Mother's

My sister Marilee (and her boyfriend Tony)

Marilee planned Mother's Day dinner at the restaurant she works at in Park City tonight.



Cole, Casey and Morgen enjoyed sitting by each other so they could play games on their iPods.




Morgen, Max, Mom, and Markus




Candie and the person she loves most in the whole world, my mom




Sheri was busy keeping Connor fed and entertained. He is one busy little boy!




Dessert Sampler




Even though Ashley moved from my sister Sheri's house, she still came to celebrate with Josslyn (who misses her so much she cries)




Monet bought a flat screen T.V. for my mom and dad as a combined Mother's/Father's Day gift that Marilee, Lara, Sheri and I went in on. My mom was very surprised and excited.



There are all different kinds of Mother's, happy day to all of them.

What do you call a double-double header?

A lot of baseball!!!

That is what I call it anyways. Markus had a double header with his accelerated baseball team out at the Copper Hills field today.

Snacks between games

Max also had a double header with his accelerated team today

And as it was scheduled, he played at Copper Hills as well.

They won both of their games by ten points.

Markus' team lost both of theirs by about the same margin.

They both had a fun day of baseball.

After the second game was called on the ten point rule, all the boys wanted to stay and play some more!

That is when you know that they love playing, after playing all day, they are asking for more.

The team:
l to r: (back row) Coach Jeff, Dusty, Camden, Easton, Pierce, D.J. Dakota, Coach Rob
(front row) Jake, Kaden, Max, Taylor and Alex

As if that wasn't enough, after coming home and doing all their chores, guess where Max and Markus wanted to go? The batting cages! They each batted five tokens worth of balls at Mulligan's to top off the day of baseball! Gotta love it.

Fun Run

Ready, Set, Run!

Markus was excited to run in the fun run today!

He ran at the front of the pack for the whole 1/2 mile run.

He came in eighth right after his friend Cache

Max took fifth for the boys and his friend Olivia took fifth for the girls!

Top five Sixth grade boys

Max and pals

Max S. has won the fun run every single year since kindergarten! His dad was the leader for each group of runners this year and ended up running close to 11 miles today. He is a professional runner for Adidas.

Perfect day for the fun run this year!

signs of spring

I could hear the birds singing when I planted some flowers today

 my magnolia is finally blooming

hanging baskets

tulips

What do you love about Spring?

Enough?

Guess what the boys do when they don't have baseball games or practices? You guessed it, they play baseball in the front yard. They just can't get enough of a good thing.

Happy Arbor Day

For Arbor day, Markus went on a field trip at school to Red Butte Gardens and each child in his class brought home a tree to plant. He planted his today in the front yard.

Bases Loaded

Some photos from Markus' baseball game

Caught the ball right in flight (left)

He hit a double... D.O.U.B.L.E!

He rotated between catcher and pitcher as well as first base in this game.

Markus and his Red Wing's coach, Jeremy.

So far this season, Markus' baseball team is undefeated. But the coach pitch ended today and the kid pitch begins - so that is a whole different ball game. Markus did great pitching in his first game this season and only hit one batter, his friend Sam from hockey. Oops.

May Day

9/11 Flag recovered from the World Trade Center

Where were you when you heard the news of Osama's death? I was downstairs when Max came running in from playing outside to tell me that he heard the news from his friends. After turning on the news to find out more information, it was hard to believe. It was almost ten years ago, 9/11 and now the news was saying justice had been served. I agree that this historic moment will bring some closure to families of the victims of September 11th. However, I was reading about it online and found this perspective: A teacher at Holy Cross High School in New York City was Father Francis Grogan. Father Frank, as he was called, was also a chaplain for the New York Fire Department. I guess you can figure out for yourself what's coming next. Father Frank was tending his flock on Sept. 11, 2001 when he died along with many members of his congregation at the World Trade Center. Father Frank was a man of peace, so I doubt that he would celebrate the death of his murderer. But I bet he would pray for the souls of the people that died that day and their families. He might also pray for bin Laden's soul and hope that it would find redemption. But I'm sure he would hope that bin Laden's death would lead to an era of peace between all the worlds brothers and sisters.

Busy Day

My sister Darlin's student, Lexi

Lexi took two figure skating tests today out at Acord and since Darlin had the SVFS club show tonight, she wasn't able to come down to coach her. So she asked me to go and help her through the testing process, which took four hours.

Lexi and her mom Jill

They live in Seattle but have been in Sun Valley for the past four months for Lexi to train with Darlin. She passed her first test and was within three-tenths of a point in passing her second test. Lexi has only been skating since last June and is very talented and athletic with a huge amount of parental support. She is already on the Juvenile level that most people take 3-4 years to achieve. She is going to train in Lake Arrowhead, California next month, with Michelle Kwan's coach and then she will be back in Sun Valley to train with Darlin for the summer. Lexi turns 13 next week and she is doing home school so that she can skate for five - six hours every single day. Along with ballet, Pilate's and off-ice training in her down time. Watch for her in the next few Olympics, I think she will go a long way in skating.

Max at his game against Crown Colony today

Even though it snowed four inches here, in Riverton the fields were dry enough to play baseball on so Max's accelerated team had a double header in the 40 degree weather. I missed the first game which they lost to Riverton 17-6, but made it in time to see the second game against Crown Colony, which they tied 6-6.

Bundled up Max up to bat

He had an RWI and a double 

My student Amelie was in "Bunny Hop" in The Wild Things Show tonight

Right after his game ended I ran back to the rink to help all my little bunnies get ready for the show tonight...

Amanda

My student Amanda during her "Save a Horse, Ride a Cowboy" program.

The show went off without a hitch tonight and then I came home to tuck Markus into bed and clean the bathrooms before collapsing into bed. Zzzzzzzzzzzz...

It's Showtime!



Toni and her mom Lisa




Daija and her grandma Susan



Some of my students from the Spring Show at the rink tonight and tomorrow...

Joseph and Nathan, two of the boy bunnies in the Bunny Hop





The Crocodile Rockers

Amanda performed a near perfect program and brought the house down tonight.

She borrowed my sister Darlin's cowgirl dress again and she really sparkled under all the spotlights!

More photos from the show tomorrow night...