Lincoln Olympics 2013

Let the games begin...I love that the kid's school organize this event every year.  They start out by bringing in the flags around the world and place them around the track.

They compete with their classes at all the Olympics events.

Ashlynn and her friend Joslyn getting ready to run their little hearts out.

Ashlynn is in the far right lane and she is running the 100 meter dash.  She also ran in the 50 meter and placed first in her heat.  She was pretty excited to win a gold sticker for this event.

Ashlynn getting ready for the broad jump...

and she sticks the landing.  Wahoo!

Carter throwing the shot put ball.

Carter running the 100 meter dash.

He came in first..Yay!!

Carter throwing the disc...

Carter throwing the javelin...

This is Ashlynn practicing her cartwheels after all the events were finished.

 

Great form girl!

Carter running the 200 meter...Go Carter go!!
It was a beautiful day to enjoy this event!

Father's Day 2013

This is our amazing father is our household!  I am so grateful for all he does for our little family. He can always bring laughter in our house even in the most stressful situations.
 

It was time to replace our old grill that was barely working with this nifty one.

Matt picked it out and had it delivered just in time for Father's Day so we could enjoy a yummy meal from the new grill.

Happy Father's Day 2013!

Visitors from Idaho...

My Dad (Grandpa Rod, Corey and Debbie) came to Utah for a visit.  They were able to see one of Carter's Baseball games, attended a Bee's Baseball game that had a awesome firework show after the game.  And then we saw the movie Epic.  The movie theater had a neat water color show in their fountains.  We enjoyed their visit!

 

Baseball pics

Our team this year opted to do our own baseball pictures rather than the cities choice of photographer.  One of our player's grandpa is always taking professional photos of his grandson and we asked him to take some action shots of the other boys to make our own collages.  Thanks to the other coach (Dustin) for making the collages.  They turned out so good!  I love all these shots of Carter especially the one of him sliding into home plate.
 

Our regular season ended on Saturday, but we are preparing for a party this week to celebrate everyone's accomplishments this year.  We are also getting excited for the 4th of July All-Star game.

 

Somebody turned 36...

Matt's birthday was the last of our celebratory weeks.  We have had so many parties and gatherings for several occasions at our house the past 3 weeks, but who is complaining I love to have gatherings.  It is even sweeter when it is with family and friends that we enjoy to be with!

The kids and I headed down to Salt Lake to have lunch with Matt and tour his new office space.  We brought him some yummy coconut cupcakes and a balloon to make him feel special on his day.

Carter's team had a baseball game the night of Matt's birthday.  It was such a great game! We came out with a win and it was won in the last inning with an amazing hit by a player that normally is not a hitter. So it brought in a run into home plate and we won the game.  Carter played awesome like always.  I loved that in the last inning our bench was chanting cheers and were so excited to come up with the win.  After the game as the team was huddling, the team sang happy birthday to Coach Matt and put a candy lei on him.

Then, the Dalton's, the Montgomery's and Matt's parents came over to celebrate with Matt's favorite cake (German Chocolate) and ice cream. 

It was a special day for him to be able to celebrate with his parents.

Baptism Day

Ashlynn is officially a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of latter-Day Saints.  She had been looking forward to this day along with her birthday.  She is such a beautiful girl!
 

The invite..Matt did good job creating it.

The program of the baptism.

 She has had such great people in her life so far to show how to be a good example to others.  She was happy to see her school teacher (Ms Briggs), primary teacher from the last ward (Ms. Britney) and her new primary teacher( Ms. Ivy) and her piano teacher (Christa) was also there to support her.  We are also thankful for all the family and friends that came to support her as well.  I also loved that Ashlynn sang with her cousin Ann during the program.  It was a spiritual and beautiful moment.
I do have to add that the counselor from the primary (Amy Lloyd) did not have the right time of the baptism so she did not show and that left me to do the Primary Welcome for our cute little Ashlynn. Amy showed up 2 hours after the baptism and wondered why no one was there.  She then came over to our house to apologize for the mix up.  I was just glad to know she was okay and we did not have send out a search party for her. 

After the Baptism we had a ice cream buffet.  Ashlynn picked out all the toppings for celebration party.  We had hot fudge cake, apple crisp, hot caramel with all the other ice cream toppers.  It was hit!  It was a nice hot day to enjoy a cool treat!

 

Then for dinner that night Matt and I took Ashlynn out for dinner to Red Robin.  Carter went along with Grandma and Grandpa Peterson.  Ashlynn loved having us all to herself and her Oreo milk shake was delicious!

 

We are so proud of your choice to be baptized!

Ashlynn is EIGHT!!!

Ashlynn is EIGHT!! YAY!!  She has been looking forward to her birthday all year because it fell on a holiday this year (Memorial Day).  School was out and she was looking forward to her Carnival party.

 

 We started the day with our tradition of opening family presents first thing in the morning and headed out to breakfast to Ashlynn's choice (IHOP).  Then headed back home to set up for the party.

Ashlynn has been planning her carnival party for the past few months.  Matt made some pretty impressive games too.  Check out the Wheel of tickets, ball toss and dart board.  He made them so fun for the party with the bright colors and carnival fonts.

All the kids were given 10 tickets to start out with and then had to pay tickets to play the games, but then could win tickets back if they won the game.  At the end of their game playing they could pay tickets for prizes and food.  The snack food included slushies, hot dogs, popcorn and sodas.  The spin the wheel game cost 1 ticket to play but you could win up the 7 tickets back.  Some of the kids just kept on spinning the wheel to get more tickets.  I think all the games were a hit and everybody enjoyed it! (Thanks Tracy for taking these fun action pictures and assisting with the party!)

The kids loved getting crazy for the photo booth.  Thanks again Tracy for capturing these fun photos.  I will be sending these photos with her friends thank you cards.

The trick candles were not planned but ended up being very funny to watch all the kids laughing as Ashlynn was blowing on the cake lots of times and then all her friends started blowing on the cake. I forgot to get new candles so all I had was the trick ones.  Too Funny! 

 

I am sad that this fun party has come to an end.  It was fun planning it out and seeing it come all together on her birthday.  Our family is thankful for this sweet girl and thankful for all her great friends.  I hope that Ashlynn can keep her free-fun spirited personality.  She is very funny, loves to help people and make fun little gifts for others.  I am glad she a wonderful day!