Sweethearts

Mitch playing his guitar waiting for his date to arrive.

He looks a bit nervous about being stuck with a pin!

Tonight was the Sweethearts dance at Woods Cross High. Mitch was asked to go by his good buddy Abby. They had a day activity where they all got together at one of the girls houses and had breakfast. Then later that night they went out to the Mayan for dinner and then the dance and then I think they were going bowling. His date was really pretty but they are just friends. Mitch is so lucky to have such a fantastic group of friends, they are awesome kids and I love all of them! This week has been another busy one. Maddi has had endless dance practices, Jacob had parent teacher conferences(all A+ of course) and Thomas had his first meet as an 13 year old. He did awesome but I wish I had taken a picture as he got ready to start the backstroke so you could see the size of kids he had to swim against!!! He dropped over 26 seconds in his 500 free and is soooo close to qualifying for state in so many events! He will have one more shot next week at our home meet! Hopefully competing at his own pool will do the trick and he will swim fast enough and qualify! I think it's awesome that he barely turned 13 and is so close to qualifying!

Maddi and her buds warming up for a performance.

Thomas and his buds at the swim meet. Maddi tries to go to as many swim meets as possible, she is such a supportive big sis!!! Well, that and she has a major crush on the cute boy sitting down in the chair and his older brother who is not pictured!!!

Thomas and more of his good buddies.

Maddi and her friends with their dance teacher. Her teacher was one of the dancers in all the High School Musical movies.

Maddi and Jake. He is such a good kid to be dragged from one of their events to another and he NEVER complains!

Spring is in the air!!!!

Well Saturday the sun finally came out and we were itching to get out, so of course it was time for baseball! It is all of the boys favorite thing to do in the backyard and it has been a long cold winter!!! So we hauled out the gear and stepped over all the deer poop and got a practice going! It was a blast and Jacob asked me as he went to bed if we could have another awesome day like that one the next day! He loves to be outside and didn't want to come in! Baseball sign-ups are this week and he moves to machine pitch! It is going to be so fun, and he has quite an arm on him!! Kevin is a bit sad though as Jake is starting to throw more right handed than left. Either way he throws hard!!!!

Teenager Thomas

I can no longer call Thomas and Jacob my little boys. Jacob is now the only litttle one as we are over run with teenagers as of today! Thomas turned the big 13!!! It is hard to believe , it seems like only yesterday he was born! He has been the best kid from day one! He was the best baby, never cried, we could take him anywhere! He still is the best kid. Everyone who meets him loves him! He is the sweetest , smartest kindest kid around. He is a very hard worker, at school and at the pool. He has always been and still is the huggiest kid. He even got a hug from big bro on his birthday today! I couldn't have asked for a better boy and I am so glad to be his Mom!His cake has a Longhorn on it for the University of Texas where he goes to swim camp with the Olympians. He wants to get a swimming scholarship after High school!

Thanks for the book Grandpa Mike and Grandma Amy!!!! It's AWESOME!!!!

Blowing out the big thirteen candles

The thing he wanted most of all were breaststroke fins. He can't wait for practice in the morning!

He also got a really nice new swimming backpack to lug all of his gear to and from practice and meets.

He was pretty excited about the fins! He also got new goggles and a new swim drag suit but that didn't get here in time so he will have to wait a few days. Jacob gave him an action figure of a Navy Seal Frogman, since that is what Thomas wants to be when he grows up!

Happy Birthday Thomas!!!!!!!

can U believe it???

It's official!!! Mitch got his acceptance letter from the U today. Pretty exciting stuff! Ha Ha in a few months him and his Dad can ride the bus to school together. Good job Mitchell... Go Utes!!!

Happy Birthday Dad!!!!!!

I am so very lucky to have the worlds best Dad! I always tell everyone that they might have nice Dad's but that my Dad is the cutest in the whole world. He is always there for our family and will do anything we need him to do any time! I love his smile and the way his eyes twinkle! I hate that he lives so far away but I am grateful for the many family functions and golf trips that bring him up to us A lot!!! Happy Birthday Dad!!! You are the best!!!

Maddi's dance

Maddi had a dance performance today. They danced at an assembly at an elementary school. This is the first of many dance performances in the next 2 months.
Her and her friend call the green suit their dinosaur suits. They actually have hoods that go with them but they didn't have to wear them today. When they wear the hoods they do look a lot like dinosaurs!!!
At the end of year dance concert they will glow in the dark and it will look really cool but for now we will just call her maddisauras!
I know the pictures are terrible quality, my goal is to someday have a great camera that takes great action shots since we are almost always on the move!

Jacob loves Super 8

Ha Ha, so we had to spend the night in Logan for Thomas' meet and ended up staying at the dive of all dive hotels, the Super 8 in Logan. We stayed there for two reasons, one because it was way cheap, the other because by the time we decided we really needed to stay the night and not drive all the way home and get up at 5am to drive back,all the nice hotels were full. So we get there and Jacob is bouncing around so excited and looks up at the wall in the bathroom and says "Wow, this hotel is super deluxe, it has a hair dryer attached to the wall." It is so easy to please a 6 year old boy!!!!!

Thomas wins 100 breaststroke!!!!

SO we spent last weekend at yet another swim meet, no surprise there but the surprise was that Thomas ended up winning the 100 breast stroke! That has never been a strong stoke for him but now he is dominating it!!!! He finished fourth overall in the meet and brought home another trophy to add to the collection! Poor kid turns 13 in a couple of weeks and has to swim against the big guys! We hope he gets a growth spurt soon! His relay team ended up winning their relay as well, it was awesome, they had some younger kids swimming with him and he started them off with a 5 second lead!

Mitch update

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It's time!!!

Well... here I go! I have had so much fun reading my nieces and nephews cute blogs that I thought it was time to start my own so that I could keep everyone updated on our crazy life! Just remember. I am new at this and am learning as I go!

Kevin and Paula

O.K We had to put at least one picture of us on here too!

Mitch

Mitch will be graduating from high school in 4 short months! I can't believe how time has flown! He has his application in to the University of Utah. He has a year of school before he turns 19 and then will be going on his mission. He needs a job!!!!!!

Maddi

Maddi is loving high school and doing great. She is on the dance company at her dance studio and is looking forward to being a junior next year so she can try out for the school dance company. Her day is filled with endless dance practices and performances! She must be working extra hard lately ... she is actually dancing her toes off. Well her toe nails anyway!

Thomas

Thomas is still the champion swimmer! At one point a few weeks ago U.S.A swimming had him ranked #3 in the state! He is amazing!!! He has swim practice every day and twice a week he has two a day practices. The first practice being at 5:30 am before school!
No way could I do that!!!

Jacob

Jacob is so much fun and LOVES first grade! He is so smart and loves to read and draw, he wants to be an artist when he grows up! He spent all last weekend at one of Thomas's swim meets and didn't complain one time! He had to sit there for hours and hours. He is anxiously awaiting spring so he can spend his day outside where he loves to be!!!

We are so lucky to have 4 awesome kids!