Princess Tea Party!

My friend was so nice take Elly to the Princess Tea Party since Tyler had baseball in Richfield.  Elly had a lot of fun getting all dressed up like a princess.  Amanda did her hair for her.  These girls looked so cute.

Jay kept teasing Elly that she wasn't suppose to drink tea at the tea party.  She was getting worried about it.  Lucky for her it was just apple juice.

What a cute little princess!

The girls were having a great time until the witch showed up which made all the little girls cry or almost cry.

The girls got to decorate a mirror with whatever they wanted to.

Elly's finished mirror.

All these cute little girls are some of the girls from our ward.  Hopefully they are always good friends.

I think she is still scared of the witch.

The girls with Snow White.

They had a great time minus the witch being there.  I am glad I have a good friend that could take her for me.

Mason's last baseball game

This was ended up being Mason's last baseball game.  They were suppose to have one more game but the team canceled it the day of the game.  Mason loved it.  It was nice to have Jay be his coach too.  I thought it was fun for him and he seemed to really like it.  So here are just some pictures from the game.

Mason after he made it home.

Mason playing short stop.

Coming in to get ready to hit.

Up to bat

Jay getting ready to haul Mason out to be catcher so he didn't have to try and run in all the gear.

Saying good game to the other team

The kids had a great time playing and they improved so much.

Helicopters

We kept seeing these helicopters all around our area for a few days.  We learned they were doing a training in the mountains and on the desert.  We took the kids up to see them.

They had a guy there that told us all kinds of cool stuff about them, of course I can't remember any of it now.

The kids thought they were pretty cool.

The one thing I do remember is these helicopters can carry one of these hummers.  They were bringing one with a helicopter but we didn't see it.

While we were there the helicopter landed and they got someone out who looked like they had an IV hooked to them.  Then the helicopter took off again.  That was pretty cool!

Look what we found!!

The kid had been outside playing and had decided to come in.  I heard a little scream and say Mason jump up the steps funny.  When he got in the house he says "Mom you got to come see this."  When I looked out I couldn't believe it.  There was a snake making its way across my yard.  We have been here for five years and I have never seen one of those in our yard.  I know they are harmless but I hate snakes.  Mason said it came from by the sandbox.

It was actually pretty long I thought.

The kids all thought it was pretty cool.

Time Out

Today after church Elly was having one of those days.  She finally ended up sitting in Time Out.  After she finally stopped crying I went to talk to her.  She had fallen fast asleep.

Sometimes it is nice when they will just fall asleep so it can be peaceful, but then are they really learning their lesson?  

Fishing

We went fishing on free fish day with Jay's brother, Dean and his family.  Jay caught three or four fish.  I think that was all we caught that day.  We didn't bring the kids fishing poles so they weren't very happy about that, but they still had fun throwing rocks in and seeing who could make the biggest splash.

Drake didn't like the fish when we showed it to him.

Jay with one of the fish he caught.

Elly's favorite part of going fishing was playing with Autumns cat.

The boys all wanted to get in on the cleaning of the fish.

After we went back to Dean and Charity's and had a BBQ.

Football

I have another project the kids have really been wanting me to get done.  I finally found the numbers to put on their uniforms.  The boys both pick what number they wanted for their two jerseys.  They both were really glad I finally got that done for them. 

Mason wanted 25 for his Green Bay Packers jersey and 9 for his saints.

Tyler wanted 15 for his Denver Broncos and 6 for his Chicago Bears.

Drake can't resist putting any kind of helmet on his head so he loved having all of them out.

Elly even wanted in on the football action.

Luck for us we have enough uniforms and helmets for all the kids to wear one.

I don't know if they could be any cuter.