Tee Ball

This was Hallie's second year playing tee ball. She was on Despain Construcion/Premier's team. I guess they had so many sponsors, that they doubled them up. She was glad that her team was red, because "it was the best girl color". This is a picture of Sean reminding Hallie that she needed to run to second base.
Here is a picture of Hallie playing second base.

Look how much taller she is than most of her team. Hallie was the number 8 two years in a row. She thought that was pretty cool.

This is a picture of Hallie and her friend Addison. Last year, they hugged when they saw each other on base. Maybe next year they will actually get to be on the same team.

Here's the whole team. The little girl on the right was the youngest on the team. She is 4 years old. She looks so tiny compared to the rest of them.

Hallie was so excited when they handed out trophies. They didn't get one last year for whatever reason. She kept saying "my very first trophy". Yesterday, when Dewey was crying, Hallie went and got her trophy and let him hold it. Next year Hallie will play coach pitch. I really hope she continues to play, so we can watch her when it gets a little more competitive!

The 4th of July

This year on the 4th, we went camping to Spencer. My mom got all of us patriotic shirts to wear that day. This is all of my family, minus my two brothers and their families.
My Dad offered to take Dewey, so Sean and I could fit a little more comfortable on our 4-wheeler. Don't they look so cool in their goggles?

Notice the clouds in the background? Basically every time we were on top of a mountain it would start thundering and lightning. That's exactly where you don't want to be in that kind of weather. At one point, we had to stop and our whole group had to huddle under some trees to take shelter from the rain. We went on a 53 mile ride that day. It was really long, but we got to see a lot of cool scenery!

This is pretty much all that Hallie and Shaylee wanted to do. It was the first time they both had ridden this motorcycle and they had a lot of fun. They just took off like pros.

We always have a lot of fun camping with our families. It makes for a lot of fun memories. We can't wait to go again.

6 years old

Hallie recently turned 6 years old. As usual, we had a party with all of our families. She decided on an Oreo dessert and some cupcakes.

She was very spoiled as always and she even talked some of her grandparents into taking her shopping so she could pick out her own gifts. If you know Hallie, she loves to go shopping with her grandparents!!

This is most of the cousins that were at her birthday party.

Earlier that day, we went swimming with Gracie, Shaylee and Mitch. Sadly, I forgot to take my camera to the swimming pool. While we were swimming, Hallie came up to me and said "Mom, this is the best birthday party ever". I'm glad she is so easy to please! I can't believe she is six already!! Hope you had a great Birthday "Sally" we love you!!

Jellystone

Last Saturday, we hopped in the van and joined the Tew's for a nice relaxing, kid free day. We started out drawing from a bowl as to where we were going to go. The first draw was to Jackpot. None of us were really to excited to go there so we picked again and decided on Yellowstone Park. We went through Jackson and drove home through Island Park. It rained most of the day, but we all had our own umbrella thanks to the Hawker Funeral Home.

We made several stops throughout the day. Sean and Ryan liked to see how far out on the rocks they could get just to scare their wives.

Noel was a little scared, but she went out onto this rock for a picture anyway.

Wait a minute, who's this Ryan?

For some reason, the van was really stinky that day!!!! I think there was a couple of geysers inside the van.

This is a picture of Sean trying to throw rocks into the vent of the bathroom. Yah know, to try and stink it up and maybe make a splash. What it doesn't show is that I was in the bathroom at the time. Can you believe that he would do that to his eternal companion?

The snow was still pretty high in this parking lot. We had to take a picture just to show how high it really was. Notice it was snowing on us as well.

This is a very old tour bus. I thought it was so cool that I had to take a picture.

This is a view of Tower Falls. It was very beautiful.

We just happened to drive upon these mountain goats. They didn't look very pretty. I guess they were still losing their winter coats. They had a little baby with them. It was running and climbing up everything.

This is one of four bears that we saw that day. We saw two black bears off the side of the road and we also saw two grizzly bears through a mans scope. The grizzly bears were "playing" way off in a meadow. The man looking through the scope, told me that they were getting ready to "mount". I thought that was pretty funny!

I know, this isn't the greatest picture. If you look real close, there are two moose in the picture. One at the top and one at the bottom of the hill.

This trip was a lot of fun. We got to do a lot of things that we wouldn't have been able to if we would have had our kids. Thanks Kathy for watching them!! We were in the park pretty late and that's why we got to see as many animals as we did. We would like to go back with our kids sometime and stay at Mammoth Hot Springs.

Hello Summer

Ever since the snow melted, Hallie has been asking to get her swimming pool out. Seriously!! It can be so cold outside and she gets mad because we wont set up her pool. Well, she finally got her wish. Even though the water was fresh from the faucet, she dove right in. Dewey put his swimming suit on, but I don't think he ever got in the water.

Notice Dewey on the tramp, trying to dodge the big splash.

If only I would stay outside with Dewey all day everyday, this is how happy he would be.

Now it just needs to stop raining so we can do this again sometime!!

Spring Sing

Hallie's class ended the year with a little program called "Spring Sing". They probably sang about 10 different songs. For the last song they sang "this little light of mine" while wearing glasses with flashing lights. These flowers were all around the gym with all of the kids faces on them. I thought they were very creative and fun to look at.

Hallie and Mrs. Crane. She's an excellent teacher and Hallie will miss her.

A Day At the Zoo

Wednesday I had the opportunity to go to the Zoo with Hallie and her class. We hopped on the buses and drove to the Tauphus Park Zoo. Hallie is so into giving me the peace sign lately in all of her pictures. It drives me crazy! I just want a cute picture of her without the peace sign.

This was the little group I was in charge of. l to r Hallie, Lauryn and Kamri. They were a lot of fun.

Here they are watching 11 baby ducklings follow their mother. This area of the Zoo stinks soooo bad!!

The first time we went to see the Lion, it was asleep so they were very excited when we went back and it was awake.

It's always a lot of fun to go on field trips and listen to all of the kids. I can't believe Kindergarten is coming to an end and Hallie is almost a 1st grader.