LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!

Last day of school for these kiddos! Goodbye 4th grade, 5th grade and sophomore year! Each of the boys earned the Honor Roll all year and even had a couple of Principal awards in there for straight A's. Emma earned her actual academic letter this year for her grades as well. She had dance the night of the award ceremony so we just took this pic after church. Tyler won the Tiger Buddy award. This award is probably my favorite - it means you are a friend to those around you who don't have friends and you are also kind to the special needs kids. Love all my little nerdy children! Goodbye School - Hello Summer!

BROKEN HAND!

It was quite an exciting way to end a baseball season. We are playing in our last tournament of the season for Ignite. Eli was playing left field and a ball was hit out to him so he was running and running to catch it and had to dive to try and get it and his glove got caught on some grass and so his body rolled over and snapped his bones in his hand. He was out there crying. He had to come in and the coaches were looking at it and told him it wasn't broken and that he was fine to keep going. They were icing it but it was time for him to bat again. He did not want to bat because his hand hurt so bad. Coaches asked him to just go up there and hold the bat - he didn't even have to swing, but this way maybe some runners could try and steal a base or maybe he would even get walked. (again, I am writing this post a year later so I don't remember what happened with his at bat - I know he couldn't swing it - but I feel like he struck out). The game finally ended and we all said our goodbyes until the end of the season party and I looked at Jared and said - something is wrong with his hand. He does not act like this. Jared wanted to wait and get him into the doctor during the week and I told him I was just going to drive him straight to the Banner Cardon's ER right now. Sunday afternoon at 3pm - it was awesome - no one was there and we got right in. They x-rayed him and sure enough it was broken. They said they see that kind of baseball injury a lot - it happens in the MLB a ton too. Jared like usual was home taking a nap while I was at the ER with Eli so when we finally got home we made Jared do dinner and Eli and I relaxed. We had to wait a few days to get into the Peds ortho to get a cast on. The type he had to get is called a clam cast and some how we all called it the lame clam hand - but pronounced really funny like. He was a real trooper missing out on swimming all summer poor kid. When Eli finally got his cast off his stunk so bad we are all dry heaving and he was disgusted by all the skin coming off and how tiny his hand was - ha ha!

SOPHOMORE MOPRO!

Sophomore Mopro - or Mormon Prom. Emma didn't think she was going to get asked since most of her friends had already been asked and she hadn't and it was only a couple of weeks away. So one night she had Taylor over and Taylor's boyfriend and his friend and they were hanging out in the backyard and then our doorbell rang late at night and I went to check it and Nate Bell had asked her. I went out back to go tell her to check the front door and she had no idea why and her and Taylor went and she almost started crying she was so happy and then her and Taylor started jumping up and down and screaming with excitement. Before Nate had asked Emma we were at his house and had a joke about how he would never go to the store and buy his future wife tampons so when she answered him we did two answers, one with a box of tampons that said I would be "super" excited to go with you- he about died. The other one was a trail of small rubber ducks throughout his house that led to a sign and an Oregon Ducks shirt saying how she would be one lucky duck to go to mopro with him.

Little did I know my life was about to get crazy. We had hardly any time to find a modest prom dress. I am pretty sure Jared and I bought 13 of them - no lie, no exaggeration. She didn't like any of them or they weren't flattering on her, etc. We finally found the dress - phew! She was a knock out in it too! Then I told her how cute it would be if they did matching vans - she didn't like the idea at first, but Nate did. Ya basically everyone loved them, you're welcome Emma! They didn't get to go on the day date because Emma had mandatory cheer practice. Jenn was nice enough to do Emma's hair that night!  For dinner, they went to a friend's house who's mom prepared it all fancy, went to the dance and then hung out afterwards. They even went matching tie shopping together one day. Emma seriously had the best night ever!! So fun and even better that it was Nate, one of her best guy friends!