New Family Member

Meet our newest member of the family: Brown. 

His hobbies include playing the piano, looking up girls in the first grade year book, and word searches. He also begs for math homework on his days off.

He is rumored to be the 2nd cousin of Tom Selleck.

  Get some rest Brown.

Sour on Baseball

Eric is practicing with the 8u travel team right now.  The coach is so nice to us and so inclusive.  He even lets Lisa practice and makes a big fuss over her (make no mistake Lisa is good though).  Although it sounds fun as a parent playing games in St. George, Reno, and Las Vegas, I’m about to pull the plug on this whole thing.  Six year olds don’t need to be playing travel baseball.  Baseball has become ridiculous.  I only want my kids to be well rounded.  I’m not really sure what the end game is because I don't care if they high school baseball- I want them to play high school golf.  I wish I would have played golf in high school.  Golf goes with my world view of herding these cats into becoming engineers.  Anyway,  the kids are all having fun right now with all of the playing and practicing.  I'm having fun too.  I'm doing my best to keep it that way.  I love baseball and I don't want the kids burned out by age 10.

Lisa- Lisa is playing softball for the first time.  She likes it a lot.  She is making a lot of new friends and she is very good.  We should have played her up at 10u, but being the first time we did not know the level of competition.

David- is participating in the primary program this Sunday for the first time.  When I asked him what his part is he said: “The prophet has commanded us to pay his tithing.”

Wendy- has been busy canning salsa.  I love canned salsa!  We have three recipes we use that are all different. I can’t touch salsa sold in the store anymore.  Wendy has also been involved with some Farmington City issues.  I think she should run for City Council.

Dad- I feel lucky I have a job that requires no stress and only 40 hours a week.  

Also- another thing that makes me happy- I’m getting feedback that Lisa and Eric are very well behaved in school.  I expect this from Lisa, but I’m pleasantly surprised with Eric.

Biking Rant 

I was out on the Legacy Trail the other day when a group of 4 men on their bicycle started yelling at this woman on her bicycle as they passed her, I think, because she broke bicycle etiquette somehow.  Let’s get one thing straight. Biking takes zero athletic ability.  It’s something old people like me do to stay in shape.  It’s like bicycling is turning into the new church basketball.  They all think they are athletes. 

OK, yes I feel better now.

Courtney's Wedding

Our family had a lot of fun at Courtney's Wedding last night.  You could really tell Shannon went to a lot of work to plan this.  They picked a really nice venue.  The food was spectacular-- barbequed stake, chicken, brownies, ice cream etc. Most of all, our family had a lot of fun!  We took a lot of pictures.  I will have to steal more pictures off Shannon's blog.

"Don't mess with our sister!"

Gangnam Style

 

Eric and Lexi

Lisa and Emily were attached at the hip the whole night.  Josh was really good at dancing.  Lexi looked darling!

State Tournament

7 11 2013 was the last day of the state tournament.  I have been taking half-days off work all week. Monday and Tuesday Eric was at the field playing at 3:30 and did not stop until 9:00 at night. 7 10 2013 against Mt. Olympus the team played its best and crushed the ball.  Today Eric had a fantastic game.   He hit well,  ran well, and fielded well.

 Funny memory- Farmington Invitational Consolation game last Wednesday- Eric eating his sandwich in one hand and glove in the other as he ran out to the outfield.

 Fun memory- Eric having a lot of fun during the cooler 7:00 games.  Eric yelling at us when he was headed toward the dougout that he caught two balls. 
Eric made a lot of new friends.  Too bad only two of them go to his school.

Stepping up up to the plate against West Jordan

 

 

Ireland giving Eric high-five after score

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eric running bases after he hit a line drive over second base

 

 

 

 

Coach Jensen ordered pizza and a Mom brought drinks, oranges, and dessert.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad cringes looking into the sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Team pictures before game

After the last game

Bryan bought them all cupcakes with their number on it.

Bobby McGuire and Bryan Jensen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Farmington Invitational

This last week Eric  played six games and had one practice in just seven days.

The team split a doubleheader with Centerville, split a doubleheader with F1, beat Millcreek, and lost to Mt. Olympus.  They play a doubleheader again this Wednesday.

 

Pictures of Eric in 103 degree weather.  He has been tough.

 

 

 

 

Awesome Play

Eric had a doubleheader today.  Memorable play- this whole season I have wondered how fast Eric really is.  He doesn't hustle, and no one has ever challenged him.  We have the kids do drills in the back yard, and they have him run in practice...  At a critical juncture at the game, he was a base runner on third base.  The batter hit the ball down the third base line, Eric started trotting towards home plate.  Eric looked behind him as a very athletic third-baseman made the catch and started to run down Eric.  Eric looked like he saw a ghost and put it into high gear and outran the third baseman all the way up the baseline.  He beat the fielder by inches all the way to home plate.  No one has ever seen Eric run that fast.  Eric's score made them one run away from tying the game. We ended up scoring two more runs that inning to end the game.  It was awesome!

Update

The last couple of posts I doubled up on some of the pictures Wendy already posted. Wendy is good at capturing what the family is up to, so I think I will primarily post odds and ends, what ever I want to rant about, and small updates.

Dad- Is sad he is no longer coaching baseball.  I had a lot of fun. 

Wendy- Everything is GPP, even though the Stake President said not to do that! Ha! Ha! Ha!

David- “Us is Hungry!” He said this as we were driving out of the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon on Sunday.

“Is the Holy Ghost Creepy?” Question at FHE.

Eric- While Eric attended nursery during church, I used to joke with Wendy that as far as girls go, it will be downhill from here on out for Eric.  The Nursery leaders were the H girl and DH and they would always give him hugs and kisses and all of the attention in the world.  Now in kindergarten, he has these girls that like him.  I call them “Barbie” because a couple of them (i.e. the Poulsen girl) look like Barbie dolls.  Now I joke with Wendy “after the first grade, it will be downhill from here, you can’t top Barbie.”

Lisa-I find it mildly amusing three boys asked Lisa to marry them this year; However, if this trend continues, I’m going to homeschool her. 

Sorry David – nothing to report for you. 

With all of the parties and stuff going on with the kids I worry that they are being over stimulated.  So, I decided we are going to make the kids pull a lot of weeds this summer.  I told Eric and Lisa they could either practice baseball in the back yard or they can pull weeds.  They all decided they wanted to pull weeds.  Eric was getting into it.  As his hands were full of weeds with the roots sticking up- “I was born to pull weeds!”