Shy's International Volleyball Award

As most of you know Shyanne had a once in a lifetime opportunity to go to Italy this summer to play volleyball. She had a great time, wonderful experiences and made some great new friends. She also showed her coaches and the Italian coaches what a great volleyball player she is! After playing for 4 days in a International tournament, she was selected to play on the USA all-star team against Italy's all-star team, and then was also voted by the coaches out of nearly 100 USA girls as the "Outstanding Outside Hitter! " I am so proud of her and her accomplishments! We are so grateful to all of you you helped sponsor her in any way to be able to have this opportunity!

Summer Staycation

So it's been awhile since I have posted, sorry about that, it's been hard finding time to keep up with it all. I really wanted to be able to take the kids on a real vacation this summer, but financially it just didn't happen, so we decided to do a "staycation" and try to have a little bit of fun. We started friday and spent a half day doing some school shopping. Now for those of you who have 5 kids to have to school shop for you know where I am coming from. LOL But we did survive a few hours and got most of the kids fitted for shoes and that out of the way, not to mention a date for Shy while we were at it. We then headed back home and to the lake for a few hours of boating with the fam! Thanks Tom & Jen for carting us around in the boat! Saturday morning we got up and ready and headed back to provo and did some more school shopping and then made our way to Salt Lake where we went to the Joseph Smith movie. None of us had been and needless to say it was an amazing thing for us to do as a family and to strentghen our testimonies of the Prophet. We then spent some time walking around Temple Square and went on a tour of the Conference Center. After that we went to the Mayan to eat , none of us had been there before, and although it was a different atmosphere, I don't think its something we will do again. We went to the zoo, I realized that some of my younger kids have never even been to the zoo since they were little babies, so I figured it was about time that we went to the zoo, and then we made a stop at the "This is the place monument." We then finished up school shopping at the Gateway Mall and the younger kids played in the "shooting water" they had had enough of shopping, (I didn't get any pics of them playing in the water dang it) and by the time we got back to them they didn't want to get back in the cold water. But all in all we had a fun weekend and experienced some things that we hadn't before.


At the "This is the Place monument"


At the Zoo











These two are always being silly!



On the roof of the Conference Center

Temple Square

Heading into the mall for school shopping!

SOFTBALL STATE CHAMPIONS!!!!!

After 3 long hot days our Mt. Pleasant Bee's are the STATE CHAMPIONS!!! The girls played their hearts out and are very deserving of the title. They started Monday off with their first win placing them in the winners bracket and not having to play again until the next day. Tuesday they played 2 more games winning both of them and the reality of taking state set in. Wednesday found them playing their first game at 3 against a Spanish Fork team and although it was a close game our girls lost their first game of the entire season 5-4. At that point they had to play right after and beat that team to put them into the championship game against the same Spanish Fork team, however in order to win state they would have to beat them twice! And they did just that the first game their was no time limit so it was extremely long but our girls won 7-5. So began the final game for the championship it was already a little after 8 pm and since the fields we were playing on are not able to use the lights at night they put a time limit on this game. We scored the first 2 runs and went into the last inning with the lead. Of course at this point when your the mom of the pitcher things begin to get a little intense. Jentry had been pitching great all day and now faced her last inning with the state championship on the line. We quickly got the 1st out and the crowd was really excited. Jentry then stuggled with a couple of batters and before we knew it had 2 runners on base by walks. She then struck out the next batter for the 2nd out. Its crunch time! She walked 2 more batters and that meant the other team scoring 1 run, and with bases loaded. You could see the pressure getting to her and the crowd, and we wondered if the coaches would maybe put in another pitcher, but they called a time out and went and talked to her for a minute and the next batter she struck out giving our girls the win 2-1!!! Our girls played over 6 hours straight that day, and their hard work and determination payed off. I am so proud of Jentry!!! She did such a great job! The night ended with a police & fire truck escort through town at 11 pm with the girls reinging on top of the fire truck cheering and screaming and lots of towns people out on main street cheering them on!


State Championship Team!


These 4 are our oldest leaders on the team and also great friends!
Avery Briggs, Kiersten Strate, Jentry, & Mariah Hafen


Jentry winding up for a pitch

Jentry had some awesome hitting including 2 home

runs one of which was a grand slam!

Throwing a strike!

4th of July fun...

The 4th of july is always a day we look forward to! We had a great time this year. We worked in a little bit of camping, parades, a barbeque, kickball, slip n sliding, rodeo & of course fireworks.


Shelby & Jentry on their Lil Miss Mt Pleasant float at the parade.


Austin, Bubba, Zane & Colbey waiting for the parade to start

Austin & Shy at the parade

Shylo, Zach & Mandy

Shelby slip n sliding

Jentry doing her penguin

Bubba rockin on the slip n slide

Austin & Cole

They like to line up and go one after another and have

a big crash at the end, and its Cole at the end taking everyone

out!

Take me out to the ball game....

Ok so I'm a little behind. The weekend of June 28th found us at the annual Lions Tournament in Epraim. Both Jentry & Bubba's team were undefeated going into the tournament, and I am proud to announce they both came out of the tournament the same way, Yep, both of their teams won the championship in their division! And they both even had homeruns! I am so proud of them and their hard work, you guys rock!

Birthdays........

So birthdays come and birthdays go, that was my concept on them until 17 years ago, when I had the best birthday present ever! Most people think it wouldn't be a much fun sharing a birthday with a family member, but I think just the oppposite. I love sharing my birthday with Shyanne. I just can't believe it's her 17th, where does the time go? I am so grateful for her and the young woman she has become, she truly is a joy. And I love the fact that she doesn't mind celebrating it with mom. We had a great dinner out at Outback, a quick drive by the MTC and a stop at walmart, pretty good night if you ask me! Thanks for all the great birthdays Shyanne, I look forward to many more! And yes I did turn 40 and I actually made it through it!

And the 2009 Lil Miss Mt. Pleasant is...

SHELBY ISON!!!!

Shelby was crowned Lil Miss Mt. Pleasant Saturday night. And Jentry was named her second attendant. They both did an excellent job. Shelby sang "Popular" from the musical Wicked and Jentry performed the Hoe down throw down from the Hananah Montana Movie. I am so proud of both of them! I know it took alot of courage to get up in front of people and perform. They will get to ride a float in the hometown parades this summer as well as do service projects for the city.