2015 Spring Training

We are beginning another crazy fun baseball season at our house! Braxton tried out for the Major league and fell just a little short, so was drafted onto the Braves Minor league team.  By the looks of their first game, their team can only improve so we told Braxton it was his job to be a leader and help some of the others who haven't played before.
Tanner is playing machine pitch for the 1st time.  He is on the Mets with all of his friends and is so totally excited! Our good friend Brad is the coach and Troy will also help coach too.
Camrie has been counting down the years until she can play and have a pink mitt....Not only does she have a pink mitt, but pink cleats, and a pink Hello Kitty bat!  Her team is also the Braves, in the coach pitch division.  She has 2 friends from church on her team, Coach McMullin and Coach Bailey are both in our ward and will do a great job.  It will be fun to watch her, she was very apprehensive with some tears at her first practice, and she might just stand at the plate and cry tonight the first time she bats, but she will settle in and love it.  Her and I had some batting practice the other night and she hit quite a few.
Kason....Insists he is playing! He asks which team he is on, and I say he is on my team.  So we play catch and I pitch to him -  he is getting to be a good little hitter, and has a surprisingly good arm for an itty bitty 4 year old.  He is so fun and tells me just how he wants the pitch and whether it was a good one or not....so much energy!

So here's to the next 2 months of grabbing whatever is on the way to the fields for dinner, doing homework at games, baseball pants and socks soaking in Iron Out every night, running between 3 different games on the same nights, late nights, and tons of fun memories!!! I LOVE IT!

I don't have the picture of my broken bathroom window, courtesy of Braxton and his baseball...he is finding out that household items can be expensive to replace, he thought $40.00 sounded like a good amount for a new double-paned window...he heard the quote....and then there were teary eyes with a heavy sigh. We can't even be mad at him :)



Our family had a great weekend in Phoenix at Spring training.  We saw the Dodgers Vs. Giants and then the Dodgers Vs. Angels.  Braxton got his mitt signed a couple baseballs signed for his friends by a few Dodger players.  He was in HEAVEN!  He was looking up pictures on the Dodger's photoblog and found himself - so very cool! 




This year Braxton is on the Braves Minor League team.  He got to close out their first game on the pitcher's mound.  He did pretty good for his first full inning of pitching.  He also played 1st base and his 'comfy' spot behind the plate. 



1st base

Happy New Years! 2014

New Year's eve games and treats

Camrie insisted that she was our hostess for our party, so she put herself in charge of selecting the games we played and also the treats.  We had brownies, chips, and pop. 

We watched the ball drop in Times Square, and went outside to do some poppers.  It was almost 2 am before the kids went to sleep.  In the morning we found that Santa had come back by again to drop off some New Year's presents.

DECEMBER 2013

PRE-PROCEDURE
December started out with a bang..Troy and I spent the 3rd-4th in SLC at IMC so Troy could have a cardiac catheter valvuloplasty on his mitral valve.  Due to rheumatic fever as a teenager, his mitral and aortic valves were damaged but functioned fine up until last summer when he started to have leg edema, SOB, and fatigue.  His cardiologist had planned on doing open heart to replace the valve mid December, then decided send us to Dr Wisenant at IMC for a valvuloplasty instead.  This will buy him about 10-15 years before needing open heart. 

POST-PROCEDURE
Everything went well and we spent until late afternoon in recovery.  Usually patients stay the night, but since Troy was 'younger than their average patient', and our hotel was close by, they discharged us with strict instructions to come back if the bleeding increased or other issues arose.

Groin incision site.  I watched it all night....nervous!

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The nasty weather Troy and I  had in SLC for his procedure followed us home that weekend, and St. George received 7 inches of beautiful snow and frigid air. Troy took the kids down to the church parking lot to spin donuts in the car and they didn't love it nearly as much as Troy did! The Civic couldn't make it back up our icy steep driveway and spent a few days parked out on the street until the ice melted a bit.  Our snowman lasted for almost 3 weeks in the back yard.  Temps dropped to the single digits at night, and one morning we woke up to frozen pipes in our kitchen sink.  The rest of the month we let our kitchen and downstairs bathroom faucets drip a little at night.

 

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CHRISTMAS TIME....

 



I finally did a Utes tree for Troy this year.  I had so much fun decorating it and it turned out so cute that I hated to take it down.  I think next year we will put it when football season starts!

Santa shares our love for Yogurtland!

Since Troy was just a little guy, the Webb family has always gone Christmas caroling to their neighbors.  There wasn't a lot of us this year, but fun none the less.  I think this was around the 40-ish year??

Chili and hot chocolate after caroling

The old toys at Grandpa Webb's have always been a hit with our kids!



Camrie's '10 minute' Christmas program with her Butterfly class.  It really was 10 minutes straight up! They sang some fun songs and she did really well.

We always have to stop and check in on the fairies in their garden outside of the daycare.  You can look, but don't touch...those are some tricky fairies and they will disappear!

Even the fairies know how to decorate for Christmas!

Christmas eve festivities start with dinner, driving around looking at lights, opening 1 present, reading the Christmas story.....

opening  jammies and slippers...

Feeding the reindeer....

 

Tracking Santa to see where he is.....and finally to bed!  Whew.



 

We made quite the mess, and had a blast doing it!



Santa is always so nice to leave our magic keys inside and a note before he leaves.

Troy gave me beautiful curio for my dolls.

Camrie's cute shirt made by her little best boyfriend Camden McFarlane

Tanner is still in heaven with all his legos!

Yummy Christmas dinner....and mom spent the rest of the day on call at the hospital! We had a wonderful Christmas, and are so very blessed!

OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 2013

 

So many fun things to catch up on, but here's our highlights....

 

 

HAPPY 10TH BIRTHDAY BRAXTON!! Braxton's friend Thomas came bowling with us.  The people at the bowling alley gave him a bowling pin for all of us to sign which was pretty cool.  We ate pizza and played the arcades.

 

I spent the day in Vegas at the SDMS Ultrasound conference and came home late to find the cutest sign on the front door!

 

After watching General Conference, we drove out to Anazazi Valley to see the Shivwitts band ( of the Piute Indian tribe) learning center.  They have a bunch of teepees, wigwams, and other structures to look in and see how their tribe lives.  One of their tribal elders was a home health patient of Troy's and they invited us out.

Troy made the front page of the 'Living' section of the Spectrum newspaper.  One of Troy's home health patients was featured in a story about his heath problems so they interviewed the patient while Troy was there giving antibiotics. We had at least a dozen articles that people had saved for us.  Pretty awesome!

 

Poor Tanner fell on the blacktop at school during recess and was quite banged up...fat lip, black eye, and lots of scrapes.  When the school called to tell me what had happened and how he looked, I didn't imagine it being this bad! It took a couple days to carefully wash all the tar out of his chin and lips.

Fun Sunday hike

Camrie's Butterfly daycare class held their Thanksgiving feast on our day off, so we went in for it and her teachers were so nice to let Kason join in on the celebration.  They ate popcorn, beef jerky, craisins, and drank applejuice and sang some Thanksgiving songs.

We took our fun neighbors to the opening of the St. George Children's museum and had a blast! So many fun things to see and do.  Braxton, Connar, and Kylee are participating in the magnet demonstration.  Last spring we went to the new children's museam in Vegas and loved it so we were excited for our to open since everything came from the old Vegas museaum 

Camrie and the garden

Kason loves the grocery store and could spend the entire time there filling up the basket and restocking the shelves.

We milked 'Maggie' the cow

Tanner and Cordin dressed up in colonial outfits and signed the Declaration of Independance

Thanksgiving was in Beaver at Aunt Valerie's house.  Troy worked and Braxton was with his Dad, so it was just me and the little ones.  We had fun playing with cousins, petting Aunt Valerie's horses, and building gingerbread houses.  Tanner was so excited to be big enough to have a real gingerbread house to decorate all by himself, and Camrie and Kason did great with their graham cracker houses.  We are so thankful for our fun Grandma who makes all the houses for us to decorate every year!