End of Summer

Our summer has officially ended and we went out with a bang.  Through the end of July we played a few more tourneys, went to ivins res, swam, played and played some more.  The first week in Aug. we got Trey ready for intermediate school, had Elle's birthday and played in another tournament in Beaver/Milford.  We also got to visit with my parents, play in lehi and the kids spent a few days with G&G whitney.  Overall it was a jam packed summer and we are sad that it's over.

 Elle did a volleyball camp this summer and loved it.  She's hoping to do some more come this fall.  

 Trey played with the Badgers in a tournament up north. While there we went to Scheels inbetween the games and we all went on the ferris wheel.  I'm not sure why a few of us went because we are all scared of heights but it was fun regardless. 

 These brave boys went all by themselves and had a blast.

I went with Abby and Maggie and I about died when Maggie asked what would happened if she stood up.  That girl is nuts....one second she would be terrified than she's throw her hands up in the air. She kept us entertained for sure.

 My girl and her daddy having a blast! 

Here is Dan and Trey.  Trey said the worst part was when they stopped him at the very top! :)

Here is our ball player or at least one of them anyway.  This kid played awesome!  He had one play where his team was ahead by a run and the other team had bases loaded and 1 out.  He was playing center field.  The batter hit this high fly ball out between center and right the wind took it a little bit but our boy was running so fast to get to it and did a diving catch.  He caught it came up throwing and threw the runner going to home out and got the double play!  It was CRAZY and we all went nuts! He had so many awesome plays that tournament but that one was my favorite! 

He looks good!

 Some of the ballers from the badgers

After the games we went to Cliff and Kims for a BBQ with the fam.  We had a ton of family come watch Trey at his games and I love it! I'm so excited that they get to share in the fun games with us and I know it means a lot to him to have everyone there cheering for him. At the BBQ the kids had a blast playing musical chairs, and 500.  Here is Elle photo bombing Abby

The end of July the kiddos got to spend a few days at Grams and papa Whitney's house.  They had a blast! When we went to pick them up we went out shooting and I love that they want to go and learn how to shoot like their daddy!

It was blazing hot and these 2 tried to find as much shade as possible.

She's got some game to her.

Brex did awesome and hit some of the targets we had put out!

I love this picture of my boys. Nothing like having dad teach you how to shoot.

 This kid is a sharp shooter!  We had him try the shotgun and he smoked the flying target on his first shot! Smack dab in the middle the target exploded!

 I love this picture too!

My kiddos after we went to lunch with G&G.

Here are our ball players for the beaver/milford tourney.  Trey played in Milford and Brex played in Beaver and thank goodness my parents came to watch. They made it possible for me to be at Brex's games but to catch one of Trey's games the first day! Our poor Boo got popped in the head his first at bat of the first game.  He had 3 balls and the pitcher hit his helmet with the 4th ball but it spun off of his helmet and into his forehead. He had the biggest goose egg.  I was terrified that he wouldn't want to play anymore but I should know better.  Our boy came back for the 2nd game that night.  He hit a foul ball than got hit in the back.  I thought for sure we were doomed and he wouldn't get back in the box, but he did and got his official first hit in a game.  He hit a double and had a grin a mile wide!  His team also won their first game ever that night! Our Outlaws made a go that weekend but fell short by a couple of games.  They played hard but it wasn't in the cards for them.  We ended on a high note by beating an undefeated team. 

 You could see the seams of the ball on his head.  The sad part is that the goose egg went down but he bruised all down his nose and had a nasty black eye. Just in time for school :)

Here they are winning after their first win.

 Our 2nd half of the summer was a lot like the first half but we did have a blast and I can't believe we are back into the swing of the school year.  More about that in the next post.