping in the fall in the Book Cliffs, but we do like to spend time in the mountains as well.

Karter brought Kyler too...we call him 'the other brother'.






Kenyon was helping Daddy and Karter back the truck up to the camper.


I love where we live. Just 15 minutes from town and 15 minutes from THIS:

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But I'll post just one excerpt here:

"I’ve also been accused of speaking a whole different language when I begin talking about the activities in a rural town. My vocabulary particularly baffles one of my friends in Florida. For example, one evening I was describing a fist fight that happened in my yard between two women during our weekly water turn. My Florida friend had no clue what I was talking about."

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