Lovell's Days

 Lovell's Days came and was great, as it is every year! I love that our little community has so many fun things to do during this week. It always brings in friends and family that we don't get to see every day! We went to the Follies on Thursday night and they were the best I've seen in a few years! Friday, we went to family fun night. They boys had a blast hanging out with their friends and playing the games!

The ring toss put on by Queen Bee Garden's was the hit of the night. They were giving out honey sticks to the kids that got a ringer. Travis spent his last 8 tickets trying to get as many honey sticks as possible!

Carson offered to stay home with the other boys so we could go listen to the Cowley's Boys. It was fun to visit with friends and enjoy the music.

Saturday, we did the parade and then hit the lake for the first time this summer. It has been unseasonably cold and rainy, so this was the first nice day we had had to go. We enjoyed the water, fried chicken and the warm sunshine!

Asay cousins: William, Travis, Carson, Stetson, Paige, Britt, Stahle, Mya, Landon and Janelle.

Travis, James and Landon

Landon getting some candy.

It's officially summer now that we've had fried chicken on the boat.

Carson

Travis baseball

Travis's regular baseball season ended this week after their tournament in Powell. Travis had a great year with some great coaches. He played lots of catcher, short stop and pitcher and really improved this season. It's been super fun to watch him. They went into the tournament seeded #2 this year year. They beat Powell their first game, and ended up loosing their second game against an all-stars Greybull-basin team. Although he's done playing with the Astros, he will continue for another month to play with the All-Stars team.

I love to see the different faces he makes while he pitches!

 This was his first game back after getting hit with a ball and he had a great game!

It's always important to keep your eye on the ball...

Last Monday, Travis had a little mishap as he was warming up for his game. Two of his teammates were warming up together, when one of them (the hardest thrower on the team) threw kind of a wild throw, making it so that his partner couldn't catch it, just as Travis walked behind him to pick up a ball. As fate would have it, the ball hit him directly in the head, next to his eye. I pulled up to the game to see him on the ground and people gathered all around him and one of the moms telling me that Travis had been hit in the head. Talk about get your heart pumping fast! It immediately swelled up and looked super sore (we gave him ibuprophin right away)! One of his teammate's dad is a PA at the hospital and he looked him over and said that things looked ok (if we wanted to have it x-rayed, we could but there would be nothing they could do if it was fractured) and that he could maybe have a slight concussion. If he became confused or nauseous to bring him in to get checked out better. Needless to say, he sat out that game and the game the next day due to his eye being so swollen. He actually didn't have any pain besides the initial pain of getting hit, no headaches or signs of a concussion, but he sure looked terrible! The pictures don't really show how swollen and bruised he was. The hardest thing for him, was that he couldn't see anything below him because the swelling was so bad.

Right after it happened.

 The Day after:

Day 2

Travis had All-stars tryouts scheduled for this day (Wednesday) and didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to try out. Luckily, the coach is our neighbor, and at the game this happened, so he was aware of what was going on. He was excited to find out the next day that he had made the team!

  Day 3 and 4 

The swelling caused the blood vessels in his eye to burst, which made it all red.

Day 5 and 6

One week later.

Looking so much better and happy that mom wasn't going to take any more pictures of his eye!

Landon's baseball.

Tonight was Landon's last coach pitch game. He's done a great job this year. He was able to get a hit every time he batted (they were  given 8 pitches and if they didn't hit they had to sit down). His favorite position to play was first base. His coach was so great with the kids and did a great job of cheering them on and encouraging them. After their last game, he even took them all to get ice cream!

Busy weekend!

This last weekend was sure a busy one. We spent all of Friday in Cody watching Travis play baseball with the Colt traveling team. They won both of their games that day, beating Cody and Sheridan. Both games we came from behind to win!

Satuday was crazy. Christian, Carson and Landon left in the morning to head out to Grandpa Asay's house to help brand and bleed cows.

Landon, Stetson and Carson helping out.

Travis and I left at the same time to head to Cowley for Cub Scout Day camp. Travis wasn't very happy to have to go (he would have rathered been playing baseball), but I had to be there as a leader, so I made him go. His mood got better once he found another friend from Cowley to hang out with him and his other friend and they got into their activities. He ended up having a great time and really enjoyed it. His favorite station was the giant water balloon sling shot. They also got to shoot bb guns, sling shots, bow and arrows, play water balloon volleyball, build boats and race them, identify fish, and try to sind plastic boats with marbles.

With his friends Sam and Joaquin.

At this station, the boys had to see how many marbles they could drop into their boat before it sank. They couldn't touch the edge of the pool or go below the top of the pool to drop them. Travis rocked their station and won the competition twice. His best was 8 marbles, but he ran out of marbles before it actually sank.

This was Travis's favorite station. Their team took second and were entered into a drawing for one of the 5 sling shots. He was stoked to find out that he had won one of the sling shots!

Water balloon volleyball.

Building boats.

Travis and I left a little early from day camp so that he could make it to Cody in time to play with the Colts in the championship game. Christian left branding early to come and rode up with grandma and grandpa Foulger to watch. They played against Cody and beat them 14-4 (the game got done early because of a run mercy rule).

It rained the entire Championship game...hard. But we stuck it out under the umbrella.

Colts!

The team stayed for a bit to cheer on the older boys, who also took first.

Sunday, we visited both of our dads to celebrate father's day with them. We are so blessed to have great father's in our lives!

June 16, 2019