For Dad

For Father's Day the kids and I gave BS this nifty tent.  It's big and tall.  The kid's slept in it for days until we took it down to go camping for real.  Love it!  An awesome tent for an awesome Dad.

Q Tumbles!

In May, we had the pleasure of watching Quincy perform at her tumbling recital!

I was completely giddy as I watched her cute curvy body do tricks that included splits, middle splits, back bends, arch ups, walking in a back bend, cartwheels, one handed cartwheels, round-offs, back walk-overs, and more.  She lights up when she performs and looks so happy when the spotlight is on her.  She wanted "fancy hair" but it needed to be pulled back.  She wanted shimmer lotion all over her body as well as lip gloss.  

One of my favorite things about the performance is watching her tongue stick out whenever she is trying really hard and concentrating.  And boy was she trying hard!  The video is really fun to watch because her tongue is sticking out almost the entire time!  

We are so proud of your efforts - good job Q!

BS was able to come from work and Grandma came and brought Bode.  Millie talked me into checking her out from school.  She is Quincy's #1 fan and adores her little sister to pieces.

St. George!

Our cousins Caitlyn, Ellie, and Cambree arrived in Utah from Minnesota the 2nd week of June.  A couple of days later we were all heading down to St. George for summer vacation!  We spent an entire week there and it still wasn't enough time.  We celebrated Caitlyn's birthday, Father's Day, visited Parkinson's at their new home {moved down in May},  saw "Hairspray," went to Las Vegas, lots of swimming and playing around, and more swimming!  Shad and BS flew down half-way through to join in the fun.  Here are a ton of pictures and I still didn't use them all.  Super fun trip!

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PS: Grandpa missed this trip because he was up in Yellowstone and Jackson Hole being an official Tour Guide for a group of Russians.  Real tour bus and everything!  Oh Grandpa.

Animal Crackers

Quincy's Preschool Graduation:

Quincy was a doll up on Mrs. Frampton's stage as she performed at her graduation!  She really got into the songs and did all of the actions.  I can't believe this is my our last preschool graduation - we've been to 8 of them!  The video is really fun to watch...and hilarious!  Congratulations Q!

Cub Camp!

Sambo and Wilbur were lucky to spend 2 whole days at Cub Camp with their buddies!  

The Scout camp was held the same time as YW Girl's Camp so for a couple of days we had only Quinny at home and all to ourselves.  It was really strange.

  The boys had a great time!  I love that they can go together as brothers and take care of each other.  Sam is a Webelo and Will is a Wolf.  They are so stinkin cute!

July 4th

The 4th was fantastic as usual.  The only downer was that there was a fire in Alpine on the mountain that forced evacuations of many including our friends, and could have been a threat to Suncrest if the winds quickly changed directions.  The news was reporting that we were "on Alert" which prompted many phone calls from concerned friends and family to check on us -- but really it wasn't as close as the news made it sound.  We appreciate everybody thinking of us.

Taken from kid's school, I wish I would have taken a pic from our deck

Here we are at the annual parade. The kids love throwing poppers and waiting for the super loud cannons!

Sambo & Rylee

Sweet Norah

Karlee & Millie

Very involved in throwing poppers

Sarah & Alex

Doug, Candice, Landon

Love this girl

Waiting for "Stadium of Fire" to start

Fireworks and smoke bombs

Sadie Lady

The famous Jets that fly above BYU Stadium to start the show

Will is pumped watching the Jets!

G-pa and G-ma with 15 grandkids!

Baseball

Will, BS, Sambo

I think this is the final post about baseball for 2012.  Whew!  Between City League, Super League, and All Star League - the boys were on 5 different teams!  We love watching the boys play baseball and see them progress as they learn and gain more experience.  We spent many hours in the hot sun, eating sunflower seeds and snow cones and cheering them on.  City League (Padres - on team together) went from April-June, Super League (Knights and Braves) went from April - June, All Star League (both Knights) went from June - July.  Indeed it took a huge chunk of our time but we went to the games (near and far) as a family and really had a good time.  It is always fun watching BS coach too.

This team is Will's Super League team, the Lone Peak Knights.  Coach Burton asked him to play on his team and we knew we couldn't turn down this opportunity.  He coached Will last Fall in football and he is a fantastic coach.  Besides being great at teaching fundamentals and giving a positive learning experience, he is also into looking good.  They got fancy uniforms, hats, dry fit shirt, and a hoodie in both black and maroon.  Will was stoked!
They had double-header games on Saturdays which was great to get them done in one day.  Sometimes 4 hours of baseball got a little long for the 8 year old boys, but they did great and never gave up!

Assistance Coach Sam and Quincy in her fan gear

The boys taking a quick pee break!

Quincy is a trooper, my little sidekick at all of the games.  She loved the snow cones and hot dogs.  It also meant lots of time playing on the playground at the games!

 

He hits the ball...

And off he goes!

Coach Gaston and Sam during break

Seth, Trevin and Sam. There were always friends and kids to play with at the games

This Pop Up Shade was a lifesaver!

On Saturdays we were always cruising from soccer to lacrosse to baseball.  We often had to divide and conquer!  On some days we had 4 games!  Here is BS on his new ride, the "Burgman", going home after a baseball game...

... And now taking girls home after a soccer game!

BS loves it so much - he drives it to work almost everyday and we save A TON on gas because then I can cruise around in the Turbo Diesel Jetta which gets killer gas mileage :)