Easter

I have really enjoyed the increased emphasis on celebrating Easter correctly. We started with a family walk on the beautiful spring evening.

We had a great Sunday meeting and then drove over to Nick and Emily's to bless Crewe and see them. We tried to pack a lunch, but it didn't work out so we had to feed the minions halfway there.

We were in a loose caravan with Rissa's group and Mom and Dad. Along the road, just past Leavenworth, we saw Rissa and Javi making a pit stop.

It is always fun to be around the lil' ones.

Rissa organized an Easter Egg hunt in the field next to Nick's. My kids were too cool to participate.

They did try to steal candy from the younger cousins.

Sofia took the easy way out.

Nick made a delicious dinner with root beer floats. Ryker approved of it all.

Brownies with ice cream was pretty pretty good, too.

Don't worry, it is only mud.

"Do what you want, but I have already won"

The teenagers and almost teenagers were "starving" so we made a late night run to the Bell.

We chilled and played pickleball and napped before taking the train into the city.

It was a Julio bobblehead night, and we didn't get there early enough, so we had to wait in line for a bit.

I love sitting and watching BP, and it is great that the kids are old enough now that they can watch it with me.

Nick, Hadley and Cambri got there about 30 minutes before first pitch with his brother-in-law and their twins. It's nice to be there with little kids who don't want me to be the one to take them to find food.

It was a nice, sunny day in Seattle.

DeA had fun, at least she said she did.

It was a fun time.

The ballpark is amazing, but there is way too much T-Mobile magenta in there. 

Spring Stuff

Right now, our lives are full of baseball, Knowledge Bowl, church and school stuff. 

Rock is going through the classic small high school dilemma of taking practice for fast pitching, but then facing slllooooowwww pitching in games. He's squared up a lot of pitches, but has also been so far out in front that I thought he was going to hit the England Chiropractic sign behind him.

The cheering section has always been on-point.

He got to catch a JV game and looked nails back there. He even threw a kid out to end the game (nevermind that the kid decided to hopscotch or something into the base, he still threw a perfect ball right on the base).

It got just a little chilly after the sun went down.

After months of asking, Ryker finally printed me something from Lord of the Rings.

We've had some nice evenings to hang out outside with the kids.

Jens is the only kid that still is interested in dying eggs, and that makes me a little sad, but not really sad because it can be a hassle, but still a little sad.

Sofia was mad to be left out.

We've been trying to get Leo Puppy and the cats to co-exist, but Leo keeps wanting to eat them. Horchata has zero fear of Leo and seems to taunt him at times. Amber Michi just chills in the garage at all times.

 

Amber did catch a mouse while hanging out in the garage, so DeA will let her live here for at least another year.

 

Busy Times

DeA and I took a Thursday morning to attend the temple in Moses Lake, then came home for Family Fun and Fit Night. We did a bench press competition. Max repped the bar for one.

Rock almost got the bar off of his chest.

There has been some angst leading up to baseball, Rock worked really hard all summer and fall to improve his game. He was nervous about how it would translate and if he would have the opportunities to show off his improved skills. He started the opening jamboree in left and had a walk and a run.

He celebrated by pulling an Uncle Nick in the parking lot.

Luca pretended that he didn't want to go to nursery, but as soon as I handed him a Scooby snack he immediately turned off the tears.

The weather got nice and Jens got to tethering balls.

The kids had to have pie for pi day, delicious razzleberry.

Rock had a doubleheader in Warden and started again in left. He had a few infield RBI singles, and ripped a screaming meemie right to the CFer who made his only catch of the day. In the second game, he missed the first few innings with a migraine, but after being way over medicating he was able to pinch hit in about the fourth and ripped a double over the RFer's head to start the winning rally.

DeA is having a hard time coming to terms with her babies growing up and wanted to hold them on her lap.

It was a little easier to hold Ryker than it was Rock

Teenagers, man.

We went up to Liberty Bell on Thursday and he again started in left but was moved up to the 2nd spot in the order. He struck out on a back door curveball that never actually backdoored, and flew out twice in a tight, fun game.

His Saturday games were rained out, and that gave us time to feed starving children. Quite a few youth from the ward were there, excited to pack some food.

After feeding the starving children, we took our less starving but still hungry children our to eat. They tried to teach DeA how to mouse her jaw or whatever stupid slang term they call it.