A Saturday Tradition

For a few months now the kid have been wanting donuts every Saturday.  Mason is very picky about them too.  They have to be Food Ranch donuts not Stewart's.  They each have their own favorite donut and can easily eat more then one of them.  Mason likes to have a few that he can eat on all day long.  He will get mad at you if you eat his donut, especially if he was saving it for later.

Elly's favorite is chocolate with M&M's on it.

Drake and Tyler both love the plain chocolate ones.  Mason and I love the maple.  Jay will eat any of them.

I am waiting to see how many more weeks of this they can take before they don't want donuts anymore.

Drake!!

I made Drake some macaroni one day for lunch.  I had to leave the room for a minute.  While I was gone I could hear him laughing.  When I came back I found what he thought was so funny.  He had dumped the bowl of Macaroni on his head which still had macaroni in it.  He was all smiles until he realized I wasn't laughing at him and that he was in trouble.

He really didn't like it when it came time to clean him up.  He doesn't really like water as it is, but especially he doesn't like it on his head.

I had Tyler take these pictures for me while I was cleaning Drake up so we would have proof later of the trouble he could make.

I don't think he will do that again anytime soon.

Lava Hot Springs

Since we didn't end up playing baseball today we went to Camille's house last night and went with her to Lava Hot Springs.  We met up with our brother, Rodney, and his wife.  The kids had tons of fun playing in the water and going on the slides.  I forgot to get my camera out except for when Jay was jumping off the high dives.  Jay is on the second platform here.

Jay getting ready to jump.

He did the lower two and now he is going to go off the highest one.  I think he is crazy!

There he goes!!

Still falling!!

Almost there!!

Splash!!

I happened to notice that Tyler and my brother, Ammon, were jumping off the lower diving boards while I was talking pictures of Jay.

Ammon in the red shorts.

Tyler going off the high one.

We had a great time. The kids had lots of fun.  This was the first time going there for most of them.  It was fun to take my two younger siblings with us.

Fire Cracker Tournamen

Mason joined Tyler's All-star team last week when two of the kids quit.  Mason was very excited.  He is the biggest sports lover ever.  The kid and I went to our Brady reunion in Huntsville the first three days of the week.  We stayed at Candice's house Wednesday night.  We watched the fireworks from a parking lot near her house.  Thursday we headed to Park City to play baseball in the pouring rain.  The kids didn't seem to mind.  It was a good thing we had our tent with us from the reunion so we could use the tarp to put over the dug out so the kids could get out of the rain for a little while.

Candice came to watch the games.  We were suppose to have two games but they wouldn't let us play the second game because we played in the rain the first game.  I felt bad Candice came up for just the one game, which we lost.

The next day they had us play a make up game for the one they wouldn't let us do the night before. We lost that one too but the boys were loving it.  

Mason looked so cute in his borrowed uniform.  He loved being a part of the team and the kids were all so good to him.

Mason up to bat!

Tyler up to bat!

Tyler on second.

Mason throwing the ball to the pitcher. 

Tyler playing catcher.

Mason playing second.

Our team

They decided they were going to call Mason "Uh-huh" because that was all they could ever get him to say to them.

I loved this picture of Tyler just sitting in the dug out just waiting for his turn.

This was Mason in the jersey he borrowed.

The boys didn't end up winning any games while we were at this tournament but they had so much fun and it was good experience for them to play against these big teams.  They never did seem to care that they lost they were just having a good time playing ball together.

Fishing!

The kids wanted to go fishing again so we headed to Joe's to see if we would have any luck.  We tried for a while with no luck so Jay decided he would go up and start cooking dinner.  Before he left he helped Mason throw is hook out with a worm on it.  Mason kept asking me if he could bring it in yet.  Finally I told him he could.  So he started reeling it back in.  He tells me he thinks he has caught something.  I didn't really think he had anything, but junk from the bottom.  Mason kept trying and wasn't getting it in so Tyler decided he would try and help him.  Then Tyler starts telling me he thinks Mason really did catch something.  Jay came back and started helping them get it in and there really was a fish on it when they got it out.  The funny thing about Mason catching a fish was the way he caught it.  Mason's hook was hooked on to someones old line that had broken and the fish had actually gotten tangled up in the old line.  Pretty crazy but he was so excited about it.

Mason didn't really like holding the fish for the picture because it was all slimy.

Drake loves to sit and throw rocks into the lake which makes it hard for the boys to catch anything.

Sometimes Elly is such a little tomboy.  She is very cute.

Tyler wanted to catch a fish so bad after Mason did.  He kept trying and trying.  He finally said he was only going to throw it out two more times and then we could go up and eat.  The next time he threw it out he caught a fish.  He was pretty excited! Elly was sad she hadn't caught a fish so Tyler let her reel his in.  She was so happy and it was so nice of him to let her do that.  When they got it in he had a little chub on his line.

Elly didn't like holding it at all.  She cried the whole time I took the picture and until she had the gross fish washed off of her hands.

Drake didn't like the fish either.  He we brought it over to show it to him he got pretty scared.

It was a successful fishing trip.  Both of the boys caught a fish and that is what makes it worth it.  The kids had a lot of fun even though we weren't up there very long.  

Jay turns 35

For Jay's birthday we did the best birthday cake.  He told the kids he wanted chocolate twinkes.  So we got chocolate ones for him which made it really easy for me.  The kids loved putting the candles in them and getting a turn to blow them out.  The bad thing was he thought they were sick and now we have a box of them.

Jay did get a turn to blow the candles out eventually.  Happy Birthday Jay!  We love you.

Pretty girl

Elly has loved all the hand me downs she gets from her cousins.  She has started putting together the best outfits.  The more sparkles the better.  One day her friend Ava had let her borrow her skirt so she put it with this awesome outfit.

If she wasn't so cute maybe the outfit wouldn't look so cute.

She keeps me smiling anyway.

A Sunday drive

Every now and again we like to drive to Joe's Pile, as Mason calls it.  We decided this week would be a good time to go up there.  Jay walked Drake out on the dock and jumped up and down on it.  Drake thought it was pretty funny.

Since none of the kids brought clothes to get wet in they were really trying to keep their clothes dry. We told them anyone who got wet had to walk home.

Drake loved throwing the rocks in the water.

The kids all got the biggest rock they could find and threw it off at the same time to try and make a big splash.

Drake with his pile of rocks we gathered for him so he could just stand there and throw.

Jay and the kid jumping on the dock.

The kids decided it was easier to take their clothes off and play in their underwear then to try and stay dry.

They all carried a pretty big rock down the dock to throw in the water.  They were pretty excited about the big splash it made.

We had a great time.  The kids all went home with wet underwear, but they had a lot of fun together.  It was the perfect Sunday drive.