This guy had a great game tonight! He is on the "storm" and loves it! He is the starting catcher and has done incredible! He is like a block wall back there....he blocks and saves so many balls and prevents runs from scoring! He is awesome and we are so proud of him...he has worked very hard for the last 2 years learning how to catch and getting beat up behind the plate. I don't know how he can squat that long, my legs get so sore just watching him! Keep up the great work Travis! Oh yah, they did win tonight 12-6!

We were watching American Idol tonight and one of the singers is blind this year. So as the judges are praising him for his incredible song, taylor reminds us about him being blind. Well Megan has this really confused look on her face and says.....mom if he is BLIND, why can I still SEE him? We laughed and told her, megan he is blind not you! You can see him, but he can't see you! She is hilarious and I think she really is starting to feel better. No fever since yesterday afternoon. WOOOHOO!

This poor kid.......Still Sick!

Poor Megan......this is how she has spent pretty much the last week of her life. She has been fighting a really high fever off and on. Just when we think she is better, the fever spikes again. One minute she is playing with her toys or riding her bike, and the next minute she is wrapped up on the couch under a blanket asleep. I took her to the doctor today to have them check her throat and ears and all is fine. The Dr. said it's just a virus that EVERYONE has and it's just got run it's course. He told me if she isn't any better by Friday to bring her back in and they would test her for mono. I feel so bad for Megan, she is just so mellow and quiet cause she doesn't feel good. She's missed a week of preschool, lots of fun playdates and all kinds of other fun stuff. I made her take a nap today hoping that the fever wouldn't spike tonight and so far it hasn't.....so we are crossing our fingers that maybe we are making a small recovery.

First Ponytail and an ANNEY FUNNY!

My baby is growing up! Today I put her hair into 1 big ponytail and it all fit! It even stayed all day! She is just so stinkin' cute and fun! After I did her hair I asked her if I could take her picture and she said, "go outside!" so we went outside for some photos!

Also....last night we were saying family prayer and Megan said it and did a great job. After we finished Anney said, "anney say prayers (which she does often) so Randy helped her say her prayers, etc. Well we have been working very hard to get her to sleep in her own bed all through the night. She starts off great in her bed and sometime in the middle of the night she will climb out of her crib and will come into our bed and want to sleep with us. Well this is how the prayer went...

Dad: Help us to be nice

Anney: be nice

Dad: help us to be like Jesus

Anney: be like Jesus

dad: Help us to sleep well

Anney: sleep good

Dad: help us to sleep in our OWN BED

ANNEY: help us to sleep in DADDY's BED!

The kids and I laughed so hard! She is so stinkin smart and I'm beginning to think this is going to be a lost cause getting her out of our bed! We do love this little girl to pieces!

Back view of her cute ponytail!

Travis' LAST pinewood derby!!

Oh happy day! This is the last pinewood derby for Travis, he might not be as happy as me, but I'm thrilled! He really loved making his car this year. He had this great idea to use sharpies instead of paint, and he spent forever coloring and drawing on it, it actually turned out great. In fact he won for the most colorful car and most "gun like" cause Randy used little bullets as his weights. I think he got like 5th overall, but he had a great time.


look...a smile from Travis!



Kyle, Bryce, Jaxon and Travis.

The "bosses" brother nelson and brother gardner

Megan and Anney as spectators

Gordon's Well!

For spring break this year we went to the dunes. We went to Gordon's Well and had a great time. This will probably be our last trip for the season cause it's getting so warm. It was really warm during the day here, but at least it cooled off at night. We went with randy's brother and a bunch of people from their ward. Anney learned to drive the quad with Randy sitting behind her helping her steer.

Frozen Icee's are always a favorite. Here is anney with her cousin chloe who is 6 months younger.

Megan was really into collecting rocks for some reason. She was not happy with me when I made her leave them all there......

Waiting for Dad to fix "mae-mae's" (megan) quad so Anney can ride it!

Aren't these two so cute....she is such a daddy's girl!

Learning how to drive

Travis loved video-taping Anney driving! We had such a great time!

slippin and slidin!

One day during spring break we had about 15 kids over and they were bugging me to go "swimming." NO WAY was I going to watch all these kids so we compromised and pulled out a slip n slide I had bought last summer on clearance and let them slide away! they had so much fun!


Megan

Even Anney loved it......she couldn't wait to change into her swim suit so she just got her clothes all wet!

happy Anney!

See the line forming?

taylor loves everything that has to do with water!

down on the funny farm!!!

Anney loved all the animals..she just watched them and would wait for them to come close to her so she could pet them!


YUMMY!

Megan didn't love many of the animals, but she did love petting this huge fluffy bunny.

Bo and the chicken! this poor chicken was held and strangled by so many kids! what a good sport

Waiting in line for some yummy milk.

the preschool kids singing a song while they were waiting for the presentation to start. Megan has loved preschool and mad so many friends.

All the kids got to pick from about 15 flavors of milk...Anney picked Banana Cream and it was really good. Megan picked butterscotch and hers wasn't bad either.

Megan's preschool class went to Superstition farm this past week. They had such a great time and learned a lot about animals and how a farm is run. I got to go and bring Anney and she loved it so much. In fact, she loved it way more then Megan did! We had a great day and I'm glad we got to go!

A New change!

Doesn't he look handsome in his new 'suit"? This morning randy was called to serve as the Second Counselor in the Bishopric. We are so excited for him and our family. We met with the Stake Presidency last Sunday and were issued the call, and it's been an expensive week outfitting him for this new call. We had a couple of suits but one was way too big and one was a little too small, so it's nice to have some that fit him perfectly. I keep making such a big deal about how handsome he is etc. and he about died when I pulled out the camera at 7 a.m. this morning.

It was a wonderful Sacrament meeting and day today. Randy was also ordained a High Priest today by his dad and then after that was set apart for his calling. I have so many overwhelming feelings that are personal and hard to share on a public blog, but since this is my journal I did want to record this event. Let me just say that the Lord does know what is in store for us and has a plan for us, we knew things in our life were changing and he prepared us for this. I do want to thank everyone that came to support us today, we really appreciate it. We have the greatest family and they are always so supportive. Good luck Randy and I know you will be incredible!

EDIT: This is what Randy did when he got home for the day....poor guy!

happy 9th birthday tay-tay!

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl! Tay-tay is 9 today! 9 years ago I gave birth to this beautiful baby girl, who was always so sweet and good. She has always been such a good girl and we love having her part of our family. Here are 9 things about taylor!

1. She loves to eat at nice restaurants. She'll pick outback, olive garden, cafe rio, any day over fast food! Find by me. Her favorite food is Ribs from outback!
2. She participated in her first triathlon last summer and placed third in her age group, she can outrun any of us! I always say I need her to run with me to help pace me.
3. She loves to go to the dunes or mexico and ride her quad.
4. She loves her family, especially her sisters and she takes such good care of them.
5. She is very loyal and caring to her friends.
6. She strives to do well in everything she does. She has perfect handwriting and is such a good student.
7. She has won the outstanding citizenship award every year in school since kindergarten.
8. She loves to shop....her favorite thing to do is to go to the mall. Her favorite stores are Aeropostale, Justice, Dillards and Tilly's.
9. She hates to eat breakfast early, she prefers it about 10 a.m. in the morning.....therefore she hates to wake up early!

We love our Tay-tay and are so grateful she is part of our family. She has been such a blessing in our lives and we are so grateful to have her in our home. Thank you Taylor for always setting such a good example to your family and always choosing the right...we love you and hope you had a happy birthday.

I'll post pictures of all the birthday celebrations soon.....taylor got a digital camera for her birthday and she loves it and has taken TONS of pictures!