Opening Day

April 5, 2014
Baseball season is upon us! :) We were at the park from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm today. (With a 1.5 hour break in there.) Let the craziness begin! ;)  Both boys are playing for the first time this year.  Harrison in Coach Pitch and Jackson in AA Minors. They each had their first game opening day.  And they looked very strapping in their uniforms!  :) 

Opening Ceremonies, parade of teams.

 Harrison's game.

Coach Swain! It's coach pitch, so he is also our pitcher. Most of his pitches were hittable.  ;)

Sis having some fun of her own.  Very few things made her as happy as that bat did.  hahaha.

 Jackson's game.  He had a great 1st game! First season with kids pitching, so it was kind of different. But he made it on base 2 out of 3 times at bat (it should have been 3 out of 3, but there was some confusion about the rules.).  ;)

Mr. Grant having some fun too.  Love that smile.  This kid did so well, it was a long day!

This dusty dirty place will be our second home for the next couple of months.  And we wouldn't have it any other way!  :) 

The Box - A Kinder Musical

December 17, 2013
Cutest little show ever!  All about a box... and some imagination.  A castle, a house, a rocket ship, a fire truck, a pirate ship and a time machine... endless possibilities! Harrison was a fireman... a very cute fireman!  :) 

 Reagan LOVED the singing and clapping!  :) 

He even had a little speaking part.  :)

Handsome Bub did a great job in his first school program!  We are Super proud of you, Buddy!!  :)

All I want for Chrithmath...

December 15, 2013
He's the cutest kid ever, even without his 2 front teeth!!  :)

H loses a tooth!

Nov. 26th
Bub lost his front tooth!  :)  When it got loose he was so excited about it... and then so nervous about it when it came time to get it out.  (It was just hanging there, all disgusting and weird.  Something had to be done!)  ;)  So a little floss and some deep breathing and pep talks later... he chickened out on us.  Hahaha.  The next morning, on the bus going to school, it "fell" out and he was a good nights sleep away from being a dollar richer.  ;)

Woot, Woot!!  :) 

Fall SoCcEr & the BEST GAME EVER!!

Oct. - Nov. 2013
Harrison decided he wanted to give soccer another go, which was fantastic!  And as it turned out, one of his Primary teachers was putting a team together and wanted him on it.  :) So he got lucky and had a whole team of friends.  It was such a great experience and SO much fun!

Their team struggled a little.  They went nearly the entire season without so much as scoring a goal!  :/  They were getting a little discouraged.  But in game 8, the second to last game of the season, Harrison was bribed by me (yes, I'm that mom) with $20 for a goal (we were desperate!).  ;) And apparently money was the motivator that flipped the little switch in his head and it all just came together!  Hahaha.  It was amazing.  Like it just "clicked" and a miracle happened... down the field he went...

He shoots...

He SCORES!!

That face says it all!!  Saying we were "happy" for him feels like the understatement of the year!  Patrick and I both were SO excited for him!  (We were even admittedly teary eyed.)  :)

Everyone was screaming!!  I mean, EVERYONE!  Every kid on our team, every parent on our sideline! There was a serious delay of game for celebration!  :) (The other team probably thought we were all crazy, freaking out over a goal like that, but they didn't know how long we had waited to cheer!  How long our kids had been waiting to feel like that!)  :) It was SO incredible!  After watching them struggle ALL season to score, it was AMAZING!!  And of course, without skipping a beat, he runs over to me and says "You owe me $20!".  Hahaha.  I looked at him and said "Go do it again!".  He smiled at me with a grin of confidence we had been hoping and praying for all season!!  And said "Ok!".

....And sure enough, that's exactly what he did!!  :)  They WON that game.  The only win of their season.  In Harrison's words, "THAT WAS THE BEST GAME EVEERRRRR!!!".... it really was!  :)  I loved what scoring that goal did to him, for him.  He was a different kid, he had some swagger in his step, he was less timid and SO much more aggressive, he was excited and happy!  He has a hard time getting out there in front of everyone sometimes, I can honestly say that night was a turning point for him.  He discovered that he could do it, that he could be great, that he could be a leader!  He believed it!  And that is why it was THE BEST GAME EVER!  :)  

And a GREAT season!!  Can't wait to do it all over again! 

 CONGRATS BUDDY!!  :)

Everyday Fun...

October 2013:

These are some of the random things on my camera!

Our wonderful friends, the Bogle family moved to Texas.  :(  We were all very sad to see them go!

Grant fights sleep like it's the most horrible thing anyone could make him do... except of course when he randomly falls asleep at loud sports events with his hat on backwards and spit up all over the front of him.  :) 

Harrison likes to make things.  Forts, Lego cities, drawings... everyday it's something.  So, when he happened to see a couple of boxes that were headed for the garbage, he instantly claimed them.  With a little duct tape and some imagination they became his star ship.  :)

Harrison's artwork. It's our Salisbury Family. He loves to draw! And he did a great job! (The little banana looking things are babies in our family.)  But if you look real close, you can see who he forgot about! ....That's right, I'm the headless miniature character in the corner. Why is mom always the afterthought. Hahaha.

Jackson really loves to draw too!!  He is always drawing, I can't keep enough paper in this house!  But I love to see what he comes up with!  He has a lot of imagination!! (And there is always an underlying Star Wars theme in everything that goes on in this house!)  ;) 

The boys got their school pictures!  Such handsome studs, they are!  :)