May Randoms

May has been the craziest month! Here are a few things we have done this month: The 3rd graders made kites in art and got to fly them. It took three attempts for it to happen due to bad weather, but they got to do it!!

We celebrated Cinco de Mayo with a fiesta!

We have tried to go out ad pick asparagus as much as we can! This is one of our favorite things to do in the Spring! We have picked, and picked and picked and LOVED eating it!

Travis competed in the local homerun derby. He didn't win, but had fun competing!

Landon was awarded the character counts award for integrity! He is a great kid who always tries to do what is right and I am so proud of him for doing it!

We got a new horse and put her to work the very next day! Brett and Cathy Whitlock (family friends) were so kind to give the boys one of their horses. Cathy, the new name of the horse (we name them after the people we get them from) is a 25 year old foxtrotter and she is great! The day after we got her, we helped grandpa Asay move cows and she got to help. Christian rode her pretty hard for the first couple of hours while they were rounding up cows and then Landon jumped on her and rode her the rest of the day. She was a little freaked out by the cows and 4 wheelers at first (probably because she has never been aroudn them), but did a great job! It will be so nice to have a horse that kids can ride and feel safe on!!

We have had lots and lots of baseball! Travis and Landon are both playing and having successful years this year! THey both pitch and catch. Travis also plays 3rd base and Landon also plays short stop.

I'm sure there are other things I'm missing, but these are the big ones!

Middle School Track

Travis took part in track this year...after lots of coaxing! He wa pretty sure he didn't want to do it because he wasn't fast, but he quickly discovered that he could do pretty good in the shot and discuss and ended up really enjoying track season! He improved a great deal during the season. His PR in the shot was 20' 11.5" (done at the conference meet and good enough to place 7th) and in the discuss, his best was 55'9 (in Burlington). In his 2nd track meet, We convinced him to grunt really loud when he threw the shot and told him we would pay him $5. Grandma heard about this and said she would put in $5 too if he did. To our surprize, he did it and threw farther than he had before!! I was happy that he gave track a chance and ended up liking it. And actually, for their conference track meet (the big final one), each school could only enter their top 4 athletes for each event, and he ended up being the #4 spot for long jump after only having competed one time previously and only practicing a couple of times! Next year he will know better and maybe will actually get to practice long jump and do lots better. Who knew he could jump?

Rec basketball

Travis and Landon finished up their rec basketball leagues last night. They were kind of jipped on their season and were only able to be there for the first game and the last game because we were in quarantine. They both enjoyed the two games they had (even though Travis doesn't like to admit it) and I saw improvement. I'm sad they didn't get to play in more games, but that's how life goes some times! Landon's team won all but two of their games and the last one they lost was by 1 right at the end!

Travis' team had great success and went undefeated this season. I was glad to stuck it out and played. He REALLY didn't want to play basketball because he says it's a waste of time because he's going to wrestle in high school... I wish that he could have played in more games and see how much he could improve. He's agressive (some times a little too agressive and you see the wrestler more than a basketball player) and not afraid to physical.

Basketball ended last night, and today, Travis had his first track meet and then on Monday, he will begin baseball. There's nothing like the business of Spring!!

Easter break 2021

We had a beautiful Easter break. The kids were out of school half day Wednesday and go back on Tuesday. We were still in quarantine Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday, we decided to spend our last day in quarantine dying eggs. That evening when Christian got home, we went out and walked some trees for sheds, but didn't find any. We did find a porcupine and had fun watching him climp a tree to safety.

Friday was our first day out of quarantine and it was so nice to be able to be out and about again! We went over to Powell to run some errands, had celebratory quarantine's over lunch at El Tap and hung out with Grandma and Grandpa Foulger. Saturday, we made breakfast and then headed out to the May Farm to look for sheds. It was a beautiful day (in the mid 70's) and we all managed to get a little sun on our faces and necks! We found 4 deer sheds and 3 antelope sheds while we were looking for them.

That evening, we went to Grandma and Grandpa Asay's house for a picnic and Easter Egg hunt with all the cousins. We had hot dogs for dinner and then the adults hid almost 600 eggs (594 to be exact) for the kids. They had a blast collecting eggs and looking to see what was in them.

Grandma Asay staggered the kids by age when she let them go out to start looking for eggs. The big kids had to wait until the end.

We did an updated picture of all the grandkids. It's fun to see them grow and change!

Sunday was Easter and General Conference. General Conference was beautiful this year with so many speakers from different countries and music sung in different languages. I always love the messages from our prophet and other leaders. How grateful I am for them and their messages and for my Savior and his resurrection! The boys were able to find their baskets: Landon under the table, Travis behind the trash and Carson in the pantry.

They all got something they could do during Conference in their baskets.

After conference, we went over to Powell for Easter dinner.

It was also my grandma's birthday, so we had cake for dessert to celebrate her birthday!