.more baseball and team pictures.

.a game in photos.

.spring sports.

 TJ was asked to play on a comp baseball team this year.  He had played a few years of T-Ball and a season of machine pitch, but nothing this intense.  We were actually approached by a few teams that wanted him to play.  Sports is quite the time commitment.  Practices weren't too bad, twice a week Tuesday and Thursday for an hour and a half and double header games on Saturdays.  The games were the killer part, sometimes we spent 5 hours at baseball games every Saturday!  For not having much experience with the sport, TJ excelled!  His best position was pitcher and he did great for such a high pressure position!  I would get nervous for him every time, but he always did great and was very proud of himself!

Soccer was nice.  Practices once a week for an hour on Tuesdays and the games on Saturday were always at the same park in Brigham.  We had to juggle games between Josh and I a few weeks when the times conflicted.  Gage is an awesome player!  He is very aggressive and goes right after that ball.  He scored a few goals this season!

.independence day.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think the 4th of July is my favorite holiday! I think that's especially true living in a small town. This year marked Perry's Centennial. They've had lots of activities throughout the year and the big party happened on the 4th. They even had fireworks for the first time so we were able to enjoy two shows that weekend!

I had ran my first 5K the week before in a couch potato to 5K program I did with our Relief Society. I didn't train as much as I liked, but I did lots better than I imagined I would. Josh was sweet and came and ran it with me. He such a great support like that. So, for the 4th I signed up the whole family to run the 5K...even Gage. Josh pushed Brynn in the stroller and the boys kicked our butts! Gage was first in his age division and I think the only other 6 year old besides his cousin Maren and TJ came in third. I just finished. :) They had a raffle after and TJ won a Perry City hoodie, I won cotton candy and Gage won a free breakfast!

Josh participated in the softball tournament again this year. His team had their final game Monday at 8:00. So, he had to go play that immediately after our race.

After the game we got in line for the benefit breakfast and used Gage's winnings.

The boys showing off their ribbons.
We stayed the entire morning until the parade at 11:00. I wished I went home to change and hated sitting around in my sweaty clothes. The kids loved the parade, as usual. Most especially Gage! This is my 10th parade attendance and Its been crazy to see how much the festivities have grown since our family rode it it so many years ago. I counted 58 entries this year! Elder L. Tom Perry was a special guest in the parade and spoke at a fireside the night before.

We took it easy the rest of the afternoon. We took a nap and tried out a new chicken Taquito recipe. About 8:00 we left for Brigham to watch the fireworks. We went to our usual location and met Shane and Angi's family there.

Brynn hated the firework show in Perry the night before. We wised up this time and brought her some muffs. They saved the day and she liked it this time.

Gotta get that traditional family picture on the lawn.

The show was fabulous! I'm always SO impressed. It was great. Brynn was pretty wiped out by the time we left. She was pretty content to lay in her wagon while we walked back to the car!

.boating and baseball.

Another afternoon on the boat. We brought Sam and Matt with us this time and tried out the new tube for the first time. I'd say the kids liked it. Brynn even got out for a ride and loved it. After we got her off, the boys wanted me to try and flip them off. That tube is hard to flip, but I did manage to send Sam a flying!

Too many pictures and looking back at the kids got me extremely motion sick. So bad that I needed to be dropped off. Josh took the kids back out for a little while longer. I got sick by a tree and sat on a picnic table swarming with bugs and pollen so thick it looked like snow. It wasn't the best time for me, but everyone else enjoyed themselves.

Thursday night we went to Ogden to see Josh's cousin Tyler play ball. Tyler was just drafted by the Kansas City Royals and is now playing on their minor league team the Idaho Falls Chuckers. The Chuckers were in town playing the Ogden Raptors and Aunt Kathy hooked us up with some tickets. Tyler was sweet to sign the boys mitts and also a baseball for each of them.

Tyler certainly has a bright future so we told the boys to hang onto their autographed memorabilia.

It was miserably hot, but of course so much fun! The game held the boys attention and Brynn loved running all over the place. Can't think of anything better to do on a beautiful June evening.