Spring Break!

The kids decided to go to Medford for Spring Break. DeA and I were exited for a relaxing week of work, but no trips to Oroville, Tonasket, or wherever for games. She was a little sad watching them drive away, but not that sad.

Our relaxing week started with a decision to drive to the Wenatchee hospital to cheer up Jaydin who had had an appendectomy a few days earlier. So, we drove down and visited for a bit. Then, on Tuesday, we had a call that one of our pregnant friends was in the hospital and needed stuff brought down and for another blessing. So, we coordinated with Dad who was on his way to Wenatchee from the temple and gave her a blessing and dropped stuff off, gave a blessing to Jaydin who was staring at another surgery for infections (didn't end up needing it!) and then DeA volunteered to have Dad drive Sis Kruse home from the hospital because she was tired and we drove Susan's care home (yeah, I probably could have just driven Susan in her car and saved Dad the opportunity to help, but things were confusing at the time). 

Our "relaxing" week was already not relaxing, but we had a nice night home on Wednesday. Thursday night was spent in the temple, which was very worth the drive.

They have a good teriyaki place that we've discovered and DeA likes that they have all the sauces.

Leo seems to miss the kids, occasionally we don't know where he is and he almost always was hiding in one of their rooms, or caves.

DeA assembled a bouquet for Laura and the new baby.

She killed a bird driving me to church, she was pretty proud of herself.

I think she likes pathways, but her face makes me wonder.

The kids came home and seminary hit really early that next Monday morning. But there was a pretty sunrise.

 

Goings on

Sofia found a willing sherpa to carry her around. She was in heaven.

Ryker's sleeping cave is coming along nicely, he installed some LED lights. He said that they are remote controlled, so to wake him up for seminary all I have to do is hit the button. I have a feeling he wouldn't really like that at 5:50 in the morning.

He definitely has a unique "bedroom".

Rock played Oroville and personally did well, although the wheels fell off as a team and they got blowed out.

The post-game huddle was extra long and DeA was ready to go cause a commotion.

I have a patient who really knows the best way to pay his co-pay.

Easter Basket Saturday was a big hit for the kids. DeA was a little bummed that Rock forgot about his basket because of his double header, but Jens and Ryker quickly looked for and found theirs.

Rock played great in his DH and caught both games.

The kids were excited to drive to Oregon to visit Ma and Pa Judd for Spring Break, and DeA was pretty touched when the kids said that they wanted her to come with them. They like having her around.

Easter Sunday on Conference Sunday is always nice.

The kids are a lot more reverent than when they were little, but they listen about as well.

Last year the donuts were crap, so we went back to the classics.

They turned out pretty pretty good.

Luca was a big fan.

Sofia could take them or leave them.

I guess Schoogies wanted some space to eat her Easter lunch.

She definitely didn't want to be over in that madness.

 

More Stuff

DeA finally hit her breaking point with the crappy spring weather, so she bought herself a cozy pod.

She gave it a test run on our front yard, and she was pleasantly pleased with how much the wind didn't reach her inside.

We had quite the Saturday, Jens and DeA went up to Oroville for softball and I went to Hartline for baseball. I have driven past Hartline probably 100+ times in my life but have never stopped. The field was classic high school baseball.

Rock played well in both games. In the 6th inning of the first game, ACH intentionally walked the bases loaded with two outs in a tie game to pitch to Rock, and he punished them with a two-RBI double into the left centerfield gap for the eventual winning runs.

Ryker and Hampa stopped to catch some of the games. They were returning from their Minnesota trip to pick up Ryker's new truck and apparently a fridge for Nama.

Three days of Canonball Run style driving seemed to have worn out Ryker.

Rock and Schnoogies had enough energy for everybody.

He slept right on through all the madness.

Horchata has claimed the patio chair as her new throne, and likes to sit and watch me read.

Leo Puppy was glad that Hampa was back, he hadn't been fed a hot dog in like four days.

Rock invited the Christensen boys over for some Sunday afternoon shooting. You can't be too ready in case the silly protests make it to the hillside.

 

A sleeping cave and more games

Ryker decided to renovate his room right before his trip to Minnesota. More on that later.

Rock had a game all the way down in Warden on a wet, cold, and windy day. He played well and had a few hits.

DeA was not impressed that they played the game in the wet, cold, and windy weather. But she was impressed with Rock's play.

Ryker decided that the best use of space in his room would be to build a cave under a working desk. He made sure to check that it could handle more printers.

It is quite cozy in under the desk.

We had a baseball/softball afternoon with games against Cascade. Jens started in RF on the softball side.

The baseball side had an acapela Schoenwald brother National Anthem

And a Rocko starting at catcher.

Jens had a walk, a HBP, and a strikeout in her 3rd ever HS game. Rock got HBP twice and took a few foul balls off the mask and was a little shaken up, but ended up finishing the game at 2B.

DeA enjoyed looking and feeling hot in her burrito coat out in CF trying to follow both games.

 

More Baseball and Some Softball

Nothing like loading up in the car on a Thursday and heading to beautiful Okanogan, the land of the cheaters for some league baseball action. Rock started at catcher and played well.

Manson played the should-be-in-class-1A Bulldogs tight, but had a rough inning and lost. The game ended when Rock fouled a pitch off his ankle, but neither ump wanted to continue umping and called it a fair ball. It swelled up pretty good and quick.

I like having babies in the office, they complain less than most of my patients.

Jensley had her first high school softball game and was pretty excited and nervous.

I cooked hot dogs from centerfield so that I could watch both games. She started at 3B and looked like a baller.

Dave and Lisa tried to surprise us by driving up Friday night and Saturday morning. Unfortunately, Lisa forgot to turn off friend finder and DeA was checking on Ryker's late night gallivanting and wondered why were Mom would be in Wasco, OR and driving north at 10pm and the surprised was ruined. We didn't tell the kids so Rock was surprised while playing 2B to hear his Grandpa Dave yelling at him.

Rock had a great double header with a 4-6 day and multiple RBIs.

Jens pitching an inning and threw a lot of strikes and gave up some cheap hits.

Jens made sure to teach Mama Zista and DeA the new dance moves.

We got a text from Rissa asking for help finding their brand new piglets. We looked for about an hour but couldn't find any trace of them. Max was a little dejected, he sat in the dirt saying "Dad tells me to shut the gate, but then he didn't shut the gate but he tells me to shut the gate but..."

I went over to Mom and Dad's to help Mom make gravy for family dinner when we got word that the piglets were spotted an orchard up the hill. We mustered a posse, jumped in the Schoenwald van and mobilized. It was an adventure to be sure, I have a mark on my forehead from a tree branch and scratches up my leg from the barbed wire, but Andrew was able to snag the first one and the other one was pushed back to the pen. It was a fun and successful old-fashioned pig roundup.

Leo liked the extra attention.