Ice Skating!

For Bella's birthday she wanted to go ice skating!  The boys had never been before and for me it's been over 10 years since I had been on the ice...luckily for me it's like riding a bicycle and I did fine once back on the ice.  The boys actually did pretty good!  Trey was nicknamed crazy legs because his legs just did funny things out on that ice, he had 2 huge bruises on the inside of his knees from the awkward way he skated using the bucket's assistance.  Tucker got frustrated because he didn't pick it up automatically and ended up falling quite a bit, but by the end of the session, he was working it out on his own (because he would just rather get frustrated and fall than take advice from anyone).  Ty actually really liked it, he did good on his own just pushing the bucket around, but it was much better if I just did all the work for him, so I spent much of the skating hunched over pushing him around in circles!  This is definitely something we want to go do again.

My baby's playing t-ball!!!!

That's right my baby played t-ball.  He was the youngest and smallest player on the team, but he did great!!!!  I was so proud of him and how far he came throughout the season (which games ran from the beginning of May to the end of June.)  I coached his team along with Kim and another dad and our team rocked it!!!  We all had a blast and Ty can't wait for next season!!!


  Ty is 'baseball ready'

It's a long run to 1st base!

His reward for playing so hard

It's always necessary to slide into home!

Yep that is me out there too!

 This is what baseball does to a 3 year old!

Easter 2013...at a glance

Finally lost another one

Back in the end of March (I'm slowly, but surely catching up on things) Trey finally lost his 2nd baby tooth...this tooth like the last one was hanging in there for way longer than it should have been, but he pulled it out on his own and was very excited!!

Video of Ty Running

Here is my Ty running!!!!  He was so stinking cute!!!

(Finally 4 years later I have finally accomplished posting a video....it always gives me trouble...)

A different sorta St. Patty's Day Celebration!

This St. Patty's Day we did something different to celebrate...we (me, my brother, Jenny, Issac, Kim, and her mom) ran in a 5K.  Then after the adults ran, there was a kids run. Tucker ran the older kid race, which was 1 mile and he was awesome!!  Then me and my 3 boys all ran in the half mile race.  (Trey could have totally ran the 1 mile race, but was nervous because parents we not allowed to run with kids, so he only wanted to do the one I could run with him....but about 5 seconds into the half mile race, Trey took off and ran the entire race himself...he did great!!).  Then Ty..I wasn't sure how he was going to do with this running thing, but just ran and ran and ran...it was so cute because he was just weaving in and out of people and ran the entire way to the finish line. I was so proud of them and they were proud of themselves.  Gramma and Grampa were there cheering all of us on and they stayed downtown and watched the parade with the grandkids, but Kim and I had to run off to a baseball meeting!

 

It was a pretty awesome day and I definitely think we are going to do it again next year!!

(oh and as far as my time, it was pretty good... 29 minutes 41 seconds...especially for being a 100% flat course...I have a harder time when there aren't any hills...but it was still good...my goal was to be under 30minutes and I did it!!)

 

3rd Quarter Awards

I'm proud to share that both of my big boys received another Gold Card at the 3rd quarter Renaissance Assembly!  Not only are they good little athletes, but are awesome students too!!

School District Wrestling Tournament

Both Tucker and Trey participated in the school district wrestling camp and tournament!  I was so proud of Trey for getting out there and doing his best.  He ended up taking 2nd place (but honestly the kid he lost to I really do not think that he lost the both were wearing pretty much exactly the same thing and they had the same hair color, so I'm pretty sure they got the points wrong a couple of times...but whatever...I just had to throw that out there ;) But Trey did great, his biggest thing was if the other kid was getting up, he would just let go and start over, so he gave up a lot of points that way, but other than that, he did awesome!  Tucker, did awesome and took first place for the 2nd year in a row.  It was a fun way to officially end the wrestling season for Tucker and give Trey a taste of what it is like to wrestle someone besides his brother.

So proud of Trey

Look at him getting in that half!

Tucker wearing his new CO singlet...he rocked this tournament!

Tucker1st place (2nd year in a row) and Trey with his 2nd place ribbon...I promise he was very excited, but he was just being a stinker about smiling because he was is a 'wrestler' :)

Trey is RaNdOm!!!!

Trey is my random/funny child!  He always says the most random things and is always cracking us up.  He brought this home from school awhile back.....

"I enjoyed the animal that was attacked by the hunters because he was ridiculous."

Oh that boy :)

State Wrestling Tounament 2013

The 1st weekend of March Tucker wrestled in the State Wrestling Tournament (Saturday was regular state and Sunday was Rookie State...1st year wrestlers only, so Tucker only wrestled Sunday....I think he would have done a great job at regular state, but nerves and emotions got the best of him).  I still (even 2 and 1/2 months later) feel like Tucker pretty much got screwed over...but sometimes in wrestling things just don't go your way.  He was so excited and pumped up, but he had to wait over 2 hours for his first match and then he ended up having to wrestle the kid who took 1st Place on Saturday in regular state...this kid was a great wrestler...there was no way in heck this was his first year wrestling, just the things this kid knew there was no possible way...but...anyways, Tucker fought hard, but those dang emotions got in the way and he ended up loosing. 

 

He handled his emotions and came back and won the next 2 matches, but then he freaked out again because he thought he was going to wrestle the first kid again, even though everyone explained to him that he would not wrestle him again, he just wouldn't listen and went into his match against another kid with the mind set he wasn't going to win...so despite his effort, he couldn't manage to pull off a win.

 

He did end up with 4th Place and despite all the crap, I am so proud of him! To say wrestling is tough is an understatement...and adding in Tucker's extreme drive to win...it was a long season for everyone emotionally!  Our club team did end up taking 1st place overall in Rookie State!!!!!

 

It's nice to have a break from wrestling, but we are already thinking of next year...where I could possibly have 3 wrestlers (Tucker and Ty want to wrestle, but Trey is still on the fence about it....I don't blame him...he knows it's going to be a lot of hard work!)

 

Tucker ended his first official season of wrestling with 18 wins and 8 loses.  He had 2 - 1st places 4 - 2nd places 1 - 3rd place and 1 - 4th place (and if you add his two school district wrestling camp tournaments, you add 4 more wins and 2 more 1st places!)  I'm so proud of him and if we can work on controlling his emotions next year he will have an even better season!