Friday, January 20, 2012

2011 Baseball Banquet

 
This was the end of year party for the "Lightning" baseball team.
This is Rylee with the coaches, Scott and Monty. These guys were
great to be with all summer and Rylee learned a ton of stuff from them.
 
 
Some of the boys from the team.
 
They gave out placques. We ate and watched a video that
they put together of pictures of the year.  These guys are
a great bunch a people.  I am so glad that I was able to get
to know all of them.  Rylee made some great friends too.

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Las Vegas Raceway Oct 2011

 
We went down to the Drag Races in Las Vegas this year
and took Rylee this time.  This is one of the bikes that we were
able to get up close to.  Pretty colorful huh?
 
Back in the pit area they work on the dragters.  It is very loud
and smokey but pretty exciting.
 
There are alot of people
 
There are alot of people taking pictures and I got this
guy to even give us a pose.  He was pretty fun.
 
Rylee thought this paint job was pretty cool.  
 
This is the car that it belonged to...
 
We like to pretend that this is our "UNCLE" Tim Wilkerson

 
This year they had a little dirt track set up to run "Traxxas"
remote control cars on.  It cost $1 and they let you run a car or
truck around the track.  Rylee had a blast and now wants to save up
his money to buy one.  They are pretty expensive little units.
 
This is one of the models that he drove.  Pretty sharp looking
 
This was the track that they had set up to run on.  It was
made up of compacted dirt.  They are pretty resilient
as alot of them were crashed into the walls by inexperienced
drivers.  They are made to go in snow, ice, dirt, water almost everywhere.
 
If you can tell in this picture, there is one of the little
cars flying off the ramp and thru the air.  The guy show this
was pretty good at making it do flips and then landing back
on all four tires.  This was entertainment for the crowd of
people while they were working on the Drag Strip. You can kind
of see the strip in the background.


The weather was great and now that we have the Condo in
Mesquite I am sure that we will be back down for the Spring
races.  We are looking forward to this.


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CATCHING UP

T
Tia started out the night
by putting on her Christmas gear.  It did not last very long tho 
 
ok so I am a little behind in my posting.This is
Tagg and Grandpa Jim playing Bingo on Christmas
Eve,  Tagg won a prize


 
 
Tagg did not win these but he
had more fun with them.. 

 
This is the beginning
of the gingerbread house making. 

 
Treyson worked very hard on getting his house
decorated just right.
 
 
Blakeley adding a few sprinkles to her lawn I think.
 
Tagg working with his mother on the finishing touches.
 
Yeah! time to open presents.
 
Kenzie is excited.
 
The kids waited patiently for each one to open thier
present.  Tagg was first.
 
 
Then Blakeley's turn.
 
Now all of them after present opening
time with the traditional Christmas Eve pj's


FINALLY RYLEE IS AWAKE FOR CHRISTMAS
MORNING....(after I went down and woke him up)
I
it got to be 7:30
and I could not wait any longer. 
 
Rylee started opening
 
Looks like he was trying to go back to sleep.
 
 
Oh finally!!! The 'X-BOX 360" that he waited and begged
for for so many years.  Yipee

 
Christmas morning after everyone arrived to open gifts..
 
 
Norine with her lap full of presents.  Jim trying to gather the
garbage.

All in all we had a pretty good Ehristmas.  Even without the snow
that we were supposed to be getting. 
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