Ella's Soccer

This was Ella's first attempt at sports, and not to take anything away from it, but she's much better at dance. It was fun to help out with their team and watch them run around (or away from) the soccer ball. Go Purple Team!

Easton's Baseball

This year Easton was on the Reds. They did alright and had a good time during the season. Easton worked on getting better at fielding and hitting and is excited about playing again next year. "Hey batter, batter!"

Catching up (again) - Ella's Dance Recital

This is Ella and Peyton after their recital and getting their flowers. What a bunch of cuties.







Ella, Ava, and Peyton giving some cheese to the camera before the big night.

Out come the tonsils!

This past Friday Conner had to have his tonsils out. He was pretty apprehensive about it but didn't let us know about it too much. We went to the new Riverton hospital for the procedure and it was nice not to have to drive downtown to Primary's.

Before Conner and I got to play some Madden on the XBox before they took him back for anesthesia. This was nice for both he and I. As you can tell from the before picture, things were rosy.

Before

After

After the surgery the poor guy was in lots of pain and his throat was swollen and super sore. They had him stay there for a little while and then sent him home with some antibiotics and a giant bottle of Lortab. It's like they wanted him to form an addiction, but in their wisdom, it's kept him out of pain and in a better mood.

We're glad everything went well and he's really feeling a lot better a few days later.

No more strep throat, yay!!!

Easter and the New Nephew

Easter came and went, but it included fun-filled activities with all the kids and a new addition to the family.

First was the dying of the eggs.

Then it was searching for the eggs on Easter morning.

Then more searching with the cousins.

And still some more searching...

And then displaying the results of the searching. All smiles.

Also on Easter our little nephew, Owen Eric King, was born. And here's his big cousin playing mommy holding him while they came over for dinner last night.

She's getting good at it. And he's out for the count.

And earlier in the day Ella got a nice goose-egg shiner at a birthday party.

All in all it was a good week. I spent this one in the yard cleaning stuff up and getting some early veggies planted. Good times...

Some recent activity for us

We've been busy lately with school, work, and trying to get things organized around the house. We're finishing our basement in anticipation of the new arrival and the boys are going move to the basement.

We just went as a family to Cancun and then Michelle and I went to Austin, TX. Good times.

Here's some pics from sunny Mexico... adios.

I am slacking... and guess what?

WE'RE PREGNANT!!!

Well, Michelle is, but I did a lot of pre-planning work and pep talks to get us here.

Ok, that is a far stretch too. I didn't do that much. Michelle is 15 weeks along and pretty soon we'll find out if it's a boy or girl. Oh the wait...

TTYL