Just Because He's So Cute!

Caleb is learning how to write letters now! He is very happy that he can write his name in both upper- and lower-case letters. So happy that when he found a swim ring, he blew it up and drew on it!

He came into the room one day while we were doing homework and was very proud of himself for writing this whole paper. (Notice the blue nail polish on his fingernails!)

Volleyball - Our Favorite Sport

This season of volleyball was definitely a good one! My team made it 4th in the tournament. That's pretty good, except that we lost to the most pathetic teams. It made us all feel better that everyone was cheering on the team we lost to because they didn't want to have to play us!

The Legacy Center volleyball season only lasted 6 weeks, which is kind of short! We only played half of the teams, so I was kind of disappointed. There are Club volleyball teams, but they are really expensive, so I never even dreamed of going for it.

However, my Legacy Center coach called me last week and told me that the tryouts were yesterday. We went back and forth for a long time, because nobody wants to rent the house so we don't have a ton of money right now. My dad said that I should just tryout and see what happens, especially because somebody was going to rent the house. Then, when they backed out, it was back to a 'no'. But THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Oma Cheryl for talking my dad into it! We decided that with contributions from grandparents, money from my savings account, and money from the Football DVD's I'm selling to Nate's football team, we will have enough money to pay the half down payment tomorrow night.

Pros:

1. It is a 6 month season

2. Fees cover everything, including uniforms and tournament fees

3. Its a really advance program and you have a specific position that you play, not center-set rotation.

4. It is really close! Practices are just 2 minutes away and tournaments are from Salt Lake to Provo.

5. It might be really expensive now, but if I get a college scholarship with volleyball, it will save us more than we are paying.

Cons:

1. It's over $1,000

2. There are 7 tournaments, most of which are from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon on Saturdays. Some are after school on Friday and then from 8-5 on Saturday.

3. Practices are two hours twice a week.

I'm really excited! My team isn't that great from what I've seen, but with 4 hours of practice every week, we'll get a lot better. And, the teams that we will be playing are in the same position - their teams aren't too great, either.

Well, this isn't the best picture of me.

I thought that this picture was pretty sweet, though.

My team.

Morgen's team did great. They only won 1 game, but oh well. They were at a huge disadvantage because they only had one 6th grader, a few 5th graders, and a bunch of short 4th graders, while the other teams had the opposite. Also, nobody on Morgen's team had really played volleyball before. But they were awesome, and super cute!

About half the group had their eyes closed in this picture, so I had to post it.



This was their silly picture.

This was the good one.

Kaya and I enjoyed taking pictures of each other while they were taking pictures.

They are so cute!

Recent Conversations

We've had some pretty hilarious conversations going on around our house.


This one was between Nathan and Merek. They were playing with a thermometer.
Nate: I bet I'm warmer than you.
Merek: No way. Look, I'm really warm.
Nate: No, look, I'm so warm that I'm hot.
Merek: Get mad - then you'll be even hotter!
Nate: AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!


This one was between me and Caleb. He was kinda sick and nobody else was home, so he and I were hanging out together.
Caleb: I really want to play with a friend.
Me: Which friend?
Caleb: Um, Jack.
Me: New Jack or Old Jack? (he has a new imaginary friend named Jack, and a real friend Jack from our old neighborhood.)
Caleb: New Jack. Incept (except) I don't know where he lives.
Me: I don't know either.
Caleb: He probably lives in Heaven with Jesus.
Me: Yeah, probably.
Caleb: Oh, wait. I think that he lives in Highland.


We were at JCW's (the best burger place in the world, for those of you who don't know) and I was waiting for Caleb to come out of the bathroom. Two boys came out while I was standing there and this is what they said:
Boy #1: You just saw mine nuts, you know.
Boy #2: Yeah.
Boy #1: That's pretty weird, you know.
Boy #2: Yeah.
Boy #3 (I'm assuming he was an older brother): That's it. You guys are in huge trouble. You have to go back to the table with mom. She is gonna be so mad!

I'm not sure what she was going to be mad about, but I was trying so hard not to laugh.

Freeman vs. Smith

This was the ultimate playoff. It was the two Lehi teams against each other. We lost by 2 points! 2 POINTS! At first I thought that we got like 4 touchdowns, but we didn't. I didn't know what was going on half the time because there was a cute boy there, but I did manage to get some sweet pictures.

It was freezing! The boys were all hoping to be 'out' so that they could come into the tent and warm their hands by the heater. It wasn't even a tent! They took down two canopies and used the tarps to cover the side of the other two canopies, so that we were shielded from the wind.

Each boy must have had at least 4 cups of hot chocolate and gone through 10 hand warmers!

They had to wear the yellow beanie things over their helmets so that we could tell which team was which.

I didn't take this one. Teresa did. But I thought that it was pretty cool! Merek has the ball and Nathan is coming up right behind him.

One Pampered Pooch

Zoee is getting huge. My dad weighed her on Sunday and she was 24 lbs. We took her to the vet on Friday and she weighed 28 lbs! She is now the same size as Kipper was, if not bigger. I can't believe it!

Lately, she enjoys eating moths, hiding under beds and chewing on things, digging, and wrestling with her mouth. We leave the doors and windows open sometimes, just to cool off the house, and so moths come in. She spends about five minutes chasing them and playing around, and eventually just eats them. She also has discovered that people don't see her when she under a bed, so she takes all sorts of stuff under there to chew on. The other day, we found her with a TV remote! Luckily, she hadn't done much damage. I say that she loves wrestling with her teeth because we will roll around on the floor, and she will come and tackle you, literally. In about 30 seconds, she will have her mouth open bigger than you thought possible and you will be able to hear her jaw snap when she tries to bite you. It's scary!


These pictures say it all!




She is very into digging lately :(

Things that she has been getting into lately:

Plastic cups (I have no idea how she got those since they are kept on the top shelf in our pantry.)

Toilet paper

She seems to like to take all of her toys out of her basket and sit there and chew on it.

Her latest sleeping positions:

Sadly, she is big enough to jump onto the couch now. We have tried to make her a non-couch dog, but it isn't working very well.

If Morgen Ruled the World

We all love Morgen! I was looking through some folders on the computer for a picture, and I found this school assignment. She did this at the beginning of the year, and it was so awesome that we scanned it into the computer. Its a little bit hard to read, but what you can is hilarious!



On the third stanza, it says that Morgen wouldn't have Hannah Montana. I think that she means you would only have Miley Cyrus, because Morgen idolizes Miley. On the last line of that stanza it says that she wouldn't even have lima beans or broccoli, but it's really hard to read because she spelled broccoli 'brocly'.


These are some pictures that I took of Morgen in a few 'photoshoot sessions'. I figured that if I was posting something about Morgen, I had to have a picture or two or twenty of her, also.