City Leage Baseball

The boys had a great year on their city league baseball team. Dillon played for the Pirates and Payton played for his favorite team "The Angels". Dillon played short stop and pitcher while payton played all over. My favorite position for payton was catcher. He was so cute!

Branding Cows

Casey took the boys to brand cows for the first time. The boys' job was to let a few calfs through the gate then pull the rope so one calf gets loaded onto the branding table.

On the 4th calf, Dillon's thumb got smashed in the gate, when the calf suddenly backed up. The end result? A broken thumb

After icing it for about 30 minutes, Dillon decided to go back and work. There wasn't anything we could do until the swelling went down, plus it was a weekend. On monday he got a full cast which he was to wear for 4 weeks. He thought it was cool, until he found out he had to forfit his spot on the All Star Team. Mom was bumbed!

Dixie Jr. Livestock Show 2010

The girls had a great experience this year at the stock show. They've become alot more confident in themselves around these 1300 + animals. This year they started there project early so that the animals would be alot calmer and well Kylee's steer was still a knot head. It just didn't want to listen in the ring and set up the way it was suppose to. Overall the girls still had a great time. Next year will be Dillons first year and I think he's looking forward to it. As for Payton, well he seems to think he'll be to busy traveling on a baseball league....we'll see! Here are some hightlight pics.

Washing the steers

Drying/Grooming the steers

In the show ring

Grandpa Blake and Casey

We are extremely appreciative this year for the Blake Appraisal Co. and Tita for supporting the girls in purchasing their animals.

Mariah's Science Project

We are so proud of Mariah and her accomplishments in school. Science is one of her hardest subjects and she went above and beyond this year. She completed her chick project and was even successful at hatching one bird. She placed 3rd place at her school for the 7th grade class and was invited to district and placed 5th! We were very excited!


5th place in the district for 7th graders.

Spring Break at Brian Head

During Spring Break, Ashlee and I took the kids and their cousin Blake to Brian Head to go snow tubing. It was the most beautiful day. The sun was shining, and the weather was perfect. We even had to shed some of our clothes. Here are a few highlights of our day.


Dillon and Ashlee waiting to get on the lift!

Payton running to get on one last ride before it was time to go.

Ashlee and Dillon

Mariah exhausted!

Look at Kylee's pants, they were about 6 inches too short!
This kid is always smiling.

Mariah didn't realize it would go that fast down the side of a small hill. Plus there was a little jump at the bottom.

Dillon tipped over on the bottom bump.

Blake

Ashlee and Payton

Me and the boys.