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.

 

DeA's sauna has been put to good use, I think we have used it once a day since it was hooked up.

Along the way, DeA decided to wear a hat in the sauna.

Rock's hair had grown to the point that it could be pulled past his chin. He got it cut and his mom is so much happier now.

It's fascinating to see the always cold DeA get hot.

Baseball season is finally here, and Rock has been playing catcher, second and left field.

He put in a lot of work in the offseason and early on it shows.

Rock and Javi's project bike is coming along nicely, and they have formed their own biker gang.

The first weekend in March reminded us that we are still in winter.

Thankfully, by lunch it already felt like early spring again.

DeA really liked wearing a hat, so she bought an official sauna cap.

Nobody can pull off the pathetic look like Luca.

He likes spoons.

Jens had her spring concert and rocked it on the flute.

Rock finished his hockey season with a house game. It was a good season for him and I think he had fun.

Spring Training!!

The schedule seemed to make sense to hit Vancouver for the Canucks and then drive down to SeaTac to fly to spring training. That might not have been the best idea, everyone was worn out and we were worried about crossing the border and feeding everyone. Eventually we got on the plane and everyone could relax.

We got to Whit's before Lakai went to bed, but he looked as if he wished he had gone to bed.

Hampa and Ryker took off early the first morning to get CFA breakfast. 

That helped Lakai warm up a little.

The kids might be getting too big to jam into the back of a minivan.

The first day of practice was a lot of fun, it was only Lakai because Whit made her older kids go to school.

We watched Julio and Cal and JP hit BP

Lakai explored the bleachers.

The kids seemed to have a competition to see who Lakai would like the most.

Gathering foul balls is one of the kids' favorite ST activities.

The girls bonded together to fight against the boys.

The nightly Culver's stop is always a hit.

Everyone came to practice on Thursday and the kids ran and chased minor league players.

I love now that the kids are older that we can sit and watch practice and talk about what is going on and they understand and learn from it.

Cami took her own infield practice.

Gang signs at Culver's

Cami thought it was funny to grab Rock's noodle hair with chopsticks.

Ryker's birthday was a big deal. He got a cool Bass Pro Shops hat from Uncle Stewie.

Jens and Madison got some pretty cool autographs, like Luis Castillo

Rick Rizz, the Voice of the Mariners.

Andre Munoz

We found even more foul balls.

Ryker's birthday lunch was at In-and-Out.

Stewie's kids definitely knew their way around an In-and-Out

We all went to Top Golf that evening.

Dad talked the waitress into bringing some birthday donuts.

Brando loved all of it.

Friday was a little bit of a recovery day, since kids were getting worn out.

Saturday started with some soccer games for MadBum and D-rell.

Ryker doesn't understand that he's getting a little too big to be a lap puppy anymore.

Because of the kids' sports, we end up going down right as games begin. We got to watch the M's play the White Sox in the worst spring training stadium in AZ.

It was a warm, sunny day and the game was a lot of fun.

Ryker might have put a little too much sunscreen on.

It was another great year, we missed Nick but it was still fun.

Ryker ordered some smart glasses for his birthday and, after some drama, he finally got them set up with three adaptors and like four cords.

We came home to 30mph winds and DeA immediately looked and plane tickets back to Mesa.