Xavier's Game

Xavier is playing Coach-Pitch baseball this summer. Adam is his head coach. They had a rocky start but did tie their game on Thursday! If the kids would have thrown the ball home instead of to 2nd base they would have won, but at this point, we will take a tie.
Xavier played catcher and loved it! He was able to get a couple kids out which made him quite happy.
He also got on base for the first time. (I was VERY excited for this moment, he was getting so discouraged it was nice to see him get a hit.)
Here's one of our goofy spectators. He insisted on wearing a hat for some reason, I'm assuming it was because both brothers and his dad had one on...what a little follower.

Book of Mormon - Optimus Prime style

I found this website the other day and saw this CUTE tutorial on how to cover a paperback Book of Mormon. I decided to do one for Xavier since he has been a tad jealous of Damon's fancy scripture set.

We couldn't do the cute flower one that is featured in the tutorial so we did a "boy" version with Optimus Prime instead. Luckily, I had everything we needed for the project so it didn't cost us a thing. For the cover, I used Google Images and had Xavier pick out what picture of Optimus Prime he wanted. I had downloaded a font that was similar to the Transformers font for the title.

Xavier also asked me to make him a bookmark too, everyone else in the family has scriptures with the ribbon marker and he really wanted one as well. Before I glued the cover to the front, I glued a ribbon down the middle of the spine to be used as a marker. I think that is actually his favorite part.
Its a simple little project but really fun to do. If you want one, you can probably talk me into making one for you too...I'll even let you request your cartoon character.

There must be something dead...

About once a week or so we see vultures flying over our house. I'm guessing the empty lot next to us (the one I dream of buying and building a pool house on) must be a good place to find dead or close to dead animals.

Today we had two vultures, flying very close. This is the one that was up above (unedited and not zoomed in) and there was another one flying even closer to ground. I couldn't get a picture of that one...he was even faster then this one.

Xavier's Family Party

We had a little get together tonight for some friends and family to celebrate Xavier's birthday. Although some of our usual guests were missing, we had a great time and Xavier received some great presents. A lot of presents about bugs, so I have a feeling our summer will be very buggy.

Damon's 1st Baseball Game

Fun was had by all at Damon's 1st game of the season! I was a little nervous of how bored Xavier and Aiden would be but where there is dirt to be played in, little boys will be happy. Xavier and Aiden were covered from head to toe in dust. It is nice to know that they will be able to keep themselves entertained during each game but we will definitely be having baths after every game, no question about it.I'll admit I was a little nervous for Damon to play. He hadn't been hitting at all during practice and he didn't the day before when Adam was working with him. But this is the face of a boy who just scored for the first time in the season. He was so happy.

He ended up scoring twice, he missed at bat the last time he was up. Other then that he did great, even made a couple good plays, that if I knew anything about baseball I would tell you about.

Xavier's Kid Party

Xavier invited two friends from school to go to Time Out Corner. They played mini golf, ate hot dogs, potatoes chips, cookies, and drank lots of soda, they also played a lot of video games. The boys had a great time and Xavier got a very exciting gift...an aquarium thing that he can't wait to put a tadpole in! Yea!

Colorado Springs - Day 4

Monday morning we slept in a little bit and then drove down to Royal Gorge, something that Adam really wanted to see. The bridge was built in 1929 and is supposed to be similar to the Brooklyn Bridge. The main reason the bridge was built was to be a tourist attraction, which seems crazy to me. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. They had a carousel, incline railroad that took you down to the bottom of the gorge, a trolley, a petting zoo, shows and a band, and an aerial tram.
For dinner we met up with the Mitchells one last time to go to The Airplane Restaurant. It was a lot of fun and the boys loved it.
After dinner we went to Seven Falls. And YES my pregnant body walked up all those stairs. I don't know how long my legs were shaking after but it was for quite sometime. And I just think this is funny...Aiden loved this toy magazine and looked at it the whole time we were in the car, even during diaper changes.

And a special shout out to Chad, Tricia and all the kids for entertaining us and showing us around Colorado Springs. It was great to be with you and we can't wait to see you again, even if it is going to be a whole year!