Even though that video is hilarious, it does not show the good high lights of his football plays. Aside from getting trucked a few times, he learned a lot, tried hard and did a good job. he scored several touch downs, his longest being a kick return for 70 yards. He intercepted several throws and ran many yards. His tackling improved a lot too. It was fun to watch him and I took a deep breath when his last game ended and he survived without a major injury.
Category: October
New Hobby
I have been contemplating the idea of learning a new hobby lately. A mom on our baseball team has spoiled me with really good pictures of Matthew playing baseball. I have been thinking that I want to have nice pictures of all my kids doing all their activities. Lauren gave me some direction on what a good beginner camera would be and I decided to make the decision to do it. I got a fun little camera that can do all kinds of cool things that I don’t know how to do yet but I’ll get there. I have a lot to learn but even from the start the pictures look nicer and have better light color then my iphone pictures. Lauren is lots of help if I have questions and Misty gave me lots of tips for good settings for baseball. Allison is taking a liking to it too. Maybe we both found a new hobby to enjoy!
These are some of my first pictures I took just playing around.
These are some of Allison’s.
Jake 
Cam 
Lucas 
Reece 
Frank
Bestie Visit
Moving around a lot when I was growing up means that I don’t have a lot of friends from school that I kept it touch with. One of my besties my Junior and Senior year of high school was Erin Weber (now Perry). We both went to BYU-I together for a few years too. A few years back she got a new job that has a conference every year in Overland Park Kansas which is a direct neighbor to Olathe. So every year about this time I get to pick her up and we go to dinner and talk for hours and catch up on each others lives. It is always a nice time. She is a good friend and I am glad that we have kept in touch.
Matthew’s First Sewing Project
All on his very own at the end of last year Matthew picked on of his electives to be FACTS this year. The first half of the class is sewing and the second half is cooking. After learning the basics, the sewing project they were supposed to do was this back pack. I think he did pretty good. He said he got a ‘B’ on it. I would have given him and ‘A’.
My Little Wizard
Emilee is not going to be in this stage much longer and I will miss it when she doesn’t do things like this anymore. The stage of wearing some costume around the house and turning her surroundings into whatever her imagination comes up with. She was watching the Chiefs game with Ryan while wearing her wizard cape and using a chop stick to cast her spells. It made me smile and I had to take a picture to remember it.
The next picture is also just another cute moment of the girls heading off to school. Emilee was excited she was supposed to bring a pumpkin so they could cut it open and count the seeds.
Fall Baseball Final Tournament
Matthew had his last couple of tournaments the past few weeks. Between football and baseball he was not able to put as much practice time into baseball as he wanted. His hitting was showing it towards the mid and end of the season. His last week before the final tournament he made sure he got in some batting practice everyday even if just for 20 minutes. It made a difference though. He had several good hits, including a line drive walk off hit that got them into the playoffs and they ended up winning the whole tournament. It was a great way for the team to end the season. Now with football being done too he isn’t going to know what to do with himself until basketball starts in January. Just kidding, I am sure he will train for baseball as much as he can.
While the boys are playing baseball there is a twitter contest that the parents have won seven times in a row. The memes are from some of the pics that we posted to twitter. Leading us to our eighth twitter win and keeping our undefeated reign in tact.
One of our games we had some really bad calls from the umpires, which happens sometimes. That’s part of baseball and you have to move on. These particular umpires were soooo bad it almost seemed blatant and comical (if it hadn’t have ended up costing us the game). They had three calls in particular that were awful. Our camera mom got one on camera. I didn’t tweet them publicly but I made a few meme’s of my own that I put on our behind the scenes team chat group.
This is the play, Matthew was called out but was clearly safe with time to spare. 
Cheerleading Allison
Allison did her first season of Cheerleading this year. She was a little disenchanted with it because she had a broken arm and couldn’t do the stunts but she likes cheering at the games. When Grandma and Grandpa Terry came they came to watch her and she was the Captain that day which means she gets to pick what cheers they did. They have a few games left and then they have their dance/cheer competition.
A few weeks ago Allison walked in the Spring Hill Fall Festival Parade with her squad, and thought it was pretty fun.
Decorating the float for the parade. 
Spring Hill Bronco Cheerleaders 
Parade 
Waiting for the parade to start 
Besties. 
2019 Cheer Squad 
Cheer captain 
Allison’s Girl Scout Camp Out
While we were at the baseball tournament Allison’s girl scout troop went on a fun adventure last weekend. They went to the State Capitol and toured the building and saw how everything worked. About half way home there is a girl scout cabin that they stopped at and spent the night. She was pretty excited. She has a lot of fun with the girls in her troop. They are all really fun and mesh well together. They hiked and started and cooked over a fire. She had the best hot dog ever that she cooked over the fire by herself, and of course they did smores’. She got a little nervous at night but her and a friend shared a bunk and were fine after that. She loved playing all the games and getting to do all the hands on stuff.
Wrapping Up Baseball with the Monster Bash Tournament
The Monster Bash was our last tournament of the Fall season. This team has played in this tournament three years. This is our second year playing with this team in this tournament. Part of the tournament is a twitter contest. The team that has the most tweets over the weekend gets cash for future tournaments. Our moms have won the contest by miles for the last two years and we made it three this year. There are over 400 teams that play in this tournament so we were playing in Platte City which is a little over an hour away. It was a really nice ball field though. We played two games the first day. We squeaked into the top division in 10th place which meant we had to play at 8am the next day. When the boys won that game our next game wasn’t until 4pm. One of the coaches had family that lived near by and offered to let the team hang out at their house for a while. So we ordered some pizza’s, and watched the football game, the boys played dodge ball and baseball in the front yard, the girls played in the leaves. It was a fun few hours.
We won the 4pm game. The 6pm semi championship game went extra innings and the boys clawed their way to finally win it in the 9th inning (usually a game is 6 innings). The Championship Game started a little before 9pm and the boys did really well just came up a little short. It is a long day at the ball park when you see the sunrise and sunset on the same day. It was a great end to the season.
Mom having a little fun!
A little while ago a few companies put a few hundred scooters around down town Kansas City. There is an app that you download and then you can scan the little code on the scooter and it unlocks it and lets you rent it to scoot around town. When you are done you park the scooter on the sidewalk or where ever and log off on the app and it locks it back up and you leave it there for the next person that comes along and wants to ride it. The idea is to cut down on traffic, and pollution and that sort of thing but a few of us crazy ladies decided to go check it out and ride some scooters for fun and it was pretty fun! They are pretty hefty little scooters. They have a fun little bell to ding, and some of them tell you how fast you are going. We were usually going 3-8 miles per hour. That might not seem very fast but when you are flying down a road with cars passing you, a trolley track to avoid, and watching for people, and nothing between you and the concrete road flying by under you except for two little wheels on a piece of metal it is plenty fast. It said you were not supposed to ride on the side walks so we were on the road most of the time. I think everyone just rides them on the sidewalk though, and I would feel much safer on the side walk. Down town roads are not know for their roominess. I am sure pedestrians feel safer if scooters are not zipping around them though. We were safe and all wore helmets. We zipped around town for about an hour then headed back to our car. We had one casualty right at the very end but she recovered and we all parked the scooters and went to lunch together followed by some famous ice cream from Betty Rae’s before heading back to pick kids up from school. It was a fun little break for myself which I was glad I did because it refreshed me for the next week few days that were ridiculously busy.
