A Busy Last Day of School

I have so much to catch up on so I think I'll start with the most recent and go backwards.

The last day of school was sooo hectic. I volunteered to run a game at the Kindergarten Field Day. It was cloudy and windy so the water games weren't as inviting to me, but the kids still wanted to get wet. After the games a kid dumped a bucket of water on Parks (without his knowledge or consent). And as I was telling them not to do that a girl was holding the hose on Parks' back! He was drenched and then out came the popsicles. He ate half and didn't want anymore because he was freezing. :) But we had to wait outside for the 1st grade teachers to come tell the kids which class they were going into next year.

I caught Hud and some of his friends heading to lunch. I liked the grades wearing colors. I could pick out the kids easily. 3rd was black obviously from this picture, so all the boys on the RedHawks team wore their black jerseys.
Parks playing pop the balloon game. He's the only boy left. Parks ended up winning because the girl grabbed his balloon with her hands to pop it. ha ha She got tired of chasing him around.
Jonah playing the sponge and bucket game (my station). Which was a dangerous one with a running hose and about 60 Kindergartners! I should have wore flip flops...my socks and tennies were soaked. Logan was my water boy and helped me keep the buckets full.

Skrap and his cute friends Cade and Ty who won't be in his class next year :( but cute Milan is.
Parks is excited, telling his friend about getting Mrs. Goede.

From school I went to get my hair done and Hudson walked home with Kobe for a swim party. Then at 3pm Larry took him to a birthday party. Then at 5pm I picked him up to go to baseball practice at the Rusts in South Ogden and we had a BBQ with the adults afterwards. They have an awesome house and yard!

Hudson hitting in the cage.

Logan making himself at home and eating a baseball cupcake.

Hud and Scott playing a friendly game of pool.

Gunner playing the drums.

Larry and Mike against Aaron and River on foosball.

Larry handing out trophies to the boys for the RedHawks winning the Tuesday night league in Brigham city.

Scott and Hudson duking it out!

Computer-less

Our computer crashed and Larry hasn't had time to fix it between coaching Hudson's baseball team and working 2 jobs, so he finally set up Tierra's laptop for me, but I don't have access to my pictures!

You'd think with not blogging and facebooking I'd have all this extra time but not sooo and I've not accomplished anything else either! Time flies too fast now-a-days. And I'm starting to sound like my mom by saying that.

I'm much looking forward to a relaxing summer after the hectic but oh-so-fun one last year with my sister and her husband and their 5 kids living with us for 6 weeks. And trek!

This year we are not doing Summer Fun or the Bowling League. But I'm getting my boys a Classic Waterslide pass with their friends and hopefully they will learn to skate this summer! I don't know how my kids never learned...we just don't go skating I guess. All they want to do is play on all the other toys there.

Tierra has a Lagoon season passport and the end of July the boys will be taking swimming lessons which I haven't done since Tierra was 9 and Hud was 2.

I hope to just spend quality time with my kids and have structure at the same time as having fun and learning over the summer.

Spring fever

Mother Nature keeps tricking us by sending warm weather and then a cold front full of rain. I should have taken advantage of the nice days and fixed up my front yard to be ready for the summer...but instead I think I'll have plenty of warm days and then it rains. So I have procrastinated and my yard looks like crap once again. We are just not a green thumb family. Unlike Nolan. I'll get to it eventually and try to fix up the very front of my house with the dead shrubs and sparse bark coverage. I can't however promise anything with the 3 feet of extra yard (dirt) that the construction crews dumped next to our new sidewalk. I just hate spending money on grass, flowers, weed killer etc. While sitting a few neighbor friends kids, I thought it would keep them entertained to help me outside. Logan, Emily, Allie, Spencer and Parks working to help me clean up under our big Pine tree. They were great helpers.

After Hudson's 3rd grade program the evening turned out so nice we didn't want to go inside...so we played a little family baseball game.

Tierra trying to hit targets with Parks' new airgun he got for his birthday.

And "momma jo" out on Parks' wiggle car we got him for his birthday. It's great fun cause it holds up to 250lbs...which means it's not just for the little kids! My aunt bought two for her grandkids for when they come and I've always wanted one but couldn't find them for a long time!

WARNING: Target sells them at $59! They think their products are made of gold I guess.

I finally found this one for $29 at Backyard Inc. (and the colors are cooler than the one at Target and Target does NOT price match. Just one more example of what a rip off Target is. So I could have bought 2 for the price of 1 and had races with them. Maybe I will, down the road.

I can't wait to draw a road with chalk for my boys to drive all their bikes, bigwheels and kids cars on it, like I did with my cousins when I was little!

Parks' Birthday Celebration

April 17th Cupcakes for his birthday party. And wearing a necklace his Kindergarten class made for him.
We had his birthday at the Rec Center which was perfect to let a bunch of wild indians play ball and run crazy!

We played some relay races...this one is passing the ball over their heads and between their legs.


Then they had to push balls with their heads.

They loved it and kept going and going and going.....

Hudson and his friend Kobe helped out.

Lining up for Dodge ball, Parks favorite game.
Milan, Matthew, Ty, JD, Cade H., Seth

Against Corbet, Ty, Will, Jonah, Parks and Cade M.
On your mark, get set, GO!
The ones that were out were yelling at the other players to make sure they knew when they were hit and were out or were yelling for their teammates to catch the ball so they could come back in!

Eating cupcakes and opening presents.

Spring Break

I received some more pictures that Grandma Diane had taken so I wanted to include them...