Amazing! It's not Baseball

So Zack decided that he would like to try soccer this year. I just love this picture of him with his dad before his first game. His Coach got roped into to coaching at the last minute so they didn't have any practices before the first game. Now most kids this would be no big deal, but Zack has never played soccer before, so I think he was a bit nervous and unsure.

I just love the look on his face during halftime. He was so focused on his coach, he didn't want to miss any detail. Anyone that knows Zack, knows he wants to get it right the first time. I just love this kid, he's every teachers dream!

If you look real carefully you can see Zack's white hair in the mix, he was a great little defender in this game. It was so fun to watch him! If you're interested I can send you his game schedule so you can come watch, it's so fun!

Jade Cove

Thursday night Clint and I were talking about the rest of our week and what was going on....we realized that our Saturday was free of any commitments so we decide we should take a day trip somewhere. We had a friend tells us about Jade Cove and that it is so fun to climb around the rocks and search for jade. So we decided that we should do it. We got up early, did our Saturday cleaning and loaded up the car and took off. Well we read all this stuff on line on how to find it...but it was very tricky. I'm still not sure if we ended up in the right place. We decided to stop at Willow Creek and start there. It was beautiful and we walked and searched for some jade. Well when we started looking for jade we realized we really didn't know what we were looking for...lol....so we just started collecting stuff we thought might be. Anyway, we didn't feel like we were really finding anything so we decided to look again for Jade Cove. We drove back and forth and stopped at every place you could stop and looked over edges to see if we were in the right place. After much searching we think we find the right place.

above is at Willow Creek...after some more stops we found this trail below.

It lead to this cliff.....

Where we had to climb down or maybe we should say slide down....

I didn't really want to go down at first, but Zack was willing so we decided to follow. It ended up not being as bad as it looked.

When we got down there we had tons of luck finding jade. We still weren't a 100% sure we knew what we were looking for, but pretty sure. We search for quit awhile and came home with a small bag full. When we got home we researched how to tell if it's real or not, we think we actually got it right and ended up with quite a bit.(now I just need to find someone that can make me some beautiful jewelry out of it)

Not only did we find jade, the boys found a snake in the rocks. Gross!

After searching we had to climb back up...way easier to go up then down.

And of course we had to have a victory picture!
We had so much fun and I can't wait to go again.

PS The tallest boy in the picture is Brett, Clint's younger brother, he's living with us now. Totally fun for us!

We Survived!

I love the first day of school. The boyz were up nice and early, dressed in their new clothes and ready to go! Of course we had to have a big breakfast to get them through the day. Brevin is taking Spanish this year for Zero period, so we had to leave the house by 7:15. It's going to be hard for me, but I guess it's good practice for Seminary! (Can't believe he'll be in Seminary in 2yrs..Yikes) They all seemed excited and a little nervous, but everyone survived including mom! I have to say it was quite weird not having to pick Zack up half way through the day. I'm not sure I like it. Zack has always been my shopping buddy and I miss having time with just him to read and play.

When we got to school, of course I'm taking pictures and Zack tells me to put it on Video. (Watch Video)



He tells me that I can look at that when I start missing him.....I love that boy!

Well I hope the rest of the year goes as smoothly has the 1st week!

Things I'll Miss

I'm not looking forward to starting school this Weds. Summer has absolutely flown by. I remember making a list of all the things that I was going to accomplish. Well to say the least, I didn't get very far on the list, we were having way too much fun. Here's a few highlights of all the things I'm going to miss because school is back in session......


Going on trips with friends......

playing with cousins at Bear Lake.....

having our cousin's visit us on California...

having awesome uncles who will bury you in the sand....

and of course, being able to sleep in. :)
Hope all of you had a great summer.....we loved having everyone come visit, we loved traveling to come visit some of you. Thanks everyone for making this a summer full of things to remember!

Brevin the All Star

Brevin was selected for the Boys 11yr old Nationals All-Star Team. They did really well and made it to the Championship game where the lost to the Gilroy American All-Stars. It was a bummer to lose to the other Gilroy team, but it was still tons of fun. Brevin had two days off and then started practice for travel ball. Good thing he loves baseball so much!

Lake Almanor

The boys and I were lucky enough to be invited to our friends lake house at Lake Almanor. We got to go about 6 years ago and have wanted to go again, and it finally worked out this year. We had such a great time. What better way to spend your birthday then, soaking up the sun, tubing behind a boat, knee boarding, jet skis, kayaking, eating yummy food all day long, and being with friends. The boys loved it and had so much fun being with friends and even making some new friends. The earliest the boys went to bed was 11pm(to say the least we are still catching up on sleep). Every night at 9 they would start playing Jail Keeper outside. I think that was Brevin's favorite part. I think Zack's favorite part was every night we would play Just Dance on the Wii, yes even all the moms did. One night we had about a group of 15 moms and kids all dancing together....So fun and Funny! Below is Zack, JT, Jeremy, and Skyler dancing.

Great day at the Beach

Jodie came to visit this last week(which is one of my favorite things). I had so much fun and my kids love it when they come to visit. Especially when Jodie brings the ingredients to make Monster cookies(unfortunately I forgot to take picture of the cookies, way yummy). On the last day they were here we took a trip to the beach! It was such a great day at the beach, sunny, warm, and cousins. Zack is so glad that Marin will play in the waves with him, because the rest of us our wimps and just like to play in the sand! Zack and Marin just cracked me up, they would get knocked over and tumble and go right back at it.....good times!