Cardinals Game with the Cousins!

My boys with their cousins Christopher and Matthew at the Cardinals game. This was at the end of the fun family reunion we had at the lake!! They love baseball!
It was just a boys day at the ballpark with Grandpa Jensen and their dads!

CJ's Cub Camp

CJ had a great time in the Nature section of the camp. They went for 5 days and each day a different parent got to go and follow the boys around to make sure they behaved. This was my day and it was soooo darn hot and for those who don't live in humid areas the humidity felt like you were going to melt all day long! Yuck!
He did a great job shooting and listened really well!

The boys favorite sections were going to shooting and archery. For some reason they are naturally drawn to those things . . . . mmmm . . . . I wonder why?
All in all despite the crazy heat and humidity, we all survived and had a fun day at cub camp with minimal tick attacks:)

I'VE LOST IT!!

OK, so for a little while now I have been told that I'm loosing it! However, I liked to think that I really wasn't but was just under the weather for a bit. But now it is official!! I am not just loosing it, I have lost it! It started yesterday when I took dinner to a friend in the ward who had been sick and I made her chocolate chip cookies to take to her family. I told my kids that they would get the last two batches of cookies. I made the cookies and was surprised when the cookies my children had were already gone. I just assumed they ate them quickly. So, tonight I just turned on the oven to bake them some cupcakes (yes, I do realize that I am baking quite a bit but I am stressed and I eat sweets when I stress:). I came downstairs for a little bit and then was smelling something burning! I ran upstairs and opened the oven to find not cupcakes but my tray of chocolate chip cookies! I looked at them so confused as to how and why and who, but then quickly realized they were from yesterday and they were burnt to a crisp:) I am past going crazy to gone gone gone!

Jewelry Sale!! Very Talented!!

One of my friends from high school and before is making jewelry. She has a shop online and is selling beautiful pieces!! Right now she is having a huge sale with everything marked 20% down, so hurry and check her stuff out! She is also having a fantastic jewelry giveaway.You can find a link to her store on her blog at www.sassandsavvyjewelry.blogspot.com.

Trish's New Camera: Am I A Professional Yet???

Here is CJ playing the pitcher position. They aren't pitching yet, in the fall they will, so they play right next to the pitching machine. He does a great job! Here is a cool picture of CJ going to bat and his teammate coming back from home! I was just fiddling with my camera, the new one, and it is a bit fuzzy but a cool shot!
The rest of these shot are of me messing with my camera trying to figure it out since that's what everyone tells me to do is to just play with it and take lots of pictures. Here are some fun ones of MJ in our backyard!

Ok, so notice the owie on the (your) right eye? Well, 2 days after MJ's head cracking incident, BJ fell out of bed around 12:30am and cut his eye. Again I was not about to do ER duty and so I just butterflied it. Hope it works! Now the knee, see the stitches? About 1 day after the eye problem, BJ was playing kickball and ran to home plate which is a pile of rocks. He slipped and fell and cut his knee open. He had 7 stitches and was sooo awesome and brave. He watched them stitch it up! CJ visited the fire station! They showed us everything!
Congratulations CJ! Getting his wolf a little early. Good JOB!
CJ has a mowing job this summer doing our neighbors lawn. I love this shot of Mitch showing him how to mow the law. He is doing great!
CJ's team mate trying to make a great play! I just got a new camera and am testing it out and I really love it!

Father/Son Campout

Well, here is MJ helping set the tent up that he would never get a chance to sleep in:) Here is MJ thinking: "Wow, I am sooo excited to be putting up a tent that I get to sleep in with my Daddy!" Little did he know what was just about to happen . . . . . . . .

Here is MJ with his head cracked open:) Man, does this camping thing really stink! They hadn't even been there for 30 minutes when he was crossing the road and fell and hit his head. That right there just ended his camping trip. Mitch called me and dropped off MJ and I butterflied it. There was no way I was going to the ER with a small cut like that one! So much for his Daddy spending time with his son:) He was SO brave!

Clayton played a late night game and got to play catcher! He works hard and enjoys playing baseball and he looks sooo cute in his uniform:) What a stud! I made these cakes for Braden's 5th birthday party! The baseball one is for Braden and the soccer one is for his friend Will. They combined their birthdays at our house and had a giant blowup bounce house with all of their school and church friends! It was a blast! The kids were very good and had lots of fun! Braden and Mason before the party started! They jumped in this thing all night long until the owner came and got it at 9pm that night! Crazy kids!
Mason and Braden . . . . what a great pair of boys!
Watch out Pujols! Braden can't wait to play for the Cardinals when he grows up! This was his favorite birthday gift besides his game MarioKart for the Wii! Happy Birthday Braden and We Love You!!