Ethan B Ball Player #7

Blacksmith Fork Blaze

Great teamwork, Great Coaches!
Go Ethan!

After the Fight for Fina race we had to hurry over to Ethan's Baseball games. Here is a bunch of kids crammed into Uncle Dave's truck. It was so funny to see them all pull up and pile out.

I was worried when Brett told me that with this Competitive Baseball team we would need/get to have TWO games every Saturday. Come to find out, I absolutely loved it! It was so much fun to watch all the boys progress and learn so quickly. We all loved Ethan being on that team. He loved it too!

Ethan loves dogs!

On Second

On Third...and then home

Family cheering him on!

Mom--seriously more pictures...grrr!

Thanks to Craig Munford, the great coach. He spent so much time and effort getting this things started with this team and did an amazing job!

Ethan's First "friend" Birthday Party #8

What a stud!
Mae, Mae

Kenna and Caileb

Hallee and Joey, the support staff Ü

Tylee

Crazy boys

Can you see Kenna?

Maecee

Tawnee

KaidinJayden

The wrestling bunch of boys

Keep away

Below Caileb and Cole

Smashing the cake in Ethan's face. Somehow this has become a tradition at our house.

Cute boy

All in a day's work. Maecee is pooped out!

The boyz!

This is Ethan's first "friend" Birthday party he has ever had. To be quite honest, I don't think he had ever even asked me to have one, but I did feel bad about it. Brett was with the YM backpacking, so I wanted to do something special for him. Wow, I guess when I decide to throw a party, I really go for it. Thank Heaven's for my sister, her husband, my friend Angie and Ressa. What was I thinking! All those boys at different swimming skills and I have to watch them all! AAHHH! Thank goodness Heidi and Joey took the smaller ones and I tried to help man the rest. I didn't even get in the water! Ethan did have a blast and so that made it worth it. We'll see if he asks for another party next year. I think he still believes that the fireworks for the 4th of July are for his birthday alone...ok maybe not...but he sure is easy to please. I can't believe my little miracle boy is 8!

Cute Boys :)

Kaidin and Ethan getting ready to go and play in the snow

Putting his name on his B-ball he got for Christmas. We're bummed because we missed the sign ups for Jr. Jazz. At least he got to do the Mustang one though. He loved it and we got such a kick out of watching him. The last game he used the skills of 2 different sports to get where he wanted to go. I wish I had recorded it. The first sport he used was football, meaning, don't dribble the ball, just muscle your way thru all the kids (using elbows or whatever else you need) to get to the basket to get a shot. You should have seen his face...so determined! Then another time he was running down the court and just slid like he was sliding into home plate. And the other time he was running down the court and he tried to do this cool spin move and he totally ate it. Just like his momma---poor kid. Thanks for the good times Eth! We sure do love you.

Take me out to the ballgame....

Ethan moved up from T-ball to the Rookie league. Wow big difference. They learned so much over the season. It was fun to see them improve. Ethan had an amazing coach that was so organzied and sooo patient. He played with kids about 2 years older them him which was probably both good and bad, but we wouldn't trade it. We also had a mom on the team that takes professional pictures....so enjoy the treat below. She gave me a disk with Ethan pics on them. If you want someone to take your pictures, she's amazing! Leave me a comment if you want her number.

What's UP!!??!
The tongue is always out!

My cute catcher boy!

Gettin' ready to catch.

I love how she made this one look like it's old.

The teams goofy faces.

All images from Amanda Archibald aka Andre's mom :)

Out of the mouth of EB

This morning Ethan was laying in bed next to me. His sister woke him up by YELLING "eb come here.....eb where are you.....EB!!!!!" So needless to say he was still tired. He was asking me what day of the week it was. Somehow he started talking about one of the boys in his class.
He said "mom {insert name} told me that church was S-T-U-P-I-D...."
I said "oh that wasn't very nice...what did you say?"
"I told him I LOVE CHURCH! Mom I should really invite him to come with me. Then maybe he would like it!" said my future missionary in the making.
I thought it was so cute that first of all that he LOVES church and second of all that he wanted to invite his friend to come with him because then maybe he would like it.
Although yesterday he worked for my dad hauling rocks to earn some money. My dad asked all the boys what they were saving for. Of course they said stuff like a Playstation 3 and a motorcycle....totally reasonable things ya know! I told Eth he needed to start saving for his mission. He gave me the tilted sideways glare and said "no mom!" Then the other night when we were saying his prayers I prayed that someday he could go on a mission and then get married in the temple. After I said amen he was upset and said "mom I don't want to get married". He is still in the girls are gross stage I guess. I told him not to worry, that one day he would like girls ;)
He is such a sweet boy!

Ethan

You might think this is a weird picture to post, I thought it would load at the end, but oh well. I put this on here because I wanted to remember how Ethan entertains himself :) One afternoon he played with these objects for almost 2 hours straight. They were cars or spaceships, or bombs, you name it. It is so funny to listen to him pretend play. Problem is that he does this in the middle of class and gets in trouble for it. When his teacher told me this I just burst out laughing, I couldn't help it, because it reminded me of when he was about 1 1/2 and he used to use his two hands to play good guy, bad guy. He would wrestle the two together and then say "bad guy won, or good guy won". He could play for hours doing this. I love the imagination he has! The other thing that made me laugh was when his teacher said "I just know I'm interupting him at the climax of his story, so sometimes he cries when I take them away." She said she knows about this because she had boys too. So funny!

Then the rest of these pictures are of Ethan's teeth. His two lower teeth grew in behind his other ones. So he had two rows of teeth. He called them his shark teeth. Well the other ones weren't coming out, so we had to go get them pulled out at the dentist. Ethan did amazing! I asked them to give him "happy gas" because I thought he would be nervous.....I shouldn't have even wasted my money......he could have cared less. The crazy thing is that instead of coming out with 2 teeth pulled, he ended up with 4 teeth taken out because they would have grown in crooked. Now in addition to saying his R's funny, he has a hard time saying SSSS's.

4 teeth gone

The treasures

Say AWWW!

Cutie Boy

This is the same picture that I posted awhile ago but I tried to "edit" it. I don't really get editing and photography but I love it and love learning and playing around with it. I really should take a photography class, I would love that. So don't laugh at my attempt to "edit".

I just had to write down what Big E said to me last night. It was time for bed and he had reminded us to read scriptures (which is his favorite thing to do, and he reads the scriptures so well with little help), and say family prayer, then he wanted me to snuggle him before he got into bed. Well the night before I had actually laid down by him and kept falling asleep. Well I guess I was twitching and snoring and talking in my sleep and so Eth actually said "um mom can you please go to your bed... :)" So last night I was asking him to show me what I was doing in my sleep. He kept telling me no. Well I finally got out of him the reason why. He said in his cute little voice "I don't want to tell you because you'll probably just put it on your blog or something". OH MAN, I laughed so hard! Isn't that funny! He is a sweet boy.

Hope everyone's Christmas preparations are going good. Mine sure aren't....hum maybe if I got off the computer that would be a start in the right direction. Have a great Holiday season!

Sweet Story

I went to a wedding shower last night and saw Ethan's substitute teacher that he had in Primary last week. She wanted to share a story with me about my tender hearted boy.

Their lesson was on the Resurrection. She said that she showed them a bunch of pictures of Jesus Christ when he lived on earth. She said he was so captured by all of the stories and pictures. Well when she came to the picture of Jesus being crucified, Ethan's whole countenance changed. She said he started to get teary-eyed. This REALLY upsets him. {This same thing happened when we watched a movie the church put out about Jesus Christs time on Earth. Ethan couldn't even watch that part. He was so upset that people were mean to him}. So she told him that it was okay and that it was the Plan for him to come to earth, be an example, be crucified, and then resurrected. She said that after she finished telling the whole story he was fine, but she was amazed at the love he had for Our Savior Jesus Christ! Wow, he is only 6 years old and HE KNOWS! I was so glad she took the time to tell me that. When I asked him about it today he said "ya mom that made me cry". What a sweet, sweet boy. A great example of child like love and example.

If anyone wants anymore information about our amazing church please go to http://www.mormon.org/ or http://www.lds.org/ or ask me, or the missionaries (we know some really good ones in Russia)! That is where we find true happiness. Love to all!

Hard Questions by Eth

Conversation out of the blue last night with Ethan

E: Mom we need more people in our family (tears in his eyes, choking back, starting to cry)

M: What the...."why do you say that?"

E: Because I really want a brother (huge crocodile tears forming)

M: I look at brett w a dumfounded look, he looks back at me like.....that makes two of us. He ALWAYS make me answer hard questi0ns, you know the kinds i'm talking about! Ok me regaining my composure...."Why do you want a brother?"

E: Cuz I have too many sisters and I need a brother for a friend!

M: (me thinking...how do you explain to a 6 year old that you have had all tubes and other areas singed, burned and otherwise made unusable for having another baby!!!? CRAP!) "UH, well Brenden has 5 sisters so at least you only have 2"..(poor excuse I know).

E: Ya but mom he has a dog!

M: Dang it...he got me on that one!

I am not an animal person but someday I'm going to have to break down and be one for my Eth!

Above picture is Dave's dog Molly. After Eth hugged, climbed and tugged at Molly his shirt was COVERED in dog hair. I made him change it before we went out to breakfast with everyone to celebrate Salli and Vi's running the Top of Utah half marathon on Saturday. We were the cheering section, signs and all.

More posts to come. We've had an eventful weekend. Roger and Donna are leaving today on their mission to Russia. I couldn't go with everyone to the MTC and breakfast because Maecee has the flu bug BAD! She's been pucking non stop for 24 hours. Poor bubba! So I couldn't have anyone babysit her and risk them get sick, so Brett went to say goodbye without me :(

Also I have pics of a b-day party for Roger, Alan, Erin, pics of Salli and Vi at the race, some pics I still haven't posted from the twin girls being sealed to Sal and Vi last weekend and Rog and Donna's farewell stuff. Also need to take pics of Eths new room, and start on Maecees. Also I have a RS lesson to give in 2 weeks and a leadership training mtg to plan that same week. Ok I'll stop their cuz it's too much to type. OHHH lots to do, and here I sit blogging about it! HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!

Oh I do have to include Maecee's thing she said to me last week. I was picking her up from Heidi's, she had stayed there while I graded papers at the school and I dropped something or did something weird and Maec goes "Daaah!!!!" You have to hear her say it. I laughed sooo hard! Of course we now hear it regularly DAH! I laugh everytime. Kids are great!

Soccer athlete

This picture sums up my Eth and his soccer intensity! He absolutely loves it! In fact he just said to me---"Mom, three more days until my next soccer game. It will be the 10th" Their team lost last night, but that wasn't because lack of trying. This pic was taken at the end of the game and their team had barely missed another goal (this happened about 10 times, all into the same place). Also, for some strange reason everytime their team has a game it either rains like crazy or snows I mean as in blizzard! They've had 4 games cancelled.

Earlier that day I got to go watch Eth show off his tumbling skills and swimming skills on Monday at Sports Academy. I had a couple of moms comment on how good he was. The thing I attributed it to was Brett. He is good at every athletic type of thing you could think of. Not just good----really good! Ethan has that same gene and believe me that's a good thing because if he had any of me in him he would have fallen on his face and tripped every 5 seconds. Unfortunately for him the thing he got from me was my vertically challenged body :) My neighbor gave Eth the nickname "jock" because he is always outside playing baseball, or soccer, or golfing, or basketball, and anything else you can think of that involves a ball. And he's really good.

I couldn't be prouder of my jock, vertically challenged son that is the sweetest boy ever!