Dirty Little Player - SCORES!!!

Ok-so some of you know what an animal Bailia is on the soccer field-for those of you who don't let me give you an idea of how she is-she wants to throw the ball in from the sidelines and run in to kick it at the same time, and she does! It is a hoot to watch her, and you can't help but cheer her on and laugh. We had to coach her at the last game to stop pushing her own teammates out of the way to get to the ball; I mean we had to draw the line somewhere, right? Then as I looked through the pictures I took of the game yesterday I noticed THAT DIRTY LITTLE PLAYER was caught on film-the shot was taken accidentally-as you can tell the heads are cut off (maybe to secure the identity of the dirty player? hmmm) but as you can see she pushes any and everyone out of her way to get to that ball! But the good news is SHE SCORED her FIRST GOAL!! She said that her coach said she scored two but we only witnessed one (if you have ever been to a young soccer game you know it looks like a swarm of bees-so visibility is low) but we KNOW she scored at least one! GO HAWKS!!!

Reflections Winner!!

My Cute little firecracker Bailia won two awards for reflections this year! She won 1st place in Arts and 2nd place in Literature out of all of the kindergarten kids ! Mrs Mathews actually did it as a project in class one day (which I was so thankful for because the reflections were during the time Koda had pneumonia so I wasn't up to the task this year!) Good job Sissy!

First BaseBall Game! 3-2008

Ok so we have actually had three games now (I am getting behind because there are SO many things going on right now! I have two Baseball games and one practice two soccer games and two practices and gymnastics EVERY week!) But here are pictures from the first game! Jaden was so nervous but had a great time! I LOVE going to watch the kids play-they get so excited about playing-even if they don't win. GO ROCKIES!

Milne Easter Party!!! 3-22-2008

The girls (Becca, Kimberly Keely, Me, Bailia, and Jada Mae)
Koda having fun playing a little ball!
Beautiful girls Keely and Bailia
Sweets and I
The Whole Family!!

We went out into the Sand Dunes that are pretty much our backyard up in Green Springs. It was a beautiful day with perfect weather and great friends! Becca and her family, Travis and his family, Gary, Kimberly and her family, and our family met at our house and drove our 4-wheelers, jeep, and trucks out to the dunes for lunch, an egg hunt, good conversation, and a spontaneous baseball game (using a pipe Gary found-so we pretty much had a game of stickball) that turned out to be the hit of the party! The kids loved taking the 4-wheelers out and about-and it made me realize that I am getting old-thinking back to when I was their age my friends and I used to take the moped, 4-wheeler, whatever it may be out and about so we wouldn't have to hang out with the little ones and the old parents! The kids found way too many eggs, but loved every second of the egg hunt. They played in the sand until we had to drag them away. Mark your calendars family because we are defiantly doing the same thing next year! We had a blast! Happy Easter Everyone!!

Happy 25th Birthday Jed!!!

The Birthday BOY!
Koda and Jed
Me and my LOVE!
Tiny, Jed, Bubs, A, and Gary
Nikki and Jed

For Jed's 25th B-day Nikki decided to have a Surprise Birthday Party! We all met at Gary's house and had a great time! With plenty of Pizza Factory Pizza and Costco cake-how can you go wrong! As you can see Jed also got a NICE present from Nikki (notice he is the only one not squinting in the boys’ picture-good choice of glasses Nikki!!) After the party Jed, A, Tiny, and Bubs went out for a game of golf. I don't think Jed could have asked for a better day! Happy Birthday Jedi-O!! Thanks for the fun party Nikki!

Easter Party!

Poor Koda!!

Cooper has been sick for a LONG time now-(going on two months!) and he would start getting better then he would get worse than before. Back in mid-February he was diagnosed with pneumonia and a sinus infection-after 10 days of antibiotic we went back to the doctor to make sure it had cleared up and they said he sounded pretty good. 4 days after that not being able to break his 104* temperature- we were in the ER getting him pumped full of fluids and antibiotic once again! They did blood work and took X-rays of his lungs and found out he still had pneumonia and something similar to bronchitis as well! It has been a scary tiring week and I am thankful he has started to feel better and hope this time he stays better!!! This is a picture of Koda shortly after we returned from the hospital-he has done a lot of sleeping this past week and is now bored out of his mind and just wants to PLAY!

The First Soccer Game! 3-1-2008

The kids were so excited for their first soccer game of the season-Jaden's game was first and he did really well-this is his first year playing soccer and he loves it! They won 2-0-GO TEAM! Bailia's game was next and little did we know she is an animal! Although they lost (big time) 0-6 she single handedly took the ball to the net 4 or 5 times! We had so much fun watching both kids play! Our days are getting busier and busier now-Baseball has already begun (even though I was told it wouldn't start until mid April) So we have Soccer 2 days a week for Jaden and Bailia, Jaden has Baseball 2 days a week and they all three have gymnastics once a week. But now Jaden has been asked to compete with the gymnastics team-which is AWESOME-but adds a few more days to his week that is already hectic!!

The Missing TOOTH!!! 2-27-2008

It finally happened-Bailia lost her first tooth! She has been waiting for this day since Jaden lost his first tooth 2 1/2 years ago! She was POSITIVE when she turned 5 a tooth would instantly fall out - then she turned 6 and still no luck-now at the ripe old age of 6 1/2 she finally lost one! I don't think you could get her to stop smiling that night-calling EVERYONE she could possibly think of-she even wanted to call her teacher Mrs. Mathews but I told her it was a little late to be calling-too cute!! Congratulations baby girl!

Bye Bye Summer!!

I rented the St George
City pool for a family party this past summer for a SUMMER FAREWELL Party-it was a blast-we had the whole pool to ourselves for two hours!! I especially love the picture of my dad with his feet up in the air coming out of the hydro-tube and his facial expression after words! TOO CUTE!! I was having too much fun going down the hydro-tube so not many pictures were taken but here are a few-the first is of my sister-Jen with Bailia-then of course my cute dad-and last is Keely and Bailia! I am planning on doing it again this year so family members-get your bathing suits ready!

GO JAZZ!!!

5-28-2007 For an early Fathers Day present I sent the boys (Uncle Jed, Grandpa Gary, Adam, and J-dog) to the Jazz Playoff game. Grandpa Williams has season tickets (better seats too) or I would have sent him as well-but at least Jaden got to go down with Grandpa Williams for a bit to get an even better view of the players! Jaden LOVED every second of it-even though they lost it was still an amazing experience! GO JAZZ!!!

Remembering Dorothy 5-31-2007

We love the outdoors-and spend a lot of time doing anything possible outside! Last summer we went hiking through the sand dunes/desert hill that is our backyard. Here are a few shots of one of our adventures where we found "Dorothy" and her un-named boyfriend! It was hard for me not to laugh as the kids came up with their version of what happened to Dorothy and her boyfriend as they found "her hand and bones" and her "boyfriends glove". Here is a condensed version of what they think happened. In a very small cave there was a piece of wood sticking out that looked very similar to old bones (my kids still think it is Dorothy’s Hand) and that is what they spotted first. Then they saw Dorothy’s name carved into the rock just above the little cave, at that point they were convinced that was Dorothy under the rock. About 10 feet away they found a few bones (animal bones) and a few feet from that was THE GLOVE! So here is what happened to Dorothy- She came out here to meet her boyfriend to have a picnic March 27, 1929, it was an unusually hot day and after carving her name into the rock it was too hot to carve her boyfriends name so they decided to get under the shelter of the rock cave to eat their lunch. The rock smashed them both as they were eating and the weight of the rock made the bones and the glove fly out landing near the cave.
Over Presidents day we went out again and the boys wanted to go visit Dorothy but Bailia wanted NOTHING to do with it-she is too scared to even go near there now!!The imagination of a child is so interesting and I will always remember our Dorothy hike.

Cowboy Day at School 9-14-2007

Here are my cute kidlets dressed up for cowboy day at school. During Rodeo week they do a lot of fun activities at school-dressing up like a cowboy is one of them. I thought my kids looked adorable and they loved wearing their cowboy boots for a "reason" instead of "just a normal day!"