Kait's Tuck

Kait tumbling. Thanks Uncle Justin for taking the video.

Cookies For Santa

Kait has been quite the baker. She found this cute reindeer cookie to make so we made them for Santa. She says that we should make them every year for him. I guess this will be a new tradition in our house.

Happy Birthday Uncle Ryan

Okay Ryan here was the cake we made for your birthday. Sorry you were not able to enjoy it with us this year. Kait did a good job baking it for you! Hope you had a great birthday.

Stick It

Kait has been working on sticking her round-off backhand spring back tuck for awhile now she has accomplished that goal. It is so pretty, she was able to do it last year but it was very flat and not so pretty looking. Her tumbling has come so far this year she has never tumbled strong. I will be taking video of it and posting it soon.

Soccer Tournament Newhall

Makay played very well in this tournament. He scored 2 goals in 1 game.

Where Did The Time Go

It seems like I just posted, but when I looked at the date it was last month. It has been very busy I guess. Kait and her cheer team were in the Bakersfield Christmas Parade, their float took 2nd place. She had lots of fun, on the float. Makay has been busy with soccer. This past weekend he played in a tournament in Newhall. His team placed 2nd overall out of 12 teams. It looks like this will be a great year for the team.

Magic Mountain Cheer Competition

Kait and Columbia Cheer attend the Sharp Magic Mountain Cheer Competition. Columbia took 1st place in their division and also won Grand Champion. Kait entered the best tumbling and took 1st place. Her pod also entered a stunt down and also placed 1st. Kait enjoyed going to Magic Mountain she rode many of the roller coasters with her friends and had a great time.

Soccer Tournament

Makay played in the Fall Tournament, he scored 5 goals in 3 games that his team played. His team placed 5th out of 12. Makay had fun and is looking foward to playing on his Spring Select team in a couple of weeks.

Soccer

Makay has decided to try out again for Spring Select Soccer again. Try-outs were held to tonight and we will find out by next weekend what teamhe will be playing for.

Oral Language

Makay and his group for oral language placed 2nd in the school competition and the will be competing in the district competition on Dec. 10, the piece they did is called Baloney it is really funny and they have some cute actions for it. He will now be practicing to get ready for that.

THE WINNER IS....

Cat in the Hat. Makay's mummy was finally judged. He got 1st place and is eagerly waiting to go to Cold Stone with his teacher.

Frisbee Golf Tournament

Ty entered a frisbee golf tournament, it was not the best weather. It rained during the first round. Ty placed 2nd in his age group. He was very excited! They played 2 rounds, the 2nd round he improved his score by 8. He has only been playing for a month and is doing very well.

Football Game

Kait cheering another Columbia Football Game.

Mummy

Makay had to decorate a mummy barbie. He could do anything he wanted, he chose to do The Cat in the Hat. He had a lot of fun decorating his mummy and his hoping to win a prize for it. The winners get to go to Cold Stone with his teacher.

Student of the Month

Kait was the Oct. Student of the Month for her class.

Frisbee Golf

The boys went out and played frisbee golf this weekend. They had fun if even though the frisbees were not the greatest.

Hair Bows

Here are a couple of the hairbows that I learned to make. They are super easy to make and are so cute. I think they look cuter in person. Kim next time you are here in Bakersfield I will show you how to make them.

Soccer

Wow!! Makay was on fire today. Makay scored 3 of the 4 goals for his team today. He did a great job today. He played 1st quarter as center foward and scored 2 goals, 2nd quarter he played defense, 3rd he played foward and scored 1, 4th he played goalie and did not allow any goals to be scored.

Boys Day Out 2

The boys finally got to shoot the gun. Makay had been looking foward to this for a long time, he could hardly control himself. Both boys liked the gun and had so much fun they can hardly wait to go again.

Football Game

Kait cheered at her first football game. She had fun even though it started raining. She loves wearing her uniform so any reason to put it on makes her happy.

Family History

Well we have started doing some family history. We started with only a few names and now we have close to 150 names. We are checking and inputting them so that is keeping us very busy. We are very excited about this. Since we started just 2 weeks ago.

BYU Night

Wow! Tonight Ty and I are going to BYU night. It is a fireside and they let us know about the requirements to get into any BYU school. It seems like just yesterday I was dropping him off at high school and now we are already planning for college. Boy the time seems to fly by. Oh wait I did just drop him off at high school. But the time does go by so fast.

History Day Again

Makay has decieded to compete in History Day again. His group has 2 girls and 2 boys and they have decieded to do a preformance this year. Which means that we will be building sets and finding costumes and props on top of all the research and putting together the script. The group has set the goal to win State, which will not be easy because the division is 6-8 grade. It can be done, a group from their school placed 3rd in Nationals 2 years ago. Right now we are in the research stage and narrowing down our topic. History Day is a year long project, but Makay loves it and is really looking foward to all the work. He still talks about meeting Ben Kuroki and his experiences from History Day. These are memories he will never forget and that is worth all the hard work.

Back To School

Back To School Night at Liberty High. I can hardly believe that I have a kid who is old enough to attend high school. Where has the time go, it seems like just yesterday I took him to his first day of school. Ty is really enjoying high school and is doing very well. He is looking foward to all the things that come along with high school. He really enjoyed attending his first football game. Go Liberty!

Soccer Game

Makay playing goalie.

Makay on a breakaway. Makay had his second game of the season. He played goalie and blocked some awesome shots. He made a deal with his coach if he played goalie he wants to play foward or mid also. He played 1st and 4th quarter as goalie and played 2nd and 3rd as a foward. He scored once and had several shots at goal. I think the coach has a tough choice to make on where to play Makay.

Fish for Dinner

Last night we cooked up some of the fish Ty caught for dinner. Both boys liked it and said it tasted like chicken. Ty put B-B-Que sauce on it. I was very surprised that they were both willing to try the fish.

Labor Day Fishing Trip

Ty went fishing on Labor Day, he said he was feeling lucky. He caught 2 fish. So I guess he was lucky and now he is going to have fish for dinner.

Columbia Cheer Camp

Kait at cheer camp for Columbia. She had lots of fun learning the routine and was very happy to know that she was going to be able to fly. This is her favorite. She also does some tumbling which is her next favorite thing to do. She is really looking foward to the season and can hardly wait for the competitions which she really loves.

Boys Day Out

Ty, Makay, Bubba, and John all had a guys day where they went to the gun range and practiced shooting. Makay loved it and was so proud of his target that it is up on the fridge. Ty has gotten pretty good at shooting and even tried Bubba's gun this time. Kait and I spent the time at her cheer practice. She wants nothing to do with guys day out.

Recap of Week

Ty spoke today at church he was little nervous but did very well. The first week of school is now behind us. Ty said that it was not as bad as he thought it would be, so far we have not had much homework, math and spanish. I am a little rusty on the spanish it has been over 20 years since I took spanish hopefully I can help him. Makay loves 6th grade and is already looking foward to History Day again. We are already working on it. I must be crazy it is a lot of work but he really enjoyed it and is so excited about history that it is hard to not get excited with him. Kait loves her teacher and was excited that she got the class job that she wanted.

Hectic

Wow we are so busy with everyone's practices and stuff. I thought that once school started I would be able to take it easy. The day starts early since Ty now has seminary I get up to make sure he has a good breakfast and is ready to leave by 6:50. I then have a few minutes before Makay and Kait need to be up, then I get them breakfast and make sure they are getting ready for school. John or I pick up Ty and take him to school and the other gets the other 2 school. When everyone is out the door I have time to get things done that I want to. After school is crazy! Kait has cheer practice on Monday for Columbia and also Dolphins so there is only a few minutes to eat and get homework done for her. Tuesday we have tumbling. Wednesday Makay has soccer and scouts, Kait has cheer and Ty has YM. Thursday Makay has soccer. I guess the only day we do not have anything is Friday, but now that Ty is in High School there will be football games and stuff that he will want to go to. Sat we have soccer games for Makay, Kait has tumbling and will have to cheer at football games. John works Wednesday-Saturday so it makes it a little hard for me to get everything done but the kids all work together to make sure things are done.

Wow the first day of school. The house is so quiet today. John and I went to Barnes and Noble this morning and then came home. Everyone was excited and a little nervous this morning, John dropped off Ty at Liberty this morning. I walked Makay and Kait to their school. Kait has a lot of her friends so she was very excited about that. Makay as the same teacher this year as he had last year so he already knows what to expect. Hard to believe that this will be the last time Makay and Kait will be together until High School. My last year with kids in only 2 schools, next year they will be in 3 schools.

School shopping

Wow school starts on Monday. Try school shopping with 2 boys who could care less if they had new clothes and 1 girl who can shop till she drops. We are finally close to being done. Everyone got stuff to at least start with. The boys just till me to pick out stuff for them, however I did have to take them to get shoes. Never try to do it all in 1 day with boys. Kait was so mad with them for not wanting to look at everything. Kait has turned into a good bargin shopper. She is so excited when we find deals she likes to figure out how much we saved and is proud of all the deals we found for her.

Just Getting Started

We are just starting to get this up and running. It is hard when the kids are always on the computer. Soon school will be starting and I will have a little free time when the computer will be free. Ty helped and is very excited to help keep it going.
School starts on Monday!!!! Ty is going to be a Freshman at Liberty High (scary), Makay is going to be in 6th grade and Kait is going into 4th.