Playing Catch up

So it's been over 3 months since I've done any type of update.  We've been crazy busy and I wish that I was better at keeping this up as there are so many little things that I would love to remember.
In January, both Trey and Elle were in basketball.  Trey was in 2 leagues and our saturdays were kept busy.  He played on a rec ball team and had an awesome coach and played awesome.  His 2nd league was with all of his buddies from school.  I can't believe how much he has improved just over this season.  He had fun, made some crazy shots and was a rebounding son of a gun!  His Laser team had a tournament play to make it to championships. That day was so crazy.  Trey had 2 baseball games, a soccer game and than the tournament games for basketball.  By the end of the day he had played 6 games. Poor kid was worn out and his laser team lost the game to get into the championship.
Elle did awesome and had to learn how to hold her own on the floor.  She played against some tough girls.  It amazes me how mean girls can be in sports and what they will do to each other. Our Elle though came out on top and had a blast.

Basketball and fun times with friends.

 Lasers and Nets.  

In Feb. we played in a couple of baseball tournaments, and ran in the dog town 5k.  My family came down for the race and we had a blast hanging out all weekend.  We decorated cookies for valentines day and played at the park and the kids went hiking with Uncle Dan and Aunt Michelle up to the "D".  It's always fun when the fam comes down to play.

 Dogtown 5k.  We had a blast. Trey took 1st in his age group, Zack took 2nd and Brex missed out on 3rd by 1 tenth of a second. 

 Back at it with tournament play for the Outlaws.  Love this team!

In March we celebrated Cale's birthday and played some soccer and baseball.  Trey had his school program, we celebrated Easter and I went to a paint nite with friends.  We've kept busy with all of our activities and didn't think that life could get busier but at the end of the month we added in Little League.  Trey tried out for Majors and made it woot woot! As part of the try out they had to hit 5 balls and run the bases on the last hit for time.  His first ball he hit right at the coaches sitting on the sidelines that weren't paying attention. Way to get their attention dude.  On the last ball he ran the bases in the fastest time of everyone that was there to try out. He had an amazing try out. He's on the same team as his friend and fellow Outlaw Braden and he's a Red Sox player again :).  His team has done awesome so far and he's become a key player on the team.

 We did a minion this year for the piñata.

 Outside egg hunt. I love these kiddos

 Traditions: Piñata and egg hunts!

Coloring Easter Eggs

Brex killing it at soccer!

The last couple of weeks we started up Softball for Elle and Coach pitch for Brex.  Elle is our little pitching machine again and her coaches were so excited that she was playing with them again this year.  She had her first games last week and had amazing hits and did great at pitching.  Brex is on the Yankee's this year and they had their first game on Monday.  This kid did awesome! He had 2 great hits right over 2nd base. He made them into home runs. He ran so fast he caught up to the kid in front of him and followed him into home.  He has another game tonight and is so excited.  Trey did the science fair and got an "A" on it and can I just say I'm so glad it's over.

Brex's 1st game of the season

 Trey pitching in  majors

Soccer for the boys

Elle's real 1st game of softball! She killed it!

 He's a yankee

 Trey playing like a boss! His team is so far undefeated again :)

Science Fair

Christmas and New Years

We had a great Christmas.  The kids slept in until 7:30 in the morning Christmas day and I loved it. It's always so much fun to watch them get excited for everything they get.  The best part is how many times they say Thank you for everything.  For New Years we headed up north where it was cold.  We went to a trampoline place, Thanksgiving Points creativity center and sledding.  Trey's one requirement for going up north was that they have snow and that we get to go sledding.  The kids had a blast playing with their cousins and hanging out. Trey and Elle conquered their fear of heights and went up to the very top part of the the creativity center. They were strapped in harnesses and walked along an course high above everyone else.  It was a fun activity for all of the kids.

Trey got a baseball net and a lap top for christmas.  He only asked for a laptop to help him with his school work. This kid is such a sweetheart!

This little guy got a PS4 for christmas from Mom and Dad.  He was beyond excited and must have told us Thank you a million times. He's my precious baby boy.

This sweet girl of ours got tears in her eyes when she opened her traveling guitar. She got so excited for all of her gifts and wasn't afraid to show it.

Here they are with their big presents and big smiles.

At Thanksgiving Point

Brex Sledding he had so much fun!

The jumping place.  The foam pit was the favorite spot.

Elle Sledding she had a blast sledding with her cousins.

Finally got to meet Taylor and she is adorable.  Elle and I had fun holding her.

Trey was a master sledder.  He took a jump and was able to jump over Cale.  It was awesome!

We had so much fun this holiday season and got right back into the swing of our crazy lives.  

Tuachan and Christmas Trees

Last week Elle had a couple of choir concerts.  Her first one was at Tuachan.  She did such a great job and looked super cute!  While at Tuachan we got to see Santa!  Each of the kids sat on his lap and might have had a 2 second conversation with him :)  After Santa we went and watched the Live Nativity that Tuachan puts on.  It was a great way to start our holidays.

 Miss Elle singing

It's Santa!!!

 While waiting for the choir concert Brex and Trey had some fun!

 Us after all the festivities….it was chilly.

We did our annual getting a real christmas tree!  The kids had so much fun picking it out and than getting to decorate it!  

I always love the traditions that we do every year….The real tree, the new ornaments that the kids get each year from Gram and Papa, watching of The Grinch, christmas music and of course the annual picture of me and the kids in front of the tree. Its always fun to see them pull out their ornaments and remember what they use to like each year and to see how big they have grown each year! I love that they love these traditions too!

Pretty Tree and the biggest one we have ever had!!

Below was the annual making and decorating of the chocolate train.  This year turned out the best and each of the kids came up with their own ideas on how to decorate them.  Of course Trey's and Brex's are baseball themed. Trey did come up with the baseball wheels all by himself  and they turned out super cute!  

Thanksgiving

Our baby boy lost his 1st tooth a few days before Thanksgiving.  He was so excited! Than he found out his best friend lost his first tooth the same day and that just made it even better.  The tooth fairy found him and he's just itching to spend his loot.

Happy Thanksgiving even if it's a tad bit late.  We went down to Cale's parents house this year and had a wonderful weekend.  We played pool, took the arctic cat and 4wheeler out and ate loads of good food.  The girls did make overs thanks Madi and the boys went shopping to get the good deals. :)

First time in a few years everyone's been together. We are a good looking bunch!!

Below: My cute kiddos. Love them.

We had all the toys out for lots of fun!

Cale Teaching the kiddos how to play pool. 

We came back from Thanksgiving to a busy week.  The kids start basketball practices and games and Elle has 2 choir concerts and she had her wax museum on Wed.  She rocked her wax museum.  She was Coco Chanel and nailed it.  We found the perfect little black dress and pearls for her to wear and her poster was the best! She even had a fake bottle of Chanel No. 5 perfume. 

 Our little cutie pie looking too grown up.

Elle and her bestie Hailee.  Both look gorgeous!!

My girlie!

Championship Game

This past weekend was a busy one for sure.  We had the last baseball tournament, the last soccer game of the season and a volleyball game.

Brex had his last soccer game of the season and boy was he on point!  He came out aggressive and had a couple of chances to score but the other team had a kid that was huge and would plow the boys over and kick the ball out of bounds.  His team the green machine went undefeated this year and we couldn't be prouder of how hard our boy played.

He got his medal and was so proud!!

Next up was Elle at her Volleyball game.  This girl is amazing and killed it.  She made several points with her serves and by returning the ball.  Every ball that came to her made it back over the net. She's doing great! Her last game is this weekend and I know she's a little sad to see the season end.  Both games they played this week went to 3 sets each.  The lost one but won the other one!

Lastly was the 2 day baseball tournament for Trey and Cale. They divided our age group into 2 groups after the first day.  We won our first game but lost our second game.  That put us in the bottom tier.  We ended up winning both of our games on the 2nd day and made it to the championship game.  Our boys put up a great fight but we ended up losing that game.  It was so heartbreaking but I know it made our boys stronger.  It honestly was amazing just to make it to the championship as we are still a new team.  In less than a year we played our first game, won our first game and made it to a championship game.  Not many teams can say that they've been able to do that.  Our boys played their hearts out and left it all out on the field. I love that Trey is apart of such an awesome team.  The parents and families are so supportive and the boys are great friends.  I love that Trey and Cale get to do this together and build their relationship.  We love our OUTLAWS!!

 Top: Trey Batting

Bottom: The boys before the last game of regular play

 Championship game. Our cheerleaders and our mascot as the team calls Brex.  The poor kid crashed not too long after the game started and ended up puking right before the end. 

Our boys look sharp and more of Trey batting

 Having fun before the 2nd game of the 1st day. 

Trey Pitching the first day.  

 My OUTLAW boys all geared up.  They are so handsome!!

We love these boys and am so proud of them! 

Halloween a little bit late

Time has flown by and it doesn't  look to be slowing down any time soon. October for us was the start of Volleyball, the thick of soccer and one baseball tournament.

First off is our little guy.  He's doing awesome in school and even got called up at the last assembly for being an outstanding leader and for being an awesome reader!  He was so stoked and his teacher gave him a soda. Made his day!! He's got a couple of friends that he likes to hang out with and I love that he finally has friends his own age! Also this week he didn't have any homework because he is so far ahead that they gave him the week off!  He is a stud!!! He's still killing it at soccer and he's improved his pitching skills and catcher skills. His idol is still his big brother and he has to have everything just like Trey! I know it drives Trey crazy at times but there will come a day when it will be different and we will wish for this time back.

Miss Elle started volleyball this past month and is amazing! She is a serving point machine.  She's even starting to get the hang of overhand serves.  She's in art and choir again and man this girl is talented.  Lately she's been singing with her daddy while he plays the guitar and I love it!! She too is killing it in school and just came home with an award for the best reader in her school…..We aren't sure if it was just her class, grade or school. Either way she is doing so good and we couldn't be prouder of her.  Next up for her is the wax museum where she has decided to be coco chanel and basketball.

Our Trey…. this kid is growing like a weed. I swear he grows a few inches every week! He got invited to play on a team for the Halloween baseball tournament and did awesome! He plays in another tournament this weekend and I know he will do well.  He too is excelling at school and got an award.  He's as smart as a whip and just a kind and sweet.  They had a track day where they ran laps around the track for a fundraiser.  Trey ran 12 laps and when he came around one time a lady that was counting laps asked him if he had a younger brother and he said yes…she than told him that he ran a lot of laps too and she could tell that it was in the family.  Brex ran 9 :) Coming up for Trey is the last baseball tournament of the season and he starts basketball.




Halloween came and went and we went out trick or treating with our friends and had so much fun!  The kids this year were mike trout, zombie mike trout and a minion. Elle and Trey went to see Thriller with their friends and went through the emotions of being scared and having a blast.  They were on the front row and so it made some of the acts super scary. Trey got to dance with a zombie and had Jason come up and smell him.  We did the school halloween parade well Brex and Elle did Trey was playing baseball and finally did some pumpkins.  Overall we had a good holiday and it's on to the next one.

In October we hit up the Desert Garden and spent a couple of hours hiking and looking at all of the different plants that grow in St. George.  The kids also went to the twins birthday party.  It was a ninja warrior party and all of them had a blast! Trey was even sore the next day :)

The picture below is of us waiting for Elle and the boys wanted to listen to TNT by AC DC.  My music rockers.

The picture below is of the party it was a load of kids and I'm glad I wasn't in charge of it. :)