Summer Recap 3--Hannah

Hannah finished out her 3rd grade year at school. She did a great job and learned so much! Her summer was filled with family trips (coming next!) and SOFTBALL! This was the first year Hannah played and she had a great time! It was also great fun watching her. She had 2 games each week for 2 months. Her team was the Diamondbacks. She played right field, 3rd and 2nd base. She was always 1st in the line-up for batting! Here are some snapshots of her playing.

At bat!

She made it to 1st base!

Her team won 1st place in the city tournament!!! Yeah! Jacob was very impressed that she got such a BIG trophy!

With the 1st place win at the city level, her team went on the the state tournament. What an adventure! Her team had 3 games the 1st day and 2 the 2nd day. They ended up with 3rd place. We are proud of her and her team!

Scoring a run at the state tournament!

On 3rd base!

Hannah also had some great late night parties with her friends. This one commemorated the Disney Channel movie "Princess Protection Program". She and her two friends spent a week preparing a dance, banners, streamers, matching clothes and loads of fun! If I can figure out the video of the dance, I'll post it.

Hannah's softball team had a party celebrating their great season. It was right before school started. It was a home of one of the players. They had horses for rides. We had a great time. However, Logan had the BEST time! He absolutely loved riding the horses. They were just his size and he didn't want to ever get off!

Jacob

Next up--Family fun!!

Summer Recap 2--Jacob's turn

Jacob finished up a great Kindergarten school year. He had a wonderful teacher and became quite a good reader. One of his last events was an animal report. He had to memorize 5 facts, dress up, and stand in a museum. The teacher had stickers as buttons and when people came by, they would pusht the button and he would tell them a fact about his animal. He chose a gorilla. It was quite a challenge to figure out a costume, but we did it. Here is our little gorilla!

We were so proud of him during his Kindergarten program. He loves to sing, so he did a fabulous job and the program was so cute!

Jacob's summer was filled with sports. He wanted to do it all. Despite all the running around to practices and games, I was glad to have him active and be outside. He started with soccer. This was his 3rd season. This year his age group got to use a goalie. That was Jacob's favorite position! He stopped lots of goals!

Here he is with Alex and their jester hats from Grandpa and Grandma Thayne from England.

The next sport was T-ball. It was especially great because Rich was the coach. Jacob loved having his dad as his coach. They both did a fantastic job! They were the Reds! Hahaha!

Finally, he is playing flag football. He still has one more game next week. He was most excited about last week when he grabbed the final flag to end the game. Way to go Jacob! He's in the red shorts!

We are so proud of Jacob. He had a fun, full summer and loved every minute of it.

Next...on to Hannah!

Summer Recap--Part 1

I've decided to break down the summer fun! I'm starting with Alex and Logan.

Shortly after their birthday they discovered a new hiding spot!

Can you see Alex peeking behind?

Alex has such a great smile!

Getting dressed by themselves...

Logan

Alex

Then they decided they didn't like clothes at all. We are

FINALLY(?) out of that stage!

Hard at work painting the kitchen.

Their favorite past time is officially BASEBALL--Rich is VERY excited about that!

Logan

Alex--he has a silly sister!

Logan--he does too!

They love being outside!

We had an incredible amount of grasshoppers at our house this summer. The boys absolutely loved it. They would spend forever searching for "hoppers". They even managed to catch quite a few of them!

Here's one!

Logan became quite good at catching them while they were on the fence.

Logan just being silly--as usual!

Here's Logan with the jester hat he got from Grandma and Grandpa Thayne from their mission in England.

Alex's new trick--he thinks he is hilarious! He kind of is!

Of course, Logan has to follow!

Next up...Jacob!

First Day of School

Well, the summer is over and so is my blogging vacation. (Sorry--5 months is a long time!) Hannah started 4th grade today. Her teacher is Mr. Ferre. They have laptops in their classroom for the students. I thinks it's going to be really great! She has some good friends in her class that should make the year great as well.

Jacob is in 1st grade. His teacher is Mrs. Geddes. She seems very nice and I know he'll have a great year! He is very excited to eat school lunch.

Ready to catch to bus!

Alex was so excited to go to school as well. Unfortunately, he didn't realize he couldn't ride the bus with the kids. He was very upset!

The summer recap will be coming soon...stay tuned!