Months worth of Random

Introducing: The Naughty Twins!

I had Landon and Scarlett over to play while Marcie was recovering from having a baby.

I kid you not, it wasn't more than 5 minutes of them being extra quiet that I go to check on them

and they come out looking like a blue and purple smurf!

I swear they are twins from different Mama's.

Hello gorgeous  Arizona desert!
I snapped these while Casey came rolling in with some screaming passengers that 

just had the ride of their lives!

Our end of the street decided that this is our new Spring tradition. 

Shooting, buggy riding, food and chatting.

Emily was in town so some of the Udall gals met up for dinner!

Umm, she NEVER does this. I checked her head for a fever, nope! 

Must have been extra comfy and dozed off. It was the best:)

I was over the Young Women in our church congregation. More specifically over Personal Progress.
Once a month they came over before church for breakfast and goal making. It was a hit for not only them, but my own family! They knew they would get more than just cereal that morning, lol!
I really grew to love it. That week they requested crepes. Those are a labor of love, but they deserved with all of their hard work trying to finish before the new program starts!

Della prancing into her first swim lesson of the season in style!

Wear heels or go home.

I got a knock on the door and opened it to the prettiest bouquet of Edible Arrangements!

Casey knows flowers aren't my favorite because they cost so much darn money. So for our 15th Anniversary he surprised me with something more practical. Awe. We had to take a picture to say thank you before deconstructing it!

 Funny how I was thinking along the same lines!
His love language is homemade cookies, so I made
sure to have a big batch waiting for him at home. 

I love "chipping" away the years with you!

We celebrated by cheering on the boys at their baseball game. It honestly was one of my favorite anniversaries. No frills or fuss, just sitting enjoying our family together at the ballfields, grateful for the past 15 years of happiness we have been blessed with!

The naughty twins were in the same swim lesson class!

Don't let those smiles fool you, they both screamed and cried the first
2 lessons before they realized it wasn't a form of torture. Haha. 

Every couple of months the herd of kids out front create a new game to play excessively. Currently it was "wiffle ball", only played with a metal baseball bat and a volleyball! I was in the kitchen when Rusty came walking in with his hand covering his eye and blood dripping down. I was thinking, great, finally somebody got whacked in the head with a bat. Yep, that was what happened. Only Rusty hit himself with the bat! I guess once he hit the volleyball, the bat bounced back hard and he butted himself with the end of the bat. Off to Urgent Care we went for 3 stitches. That game fizzled out not too long after that.

I love this picture of the segregation of the laundry.

Boys and girls side.
 And yes, our dinner table doubles as a clothes folding station!

Baby Luke was a hot commodity at our house!
We got to babysit him for a few weeks and these girls were in baby heaven! 

I seriously sat back and let them wipe spit up, feed him bottles,
 and play as much as he would let them. 

Enjoying the last few weeks of cool=ish weather on our neighbors tree swing.

Of all things you would think would be kept safe out on the counter... nope.

A certain 2 year old has a thing for butter. 

I am reminded of that every time I try to make cookies!

So gross!

More swimming lessons.

She was jealous of my lap buddy.

Sweet Madeline, just a tiny wittle peanut!

This was cracking us up. 

Della is trying to coach and encourage Landon to get out of the pool by himself.

Her proud face... girl, you are the CUTEST!

Once again, had to check to make sure she wasn't sick!

Something must have tuckered her out that afternoon.

Clovis Biker Chicks Club!

They were so sweet to let Della tag along.

Baseball Season

Spring baseball is one big love/hate relationship for me.

I LOVE that the kids are excelling in a sport they LOVE.

Getting outdoors and cheering them on in a nail biting game is a joy.

Putting a 2 year old in and out of a car seat 20 x's a day to take said kids

to practices and games is the hate. I can't even complain because we live 2 minutes away 

from the fields. But 3 kids in Little League was a doozy!

I wasn't sure if I was going to sign Lindi up or not. But once we got Olive to join in it was a go! And a good thing too, they were the only girl power on the team!

I figured I would let her experience at least one year of coach pitch in her life!

The first couple of games she never made it past home plate.

She persisted and eventually made some pretty solid hits!

It's pretty awesome when the other team starts cheering after FINALLY

getting the first hit!

You knew when she was up with that bright pink helmet!

Thanks Steph for buying pictures so I could have this group shot!

Rusty played minors.

Surprisingly, out of all the cousins his age that were also in our league,
he didn't get on a team with any of them.

He mainly was the pitcher or catcher. 

Rusty is catching and Collin is batting.

During the first set of practices we thought they had a pretty good team!

They won their first game, and not much more after that.

It was defeating, but they persevered.

Tournament was double elimination.

Surprise, surprise.

They kept winning!

Even beating the best team that had been undefeated the whole season, the Blue Rocks.

The last game they battled hard but lost.

2nd place wasn't too shabby from where they started.

Lane played his last year of Little League. He got drafted by one of the best coaches and we were excited for him to grow leaps and bounds. Last year he took a break from baseball to do flag football. It was hard to watch him make that decision because he is a natural at baseball. Coach Joe was so patient with him and knew exactly how to push him to perform his best and not let nerves get in the way.
He mainly played catcher with short stop and pitcher thrown in here and there. He loved being on a team with his best friend, Griffen.

One Saturday I took Lane, Griffen, and Randon to the Talking Stick fields for a clinic.

They had DBack coaches and players there helping in the rotations. 

I sat on the pretty green grass enjoying the weather and watching them practice their hearts out.

I splurged and bought pictures for him since its his last year.
So crazy that he is passed this stage of life now.

I think baseball life is the only thing she's ever known!

She had quite the group of kiddos to run around with. 

One Saturday we had to be at the fields for 6 hours straight.

We were 2 seconds into the drive home when I looked back to see her asleep
with the ring pop still in her mouth!

The snack stand brigade! 

After a grueling, hot game day, I took a bunch of sweating kids to Costa Vida for lunch. 

One of these days they will make it on the same team!