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.

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.

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. 

Mesquite, NV

This is our new home in Mesquite, NV.
Zac and Cj and the boys helped us move some
furniture down last weekend.






We are the garages in the middle (2 of them).

I am not a good picture taker or else I would have
alot more pics along the way.





The Dining Room

Tagg-a-roo playing with Tia.

The living room.

Rylee in the Kitchen. Sorry I will have to take more
pictures next time.

Thanks to Zac and CJ for helping us with the move.

Mrs. Claus had a great time reading her favorite
christmas story to the children in Morgan.

THANKSGIVING 2011

We had a great thanksgiving this year!

For dinner, it was just Jim, Rylee and myself, but you
would have thought I was having an entire extended family
over. I cooked enough to fill alot of people. After we ate,
Zac, CJ and the boys arrived.

Tagg played with some dinosaurs while the adults
and older kids played a quick game of "9's".


It was not long and Mackenzie and Blakeley got
here and then we started on our new thanksgiving
tradition. (thanks to Stacy) We made some
count down to christmas calendars.

The kids got right to work on the decorating and
labeling the calendars with the numbers.


Tagg got a little bit of help from his dad.

Rylee was being really creative.


Good thing that Rylee is old enough to do this on
his own cause this is where his dad was after dinner.


Tagg loved the stickers that we had.

Rylee colored his numbers very creatively

Tagg ended up on top of the table in order to reach
his artwork.(I really think that he was reaching for
an extra piece of candy)

Blakeley pondering over what do to to her calendar
next. Kenzie I think is helping her with the sticky
dots that held on the candy.

I really think that we all had a good time.

Rylee with his finished product.

Tagg and Zac with their creation, complete with
chocolate face and chocolate fingerprints....

Treyson did a fine job on his.

Blakeley with her masterpiece....

Blakeley had a little accident with a "GO-GURT"


If you look close enough it is in her hair, on her
face and all over her shirt....

We had a great thanksgiving and I think that we
have started a new tradition. Thanks to all that
helped with the Christmas Countdown Calendars.
It made This Grandma very happy!!!

Now for the rest of the story. We are having our
carpet reattached into our master bedroom closet
and in order to do that and have the bedroom carpet
restretched and cleaned we had to move out into
the garage for a few nights. Yes we are sleeping
in our garage.....It will only be for a few nights and
it really is not too bad....Had to post pics so that
the girls at work would believe me.....Doesn't look
too bad, just looks like we are hoarders.....


HOPE EVERYONE HAD A VERY NICE THANKSGIVING.
I know I have a lot to be thankful for.....