Hayden my Preschool Boy

Hayden gets to do swimming and tumbling lessons when he goes to preschool. We got to go watch him "show off" his skills that he has learned throughout the year. He is amazing!

 

My Hayden is growing up so much, and I can't stand it!  I love this boy!

Soccer STARS!

Carter and Tanner played on separate soccer teams this year.  We could have moved Tanner up, but we wanted him to be the star of his team.  And he was amazing!  His highest scoring game was 12 goals.  He also scored 11 one game as well.  He had such a cute little team.  Carter is really amazing too!  He scored a bunch of goals, and improved so much throughout the season.  He loved playing goalie, but he was super talented at every position.  It was so fun to watch my boys!  TJ coached both of their teams, which kept us really busy!  The boys loved having him for a coach!

Next year they will get to be on the same team!  Can't wait!  :)

Easter

We took a few quick pictures just to show the world how handsome our boys were today!  I am so in love with all of their cute faces.  KJ wasn't feeling well, and so he isn't all dressed up like them.  He sure did look cute today though in his tie!  I am so thankful that I am their Mom.  I hate that they are growing up.  So here they are, the handsomest boys in the world.....

 Poor sick baby KJ.  :(

I am one lucky Mom.  

Happy Easter! 

Spring Break!

Spring break was awesome!  Our boys love staying in hotels, but what kid doesn't?  We had a blast, and the hotel was amazing!  It had a water park in the hotel, what more can I say?  :)

 

On the way home we stopped at Temple Square with our neighbors, the Clarks.  We had such a great time exploring!  

 6 boys minus KJ.  Yep, 7 boys!  Such a great time!  :)

 The best friends.  Hayden and Jack.

 All 7 boys.  Handsome!

I just love Suzie!  She is so fun to be with.  We are so lucky to have such great neighbors.  

Where should we go next?!?! :)

The Hunger Games

We have been waiting for this night for what felt like years!  Shar had the brilliant idea that we should dress up for the occasion.  It made it even more fun!  

The cast of characters:

Katniss & Peeta

Effie Trinket

District 1 citizen & Effie

Cato & Clove

Cato & Glimmer

Notice our district numbers on our arms.  :)

We had such a great time!  Dressing up made it even more fun! 

"Whot Shot Juanito Bandito" Video!

Hey everyone!  

If you didn't have a chance to see the show over the summer, or on tour, now's your chance! 

It will be online for only a short time!

So if you wanna laugh, and see some awesomeness, watch it now! 

Click HERE!

Basketball Boys

Carter and Tanner just finished with another season of basketball.  TJ was their coach again, and they just love it.  One day Tanner asked TJ if he could be his coach his whole life, for every sport he plays.  It was so cute.  They are spoiled rotten by their amazing Dad.  Tanner is still a year younger than all the other players in the league.  I'm so glad that we decided to let him play instead of waiting for the 1st grade.  He is a head taller than some of the kids out there.  Tanner is so kind to his teammates, and tries to include them all.  There was a boy with some growth issues on their team, and he never got a chance to have the ball.  Every chance Tanner had, he would pass the ball to him.  He is such a great example.  

Carter got back on the court after not playing a few games last season.  We ran into a little bully problem with a kid on a different team.  Parenting is hard.  I'm so proud of him for gaining his confidence back, and working so hard.  My boy loves to shoot!  That's pretty much all he does all day.  He reminds me of my childhood days when I would pass the volleyball on our roof, and then wait for it to come back down to me.  I would do that for hours.  If he keeps practicing like this, we are going to have one amazing basketball player on our hands!  

Here's the team: 

 Melanie, Addi, Ethan, Ben, TJ

Hannah, Carter, Jordan, Alex, Tanner

 Jordan lives two houses down from us.  These three boys are such great friends.  

 Handsome, handsome boys. 

"Mom!  Let's line up 13, 14, 15!" 

Carter has some great ideas.

Carter's Stitches

This past Friday, I got a very scary call from the school.  The secretary that called was a little bit frantic, and wasn't really telling me what had happened.  She just kept saying that I needed to get to Sunrise as fast as I could.  Finally when she said the word stitches, I started to breath again.  I expected something so much worse!  Not that it wasn't bad, because it was.  

Carter tripped over a chair in his class and hit his head on the corner of a desk.  He also hit his eye on the way down.  His teacher wasn't in the room, so I think that made him even more scared and upset.  There was an aid in the room that helped him though.  Mrs. Buttars felt so bad that she wasn't there.   Carter is really lucky to have such a great teacher.  

When I got there, they had Carter all bandaged up.  I took a quick peek at the injury, and there was no doubt in my mind that he needed stitches.  So off we went!  We went to Dr. Mckenna's office, where he fixed him up with 7 stitches!  Carter was so brave!  He was so nervous, and asked TJ if he could maybe not get stitches and do something else to fix it.  The shot was the only thing that hurt him though. 

It's so hard watching your baby be in pain.  I can't begin to imagine all those Mom's out there that have kids with really scary injuries, or illnesses.  What an eye opener little things like this are.  

So here are a few pics of Carter's before injury: 

And after he was all stitched up:

His cut was super deep.  You could see his skull, and it was really gross!  My first boy with stitches, and I'm sure it won't be my last!  :)