happy {six} to alex

9.9.14

TREY'S BLESSED

Trey man was blessed in September! The whole family couldn't travel to Cali so I thought I would just go by myself and make a little getaway out of it! I love to spend as much time as I can with these babies (and their parents)!!!

FLAMING GORGE IN AUGUST!

Flaming Gorge with our Friends, The Hood's, was an absolute blast once again! 

TREK

Tyler and I went on our first Pioneer Trek! 

It was extremely exhausting but equally amazing. Trek is something we do with the youth of our Ward in hopes they can come to realize what the Mormon Pioneers went through coming over the plains to Utah. We dress as if we were pioneers and pull carts just like they did. We walked for 3 days, 23 miles and 69,000 steps pulling handcarts in the heat of the summer. The youth have awesome experiences along the way and their testimonies are slowing being created. Tyler and I loved the time we spent with the teenagers of our Ward. They are some amazing kids. We have to wait another 3 years but we are already looking forward to the next trek, plus next time will be with our own teenage daughter (aahhh)!

I made this little video for all the kids.

2014 BASEBALL SEASON

With being a new Bishop and me pregnant with Triplets, Tyler didn't coach last year. Which was torture! But he definitely wanted to coach this year. Well not just anyone can coach. All the coaches that coached last year got first pick at being a coach again and they just didn't need another coach. We were so bummed! But the night before tryouts we got a phone call that they just added another team and Tyler would be the coach. We were elated! He went to tryouts the next morning and picked his team. 

Well the Colorado ROCKIES ended up being really good (probably because they had awesome coaches)! The Rockies took first place in our league. It was seriously so much fun being on the winning team. 

Drew also played double headers every Saturday on the accelerated team!

So because the Rockies won, the league chose Tyler to coach the 8U Allstars. This meant that Drew got an automatic spot on the team and they held a tryout for the other players. It was such a great experience for Drew and Tyler. Copper Hills 8U Allstars took 2nd place in our first tounement. First place in our second tournament. And 4th place at State! It was a serious blast for the players, coaches and of course the parents!!!!

Alex also played! Unfortunately Tyler could not coach both teams but Alex ended up with an amazing coach. At the team's first practice, I texted Tyler (who was at Drew's practice) and told him that our son pretty much sucked. And maybe he should pay a little more attention to our second son.... But when the games started Alex blew us away! He's a great little hitter off the machine and he rocked 1st base. This kid continually surprises us. 

Even though it is complete chaos for 3 months I cannot wait for next season!!!