I think out exchange student is fitting in nicely! LOL

I know, I know...im a blog slacker! just been alittle too busy for blogging but i did want to introduce our newest family memeber. This is Julian from Germany who has chosen to join our family for the next 10 months. Poor boy!! haha seriously...hes great and we love him already!

Home Sweet Home!

We have moved..

will post more photos once i have everything put away

Noah had an awesome season! Hes a great catcher and a pretty good Pitcher too.

He had 3 out of the part home runs as well.

 One more game to to go!

Sawyer's Game

Sawyer had an Awesome game last night!!!

He played 1st for the first time and had a great catch for an out and also got a grounder and a tag out.

Up to bat he had 4 bunts, 3 of which landed him on 1st

Way to go Sawyer!!!



Last Night Noah hit his 3rd out of the park home run of the season!

Coaches Award

Noah was presented with the Coaches award for the 5th graders yesterday!!

Way to go Noah!

A few weeks ago we made a spur of the moment trip down to watch a Diamond backs game.

At the beginning of the game I got a nice surprise when Hayden and Charlotte walked in and sat down!

It was just before Mothers day so this little trip and surprise made my weekend!

We didnt have enough seats to all sit togther so we bought two more seats for Noah and Sawher and they happened to be right in the first row of the section where all the foul balls go. They had a nice time getting to know the man who sits out there and gets those balls. Typically he gets the balls and gives them to fans sitting in that section. It took ALLLL night for ONE foul ball to be hit to him (this is unusual) but of course when it finally came in the 9th inning he handed it straight to Sawyer! Made his night!!

After the ball game they had fire works...

Which made this trip one of the best days ever for Quade!

Dbacks baseball live, fireworks, Hayden and Charlotte!

He was in heaven!!

Easter pageant trip

It was a very Quiet weekend at our house...

the ward took all the youth on a trip to the valley to see the Pageant.

Austin went with the young adults so it was just Quade, Rich and I at home Friday and Saturday.

Friday night the kids saw that pageant

Saturday the boys got to go and do their first baptisms

Taylor pointed out that maybe we need to get them black pants LOL

The girls stayed at one house and the boys stayed at a different house

what a handsome boy...

and then they all went together to the science center

They had a fantastic time!

Our New Baby...and our Old Baby

Special Olympics 2012

Its that time of year again....

we had the pleasure of attending the Special Olympics

Here is Quade in the opening parade

and here is Austin waving to the crowd

Austin took 2nd in the 400 but this little guy jumped up in the #2 spot

so Austin took the #3  position and it was no big deal! love that kid!!!

this is Austin and his Buddy Zane

Here is Quade accepting his #2 Medal in the 50 yard dash

Quade and his buddy Naomi

Taylor always helps out at the Olympics. Here she is with her buddy Tamara

There is always a nice sized crowd of supporters

Here is Quade going in for the hug with one of his favorite people

Coach London

Quade participated in the soft ball throw

Pretty good form??

Group shot at the end of all the athletes and their buddies

Signs lined the stadium that other students made

Austin with a couple of his favorite people

Jordan and Chandler (who made his sign)

It was a great day!

Our newest family member...

Meet Molly!

Character counts!

Yes Sawyer is a Character!

but that's not the kind of Character were talking about this time...

Sawyer received an award at school for having GOOD Character!!

Its always nice to get a little reassurance that your kids are as awesome as you know they are!

Spring Break....

We did a really quick spring break trip to the valley

went down on Tuesday and back on Wednesday.

Just Rich and I and 4 boys so we had to do "Boy stuff" but it was fun! We went and played Lazar tag, went to jump street two times (video below), did some shopping, ate at some great restaurants and then did a tour of Chase field.

It went by really fast but we got a lot in in those two days.

Here are the boys in the dugout

Cute picture of my Sawyer boy

Here is video from Jump street, I was actually pretty impressed with my boys skills!

Special day...

Today was a special day for Austin

He was able to go through the Temple

So very proud of him!!!

Love you Austin bud!

Time flys.....

My Sweet little Babies have grown up right before my Eyes

I can hardly believe they are 12 years old today!

It's really just not possible because I'm sure they were just born the other day....

and now...they are headed to 6th grade, Invited to attend Mutual, Being ordained Deacons, Passing the sacrament, can go to the temple, are almost in Jr high and almost teenagers!

when did they grow up? they still look like taller versions of the very same boys in these pictures.

oh help.....