Mother's Day and Softball

We sure love our DeA, she is the bestest and we are so lucky to have her.

We went to the temple on Tuesday and enjoyed the day there together.

Rock is limping to the end of the early morning seminary/school year.

Our evening walks are one of our favorite things about spring and summer.

DeA always looks pretty, but she looks especially pretty in the sunsets.

The cats have killed at least a dozen mice and now they have added a snake to their kill list. Bit that thing straight in half.

Jens had her first game in Wenatchee and was so amped up that she could only sleep most of the way instead of her usual all the way.

She pitched an inning and was nails!

From far away, you might not understand how serious she takes her pitching.

She takes it very seriously.

It isn't all focus...

It's also whatever this face is.

She had three at bats and saw one hittable pitch, which makes her strike-throwing performance even more impressive.

All the strike throwing and walk drawing wore her right out.

Apple Blossom and Mother's Day

Apple Blossom is one of my favorite weekends of the year, even though it is busy and stressful. The royalty always comes and visits. 

Sometimes they even let me wear their crown.

I was the MC of the pageant again and got to dress up for "Into the Wilderness", but it kind of looks like "dress like Hampa Dale Day".

Dad was in charge of the pancake breakfast and nailed it. Mom seemed to enjoy walking around and showing off Sofia.

The sourdough pancakes are still undefeated.

We were finishing up when the entertainment showed up.

Someone bought the boys swords, who would be foolish enough to do that?

Our candy crew isn't quite as cute and little as they used to be, but they still get the job done.

Having not learned out lessons in previous years, we drove into Chelan for lunch. Town was stupid, it was hot, the food and being with the kids was good, but they were exhausted.

Everyone was exhausted.

The crazy morning and afternoon wasn't enough, we still had the community softball game in the evening. DeA enjoyed holding Sofia but did not enjoy the annoying player that kept waving to her.

The solar super storm created some incredible northern lights.

It was absolutely incredible to see the sky perform like that.

Evening walks are back!

I hope that DeA had a great Mother's Day, she is an incredible mom and spouse and we are all so deeply blessed to have her in our lives.

Luca brought me a freezer-burned popsicle, had me rinse it off in the sink, and then hid in the cubby to eat it. Who knows what is going on in that kid's mind.

The weather has been very spring-ish.

Like I said, who knows what this kid is thinking?

Rock played well in their last playoff game, had a perfect sac bunt, advanced the runner beautifully on a hit and run, and then got ump'd in his last at bat.

Leo helped me move the snake. He stood behind me as a lifted him by the tail and placed him in a bucket. After the snake was contained, Leo pretended to be very bold and growled at the edge of the bucket, but never quite over the top of it.

Dad even watches from Narnia while at track meets

Ryker only did two events because the hurdles are scary and they wouldn't let them use a 6th grader on the relay team. So, obviously he did the high and long jumps because using his long legs and endurance for the 800 or 1600 was too easy or who knows why.

He has shown some great improvement overall, we are very proud of him!

We got their pictures back, Rock went with the "hey ladies" look

While Ryker went with the "Hey, LAYDEES!!" look.

On the Run

Ryker had his home track meet, it was very track-meety.

I feel like he'd be faster if he didn't wear the undershirt, but he doesn't believe me.

On Thursday we had a doubleheader in Omak. I truly wondered why I was driving to Omak in this weather, but Rock promised that it wasn't bad at the field.

He lied, it sucked and was wet. He got to play second and did really well, looked like a natural infielder.

It was a gross, muddy, and cold. He hit a solid single in his last at bat.

Friday was softball and then Jens' birthday dinner at Company Creek. 

Nama made her Dirt Messert for her birthday cake

Without DeA around, Ryker's cup collection kept growing.

We had a ward cultural activity on Saturday and I got to represent Argentina, with Jens' help.

I think we bought the cheapest pinata in the world and then filled it with too much candy. It lasted about three whacks.

Our Argentina centerpiece. 

Rock decided to have all his friends over after the party, they ate a lot of pizza and drank a lot of root beer.

Rock had a playoff game against Tonasket. He was the DH and kid of liked only having to worry about ripping the ball.

He had some good at bats, and almost had the game-winning RBI if the ump had been paying attention to home plate.

Luca seemed to enjoy yelling.

Ryker loved using Sofia to stay warm.

We won a wild one in extra innings, the first playoff win in at least 20 years.

Wednesday we had softball practice and then did service at Bettie Kenck's. At least I think that is what this is called.

Ryker had another track meet in Brewster and did the long and high jumps. 

He also tried the hurdles with zero training. It went about as well as you'd expect someone with zero training would do.

We have been pretty busy and worn out, which led to Rock falling asleep like this one day.

Jens had softball on Friday, and then the boys met us in Chelan for some Friday night pizza.

Saturday was more playoff baseball at Liberty Bell. Rock DH'd again and hit it hard, just right at someone.

Tanner discovered that the hand-operated scoreboard was unguarded and helped himself to it. He seemed to be in heaven.