Valley Vista Baseball

We went to Matthew's baseball game last weekend and had a lot of fun watching him play. He is a sophmore this year and on the JV team. Valley Vista is a 5A school and Matthew is so talented to be able to make the team. Their team is really good and enjoyable to watch. Good thing because they went in to extra innings and finally had to be called at a tie game because there wasn't any more sunlight to play. Matthew did really well and we are so proud of him for getting back on the diamond after his accident with the ball. He hit a ball and it came right off his bat into his face. He broke his left cheekbone,got quite a fat lip, and suffered a concussion. He will have to wear a cage on his batting helmet for the rest of the season. His team mates have given him the name of Angelina (After her famous huge lips). His first time up to bat he took the first pitch and hit it right up the middle and got on base!

Surprise!

I had a surprise birthday party for Morgan and it went off without a hitch. Morgan has developed some really good friends this year and I am so pleased! It has been complete drama since first grade. This year has been so different and I believe it is because of the friends she has. They all come from great families and are really down-to-earth girls.
The hardest part about the whole thing is that she was getting frustrated with me because she wanted to have a party and I had to tell her that we were going to have a party with the family. She loves family parties, but after her last friend birthday party (drama, drama, drama) she has had family parties since. She even told me that she was aware that her last two parties have been with the family. I knew it was killing her.
I had Jensen get her address and phone book for me when she took a shower one night. She takes extremely long showers so I was able to call all of her friends, but two which I called the next day, to invite them. They all were really excited to play a trick on her and never gave her any clue that they were going to surprise her.
I had my mom keep her and Jensen over at her house while I picked up the girls. Then my mom told her that they were going to get some pizza for all of us to eat that night (us, nana and papa, and visiting family from Tucson). When they were on their way back from Papa Johns, I called my mom and told her that I needed Morgan to come back home because I was cleaning her closet out and needed her to come help me because it was a disaster! Morgan hates cleaning with me- I throw everything away! The girls got into place and we heard them come in. She immediately came downstairs and we got her good. She was so surprised and excited to see all of her friends.
We ate pizza and then her teacher, Ms. Elliot (also my friend) taught them how to play NERTZ the card game. They caught on really well and played a few rounds. Then we made flower hair clips. They had a blast doing this. I am glad I thought of this because it probably was the funnest thing they did. They all kind of made the same ones and then decided which ones they were going to wear each day of the week the following week at school. Then I put in a movie, Bolt, and they watched it for about 15 minutes before they got bored and played hide-and-seek. They stayed over until about 9:30 pm and then I took them home. They really enjoyed themselves and I am glad I could make Morgan happy. Happy 11th birthday Mogie!

Gotta Love the Innocence

If you know Rylee, you know how young and innocent she still is. She found these treehouses in a magazine and brought them to her dad and told him which one she wanted him to build. I guess she showed Garrett first and Garrett just laughed and asked her what she was thinking. She couldn't understand his doubtful attitude! She told him that we had the "sticks" to build it!

What Do You Think?

I was wondering if I could get some feedback on this Twilight issue I am having. The series is definitely good and I enjoy it. However, I have a problem with my daughter reading them. Now, some of you might have let your daughters or sons read them, but I would like to know how you came to that decision. I feel that they are too adult for my barely 11 year old. None of her friends are aloud to read them and I have teachers emailing expressing their concern about it. What are your feelings?

Power Outage and One Smart Boy

The whole Gila Valley's power went out the other day. It was interesting to experience this 3-4 hour ordeal. It showed many of us what we should have during something like this. After staying at home for awhile and the kids getting restless with not having any lights, video games, or TV, I decided to go up to town and do some grocery shopping. While on my way, Chantel called and asked me what we were doing. I told her that I was headed up to town. She reminded me that it was pointless because the registers at all stores were down. Jensen was really bummed because I told him that he could spend some of his birthday money at Blockbuster to buy this toy "bob" from Monsters Vs. Aliens. He really had a hard time with no power available to him and now to find out about the stores not working either was just too much to handle.
We decided to go over to my mom's house where Chantel, Rachel, and all the kids were at. My mom found some really annoying gun blasters that they all started to play with. After a while we all decided to go back to our own homes. I decided to get comfortable with a good book. After I got into it, Jensen came walking in with a white envelope.

Jensen: Mom, can we open this and read it?
Mom: Why Jensen, what is it?
Jensen: It is a letter from the electric company.
Mom: Why do you want to open that?
Jensen: Maybe it will tell us what we need to do to get the power to start working again.
Mom: Well Jensen, that is not going to tell us that because it is just a bill and besides, there is nothing we can do about it. The whole valley doesn't have electricity.
Jensen: Well, maybe we could just read it to make sure.
Mom: Jensen, go find something to do. Go read or practice the violin. Enough about the electricity. We can't do anything about it honey.

5 minutes later.....

Jensen: Mom?
Mom: Yes Jensen.
Jensen: I think I know why we have an electric bill!
Mom: Why do we have and electric bill Jensen?
Jensen: Because Matthew and Garrett left the Wii plugged in all weekend and it is still plugged in!!!


You see, Darren had heard on some radio talk show that the Wii game console takes up as much electricity as a refrigerator. So he gave a great lecture to the kids about turning off the power bar when they are done playing with it. Jensen was thinking that our power got turned off because we had an electric bill and Matthew and Garrett were to blame. He wasn't too happy with them.

Smart boy though- he found the electric bill!