Stuff...

Mike and Josh getting ready for the Boy Scout Triathlon.

They liked their numbers

Ready for the swim.  Like father like son.

Mike finished in 40 mins and Josh finished in 54 mins.  Josh is a little dsylexic.  Mike took 3rd in his division of 30 -39 year  olds out of 109 men and 12th overall and Josh took 109th out of 520 boys in his division of 14-15 year olds and 259th out of 1042 overall.  They both did a great job and are ready to do another.

Hailey ready for her gymnastics show.

Brauk had his field day where he competed in the dribbling contest, the softball throw, and the 50 yrd dash.  He had a lot of fun!

Brauk taking a break from field day to swing on a broken branch that was still connected to the tree.  Good Times!

Josh and Conner had PE during the time of the track meet so they came to watch Brauk.  They got all their friends to cheer for Brauk.  He loved it!

The Jr. High track championship at Safford.  Josh ready to throw the shotput.

Josh took first in the shotput with a throw of 42'8.  His goal was to throw over 40 feet.  He was so excited he beat his goal.

Conner lining up for the mile run.

Conner finished 8th in the mile running a fast 5:37.  He beat his personal record by 10 sec. Conner has worked really hard and it has paid off,  at his first track meet of the year he ran a 6:30 mile every meet he has been able to improve and take time off his mile.  He is so awesome!

Josh and Conner giving each other good job knuckles.

Josh throwing the discus.

Josh took first in the discus with a throw of 110 ft. 

Two first place medals. Way to Go Josh!

Enjoying the track meet and my boys!

Jacob doing the long jump and sit-ups at his track day!

Jacob and his good friends at the end of the year music program.

Kaitlyn's track day.  She took 3rd in the high jump.

Kaitlyn took 4th in the 400m.

Kaitlyn with some of her friends, Lacy, Maddie, and Lalia.

I thought this was so funny.  Brauk is cooking scrambled eggs for breakfast holding on to his car.  He loves cars!

My graduating Laurels.  I'm going to miss them so much.  Kelsey Smith, Jillian Innes, Gentry Evans, Natalia Wood, & McKenzi DeSpain.  Love you all!

What we've been up to...

Mike surprised me with a weekend getaway to see Wicked in El Paso Texas. We went with a group of friends and had a great time!




Jacob's first pinewood derby where he finished with a 3rd place. Way to go!



Hailey brought home her friend scruffy from school. She had to do stuff with it and then write about it in Scruffy's storybook. She had me take all kinds of pics of her and Scruffy together. Here is just one of the many. Hailey and Scruffy riding the scooter.


Thatcher Eagle basketball! Josh and Conner both made their grades basketball team. They had a lot of fun and did a great job.

Both teams had a great season. The 8th grade team which is pictured below won the 8th grade championship and the 7th grade team(pic didn't turn out) took 2nd place out of the 7th grade teams. Way to go boys!


Kaitlyn played city league basketball and made the all star team. She did awesome for her first time ever playing the sport. The all-star team.

This is what the girls woke up to on Valentine's Day. Mike really out did himself.



We love you Daddy!!

Happy Birthday Jacob Brady! He turned 9 years old.




This is our first day of spring break. Yes that is snow and a lot of it!


The kids enjoying the snow.

Happy Birthday Brauky. The big 7 year old.


During spring break, we made a trip to the Tucson Zoo. It's a lot like the Hogle Zoo in Utah. We had a good time. My little peoples had never been to the zoo before, so it was fun for them to see the animals. (As you can see the snow didn't last very long).


An anteater, I had never seen a real one. They were pretty interesting to watch.

Hailey loved this squirrel it would eat out of her hand.


The squirrel looks like its visiting with Hailey.

Gigantic turtles that didn't move unless the were sprayed with water.

It was so funny, when we were driving to the zoo the kids were all talking about the animal they wanted to see, lions, elephants, giraffes, etc. Brauk pipes up with he just wants to see an otter. The whole family is like what. They probably won't even have an otter. We all thought very random. Anyway here's the otter and it turned out to be everyone's favorite. It was very entertaining.
Rhino in the background.

Jacob earned his wolf badge. Proud mother!

Josh received 3 metals from his 1st track meet. Two golds in shot put and discus and a bronze in the long jump.
Conner, Kaitlyn and Hailey infront of the stage for the Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple. The Easter Pageant protrays the life of Christ. It was a neat experience for our family to see it.

On the temple grounds.

The Mesa Temple is so beautiful with tons of flowers and green grass, it smells so good!

Waiting for it to get dark.

Hailey infront of the beautiful flowers.

More waiting..
Some of the actors from the play...a Jewish leader.

A Roman soldier



Jacob playing with the camera.

Brauk with his colored eggs.

Hailey and her eggs.
The kids colored Easter eggs.

Kaitlyn ready for church. Beautiful Girl!