Fun Day

Xavier is a total video gamer so I decided we would have a day out. I took my 4 kids and Alexandra's friend bowling then to the store to get a small pool and slip n slide. I think every one had a great time. I even heard Xavier say it was better than video games. Yeah!

New lawn. Where are my kids?

Ava, Alexandra, Eli, Xavier, Winslow.
That's right. They are in the front yard where grandpa has mud. Lovely.

T-Ball

Xavier with Royce

Batting Left handed

Derek is coaching Xavier's T-ball team, the Cardinals. What a great Dad. I am adjusting to not being a part of everything the kids do. Alexandra's swimming and soccer and now Xavier's T-ball. Maybe it will prepare ME for Xavier going to Kindergarten. I do get to go to his games. I wasn't sure what to expect but I was still surprised at the game. Every kid gets to bat each inning, there are no outs so everyone runs the bases regardless of what happened to the ball after they hit it, and everyone plays on the field when the other team is up to bat. It was pretty cool. Since Xavier was last to bat the first inning he got to run all the way around without stopping. Home Run!! Xavier likes it and I can tell he has made a few new friends.

The backyard

Xavier, Kaylee, and Eli

Our backyard has been driving us crazy. besides the fact that it looks horrible the amount of dirt that comes in is maddening. And it isn't regular dirt, it is like ash. So take a few kids cover them with baby powder then send them running through the house. Our solution, Sod. Instant lawn. Almost. We, and by we I mean mostly Derek, his friend Manny, and I spread 24 cubic yards of topsoil in one day and laid 3000 square feet of sod the next. Xavier spent a long time helping shovel dirt into the wheel barrows. We also put up a fence, set 13 railroad ties, and planted climbing plants along the fence, ground cover, flowers, and vegetables. I hope that everything grows OK. I do have a bit of a brown thumb. I have never grown vegetables before so we shall see. I had considered having the hill leveled before we put in a lawn but I am glad we didn't, the kids like rolling and running down as well as slip-n-sliding. I love my backyard!!!

Alexandra's Baptism cont.

Now that Alexandra is 8 she chose to be baptized. I thought it was pretty cool that she asked my dad to do it because he baptized me 21 years ago in the same church building. He then confirmed her a member of the church and she received the gift of the Holy Ghost. She is such a wonderful girl. I would probably be lazy and stay home from church more often if she wasn't so excited about going to church every Sunday. She always reminds us to say a family prayer in the morning as well as read our scriptures. She is a great example for her brothers and sister.

Don't they look handsome.

Diggin in the dirt

We have spent the last 2 weekends figuring what to do with our yards and then creating it. Everything is so expensive; fence, sprinkler system, dirt, sod, plants, trees. So far we have put in fence posts. Derek and Berto dug the post holes. I did my best to help Derek cement them in. i had asked my dad if he would do some more cement for a patio. He said no but when I went ahead and dug it out and got it ready he offered to do it. I figure he didn't want someone else to do it and mess it up. He had other cement work to finish up and it didn't take as much time to pour as it would have to prep. My dad refers to cement as weed control. Derek thinks we will have the backyard done by the end of the month. That would be so awesome.

Alexandra's Baptism

May 3, 2008 What a beautiful girl.

February 1, 1987


Yeah that is me, mullet and all. Why, why did my mom have my hair like that? She liked the look of "feathering it." Yikes.

Xavier loses another tooth

Xavier lost his second tooth. It has been hanging in there since his last tooth came out. And I mean just hanging there. He went to bed with it under his pillow and woke up with 4 One dollar bills. He was so mad. I mean furious and I couldn't figure out why. He just kept saying they are just ones. Did he expect them to be fives. he even went as far as ripping one into pieces. Finally i sat down and asked him what he thought was going to be under his pillow. He explained that he didn't get any gold coins. Ahh! Last time he got the new golden dollar coins. So after a little distraction I told him to go look again and sure enough he had two of them in his pillow slip. Completely changed his attitude. He was so excited that the tooth fairy had come. So I ask myself should I keep trying to right things instead of letting him deal? Yes, they will have enough disappointing experiences that I am going to do the best I can.