Serious about camping and baseball

A couple of weeks ago our friends called us to invite us camping with them. It's the same family we camped with during Spring Break. Avery and their son are on the same baseball team and their older son plays and Justin plays. We all assumed baseball season would be over for our teams by then as the playoffs would be going on and we were all banking on all the teams not making it that far. We sure know how to make things interesting! All 3 teams continued to win through the playoffs. Great for baseball, bad for camping. It got to the point that we would lose our money if we canceled, so we just kept waiting. Thursday evening Avery's team and Justin's team both played at the same time. Although Justin's team did a great job, they couldn't quite deliver and their season ended that night. Avery's team, however, won again making it so she had to play Friday night - the night we were supposed to leave camping. Kirk was determined to still go regardless of what happened. We met our friends at the game Friday evening and we both had our trailers ready to go. The Mariners won AGAIN!!! So, our friends, feeling it would be too much to go camping AND make it to the game the next morning at 8am, took their trailer and headed home. We, however, drove to our campsite only to set up camp, eat dinner, shower and go to bed. We had to wake up at 5:45 to leave by 6:30 so we could get to the ballpark by 7:30 am for our 8:00 game.

That is where the season ended for the Mariners. They ended up being the third team in their division! Way to go! What a season!

So, the Forrest's headed to our campground at that point. Made for an interesting start to our camping weekend.

Saturday ended up being very warm and the place we stayed at (Rancho Jurupa, the same one we stayed at during Spring Break) has a really fun water park that the kids got to enjoy after lunch







The boys getting ready to watch the water dump on Avery.

We camped with another family that the Forrest's know.

Left to right - Tyler, Justin, Avery and Anthony

Climbing the rocks while drying off.

Heading back to our trailers.

Of course baseball!

Devin playing his own version of baseball.

Dinner. Justin, Tyler, Anthony, Avery, Aidan

Sunday morning fishing. Really? Think we can catch something this time?

This is the other family we camped with. Jenaia, Ryan, Tony

No fish caught in 10 minutes? Forget it. Let's climb some trees!

Hmmm. If we push this table over here maybe we can get up!

Success!!!! A trout caught with a hot dog?! Congrats, Kirk!

Renewed interest in fishing now that there really are fish in there!

Our group riding our bikes back to our trailers.

Kirk actually took all this stuff on his bike!

Another fun trip! Let's do it again soon!

Father and Sons Campout 2011

From what I hear it was a fun time! This year Kirk took Devin and he had a blast. Although, it was cold and even rained a tiny bit, the kids had fun. It was a big turnout and the kids each had friends there to play with. They even caught some fish! Here are a few pictures Kirk took.

Small, but doable tent for the three of them. :)

Derek Scott, Parker Chase, Rick Chase and Justin

Devin with his buddy Tyler Bahen

Bedtime!

Justin, Jake and Luke Draeger

5th Grade Project

Justin had a state project due this month and part of it included making a big cookie with edible things to indicate mountains, rivers, etc. Justin was assigned Utah. We made a snickerdoodle and this is what he ended up with. Chocolate chips for mountains, butterscotch chips for Zions Nat'l Park and Bryce Canyon and blue frosting for some lakes (with the Great Salt Lake having sugar crystals). Looks like a yummy Utah!

8 IS GREAT!

This past weekend Avery was baptized! She waited an extra 2 months so that she could share her special day with Lexi (her cousin). It was a very special day. We started out early with her baseball game. Had time to go home, change and relax for a short bit and then headed over to the church. My cousin Linda gave a wonderful talk on baptism and Grandma Winn lead the music. Uncle Mark, Aunt Sylvia, Matthew, Grandma Sumida, Grandma and Grandpa Winn were all there to support her on her very important day. Mike and Nick were the witnesses. And it was so nice to have more family to be in the circle to confirm her! After the baptism we headed over to Damian and Tandy's house for a wonderful luncheon. It was a very yummy and beautiful spread!

Congratulations Avery, for taking the first very important step in your eternal progression! We are so very proud of you!!!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures we took of the girls in their special dresses a couple weeks prior.

Devins Mothers Day program

On Friday Devin's class put on a Mother's Tea. They sang us songs and read from a book they made. It was a lot of fun to watch my cute little Mev perform. He did a great job! And he read his part perfect. After the program we had strawberry shortcake and pudding to choose from. Devin and I chose the pudding. Yum!

This is what Devin wrote on his page. I must have just taken him to the park because I don't do it very often. :)

Notice how huge he made me there in the middle. Yikes! I choose to think it's because I'm the center of his universe and not because I need to drop some lbs. Ha!