Head Coach

We were all ready for the season to begin we had well Dane had signed Brian up and we were wondering who his coach would be. Then Dane got a call that they wanted him to be a head coach. He told them that he would have to think about it since it is a lot of extra stuff to do and since I am working so much I am not going to be able to help a lot. He agreed and Brian was thrilled!!!!!!
Dane had to pick his team and since the Yankees were already chosen he was only given one instruction from Brian NO RED SOX or he will ask another coach to draft him. Hahahaha that kid and his DISLIKE of the Red Sox.
Dane picked the Arizona Diamondbacks. He called and told me that was his choice then he told me that he chose white pants. I almost fell out of my chair at work. WHO PICKS WHITE PANTS, dads do that is for sure, first the dirt is the red dirt like Utah red dirt it stains the boys gray pants I was having nightmares of trying to clean those. So after a little rant I asked him to please change them to gray which he did.
Dane is really excited and is looking forward to tryouts on Saturday!!!

Family history

Tonight my Uncle and Aunt

wanted to get to together for 

dinner and to give us something

that they have been working on 

for a while.

It was a complete history of my 

Grandparents and the Staples 

side of the family. They have spent so

much time on this and wanted to share it with

us. They gave us a thumb drive with all the info

on it.

We had a Yummy dinner at Cafe Rio and then 

headed back to Mom's house to 

look at what they were giving us.

There was so many pictures of my dad 

that I have never seen and Larry had some really

great stories about a lot of the pictures!

He told us some things about my Grandpa that 

I never knew, like how when he came 

home from WW2 he had been on 

rations for so long that he was 

pretty much starved and when the war was over

they had to get all the soldiers home and they

were on boats for a month or longer and when 

he got home it was Thanksgiving and all 

he could eat ( or all his stomach could hold) was a 

couple of peas and some mashed potatoes. 

He not only came home dealing with 

the starvation and the horror he saw in war

he came home to a 2 year old son he had never met.

Makes you think that what we have to 

complain about is pretty lame compared to 

what others have survived.

It was a fun night and hopefully 

we can all start getting together more often.

 

Cheer Competition

 These girls have done some exciting things this season and today was probably the best yet!
We got up super early and headed across town to Desert Oasis High school where USA cheer was having a qualifying for nationals. Now we were not there to go to Nationals we were just there to get the experience.
We found the girls and they were off to start practicing. I found my seat twice( we the parents were on the wrong side) soon after we sat in the right spot the stunt divisions were competing.  These girls were good and where doing some crazy stunts! Then it was the junior/ high school novice teams that were up. We were up next and the girls came on the mats and did their routine the best they have ever done it and they were so LOUD!!! That the crowd was really shouting back at them. They did great they were really excited as they were running off the mat!! 

 After they were up there was like a million more teams that went on, craziest part for sure was when one of the middle schools were doing a group back flip and one of the girls SNAPPED her arm in half below her elbow. She got up in shock and was looking for help. I was pretty far away from her, but the girls were right in front of her and they had a really close up view!
Finally it was time to hear how the girls did! They got first place in their division!!! They were stoked and you could see if from across the gym. After all the awards were given out and we had been there for 5.5 hours we were both ready to go home and veg on the couch!!!!

Found out that when Coach Holly got the score card for the girls they were only  3 points away from making Nationals. This is HUGE!! it was their first competition and unlike the other girls they practice only once a week not 5. And they were that close, that is a HUGE shout out to Holly and the coaching that she is doing! And the girls have really stepped it up, who knows maybe next year we will be going to DISNEYLAND for Nationals!!!

Cookies for santa

The kids well Brian was ready to pick his cookies for Santa. He was super excited to leave Santa a picture that he colored for him. Aubrie said that she would get the milk and she poured this huge glass of milk and picked the biggest piece of candy bar and smile at me and Dane and said I think Santa is going to be super thirsty after he eats this cookie. Oh I love the preteen sarcasm.

Sleepover!!

Brian had his first ever sleepover tonight! These boys have buddies first grade and they become super close since they played baseball together!
I was thinking that it was going to be a late LOUD night but they were surprisingly quiet! They made a huge bed on the ground and watched movies until late! I never even heard them after I went to bed!
Brian told me that next year he wants to have a sleepover again but we need to have more snacks to eat really that translates into sugar!!!

Brians 9th !!!!

9 years old it seems not right that my little boy is 9. I let him pick where he was going to have his party and of course it was Mini Grand Prix.This has been his party spot since he was 4. He invited the regulars Gavin, Evan and Andrew. He made the decision to have an all boys party, so the rest of the boys were baseball friends! Logan, Conner and Brandon.
They got their wristbands and were out the door!! First up was the mini go cars then Brian went over to the big ones and ......

that is right he was tall enough to drive them all by himself!! He was so excited and could not wait to get in and drive himself! All the boys were tall enough but there was a goofy kid who would not let Logan go so Kevin went and put toilet paper in his shoes and instantly he was tall enough to drive. I think that they spent almost all of their time driving these!!

The cake was of course a Yankee pin stripe that I got for him and he had no idea!!

Another great party with old and new friends! Wonder where he will pick next year ....

Yankee Team Party

 Coach Devin told the boys that since the team party the league had for us was not that great he was going to have another one for the boys.
We all chose Bowling and the boys were super excited!
Only two boys did not show up but the kids had a great time bowling and eating pizza and cupcakes.
The Yankees were a great team they have had a great season they were a fun group of boys! This is the last season that these boys were able to pick what team they wanted to be on next season is a Draft and maybe one or two might be on the same team.

if you look close you can see a Royal

It was a great way to end the regular season and coming up next we have tournament!!! Not a bad season we ended third in the division which is great since it was almost all of their first season playing AAA!

FREEZING......

The fury had a playoff game tonight

It was so cold that I gave 

Aubrie the decision if she wanted to cheer or not.

Secretly I was hoping it was not 

but she chose to go 

which is the right choice since she is part of the team.

So we bundled up and headed to the park.

When we got there it was so cold that I was glad

that I had on 2 coats and brought a blanket.

Before we even got to our spot where we

were going to sit my hands were so COLD

that I was ready to go.

But Dane bought us Hot chocolate that was

pretty much cold chocolate right after we got it. We 

sat down and I was FREEZING so I can only imagine  how Aubrie felt in her thin warm up pants.

I wanted to see the new half time show so I 

BRAVED it out till that was over.

Then I stood up and headed to the car with 

Brian in tow. I have never loved my 

heater as much as did tonight!

Brian and I went to get gas and some 

Funyons (his choice).

We sat in the car and waited for Dane and Aubrie.

Shortly they were in the car and we were

on our way home.

I told Aubrie I was sorry and she said that it was 

OK because she was FREEZING to and 

wished she could have come too!!

Next time I am bringing a bigger

blanket!!!

I mean really....

Today Aubrie and I went to run some errands after cheer practice. We dropped Brian off at grandma's they were going to work on his scout book and he was looking forward to having lunch with Grandma at In and Out since he got the student of the week and he got a certificate for a free burger. That is where they always go together whenever he gets one he calls Grandma for a lunch date.
We hit Costco and then Dane called he was hungry so we decided to meet him at Cuginos for some YUMMY pizza. We got there and he had already ordered so we started talking while we were waiting.
I was curious if Aubrie knew about Santa since she already told me that she knew I was the tooth fairy. So I asked her what else she knew about....
She was quiet for a minute then she said
"well the I know that you hide the eggs"
I asked her why do you think that
her reply was
"I mean really a giant bunny delivering eggs to everyone in the world on one day'.
Dane and I could not stop laughing.
So I asked her what else she knew and it came out that she knows or had a really good idea that Santa was US!!!
I said "why do you think that"
Before she could answer Dane said
" i mean really a fat man in a suit with a sleigh and 8 tiny reindeer delivering presents to the whole world in one night".
We were all rolling and she said "exactly".
So now that she knows we told her that she is not allowed to tell Brian he gets to Believe till he finds out too.
She agreed and then said so do I still have to sit on his lap.
Yep I told her she has to do that till Brian is 18 hahahahha.
I am kinda sad that she knows now but it is kinda nice because now  she can go to Black Friday and have some fun with us girls.
They are growing up way too fast for me!!!