Connor Ray~Happy 10th Birthday! I love you more than words can express! You will always be my favorite boy! I LOVE YOU INFINITY!!!Lots of love,Mommy
We have been incredibly busy the last month or so. Not only have we had numerous sessions with our wonderful clients...we have been busy at home, too.
Hannah Beth's AYSO Fall soccer team, the Cyclones made the playoffs. The girls did good. No wins, but you win and lose as a team. Then Hannah was chosen for the All-Star team. That meant 2 weeks of nightly practice. We were leaving the house @ 8am and getting back home @ 8pm. Last weekend they attended the Carson Tournament. Again, no wins but a tie and some losses. We have told Hannah it is all a good experience just to be able to go. She is getting better and better. Ray and I love to watch Hannah play. She is so competitive! This week brought around tryouts for a club team. Hannah's fall coach has a team, and encouraged her to tryout. Hannah put 100% into the tryouts and really did good. We found out Thursday that she made the team!!! She is SO excited.
In the meantime, Connor Ray had his last few practices and games of flag football. This was his first year playing, and he really improved as the season went on. He and his dad play catch as much as they can! Connor's team was the Seahawks, so now he has a Seahawks football and beanie. :) The season ended with a win and their record was only one loss. We just signed Connor up for basketball which will start in January. This will be his second year in basketball. Over the summer he attended a b-ball day camp at the high school and really enjoyed it.
We also had our second 4H Cooking Club Meeting. We made Thanksgiving Stuffing and Aunt Suzie's Potatoes. There were 13 kids at this meeting. We all had a great time! Next month, I think it will be cookies... yum!
All the while Connor Ray and Hannah Beth are both pulling in straight A's! Yeah!!!
This is Hannah's soccer photo and Connor's football photo for the season...
I feel so blessed to be involved in my children's lives. It is exciting to watch them try new things and love them!
Love you Hannah and Connor!
Today is my dads birthday! Happy Birthday Dad! I love you so much! I want to thank you for all that you do and all that you are! I appreciate the time you take to spend with us and wish we had more of it. Thank you for the trips to the beach, for taking the kids fishing, for giving Connor tools that he will not be allowed to use until he is 20, for buying your horse crazy little girl a horse, for shoveling too much horse ****, for hauling hay from north to south, for bringing home kittens (because you love cats so much), for coming with us to Disneyland, for taking us kids to Disneyland, Seaworld, San Diego Zoo, the beach, Eagle Lake, Tahoe, Susanville, and on too many trips to mention,thank you for holding and loving my babies, for letting Hannah "Dress you up", thank you for making peanut butter cookies with me, for sending me yellow roses on my birthday, thank you for praying for my family, thank you for taking me to work with you and letting me keep EVERYTHING I found, thank you for allowing me to keep something in each room of the house so that I knew I belonged there, thank you for driving 200+ miles to get my binkie, thank you for ALL of the Valentine gifts and cards- I hope I am always your valentine, thank you for naming me Junk Yard Sally, thank you for teaching me how to drive in your gigantic dually around some really scary turns, thank you for choosing Mammoth instead of Tahoe when you broke your leg, thank you for finally talking to Ray- even if it was only because Hannah Beth came along :), thank you for never turning your back on me and always loving me no matter what, thank you for FOREVER working on our houses, for teaching Ray so much (including to turn the breakers off first), thank you for taking us to church and teaching us about God, for your guidance, thank you for being there when I need to talk, for hanging out at our house, thank you for not being afraid to say it like it is and to show your emotions, thank you for loving my mom, thank you for knowing that we are all different and we all make mistakes, thank you for putting together swing sets, for carrying my babies everywhere, for understanding when they pooped, spit up and peed on you- all in one day, thank you for the time we spent in Susanville, thank you for all of the fun school clothes shopping trips, thank you for my first pair of Oakley's- even though Mom didn't speak to us for the rest of the day (Sorry Mom), thank you for not charging me for the bent screens, thank you for not being afraid to remind me about getting caught at the beach, thank you for always reminding us how important family is, Thank you for being a wonderful DAD! I love you!
I think that is the longest run-on sentence I have EVER written...there is so much more but only so much room...
I am so thankful for my parents! I had a great childhood and am ever so grateful for everything they did for me!
Love-
Michelle
I'll leave you with one of my favorite photos- Papa and Hannah Beth last summer...
Last week Hannah Beth and I spent the week with Debbie and Katelyn @ Hunewill Ranch. Hannah Beth and Princess Katelyn have been friends since they were 3 years old. While they became friends so did Debbie (Princess Katelyn's Mommy) and I. I adore Debbie. She is one of few friends that can always be counted on, is forever consistent, never pretentious, always listening, has wonderful advice and leads through faith. We can pick up right where we left off after not seeing each other for months. I LOVE her!
This was our second trip out to Hunewill Ranch for a vacation. All of us went last fall for the Fall Color Ride. Although both trips were great, this week was wonderful. There was so much more for the girls to do. There was square dancing, hay rides, bingo, talent night, roping, swimming in the ditch, playing flash light tag, volleyball, making new friends, holding the baby goats, seeing the horses stampede through the yard in the early am, s'mores and campfire songs. The riding was fabulous. The Wranglers were awesome, well most of them :). Miss. Sallie was of course fabulous! The fields were full of wild flowers. The food was, as always, yummy. Hannah Beth and I even had matching horses!One of the high-lights for the girls was riding in the parade. For Debbie and I the high-light was probably all of the relaxation and friendship.
Thank you Debbie for another wonderful vacation and our wonderful friendship!
- Michelle
Hannah Beth and Heyoka
Debbie and Katie
Hannah Beth and Princess Katelyn
Connor Ray even came out to visit...
Us Girls
Hannah and her favorite things...animals
My FAVORITE Girl...
Well, last week- I composed a wonderful post all about my upcoming trip to Yosemite. I have NO idea where that post went! It, I am sure is somewhere in cyberspace. I will make a feeble attempt to reconstruct it now. Actually, I will not reconstruct it, I will start all over and go another direction. Thats just the kind of girl I am.
I had the pleasure this last weekend of attending a workshop with my good friend Robyn. We went to Yosemite and had a relaxing weekend full of photo opportunities. We left the hotel at 6 am each morning- not so good for me. I am not really a morning person. Although, the light was beautiful! We did not get back to the hotel most nights, until 10 pm. I AM a night person, so this was okay.
We had lots of girl talk and funny moments. I am SO glad that Robyn didn't fall- I love you Robyn! Robyn and I are both quite graceful, so we were sure that at any moment one of us was going to have to be rescued. Thank God we both came back unscathed- well almost! ;)
I will post some of the amazing photos in the next couple of days. In the meantime here are a few from a couple of years ago. I took a day trip with my kids and some of my nieces and nephews. Keep in mind these are just snap shots.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
-Michelle
