Monday Night's Game

Monday night was the first HOT weather game.  Our games are at 6pm and it was still 80 degrees outside!  The kids were hot.  Here they are lined up waiting for their turn to hit.

Olivia is on base ready to run.

Kaydin and Emma are waiting patiently.

There were a lot of water breaks due to the heat. 

Emma was last batter...she is so fast she caught up to the kid that was running bases in front of her.  Go Emma! 

Olivia's up to bat again.  Daddy is giving her some pointers. 

Nice hit!  Run Olivia Run!

Team cheer...we played the Mariners...RA RA Mariners.

And of course the high fives...great game kids!

Monster Truck Birthday

We went to my cousin's son's Monster Truck birthday party today.  Emma is showing you where the fun is about to begin....the Ogburn Arena.

First the kids each got a balloon that they had to pop.  Inside the balloons were numbers.  That is how we determined the order for the Ogburn Arena obstacle course.

Zach, the birthday boy, got to go first of course.  Here he is at the start.  Go Zach!

Here is Emma giving the obstacle course her all. 

Marcus was #8...his t-ball number!  That was a coincidence.  He made it through the maze of string very quickly.

Now, here's Olivia (she was last), demonstrating how the obstacle course went.  First you get through all that string...

Next you go through these tires.

Then you go over a string and under a string twice.

Then you run through a path that was made out of string and go through this box.

You end by climbing these stairs and jumping over the truck and tractor.  They also got sprayed with silly string at the end too...I somehow missed a picture of that.  It was a great obstacle course...the kids loved it.

Then we went to the "body shop" and the kids got tattoos.

Emma and Olivia got a tattoo, Marcus didn't want one.

Here is the cool cake Tara (Zach's Mom) made.  It was tasty too!

A quick shot of one of the neighbor girls with the twins...these girls hit it off pretty quickly...they are all the same age.

Cousin Dustin took the kids for rides with the 4-wheeler.  They had a blast doing that too.

We ended up staying for dinner.  Here's a quick 2nd cousin picture.  Zach, the birthday boy (10), Olivia (5), Sydney (2), Landon in the back (8 next week), Emma (5), Marcus (4)

Little Sydney really warmed up to Marc.  She followed him around all night.  Marc told me he was sitting on the couch and all of a sudden she came up and rubbed his bald head.  She sat down next to him and it was an instant friendship.  Too cute! 

Happy Birthday Zach!

Spring Concert

The girls had their Spring Concert this morning.  They were supposed to dress in Spring colors...here's what they chose to wear.

Marcus and I went to the school 1/2 hour early in hopes to get a front row seat...no such luck!  We were in the back row!  We'll get it some day...I guess we are still considered rookies.  The kindergartners sang first.  This is 2 classes of kindergartners.  They sounded great!

There were hand actions with every song.  Emma got to stand next to her good friend. Sarai.

They all did a couple of group songs in the end.  The kindergartners stood on the floor for that.  I was able to zoom in on Olivia and her good friend, Makayla.

We caught the girls' class walking out.  Olivia ran out of line to give Marcus a quick hug and to let Mommy take a quick picture.  Then Marcus and I went to McDonald's for lunch!  The perfect day so far :-)

Here is a little sample of the kindergartners.  My camera battery was going dead so when I zoom in it gets blurry...but cute video anyways :-)  In case you can't find them...Olivia is on the top row to the far right and Emma is in the middle in the second row just above the music teacher's head.

Today's Happenings

This morning we hung out with Grami, Poppi, Kimmie, Colby, Elle and sweet little Baylor. Baylor is getting so big...crawling already! Olivia wanted a picture with little Baylor.

Of course Emma had to have a picture with Baylor too.

 Then I took the girls to their first school friend birthday party at one of the jumping places. The little girl in the middle is Sarai, she's the birthday girl. The other girl also goes to their school, her name is Madison.

Olivia introduced me to one of her little school friends too, this is Zohi. It was nice to meet some of the parents and also some of the kids that the girls go to school with. They had a great time. Marcus spent the day with Daddy and from what we've heard, they had a great time hunting, hiking for mushrooms and visiting friends. They are on their way home now...sounds like Daddy needed the camera today too...if we're lucky, maybe he took pictures with his phone.

Country Wedding

We went to the wedding of Brett Turner and MaryAnn Swift yesterday. Brett is a long-time family friend of Marc's family. Lucky for us the wedding was very close to where we live so we didn't have to travel far. It was held on a beautiful ranch...the weather cooperated for a pretty outdoor ceremony.

Grami got a great family shot of us after the ceremony.

 There were lots of cool places perfect for pictures. Marcus decided to be a little silly.

Then he said he would be serious (I personally like the silly picture better though...)

 

Our little cowgirl, Olivia. Giddy-up!

Of course a cake picture just for Nana :-)

They had these cool "Wanted" signs up all over the place...what a clever idea.

The girls were not shy about the bouquet toss...they didn't catch it though.

Marcus didn't know what he was doing...the guys just let the garter fall and made Marcus pick it up. He got a lot of attention.

But he didn't really want it. He wouldn't even take a picture with the groom (who happens to be around 7 feet tall and a little intimidating so I don't really blame little Marcus...I don't think he's ever seen anyone that tall!).

During the father daughter dance they invited all the fathers to dance with their daughters. Here is Marc with Emma and behind you can see Colby with Elle. All those spots on this picture are from the dust in the air. My flash caught it well. There really was a ton of dust in the barn. The floor was dirt, rocks and hay. When we left the allergy sufferers in the group were miserable. We all took baths and showers as soon as we got home. It was a cool place for a wedding reception though.

They also let the mothers and sons dance during the mother son dance. Overall it was a spectacular wedding. Congratulations to Brett and MaryAnn!

Easton

Jordan and Kallie had a beautiful baby boy, Easton Michael Tilla, on April 25th.  You may remember the Mardi Gras baby shower we went to a couple of months ago...Easton is the reason for that celebration.  This is the new Mom with her bundle of joy!  So sweet!  

We visited on Saturday and brought the new parents some dinner.  I of course had to get in my baby fix too :-)  I always forget how small they are.  

Emma got her baby fix in too...I told her no more babies in our house so get your snuggles in while you can.  Olivia got to hold him too but we didn't get a picture.

Congratulations Jordan and Kallie.  Easton is perfect!

Kindergarten Class

Look at those cute kids.  The girls came home with their class picture today.  This brings back memories of my school days and class pictures (which seem to keep showing up to haunt me on facebook lately).  :-)  It's nice to put some little faces with the names of the kids the girls talk about all the time.  That's a good looking group of kids if I do say so myself.