A Deweyville 4th of July!!

Yes, I know 4th of July was a few months ago, but I have to finally post our activities for the day. Here we are showing our patriotism.

Every year we head to Deweyville for the big 4th of July celebration there. It is a tradition that we have all look forward to! Dave was feeling very festive this year and bought the kids some cute head bands. He is also wearing my Mom's sequined visor! I love that he gets so excited about Holidays! Maybe Marlie takes after her Daddy. Look at her being patriotic with the flag. Here is the Goring gang at the parade! Every year they put together a float (a semi trailer with straw) and we all ride on it and throw candy to the crowd. There is no other parade quite like it. You drive down the road for 1 mile, then turn around and drive back. It is a lot of fun and we look forward to it every year. As you can tell there is A LOT of kids and grand kids! This year we decorated the Ranger to drive in the parade. Misty and Stu rode with us.

After the parade is over we go to the park and get ready for the candy drop. A man that is from Deweyville flies over the softball field a few times and drops bags of candy to the kids. It is a dangerous activity. I have seen an elderly women seriously fall on her face (she landed on my shoe and I thought she was dead!) I have also fought a few teenage boys for these bags of candy. The little kids aren't tall enough to grab the bags over the older kids, and every year there are kids crying while the teenagers walk away with the candy. We then end the afternoon by playing water games and eating lunch at the ranch. It is a great day!

This year Dave's Dad and Step Mom, as well as Cortnie and Chris and the kids came over for dinner and fireworks. We all had a fun time, and we didn't burn the mountain down, so that is always a good thing!

Maddi's Softball Summer

This summer Maddi signed up to play coach Pitch Softaball. The city called and said that they needed more coaches so Dave said that he would be Maddi's coach

Dave actually was the person to pitched the ball to the girls in the games. He really did a great job coaching and the girls loved him. Maddi thought it was great to have her Dad their teaching her!

Maddi really took a love for the game of softball and after playing she decided she wanted to play more. She just found out that she will be on a traveling fast pitch team. They start practicing this week and will continue to practice until the season starts next Spring. It is quite the jump from coach pitch to fast pitch, but I know with a lot of hard work she will be a great player!

The team pracitced hard and made great improvments! Girls that had no idea how to play softball were all hitting and playing really good by the end of the season. They won every game! Dave and I had a great time getting to know the girls and watch them grow and become friends!

Mason was the batter boy! He was very proud of his job and did it well!

Kayla was our little baby sitter! She would pull Marlie around the ball park in her favorite red wagon. Here they are with friends Kenyon and Klaire. We appreciate Kaylas help with her sister sso we could help Maddi's team!

Laggon Days

I really wanted to post about our most recent vacation, but I still have to get caught up first. I will go back to a month ago and post about Lagoon Day. Every year Dave's company takes us to Lagoon. It is always nice because we have to pay for NOTHING! They buy our tickets, lunch, drinks, ice cream, even parking!!! I hope it is something they can continue to do!

This year we left Marlie with my sister in law Cortnie and then took her son Easton. The girls took off for a while and rode the "Big Kid" rides, while Dave and I took Mason and Easton on some of the more gentle rides. After lunch we all stayed together and enjoyed the rest of the day. Dave's boss Jack took the girls on the tilt-r-whirl!!!

After 9 hours we decided it was time to go home. The kids were not ready to leave, but the park was closing. On the way out they asked me if they could run in the fountain and get a "LITTLE WET". I said that would be okay, but don't get drenched!!!!

I guess you can see how that turned out! 5 minutes later they looked like drowned rats!!! We had to take all their clothed off except their underwear and have them wear some of my shirts (that I had just bought on the way down there ) on the way home. It was a fun day and we look forward to next year!!!

Marlie's 18 month pictures

My Brother Tim and Sister in law Kim came up a while ago and took these darling and priceless pictures of Marlie for me. This was not an easy task!! She did not want to sit and pose for us, so they were mostly action shots!



Marlie is just a little pint size thing, but has a a big personality! She weighs 21 lbs. and is only in the 11% for weight and in the 50% for her height.

Kim made this cute tutu. Or how ever you spell it! She is so crafty!!!

Marlie knows where her eyes, nose ,mouth, head,fingers, and toes are. Here she is showing everyone where her ears are!

After a melt down Marlie took a nap and we tried again for a few more! The Bonnet that Marlie is wearing in the picture below was my Moms when she was a baby!

Marlie has been doing sign language for the last six months, it is really cute, and helps a lot with communication. She has really started talking a lot the last month! She can say, Mama, Dada, Poppa, Aya (Kayla), Addi, and Mase. She also says; "NO", "MINE", and "MOVE". My favorites are;"Hoves" (Shoes), "Tank-You", "Yuv-You", "Hug", and "Tiss".

Marlie also has a huge shoe fetish and loves to walk around with other people shoes on. Marlie has always loved her "bink" (binkie). Now that she is getting older we are trying to only give it to her at bedtime,but she somehow always finds where I hide it , and brings it to me, along with her very worn out crochet blanket when she is ready for bed.

I am so glad that Tim and Kim were able to capture these pictures for us! I wish we could freeze time for a while, but at least we will always be able to remember these precious moments when we look at these pictures!

If anyone wants some great pictures of their own just let me know. Tim and Kim are starting a photography business! Thanks again for the pictures!!!!

Field trip, Field day, and Friends

Now that I have done Mason and McKayla's updates about the end of school, It is now Maddi's turn. As well as the other kids, Madison had a lot of fun activities going on the last week of school. The second graders put on a darling patriotic music program. (My camera wasn't working very good so the pictures did not turn out so great.)

The school also had a fun field day with activities for all of the kids. Maddi was the winner in the sack races. Her class was nice enough to let Mason play the parachute with them. I also was able to go with Maddi and her class on their field trip to Willlow Park. (It was hard because Kayla's was the same day, and I wanted to go to both and Dave had to work, but Maddi's was closer so I could drive myself and not had to leave the other kids all day.)

Maddi's teacher this year was Mrs.Hugie. She loved her teacher and her class. She has already found out who her 3rd grade teacher is going to be and she is very excited. Luckily she will still be at McKinley to help watch over Mason next year. As far as her and Kayla, they will never be in the same school again at the same time. I am kind of sad about that, but I think that it will be an okay thing,too.

Moving on up!!!!

I am only about a month and 100's of pictures behind on blogging! I have so many pictures of the summer I need to get on here, but I don't want to miss some of the other fun things that have happened!

The 5th Grade Science fair was a new thing for us this year! Kayla knew right away that she wanted to do something with model rockets. With the help of her Dad and the rest of the crew (Maddi, Mason, and Mom) she got the project done. She did several different launches, and each launch she added more weight to the rockets nose cone to see how it would affect the rockets flight and decent.

I was amazed at all of the very cool and creative things that all of the students had done for their projects! Kayla did a very good job on her board and all of the other students and parents were very interested in learning more about it. She ended up getting Blue ribbon!!!!

Now on to the big news! Mckayla graduated fifth grade and is moving on up to the Intermediate School! She is will also be leaving the bus and bus driver that she has had for the last 6 years! She will now be on the bus with 11-18 year old! YIKES!!!!!I can not believe that she isn't going to be in Elementary school anymore!

The school had a very nice graduation for the kids! Here is Kayla with some of her friends and teachers! Mr. Bennette is the teacher in the black shirt, he was my 5th grade teacher! He was and still an awesome teacher! I am feeling many mixed emotions watching my daughter grow up! It is exciting, and very scary at the same time! I just want Kayla to know how much I love her and that I am so proud of the choices that she makes everyday! She is a great daughter,sister, and friend!!!!

The last days of Pre-School

Mason had a fun filled last month of pre-school! He had a super fun field trip to the Dinosaur Museum. Mason had a great time with his friends Reagan and Emily. He was so funny,he wanted a picture with EVERY dinosaur in the park so he could show his Dad!

Another fun thing that he did in pre-school was have his Graduation Party! He and his friend Lance got matching spiders painted on their faces. They got to eat hot dogs, cotton candy, play games and they got lots of fun prizes.

Marlie got to come to both of these fun filled days. Here are some of the things that she enjoyed. Swinging , checking out the dinosaurs, and eating the very sticky cotton candy!

The theme for this years graduation was a Rock and Roll theme. Mason rocked it out on stage singing all the songs that he has learned this year. He absolutely loves Ms. Marci. Good thing that she lives down the road so he can still go give her a hug whenever he wants!

I am still having a hard time believing that my little guy is going to Kindergarten in the Fall!

He found out this week that he got an awesome teacher that will help with the transition.