Jack's soccer debut

We went to watch Sawyer play soccer and his team was one guys short. Nate is the coach so they suited Jack up to play with them. Nate giving Jack a quick lesson on how to play soccer and pointing to the goal.
Sawyer looks after Jack and makes sure he is alright.
Jack got right in there and was aggressive to get the ball. That's my boy!
The first play of the game Jack took the ball all the way down the field to score a goal. It was so cute and funny because he was the littlest and youngest player on the field.

I like this picture of Sawyer patting Jack on the back after his goal.
Then Jack got a little shell shocked and embarrassed from everyone cheering for him after scoring the goal so he sat out and pouted the rest of the game. Well it was fun while it lasted!

Memory Lane

We went to Vic's surprise birthday party in Malad. It is always great to see friends we haven't seen for a while that had such a big impact on Cort growing up. Trevor, Victor, Shane, Chris, and Cort.
We also drove clear to Holbrook and drove past the house that Cort grew up in. It has changed a lot and the guy that lives there was getting suspicious with me hanging out the window taking a picture of his house, but it will be fun to be able to remember this old house and show our kids.

Mountain Biking in Moab

I invited myself to the "guys weekend" much to Nate's dismay (he just doesn't like competition). I just couldn't stay home not knowing if it would be my only chance to go this year. So I crashed their party (well I guess I made Cort's party better). My Mother in law was nice enough to take our kids for the weekend. We rode Slickrock on Friday and Porcupine on Saturday.
Cort and I at one of our favorite places on earth!


Kyle was awesome at downhill riding!


Single Scotty... any takers???

Bob and Scott prefer to walk their bikes on the trails.


Surprisingly we didn't have any Chinese people stop my dad to take his picture and talk about what a good looking guy he is this year. What a stud!

Porcupine is such an awesome ride on a full suspension bike. Cort riding down some pretty steep boulder drops.

But Cort won the award for the most crashes! He got pretty broken up a few times, and his bike is pretty much broken to pieces too.


Tough Nate...

Moab is so beautiful. We had to stop a few times to have a photo opportunity.

Can we go anywhere without these guys wanting a shirtless photo together?

My dad, Scotty, Nate, Kyle, Cort, and me!

Good times! Thanks for letting me tag along on your guys weekend it was a blast!

Baby Animal Days

We love baby animal days at American Heritage Center! This year there were even baby bears! Jack was so excited to see them- his favorite animal to act like is a bear. He really wanted to buy one and take it home to our petting zoo and didn't get why he couldn't have a bear as a pet.


They had fun on the train.

The petting zoo was fun but Jack and Hank have about all the animals at home that were there! I had a little scare with Jack at the petting zoo because I thought he was with Chelsie and Sawyer and we got separated. A few minutes later I found Chels and Sawyer, but no Jack. He was nowhere to be found! I almost started to panic while we all split up searching everywhere for him. Luckily Shannon ran back to the train and saw an information booth so ran to it where Jack was just sitting eating a bunch of candy. He had started walking back to the train and someone found him and brought him to the booth. That might be the worst feeling in the world as a mom! Jack didn't really mind though, he just kept asking if he could go back to the booth to get more candy!

These baby ducks were so cute! This is one animal Jack doesn't already have. He has been asking me if he could have one ever since we got home but birds kind of FREAK me out!

I'm really surprised they didn't all squish the duck to death! We don't take turns very well...


Thanks mom for the fun baby animals day!

Totalled Truck!

We are counting our blessings this month after Cort rolled his truck two and a half times. A few days after we drove to California, Cort left to work at 5 in the morning and it had been snowing that night in April. The snow plows weren't out yet and the roads were really slippery. Cort was in four wheel drive and was driving really slow when his truck started fish tailing. He let off the gas and his truck flipped around, hit the ditch bank and rolled off a pretty steep edge into a swamp. He was only about two miles from our house when this happened. Luckily he was wearing his seat belt and luckily his truck flipped around the other way because there was a steel post through the passenger side window and through his jacket that was laying on the seat up through the roof. There are so many things that could have gone wrong that didn't and we are so blessed that he is OK and walked away from this without a scratch. All the windows were shattered and luckily he was still able to roll the shattered window down and crawl out. His truck was in about two feet of swamp water, so luckily he didn't hit his head or pass out in the water. He was pretty shook up and shocked after the accident but after going back to look at the damages of the truck it was pretty amazing that he was not hurt.
Where he rolled off the road in the swamp.

Going back to collect his garage sale of stuff from the truck.

The totalled truck and damages.


We are so blessed that Cort was alright!

Beach Day

Our last day of freedom was spent on the La Jolla beach.

I love family beach pictures!

Cort and the boys- so cute!

Jack decided he would collect shells to bring home to everyone and spent the whole time finding the perfect shells for Granny, Pa, Kyle, Baby Ben, and Sha Sha. This is what he came up with...

Shannon's shell is the pistachio shell that Jack found on the beach just for her!

Happy Easter!

This Easter we were driving home from Disney Land and got to stop in Mesquite at my BFF's house. It was so great to hang out with Mary and Tyson and their kids. They spoiled us and we had such a good time!
We took the kids to feed the ducks.

Tyson caught a lizard and told Jack he could bring it home (thanks) Jack was afraid of it at first so I told him he couldn't keep it because he wouldn't hold it so he just picked it up and was carrying it all over. So I had to let him bring it home... lucky me?

Sweden is so fetching cute! She was not afraid of the lizards at all! Her and Jack had a great time getting to know each other. I think we could possibly arrange a marriage here.

Mary even had a easter egg hunt for the kids. They got a TON of candy for the ride home!

Eating a Easter breakfast.

And to make the day even better Sandi, my other BFF stopped by on her way home with her kids.

It is so much fun to see my friends and their kids. They are both so cute and such good moms! Love ya girls- let's do something together soon with Meg too, maybe like go team driving with each of us in charge of the brake, gas, blinker, or steering wheel. Or we could walk around town being "hanger buddies" or go pee in the high school bushes for old time sakes, catch stray cats and put in people's cars, saran wrap cars, ice and oreo cars, play night games at Benson, or walk from Sandi's to Mary's house with our eyes closed, or sleep in the parking lot of Big J's, or jump naked on the tramp and make another pact... We had so much fun together and will always be BFF's! Thanks Mar for the hospitality and SO good to see you both! Love ya!

Sea World

Right hand, left hand, SHAMU, SHAMU!!! If you have ever been you know the cheer! We were sitting right in the middle of the arena pretty close to the front and thought for sure we were going to get soaked, but luckily we didn't even get wet! The Shamu show was so awesome!


Hank loved to look at the Sea Lions, he did not want to leave and hung on to the glass wall for a while looking at them. What a tough little kid!

Jack's favorite part of the whole day was seeing Elmo and Big Bird- he thought that was really cool!

Chilling in the chariot after a couple really long days.

After Sea World we went to a restaurant to eat and both the boys were dead asleep the entire time- this doesn't happen with my boys if you know them, they have NEVER slept in public so they must have been REALLY tired! We had a great time and were sad to have it end.