D-Back game

Friday night we were able to go to the Diamond Back's game with some of the families from Kyle's school class. We had a lot of fun... but due to the time that the game started we left in the seventh inning stretch... AND James and I had to carry Ryan to the car because he was fast asleep, I swear the car didn't seem that far away going to the game. Who moved it while we were in there?

Here we all are (well except me because I'm taking the picture) before the game started.

Here's the team mascot(?) yeah I don't know why they've got a cat I thought they were the Diamond Backs, a snake...

Kyle's teacher Ms. Brekke.


Kyle just hanging out with his friends.


Here are the ten kids from Kyle's class that came to the game, with Ms. Brekke. I hope there's extra credit for this...

Basha Family Fun Night

Tonight was Basha Elementary Family Fun Night. All of the classes were asked to make a basket for the silent action. I'm the room parent for Tylor's class, so the theme for their basket was family game night. I think it turned out good for the first basket that I have made. The school end up with about 30 baskets. Some were put into a raffle and the rest were actioned off.
Along with the baskets, the school has games to play and food to eat.

Ryan had fun playing the games that they has set up. I did try to get a picture of Ryan coming down the side but my camera is not that fast or was Ryan too fast coming down. I didn't get any picture of Tylor because he was with his friends. James and Kyle were at home, because Kyle was sick.

Easter

Is it me or is it hard to help the kids remember the real meaning of Easter?
It is nice that Easter is a Sunday Holiday, at least then they get some more of the real meaning of Easter from other people too. Don't get me wrong I enjoy the more secular parts of the holiday I just wish that they didn't dominate it as much as they seem to. I don't know but I guess what I'm trying to say is that when I think of Easter of the Resurrection I think of everything Jesus did for us and then I think of my own life and where I'm at and where I want to be.

We try to keep the whole egg and bunny stuff low key each year. On Saturday afternoon the boys colored eggs along with James and I. I only got a pictures of James and Ryan at the task.






Saturday night before bed Ryan got out the eggs we'd colored as he wanted to make sure that the Easter bunny could find them easily.

Here are the boys hunting for Easter eggs. As you can see they don't carry around their Easter baskets but instead just try to hold as many as they can as they try to pick up more eggs.




After church Ryan and Kyle took turns hiding Easter eggs for each other (while the other one waited in the play room) and then they'd help the one looking find some of the eggs they'd hidden... priceless...

Another season of sports

Tylor is back playing soccer again.



Tylor just kick the ball but the camrea was too slow.



Kyle is playing flag football for the first time and loving it.





Ryan is playing coach pitch baseball for the first time and loving it.



Ryan is in the outfield playing second base.

Ever get a song stuck in your head?

Friday April 2nd, 2009...



Sunday April 5th, 2009...

Spring Break

So even with Kyle under the weather and on those darn sulfur based antibiotics that make it so he couldn't spend hardly any time in the sun, we were still able to get a few things in besides bowling.
We went on a tour of the Chandler Police Station with the Bear den (I'm the den leader). We were able to see the holding cells and Tylor and the bears sat in them. The cells are only about 3ft by 3ft with a cement seat in them and that's it! I totally forgot my camera, and missed getting photos of the boys in the holding cells... I should always remember my camera. We also got to see the firing rage (it's under the ramp to their parking garage -they didn't waste any space in building the station). We also saw the mock house they use to practice in. I think all of the boys loved seeing the police station. Kyle and Ryan wore their "badges" (stickers) for the next three days straight.
During the week I did break down and take the boys to McDonald's for lunch once and then back another day just for ice cream so the boys could play inside. And all three got a lest one play date with a friend, during the break so it wasn't all sit at home and stare at the TV... (Thank heavens!)
James and I got to see Les Miserables on Friday evening at The Phoenix Theatre. James surprised me with the tickets for Christmas. We both really enjoyed the play /musical. The Phoenix Theatre is much smaller then the Portland Civic Auditorium -where we saw it before (think about the same size as most chapels for seating capacity). Which made it so you could see the actors faces, unlike the huge auditorium we were in before. As I said before we both loved it and were really impressed with the performances. The only issue was that it STARTED at 8pm and it's a three and a half hour play... so it was a late night. Luckily we had some great friends from the ward watch the boys for us as all the youth were on the trek (where they pulled handcarts through 6 inch deep sand). So luckily Dan and Jamie were willing to hang out at our house for like 4 hours so we could go as nearly all the youth were out on trek.

Bowling

We went bowling on Thursday afternoon.