DODGERS SINGLE A CHAMPIONS!

It was another good baseball season - the twins played on their own team without Eli this time and they were the "seasoned" players so they got to play infield a lot and really stepped up and played awesome! They we went undefeated the whole season!

Tyson

 Tyler

DODGERS (ROOKIE AA)

Eli finished another dual team baseball season - He played simultaneously for the Dodgers Rookie AA and the Chandler Heat. He did great - still waiting for his home run poor kid - he wants it so bad - triples just aren't good enough for him anymore - ha ha. He made great plays when he was focused, worked hard to throw better and worked on his batting form - he did awesome and had a lot of fun. I love watching him play the sports he loves. Like usual - for the last year or so - with Jared helping to coach and me keeping score - I can't video tape - I regret it at the end of the season every time because I am sad I don't have anything on video so he can go back and watch his growth. I don't even have any Heat pictures, but here are a couple from the Dodgers.

MY FART NUGGETS!

Just because these two are all mine, clean, in footsie jammies - what else are you supposed to do besides snuggle and take ridiculous picutres?!

THANKSGIVING!

We had a great Thanksgiving day today. It was the first year we were all alone with no one to share a meal with. It was the Rodgers year for Thanksgiving and grandma and grandpa flew the coop and headed to Caryn and Cade's house; all the Jensens went to their in-laws since it wasn't the Jensen year; and some friends invited us over but we decided to give it a whirl this year just us. I made my very first turkey - no thanks to Stephanie making me do it. It was kind of fun and yummy - I even made homemade cranberry sauce - what what!! We started out the day with the annual Turkey Trot but decided to let the kids run it with us this year, but then I backed out so someone would be at the finish line as each kid ran and Jared ran with the twins. Eli ran ahead of them and Emma and Maddie walked together - they did the 1 mile and the boys all did the 2 mile - I was very proud of all of them. After the race we went back home and started making dinner. I was smart and ordered rolls from Kneaders ahead of time so the rolls were done, we had mashed potatoes, corn, turkey, cranberries, stuffing, gravy and fresh frozen mint lemonade - we only made what we all wanted to eat. We set up a fun table out back and really enjoyed the time together. Afterwards, Jared took a nap while the rest of us watched tv and then it was back outside for dessert - smores pie, banana cream pie (made by emma) and apple turnovers with vanilla ice cream! It was a great day and we have a lot to be thankful. Love my family!

Eli finishing solo and first out of our family

 dessert time!

 Just so we are clear - that was NOT their time - they stood under there to be funny!

 Eli wanted to beat the turkey - maybe next year!

 these girls did NOT want their picture taken - notice they are turning around and walking backwards to avoid it!

BOOTCAMP!

Jared has decided since September to start joining me for bootcamp - well - the first couple of weeks he was a baby and couldn't go by himself - now he is a big boy and we don't go together at all - which is a good thing because 5:30am is to hard for me to go to. We are the fastest mile runners out of all her people and on Veterans day we went and did a special bootcamp at the Chandler Fire Training Facility and Jared and I had the fastest times there too!

 This might have been Norm yelling at me and telling me his grandma can do faster burpees - it's ok though, it was my second time doing the course!

 Ya, ya, ya - Jared's weights are heavier than mine - whatevs!

 One week Julie had a Throw-back Thursday workout and Darla and Jessica asked us to come dressed in 80's clothes! Jared said one guy was relieved to know that Jared was dressed up and that it wasn't his real clothes!

 Nikole and me -

 doing "maniac"

 planking...