Pinewood Derby
The Pinewood Derby was on Packer’s birthday so he made a 4th car and had fun at his last pack meeting!! He chose to make the Fortnight Battle Bus and he really did most of it by himself!
Category: Packer
Packer turned 11!
This kid is 11! That is old. He’s a real boy now! 🙂 We had fun celebrating Packer on his borthday.We started the day with presents! A Metal detector and Infinity Cube, a game for the Switch and a mini arcade. An Escape game and Lego boards:
After school he just wanted time to enjoy the gifts. That Evening was the Pinewood Derby! and then Grandpa came over to give him a gift – A Movie Making Special Effects App! AND we ended the evening with Cake and Ice Cream!
And cousins getting dropped off while their parents travel:
And the school was a day late honoring Packer BUT so was I so it all worked out 🙂
“…There Is So Much Joy in Holding a Baby!”
Benji sitting on the couch holding Everly: “I don’t know why but there is so much joy in holding a baby.” That is how we all felt. It was so fun to have a baby in the house again.
State Wrestling/ Season End
State Wrestling Tournament was January 26th and 27th! I went and watched Packer wrestle on Friday. Ben and Grandpa Netty cheered and coached. He wrestled 5th-6th Grade bracket, 60-64 lbs. His first match up was against the guy that won the bracket. Packer survived the first round and then he got pinned. His 2nd guy pinned him in the first round 🙁 Packer was excited to be there though and proud of his hard work and improvement.
Benji wrestled early Saturday morning. I wasn’t there to take pictures 🙁 I decided to go to the Temple with Shannon instead) Ben and Grand[a Netty were there. He wrestled in the 7th, 8th, 9th grade bracket at 104-108. He got beat pretty bad on both of his match ups.
Ray wrestled Saturday evening in the Kindergarten 40-43 bracket. They did a round robin and he beat all 3 guys! He pinned the first 2 and then won by points on the last one! Ben and I and Grandpa Netty and Michelle and Udine were there to watch.
Wrestling Season
Soccer ended on the 28th and Wrestling started on the 30th!
The big boys go to practice Monday – Thursday – 4:30-6:30. Ray signed up this year and he goes Tues and Thurs from 6:30-7:30. So besides the lack of family dinner time its fun to have them pushing themselves and working hard.
First Practice:
After practice wrestling:
Raymonds first tournament! Check in. Go. 2 point reversal. Get him on his back. He WINS!
I like to come and watch and the kids come and “watch” or play toys, or color, or eat, or wander around and make friends…
Ray’s 2nd match was really hard and he cried in the middle and didn’t want to finish but he stuck it out. And beat the next 2 guys and ended up with a 1st place out of the 5!
Benji was at a BYU Pow Wow so he didn’t get to wrestle in this tournament.
Packer worked hard but got beat all 3 times. He stayed tough and never got pinned! 4th place for him.
Buds
These guys are buddies. They are opposites in a lot of ways but they get each other and they stick up for each other. They do most things together around here. I love it.
Back to School!
First Day of School 2017
These kids are growing up! !st, 3rd, 5th, 7th!
I love that these guys are best friends!
Benji saying goodbye as he catches carpool to Jr High and Rose saying hello to the big 1st grade all day school!
Cousins! This is the morning crew – the rest of the neighbors are on B track this year.
Father and Sons Campout
I wasn’t there but it looks like they had a blast at Deer Creek!
SCOUTS
Benji is done with 11 year old Scouts! We just had a court of Honor and he got his Tenderfoot and 2nd Class. He has only a few more requirements to get his 1st class and he earned his first merit badge: First Aid.
Benji got called up to teach the bowline knot and then they had a race. Ben won. Benji took 2nd.
Packer finally received his Bear badge and we had a fun game of water kickball.
Soccer Packer
Packer! He got a goal on the last game of the season! He was so happy. He was playing forward and he got the rebound and he got the goal. I wish I would have seen it. Packer is small out on the field and his kick isn’t very strong yet. He really loves practice with his Dad and friends and the games are just oK. He and Luca and a bunch of guys from years past have had a great season – UNDEFEATED!
