Smart kids

I love they way these kids think.  So many of the things they do reminds me so much of the things we would think of.  I came outside the other day to find this.  I asked the kids to pull Drake in the wagon because he wanted a ride and they decided this was a much better way to give him a ride.  He didn't want to do it at first but after a couple of minutes he decided it was a lot of fun and he actually enjoyed it.

He sat in that wagon as happy as could be.  He had his blanket, his milk and someone to pull him.  It doesn't get better than this.  The kids have all been really good to take turns on Elly and Drakes little razor.  They all love it!  I charge the battery every night because they drive it so much.  I am sure this is how Drake will be getting his wagon rides in the future.

Tyler was the brains behind this whole thing.  I loved it!  I like to see what they will come up with when they are playing.

They spent the whole day outside playing.  We really live in a great little spot where my kids can play without the worry of cars.

Last county wrestling

This was the last night of the county wrestling.  Here are some pictures of Tyler and Mason wrestling that last night.

Mason with some of the kids in his group.

This is Mason's friend Monty.  They wrestle each other at practice pretty much every night and most of the practice.  It has been good for Mason because Monty know his moves pretty good. 

Drake wanted to wrestle the boys every time they came over by us.  The people by us though he was pretty funny because he was so serious about it and they boys were so good with him.

This was Tyler group of boys that he wrestled with that night.

Tyler after it was all over with his medal.

My tough little wrestlers.  Mason always asks me, "Mom what if I don't take first"?  He always wants to be first and I have to let explain to him every time  I don't care what place he gets as long as he does his best.  He isn't buying that he still wants first all the time.

A fun cousin!!

When we go visit our cousins it so nice for Elly to have a cousin like Ainslie.  She loves to dress up, dance, sing and do all the crazy things Elly loves to do too.  They do pretty good together most of the time.  It is pretty fun to watch them.  We loved these outfits they had on.  It is a good thing aunt Camille as a bunch of great dress up clothes for these two girls to play with.  They go through them all and try everything.

I think the hair really makes these outfits amazing!

Cute little girls!  It is fun to see them having fun with each other,  I love to see how excited they are when we get there,  It is really cute.

Gunnison wrestling

We had so much fun wrestling with our boys this weekend.  They both did so good.  Tyler has been wanting to stack a kid so bad.  He was finally able to get it.  He was so excited!   

I don't know what happened to me but I didn't get any pictures of Mason wrestling this weekend.  I did however get pictures of Elly and Drake wrestling.  Drake is loving this wrestling as much as Tyler and Mason.

Al  the kids we wrestle with are fun, nice kids.  They all cheer each other on and have been so  good to each other.  The love to check out each others medals too, which is pretty cute.

Mason ended up taking first place at this tournament.  I don't know where the fourth place kid is but there was on in fourth.  He waited and waited for them to say his name.  He even jumped the gun once and had another kids first place medal on him.

Tyler also got first place.  He was one of the last weights to be called but he just sat there waiting for his medal.  I was proud of him.  The last couple of weeks he has come to these tournaments and just wrestled so hard.  He has been really fun to watch.

These are the cute little first graders on our traveling team.  They all wanted a picture taken of them with their first place medals.   Monty, Mason and Easton. 

This is our team we traveled with this year.  They are a fun bunch of boys.  At this tournament we had 15 boys and we came home with 14 first place medals and 2 second place medals.  One kid was in two brackets so that is why we have one extra medal.  These kids all wrestled so hard this weekend.  It was so fun to go and watch them.  The other nice thing is Elly has fun playing with their sisters and I have really loved getting to know the parents of these kids.  This was probably one of my favorite sports we have done with our kids.

The boys with their first place medals.  So proud of them and how well they wrestled.

After they finished wrestling we  headed to Cokeville.  The kids have been wanting to go and see their cousins so bad and I had a cousin coming home from her mission, so we went to hear that.

Drakes 2nd birthday

My cute little baby turned two years old today.  It kind of makes me sad.  He has been so fun.  He is so cute and funny.  We have all really enjoyed him. The kids are always saying how cute he is too.  He is just very easy going.  He wants to do everything all by himself.  When he gets mad you can talk him out of way easier then any of the other kids.  He is so good to say he is sorry.  He plays good with all of the kids too.

For his birthday he got a baseball helmet.  He is always wearing the boys.  The best part is he always wears it backwards and it looks so funny.

He got some cookies and yogurt because he is always eating those.

When he was opening this last present he was pretty funny.  As soon as he saw the picture on the box he started saying, "My scoo, my scoo."

He was so excited about this present.

He didn't like having to wait a few minutes while Jay put it together for him but once it was done he was happy again.  Tyler asked Drake so nicely if he could try it.  Drake turned to him and said, "No my scoo."

For his birthday cake we had an ice cream roll.  The kids didn't like wait until later that night to do Drakes birthday, but Jay worked away from town that night and we needed to wait for him.  They did survive though.

Happy Birthday to our cute little boy!  We have loved having Drake in our family.  Maybe I have chilled out a little after four kids and now I can enjoy them more then I did when I wanted everything to be perfect.  He is a fun, happy, cute, crazy little boy.  We love you so much little guy!

North Sanpete Wrestling tournament

We wrestled at North Sanpete this weekend.  We had to be over there early for weigh-ins, so it was an early morning.  The kids were able to sleep on the way there so that was nice.  They each wrestled three times but since I video we only get pictures some of the time. 
This was Tyler's last match to see if he got first or second place.  He really came out and wrestled this week like a different kid.  He has learned so much this year in wrestling.  He knows moves and has just loved it.  He practices hard and has had fun with the other kids on his team. 

Tyler ended up winning and got first.  This was his first time taking first this year on the traveling team.  He was so excited and worked so hard.  I was so proud of him!

This was Mason last match of the day too.  He ended up wrestling a kid from the same team as Tyler did.  Mason has wrestled this kid a couple of time this year and the kid is getting better each time.  Mason had to go a little longer with him then he did the last time but he still beat him.

Mason also ended up taking fist place this weekend.  It was a good weekend for these boys.

These were the boys Mason ended up wrestling.  The kids in the blue and orange are from the same team.

My first place boys!  Tyler loves to not smile when I take pictures of him.  He thinks it is so funny.  Mason is more then happy to smile when he gets first place though.

He got hit by a ball

We are all outside playing a game of baseball with a tennis ball.  Jay and I against the kids is how they always divide the teams.  Well Tyler was up to bat and Drake was walking by the pitcher.  Tyler hit the ball and it smacked Drake right in the back.  He cried for a second but not to long.  When we went in the house I was getting Drake ready for bed and checked to see if the ball left a mark.  This is what I found...

It left a little red mark where the ball had hit him.  When I reminded him of it and tried to get a picture of it he got mad at me.

We had a fun time playing baseball with the kids.  Drake took his turn and hit the ball a bunch of times too.  Of course the kids are always mad when it is time to come in.  They still haven't figured out it get to dark to see anything.

County wrestling

The boys have been doing the traveling wrestling team here since November.  The county wrestling has started now so the boys are now doing that also.  They have a couple of tournaments left before they have state, so this is good practice for the boys.

We are having fun wrestling all the time.  Mason is starting to get tired of all going all the time but we are almost finished for a while.