Latest family picture

Here is our family.

Starting at the left on the top row: baby L, A, Sunny the dog, R (in the middle with the big head) then T (with freckles).  Bottom row: Mom (big), Dad (little)

A did that all by herself and told me about everyone.  We are holding hands.  And that's pretty much us.

More Rugby

On Saturday the 21st Larry, his Dad, the boys and I went to the college National Championship for BYU's rugby team against U Cal.  When we first got there the Highland vs Utah United championship game had just ended.

Since it's very hard to read the scoreboard, that's Highland 38, United 24.  Nice win Highland!

Now for the BYU game. 
Here's the National Anthem.

Again, you can see I have a professional camera (NOT).  But really that's right before the song.

Here's R during the game.

Was a really good game.  It was fun to watch #1 Mikey Su'a move the whole pile of guys all by himself.  Every time he did, the crowd went wild.

But in the end, the Cougars just couldn't pull off a win.  The score was 21-14 since the scoreboard picture again isn't the best.  I tried, really.

After, the boys of course had to go look for their friend.  Yes, they found him!

Go Cougs!!!

1st grade Musical Journey

Last week T had his end of the year Musical Journey at school.  It was a fun program as they sang a song about every month of the year.  Example : January - I'm a Little Snowman, February - I'm bringing home a Valentine, March - Have you seen a Leprechaun?  You get the idea.  Very cute!  They all did a great job.

T has had a great year but is definitely ready for summer.  He is the one with his hands on his head (in a green shirt) in the picture, looking ready to be done with the whole thing.

Larry H. Miller

Ryan had to read a biography for his latest book report and he chose to read Driven, about Larry H. Miller.  They had to dress up like the person they read about and talk for 3-5 minutes "about themselves."  So R dressed up like Larry H. Miller today and appropriately wore his Bee's hat since the Salt Lake Bees were one of the many things in Utah that he owned.

Here is R with his hat off.....



Yes, we shaved the top of his head so he would look like Miller.  Can't you see the resemblance?  And he actually wore it like that to school for his presentation.  Everyone loved it, he had a good time and did well on his report.  He even went to baseball practice like that and said everyone had a good laugh.  But he decided he wouldn't leave it like that, so this is what Larry (our Larry, as in R. Larry at our house) did tonight.

Ry is thrilled, says it's the best haircut he's ever had.  You guessed right if you guessed that is his baseball number.  I must admit, it does look pretty cool.  So this is the haircut for tomorrow, and probably the rest of the summer.

BYU vs Navy Rugby

Last Saturday we headed down to Provo for the BYU rugby game.  I had never seen a rugby game in person, just little bits on TV and mostly in the movie Forever Strong that the boys like to watch.  Anyway, I'm sold on rugby.  I will go to a rugby game over football any day.  There weren't constant time outs, there was a short half time (don't remember if that's what they really called it) and the game just continued on even when someone was injured.  It was over in less than two hours, some of the team came over and gave the kids a high five and we were done!  And they WON.  That's my kinda game.

Here are some pictures from the game.

After the game we walked around campus and to the bookstore since it was such a beautiful day!

And this is who we met at the bookstore. 

He was so nice to let us take a picture with him.

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White Sox vs. Giants

T had his first game today.  Yesterdays game was rained/snowed out so today was the first and they already have a make up to do.  His team is the White Sox.  It was so fun to watch these little guys play!  It wasn't quite as competitive because we just want these boys to play well.  T is #3.  He played left field, catcher and 1st base.  They won by one run.  T hit in the winning run!  Score 5-4

Here are some pics.



On deck



Score!!!

Playing Catcher

It was very cold and snowed the night before.  We woke up to about half an inch but it was gone by afternoon.  The sun would peek out every once in a while but it was still cold.  I had on 2 shirts, a sweatshirt and a jacket, hat and gloves.  A had on her winter jacket also but when R took her to the snack shack this is what she came back with....

A snow cone.  Of course.

Wheeler Farm

The last day of Spring Break we decided to take a trip to Wheeler Farm with some friends.  We had lots of fun and some good laughs even though it was raining for a lot of the time.

I decided that my kids are definitely from the city!  The farm was so much fun for them and they all loved the animals, even L.  We brought some bread to feed the ducks and geese and went to the pond first. It only took a minute for ALL the ducks and geese to realize we had food.  They were so aggressive, especially the geese.  Toby took off and hid behind a building because he has watched to many Funniest Home Videos shows where the geese chase the little kids.  We didn't see him until we were all done with the bread.  Ry fed them for a little while but then went to find T.  A tried to help feed them but they kept stepping on her feet trying to take the bread from her and she didn't like that.  L watched in amazement from the stroller because they came right up to her and the geese were SO loud.

Here is A trying to hide under the stroller.

Here are some other cute shots of the kids.

We found this little baby goat right before we left.  He was so cute.  Toby kept saying he wanted to take him home.

We had many "animal science lessons" that day.  All we really know in our house are dogs.  Here was my favorite comment from T.  - On the way home we were talking about all the animals and A says, "I saw the cow pee." (really they saw every animal pee at some point and always commented. WHY do kids do that?)  So T says, "How do cows pee anyway? Is it through their milking things?"  I started laughing and told him no, and started to explain but then the conversation moved on to other things.  I'm pretty sure I have taught him what those "milking things" are but once again, we are city folk.  We definitely need to go back to the farm and learn more.