Parker's (Abbreviated) Machine Pitch Season

Parker has been enrolled in the Lehi City's Machine Pitch baseball league this year.  Due to his broken arm, vacations, reunions and such he really didn't have a chance to play much, but he definitely enjoyed it when he did.  He played his first game just after his cast came off.  I was nervous that he would re-injure his arm.  He was a little unnerved about standing up to the plate with this machine chucking balls at him.  He got a hit at his first at-bat.  He was so shocked himself that he forgot to run and the other team threw him out at first base.  In the field, he played right field -- at this age that means the back of the infield -- and I don't think a single ball came within 30 feet of him. 

Besides that game, he played in one other game, the last game of the season.  He got a base hit, then rounded the bases to score a run.  He was so excited that he forgot to touch home plate and had to come back to do that. After the game his coach told the team he had been keeping track and they had won all of their games.  He then handed out a "first place" medal to each player. 

Despite not being to many of the games, he thought it was a lot of fun and says he wants to play again next year.  Here are some pictures from the final game of the season.

Making contact.  Parker gets a hit!

Ready to go on first base.

 Another hit!  Parker goes to third.

 Bringing it home.  Parker scores a run!

New business

So, my new business is coming along.

It is at Gymcats ( a gymnastics place) in Lehi.
I will be teaching preschool and gymnastics. With the choice of taking preschool alone or both together.
I have been training and teaching with the Gymcats trainers so we will be teaching the same things on the same levels.  Wow, have I been sore.  It seemed pretty easy the first day, my body told me NO the next day. Boy was I sore.

I have moved a lot of my preschool things in and need to finish in the next few days so It will be ready for my Open House on the 20th.

I am still in the process of getting my Business License. The fire Marshall has a few things that we need to fix before he will sign my form.  Then all will be good.

Some days. I am excited about my new adventure, and other days I am stressed about it. But that is just part of life.

R's Family Reunion

We had our yearly family reunion at East Canyon this time.
Unlike every year, we all tented it! Well, almost everyone. Warrens cheated and brought a tent and their trailer.

 Fishing at the kid pond.  We saw fish and the would steal the bait. But we didn't catch any.

We had a lot of fun and kept busy. A nature scavenger hunt for the kids..Hope had to do it twice she liked it so much. Swimming, fishing at the lake and ant the kid pond, miniture golf, shuffle board and horse shoes.

Nightly family gathering around the fire with S'mores of course.

We ate yummy food and played card and board games.

We had a blast playing minute to win it games.

Some of us slept.

Hope wouldn't sleep in her sleeping bag. So I ended up unzipping it and putting it on her like a blanket, Silly girl. 

Zach told us to make funny faces....

 What? Cell phone service it the mountains, no,no put it away.

Had had Sunday service together at the lodge. It was a great meeting.
Thanks for coming everyone.

More fires

Today while we were swimming at the Lehi outdoor pool, I noticed smoke near the mountain. It looked like maybe a house a structure was on fire.  With in 20 minutes we could tell it was the mountain.  So scary that with in minutes the whole hill side was in flames.  Thank goodness for brave fire fighters.
We haven't gotten much of the smoke because the wind is going the other way. However, not looking forward to tonight, we will for sure get the smoke.