Mets Baseball

Carter just ended his regular season of machine pitch baseball.  He was nominated to try out for the All-Star team that plays a game on the 4th of July.  We will find out soon if he made the team.  It is so fun to watch him play because he plays with so much heart.  He tries to do the best he can and he is one of the most consistent players I have seen at his age.  He just loves this sport!  We are so proud of him and glad he enjoys it.  Maybe he got some of his baseball skill genes from his Uncle Corey. 


We ended the season by having a BBQ at one of the players backyards to roast hot dogs over their fire pit.  The boys loved it and so did the two girls (Ashlynn and Isaac's sister).  We had a fun season and the boys felt good because they won their last game 15 to 5.  Every player got a hit in the last game.  It was such a great season!! 

 

Matt was their coach with the help of his friend Brad and another player's older brother (Bryce).  All the boys including the coaches had a great time.  I was impressed that Matt took the time to print up a certificate for each boy that resembled their contribution to the team.  There were also given a bag of sunflower seeds and new baseballs to get autographs of the team! 

The big 35...

Matt had his Birthday on June 3rd and we celebrated with his favorite dinner-his dad's sweet chili and yummy banana boats on the grill.  We had fun stuffing our bananas with all stuff that is not good for you - choc chips, almond joy candies, marshmallows and can't forget the sprinkles.  We then all took a turn trying out his new Gravity Inversion System that is suppose to relieve stress off your back and spine.  Happy Birthday!! We had fun celebrating even though you had to teach a lesson in Elder's Quorum at church.

Another School Year down...

The kids were on the Track this year that gets out with the rest of the traditional schools.  So, we have more time off from school for the summer.  I still can't believe that another school year has passed by.  Where does the time go...


After school was out for the year we celebrated with snow cones with friends.  Ashlynn got the snow cone maker for her birthday and it makes the yummiest snow cones. 

They were very delicious and refreshing to celebrate the start of summer break!

Field Day

Field day is such a fun way to end the school year!  I had the opportunity to take Carter's class around to all of the stations because his teacher needed time to get all the report cards completed.  It was a beautiful sunny day to just have fun with their school friends. 


I was able to snap a few pictures of Ashlynn having fun too while tending to Carter's class.  When I was looking for her I could see her waving and trying to get my attention.  I love that she makes notice of me while helping at school. Carter on the other hand doesn't want me around too long because it just isn't cool to have your mom at school.  But, he did mention to me that some of his classmates said that I was "nice."  Ah... what sweet kids.

 

Birthday BBQ Bash

These lucky birthday people have their birthday's with in a week of one another. Sam's on 5/18, Ashlynn's 5/27, Matt's 6/3 and Jessica 6/5.  So, this year we thought it would be fun to get together and have a our favorite BBQ food (kabobs) and have cupcakes that were chosen by each birthday person to share.  We also had our celebration on Memorial Day, so it was perfect to start the summer and to celebrate these wonderful people in our family.

Ashlynn is 7

Ashlynn is 7...Yahoo!!  She had her friend birthday party on Saturday and it was themed a "Backwards" Party.  All the party guests wore their clothes backwards, the party decorations were hung upside down or backwards, food was set up funny and our sodas were upside down.  We even had a backwards agenda:  handed out take home gifts first, had cake, opened gifts from friends, had upside down pizza, played games and lastly the kids played on the swing set outside.  So, if you look at the agenda we did it backwards from a normal party.  The girls thought it was so fun!
 
There was some creative backward guests like: braided hair and pony tails backswards, jeans and shirts backwards too.  It was so silly to see.

Ashlynn was so happy to finally open all her gifts.  She has been staring at her mailed gifts from her grandparents for last few days before her birthday.  She loves all her gifts!  She was also very excited to get a "Slushy Magic" from Carter.  She has been wanting one forever.  Ashlynn also enjoyed her phone call from her Grandpa Tom.  She was giggling when she got off the phone. 

Ashlynn is so lucky her friend Brooke got to sleep over and it was so fun.  Carter, Ashlynn and Brooke slept in the living room after watching a movie and having popcorn.  Ashlynn fell asleep early and Brooke and Carter stayed up late talking about funny things.  We loved having Brooke over!

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl!! 

We love having you part of our family and making this life on earth so fun with your light hearted attitude.  You make us smile everyday!

A Red Table...

Who would of thought that dark red could actually cut it as a really neat color for a table.  Well, this was by last resort to save our 12 year old table.  Our poor table is the centerpiece of our home, and gets lots of use everyday from eating, homework, craft projects, parties, visitors and meetings held at our house, etc. We had sanded and re stained it two years ago and it was looking well used again so, we had to do something.  So, Matt stripped the old stain and clear coats off the table and resanded the table and accidentally sanded to the cork under the wood top.  I was so sad because that was the end of the table...there was nothing we could do but paint it or buy a new one, which I was all for.  Matt had mentioned that we should paint it the same color as our back splash in our kitchen.  I said "why not" it was worth a try.  Well, after tears of frustration over 4 days and 5 coats of paint and 3 coats of high gloss polyurethane here it is....it turned out looking very sleek and nice in our kitchen.  Our hard work paid off!! I am feeling much better and now we are glad to have our table back after a week of nothing but a empty space in our kitchen.   
 

 

We only painted the top and left the orginal wood color as the base.

This photo was taken after we refinished 2 years ago.