Fun Game

So, here's how the game works:1.As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Quite a week!

Monday night my SIL called to see if I wanted to can peaches. How could I refuse following the prophet?! Besides, all me sisters all over the states were putting me to shame. They were doing peaches, pears, tomatoes, etc. I was becoming a slacker!!



I finally got the two windows that have been broken for almost a year and a half fixed on Wed!! It was so wierd looking through them without any obstruction. There were Hobo spiders inside one and the repair guys were really freaked out. Guess I need to spray around the house!!



I want to say a huge CONGRATULATIONS to Rylan!! He got his first Progress Report of Junior High and got a 3.8 GPA. We're very proud of him. He seems to really enjoy Jr High. He loves going to all the games, regardless of the sport or if it's the girls or boys team. He also went to his first Stomp. I guess that's a dance. I didn't really realize what I was saying yes to until I was visiting teaching later that day and was talking to a mom of a high schooler. In my mind I kind of thought we'd wait until he could go to Stake dances before going to school dances (which would be age 14) but I guess it's too late for that now!! It is right after school and I guess is more of a pump it up hang out thing. His response on it, "You had to leave your shoes in your locker and it really smelled in there!" The music was "ok" I guess.



I put up a picture of him pitching this weekend with Richard umpiring in the background. Richard switches umpiring outfield and behind the plate for each game. Doesn't Richard look great?! Hard to believe he's ALMOST 40!!! (gotta rub that in when I can)



Richard came and got me from Relief Society today and said, "You've gotta come see this". Apparantly there was no one that could play piano in Priesthood so Rylan volunteered! Mind you, he would only let me teach him for the winter last year and then lost interest in "lessons". He does like to work on songs, just hate lessons.



In other news .... Elly now has mastered rattling off numbers and yelling "HIKE" and also throws her hands in the air and says "Touchdown." Bradly is doing awesome at reading!! Blown away by his reading level. Addi is getting some control over her emotions and is starting to show improvements on deep breaths. She is our awesome artist and is seeing the downfalls of being in the same class as her twin. Morgan is enjoying a program afterschool that works on performaces. They are doing a dance to "Footloose" and she tried out for a solo singing part. Should find out this week if she gets it or not. Volleyball starts Oct 7th for her. Enough for now!

Gotta get in the habit!

I have got to get in the habit of grabbing my camera with me!! I have missed so many cute candid moments this week! We had a new member of the family for a few days until I took it to the Humane Society. It was actually a very sweet kitten. It was all black (they named her Shadow) and allowed Addi to tote it everywhere OUTSIDE with her. It was taken on the trampoline and down the slide and never scratched her once. We talked about getting her spayed and feeding it but making it an outside only cat. I had hoped it could be a win/win situation. It stayed at our house for 3 days and followed the kids everywhere, but it kept going in the neighbor's garage and they were complaining. She was such a good cat that I thought she'd be better off with a family that could let her in during winter time. I didn't want to be an irresponsible animal owner and having an animal at all the neighbors. So I took it to the Humane Society. Addi went with me and did very well.

Baseball was fun this weekend. Richard umpired 5 games and Rylan had the last two games of the day. He pitched both games. They played two really tough teams. The first game they lost to the team that won first place in the spring season. They lost pretty bad. That team could really hit the ball!! (Rylan wanted me to add that part by the way! And now he's mad that I just added that!) The next game was against our rivals. We came SOOOO close!! We lost by 2 runs. Oh well. They had Rylan pitch the last two innings so they could close it up. I thought that was quite a compliment to him.

I posted pics of Richard and Elly. As you can see, she got into some of Morgan's lipstick (are you kidding me?! I woud NEVER wear that color LOL!) The next is of Richard playing on the ward's softball team. I guess there are other advantages to living in Utah!! They made it all the way through regionals. I guess we're a baseball family.

Hopefully I'll remember my camera more this week!

Rylan

No, I'm not missing a kid ... as tempting as it may have been, we didn't get rid of Rylan. He had a game that day. We're hoping our personal photographer (my brother-in-law ... doesn't he do an awesome job!!!) will get him another time on our way through Idaho.

Still Figuring this out

I'm hoping to add some more pictures on here. Thanks to my friend Sherrie, I finally learned how to put on music and change the backgrounds. I can see how this can be a bit addictive. We had a looooong weekend of baseball! Rylan had a game at 9:30 in SLC. We have to be there an hour early and then leave early enough to get there. Elayna was up from midnight until 3:00 a.m. and then I got up at 6 a.m. to get ready for the day. Richard umpired 5 games that day so we did baseball until 8:30 that night. Richard umpired Rylan's 2 games. They beat a team from South Jordan that was an all-star team, so that was exciting. I want to put on pics that my brother in law took of the kids in Twin Falls and their first day of school. I forgot the camera for the game ... I wanted to get a pic of Richard umpiring Rylan.

Am I really on?!!

I hope this works out!! This is just a test run. I have so many friends doing this, so I guess it's about time I get with the times and put one together. Hopefully I can stay on top of it!!