FISHLAKE, UT 2012

  It has been a few years since I've been back to Fishlake.  Steele and Sedona road up in the motor home with gammy and grandpa and Brian and I left with the trailer after work.  Steele was adamant about riding with grandma since he can ride in the back of the motor home and watch movies and play the xbox!  Nice way to travel. They stopped at great grandma althea in Joseph to say high and raid her garden.   We had such a great time.  We would wake up early, get on the boat for a couple of hours then head back to camp and cook up a big breakfast.  We some how managed to time getting off the boat just before the thunderstorms rolled in.  It was so relaxing listening to the thunder and rain.  After nap time we headed back to the boat for a few more hours.  Fishing was hardly relaxing.  The fish were biting like crazy and we were constantly reeling in the poles with fish. Sedona loved to hold them and play in the bucket.  We also fished 7 mile creek which is so beautiful in the misty rain and cold...burr.  Sedona would drag the fish down the road as we walked so cute.  Steele had fun playing navy seal at camp.  He would try to ambush grandma's camp and while doing that another camp of guys ambushed him.  It was so funny and so unexpected.  We also were lucky enough to see a cattle drive.  Of course that was one of my favorite moments watching the cow dogs and horses work.  It was a great vacation filled with great dutch oven cooking (made a super apple and blueberry cobbler over the coals and it worked), fishing and awesome thunderstorms.  Oh yes,  it was great to hang out with gammy and grandpa .

Graduation-Florida 2012

                                                                   Nik and Mike

                                                                       Nik

                                                                          Mike

                                                   Great group of friends the boys have

 The whole family made a trip to Florida for Mike and Nik's graduation.  We had such a great time.  We stayed at a 900 acre resort with 5 golf courses, a lake, water slides, and beach area with the pool.  It rained most of the time we were there, but that did not deter us from hitting the beach and pool, and it certainly did not keep Gay and Brain from golfing!!  Golfing was the whole reason we stayed at Innisbrook (our trip was based around golf).  The one day there was not a breath of air and the sun shined was of course graduation. I thought we would all melt so stinkin humid!!!  It was such a proud and emotional moment to watch them walk across the stage.  We will making a trip to Massachusetts to check up on them this fall at college. It is great that they will still get to stay together.  They will only be 10 minutes from each other.  I have called the year of 2012 the "Mike and Nik year" since our life and $$ have all been based around them lol.  I wouldn't have it any other way.  Word of advice for those out there with young ones.  Start saving for the senior year of high school because it is a year of dishing out the money!!

BASEBALL 2012

SEDONA

WRESTLING 2011-2012

 Wrestling season is upon us again.  Practices are 5 days a week and tournaments on Saturdays. We were lucky enough to get to use the new high school gym.  I think Sedona and I are enjoying the new gym the most.  It is big enough that I get to do conditioning with the kids.  I'm sure I look like a fool being the only mom doing sprints, sprawls, push ups etc. but i don't care.  Our Saturdays are spent inside a gym for 8-10hrs and I have to say i love every minute of it. Steele gained 10lbs from last season and is now a newbie in the Midget division ranging from 8-10yrs old.  He is doing great and has medaled in every tournament averaging 12 kids in his bracket  We went to the Rocky Mountain Nationals consisting of 17 states and over a 1000 kids, and  we traveled to Utah for the Beehive Brawl Nationals. It has been great to see everyone from last year.  I was especially excited to see a family who were expecting their 5th boy.  They were throwing around the name Steele last year so I couldn't wait to see what they decided.  They did pick Steele ya!!  This year has proven that the wrestling community is indeed a "FAMILY".  A 6yr old on the Longhorn team was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer just two days before Christmas after a routine visit to the dentist.  The out pouring of support and donations has been overwhelming from all the teams.  Unfortunately, our season ended early due to a broken arm Steele got at practice.  With just 1 tournament left then we were off to Regionals and State ughhh!!  I will not know what to do with all my free time until baseball starts.  This is the first Saturday I've been home and I'm already bored and I've eaten all day!!!!