birthday/fathers day

We celebrated Jim's birthday and fathers day all in one
this year.  I had a co-worker/friend (right Teresa?) pick
this up for Jim as a surprise this year.  I hardly ever get
a chance to surprise Jim.

He was really surprised.

Still unwrapping.....

sorry I forgot to turn the picture.  He looks more
comfortable this way tho right?

Then Zac, CJ and the boys came over and we built a
bonfire in the backyard and roasted hot dogs and had
delicious hot "SMOES"

Gotta love those redneck fires in the back yard.

Cal Ripken Tournament

 Rylee was fortunate enough to play with some friends

on the Cal Ripkien All Star Leage.  They played in a

tournament in Murray.This is Rylee and Gaje.

 

This was the room that all of the boys and thier parents

had to meet in to get briefed on the way the tournament

was going to be played....

 

They gave all the boys souviner bats.

 

Opening Ceremonies.

 

More opening ceremonies.

 

Presenting "JAMES RYLEE WILKERSON"

Yes, this is where all the boys find out that your real name
is JAMES and then mom is in trouble.....What were
we thinking???

 

The rain came down and muddied everything up.  It

really poured hard.  They had to go and get lots and lots

of kitty litter to mix in with the mud holes.  This, in my opinion,

was a very bright idea.... it worked quite well I might add.

 

These kids had a blast in the mud after all the rain. 

Savanah (the little girl) started out in white but ended up

in a nice chocolate brown.....

I am not sure what thier moms thought about this. 

ON OUR WALK...

Jim, Rylee and I went for a walk the other night.

And while this won't mean alot to some people

it will mean ALOT to those of us who knew

(or feel like we knew)

LAEL.....

Just who did clean the sink at Angies that night.........

A FEW ADDITIONS....

THIS IS THE WHERE THE OLD PORCH WAS!!!



THIS IS WHAT THE OLD PORCH SORT OF LOOKED LIKE....

THIS IS MY PATIO THAT HAS BEEN
 PATIENTLY WAITING FOR A TOP....

THIS IS WHAT THE OLD PORCH LOOKED LIKE.
 
THIS IS HALF WAY THRU THE PROCESS BUT I
DISCOVERED THAT I REALLY LIKED IT ALREADY...

THIS IS THE UNDERNEATH PART OF THE
PARTIALLY DONE PATIO THAT I STILL
REALLY REALLY LIKE ALREADY
 
WAH LAH!!!  THIS IS THE NEW BACK PORCH.
A LITTLE DIFFERENT BUT VERY NICE.

THIS IS THE FRONT ON VIEW. 
(NOW I NEED TO PAINT MY DOOR
AGAIN.  ARGHH)

AND THE LOVELY PATIO THAT IS ALL
WRAPPED AND READY TO GO.
 NOW I CAN PUT OUT MY LOVELY PATIO
FURNITURE THAT I GOT FOR MOTHERS DAY!!!


AND THIS IS THE UNDERNEATH VIEW.  STILL LOVE IT......

COUNTY FAIR TIME

 We had to get Tia all spruced up for the yearly county fair pet show.  Tia really likes Tagg and so he decided that he would be the one to show her.  Besides that Treyson was going to show Rusty.  Doesn't she look cute in her "RED WHITE AND BLUE"
 Tagg was all cowboyed out but did not have a smile for the camera.  This was at 9:30 A.M. and I think it was a little early for him....
Here is Treyson ready to show "Rusty" (the dorkie dog)
I am not entirely sure what the problem was with this picture but thought it was blog worthy...  (I think it was because TIA did not win the big award like he thought she should have)  jk

Night at the Movies

We finally found a Friday night to go to
a DRIVE INN movie.
Rylee has been wanting to go to one
of these for years. Hence the "deer in the headlights look"

I think that the lastone we went to was when the
72 Chevy Blazer
was still in condition to go. (That was quite a
while ago)

We sat in the back of the truck in lawn chairs and had a gymnastic pad laid down in the bed
of the truck for Rylee to lay on.

We had a really good time and it started to rain just at the very end of our movie. We had just enough time to pack up and
get out of the parking lot.

Thanks Jim for taking us and having a great night out.

West Valley City

This is where our day started out.

We were playing in a Tournament in West Valley City.

Our team did really well. They had to play Thursday night.

Friday night and again on Saturday morning.

We won the first two games and held in there pretty well for the third game.
Well after the second game................... Here we go
We had gotten a hotel room down sort of close to the "Maverik Center" cause our
playing field was not far from there. After the game we were headed up 3500 S to
our hotel so that Rylee could do some swimming in the pool. (this is what he had really

wanted to do all night). We were stopped at a light and all of sudden here come a couple

of cops. We thought well they are going to escort an ambulance or fire truck thru the busy
intersection but NO!!!!! there were about 12 to 15 cops in unmarked and regular cop cars
that came rushing to the intersection. Some turned to the left, some to the right, and some
just flipped a U turn and raced back up the road. Pretty soon here they came back for
a second time. Kind of did the same thing. All the while we were just sitting at the light
watching all of this happen. Pretty soon they came back a third time and then we

realized that this was a high speed chase and they had finally located the car they were

chasing. He turned to the right and headed down past a few strip malls and the cops followed him.
He then proceeded to come back onto 3500 S, only this time he was behind us.

This is supposed to be a picture of the cop car that he took out behind us by pushing him into

a ditch and into a water line that broke and spewed water all over. Then I could see him barreling

up behind us. I kept looking in my side mirror and thought "we are about to be rear-ended".

I think I told everyone to hold on cause here he comes....I looked at the young couple next to us and yelled "he's

gonna hit us" and then I thought I told Rylee to look away as I really thought that the kids next to us would be killed.

They were in a little grey car and no one behind them. He would have hit them straight in the back..But no

He decided to barrel right between us. Unbelievable I could
not believe that there was enough room for him to fit thru there. In hitting the cop car behind us,
he lost his whole front end and maybe that is how he fit between us.

This the the bumper of the car that was running from the cops.
When he hit us it kind of blew apart and there were car parts
everywhere!!!

It tore up our running board and left scrapes
all the way up the side but it was still drive-able.

He raced down between us and kept going. We were traumatized but totally unhurt. There were
car parts everywhere and I was not sure if they were mine or not. I did not dare get out as there
was still a lot happening and it is a very busy street.

He caught our car pretty well all the way up the side and I was not sure if there was any car left.
Well after seeing the damage I really cannot believe that this is all it did. The little grey car
next to us only lost the mirror.

This was the tow truck that was trying to haul the cop car out of the way.