Baseball Season

Molly played t-ball for the first time this year and she absolutely loved it!  

Of course she couldn't just play with any old mitt and bat, she had to have new pink ones!

Her team was the Dodgers and she played with lots of her friends.  She loved the games, she loved the baseball shirt and she loved practicing in the backyard.

Cade played another season with the Hawks.  He played well and improved from last season.  

His team struggles and they only won 2 games all season.  That made it so hard to watch.  Next season, a few players need to be changed out.  Some of them just haven't been able to have it "click" to them yet.  A couple of them are still really scared of the ball and I think a few of them will benefit from a year or two of city ball.

A Spa Day

Molly and Abby were playing in the Knudsen's yard in the sprinklers when they found a mud puddle and got totally distracted by it.  They decided to have a spa day instead!

They gave themselves pedicures.

And they gave themselves mud masks!

Reno Lake Tahoe Tournament

July 3-7, 2014

We had a Diamond Dawg reunion tournament in Reno, Nevada.  It was the most fun trip!  We had all been looking forward to it for months!  We spent July 4th playing in the tournament in the morning and afternoon.  That night we went to dinner and then we watched fireworks from our hotel.  We stayed at the Nuggett Casino.  Thousands of people came there to watch the firework show.  There were food and craft vendors in the back of our hotel.  It was the place to be!

The boys got together from all the different high schools that they go to now and had a blast playing together again. 

They played great but ended up only taking 3rd place in the tournament.

Kiera Hamblin and Molly had the best time gathering pine cones and trying to sell them for a penny each.  They only sold one......... but they were happy just to be playing together again.

The setting for the ball fields was so spectacular!  The pine trees were giant!

Coach Brook Christensen wasn't able to attend the tournament so Craig Callister coached 1st base.

We all went down to the lake on the North side and played in the water for the rest of the day.  That lake is so beautiful!  The water is amazing in color.

Vicky Ashcraft drove up from Roseville, CA to watch the games.  Her home is only about 1 & 1/2 hours away.  It was so fun to spend some time with her.  Cade still thinks she's the coolest ever!

 All the kids were on the hunt for crawdads.

The kids spent most of their time jumping into the lake from these rocks.

Pictured left to right: Devin Argyle - Riley Daniels - Riley Pierce - Tanner Hamblin - Mason Bigler - Nick Brumfield - Jens Higginson - Cooper Smith - Colton Lundell - Keyne Christensen - Sam Callister

My niece Katelyn and her friend Kristen Young came along to watch the games.  Everyone had a blast!

Payson Lakes - July 1, 2014

Every summer the neighbors drive up to Payson Lakes and have lunch and let the kids play in the lake. 

The Parry's were out of town so we missed them this year.  But we went with Adam's, Johnson's, Knudsen's and Overbay's.

 Pictured left to right:

Kaylie - Ashton - Sidney - Emily - Hannah (with Leah photo bombing in the background!)