I am so glad I made it back to watch the concert and the track meet. I really would have felt like I missed out on a big part of my twins senior year. Tyanne hasn't been able to do a sport in over a year and a half and she just loves Track. As for Tyson I would say track is definitely his sport! Darius also does really good, he is just really young still...it will get better for him. So today was really windy and cold, and I was watching David so I didn't get as many pictures as I had hoped. David fell asleep and seriously slept for about 3 hours during the meet...he was just bundled up and was out!
Here is Tyson Long Jumping! He did great! He got first place! He also got 1st in Triple Jump and 2nd in High Jump and 2nd in 4 x 400 relay. He had a good day!
Darius also did good, he didn't place but neither did Tyson when he was a freshman!
Tyanne also did good in Long Jump and got a PR for the year and took 3rd place. She also got 2nd in Triple Jump and she did an outstanding job in the 300 hurdles today and she took 2nd place. She also got 1st place in the 4x400 relay. She was the first runner and really got them a good lead!
That is a nice landing though!
Grandpa with sweet Baby David...although he's not quite sure about being out in this cold wind!
I just love that hair...he reminds me of a baby duck!
So the cool surprise of the night was that Tyson got the award for having the most points out of all the boys at the meet! Go Tyson! That was totally awesome!
Today was a wonderful day. Rob had the day off and I got to watch David while Jessica worked. He wasn't feeling very good and just wanted to be cuddled all day....so that is pretty much what Grandma and Grandpa did all day...cuddled a cute little boy and catch up on our episodes we like to watch. It was really nice to have a little down time! Then this evening the kids had a concert. I love watching them perform. It is so much fun that all 3 of them get to perform together in the Taste of Sound, which is like the Madrigal's from Snowflake. They have a wonderful Director who lives two doors down and is in our ward. They really like him and he is a lot of fun! Here are some pictures and videos of tonight! This is a picture of their first song. I know it isn't very clear that is when I decided to just video tape their songs!
Again not very clear...I will have to do better next time, but at least you can hear them singing!
I love it when they dance! I had so many compliments for Tyanne after the concert that she is so much fun to watch...that your eyes just go to her because she looks like she is having so much fun!
Oh I just love this picture! I know I'm the mom but they are just so cute! Here are a few after concert picture of them and their friends!
This is the look that the boys give when someone wants to date thier sister! They are both very protective...but I think that Darius is the worst!
The kids just being silly...with Becca Peck added to the group!
Three beautiful girls...inside and out! Love them! Brooklyn Farrar, Tyanne and Becca Peck!
Here is the crew...Darius, Brooklyn, Tyanne, Becca, Tyson and we couldn't forget Savanna!
...and Tyane and her good friend Bruce!
We can't forget Jessica and sleeping David! It was just a great night!
So today was a great and busy day! I got up and got my exercising done then I actually booked or cruise! I am so exited! We have never been on a cruise. Rob took some time off in June and we are leaving on a 4 day excursion to Mexico June 8th. We are taking Tyson, Tyanne, and Darius. So then I got ready and Jessica and I went to the Safford baseball field and watched Snowflake play. It was so fun to see Chris Lyman, Layla Goodman, Michelle Reidhead, but most one of my best friends Gaylene Fusselman! We just love their family, they are like our extended family. Well Rob and David have been friends for a very long time, he was Rob's best man at our wedding and Gaylene sang with my uncle Mark (at the time). And we lived just right around the corner from each other for many years and have always been in the same ward. Gaylene and I would go walking together and served in young women's together. David blessed Jessica when Rob couldn't and Jessica and David have always had a special bond. Therefore she not only named David after Tyson, but also after David. He has a very special name, David Michael, the Michael after Jordan's Dad.
Well we watched the lobos play and then went to eat with David, Gaylene and Derek, their oldest son. It was so much fun! We then went back and watched them play again but then I needed to go visiting teaching and went to two sisters then went home.
Well today is my anniversary and it was actually a pretty wonderful day! Rob took the day off and got to come to Church with us. Because of his work schedule he doesn't get to come very often. But I absolutely love it when he does! We came home and I had put a pork roast on to cook when I left and it was just right when I got home. I love Sundays! When we come home, everyone pitches in and helps cook dinner! Tyson made a wonderful salad and Darius made some awesome mashed potatoes with garlic, butter and bacon bites! Tyanne helped me make some cheddar garlic biscuits that turned absolutely wonderful! It is so nice to sit down to the table at least once a week and have dinner and just talk with the kids! Jess and Jordan came over a little bit later, poor Jess has to work nights tonight. I didn't hear from Emery and Duskin, but that is because they are on the Pacific on their way to Mexico....totally jealous! Robby did text us Happy Anniversary! Love those kids! Oh and Tyson got started on his mission papers tonight. He had an interview with the bishop and came home and got them started...Woo Hoo! But also melancholy at the same time! Man...
My phone doesn't take the greatest pictures...dang it. Well Tyanne got an award for academics and they had an assembly to give them their awards. I almost forgot about it and I got there a little late. I was already to take Tyanne's picture when they called her name and she never went up there. I then texted her and asked her where she was. She replied that she was in class, she had forgotten to go! So she rushed over as fast as she could, but by the time she got there it was over. Well she went up there and got her award anyway. Silly girl!
Tyanne got asked to Mormon Prom by Anthony Whetten! So funny, he came by earlier and put this in her room and I forgot. So the girls got home from track practice and all of a sudden I just heard them screaming. So I went to find out what was going on...Tyanne and Brooklyn were screaming about how cute this was! The theme of Prom is Frozen, so what he did was so cute and appropriate! This poster was on her front door of her room with the door taped shut.
Several different types of peanut butter sandwiches.
The girls enjoying the sandwiches....they were "starving" after track practice!
We decided we wanted to spend the day hiking and Geocaching. I found a couple of Geocaches up Tripp Canyon and out towards Klondike. We picked up Jess, Jordan and David at Jess' and Kason (Darius' best friend) also met us there. We gassed up and tried to find the road to Tripp Canyon, which took us a little bit to find. It wasn't easy. It was a neat road up the west side of Mt. Graham (actually the Pinaleno Mountains). We got to the first Geocache and make the short trek to the cache.
We finally get sweet little David into his carrier and he just snuggles next to his beautiful Mom! We are now ready to find our first cache!
Here is the crew Kason, Jessica, David, Darius, Tyanne, Tyson, Jordan and Me. We are following Tyson to the area where the cache is. It was a beautiful day!
We found the cache and it was near a grave out here in the middle of nowhere. Just makes you wonder who he was and why he was buried out here.
As we were headed up towards our next cache we found this little patch of snow. We had to stop so Jordan and David could see it up close. With Jordan being from Yuma, he hasn't seen much snow in his lifetime. So this is David's very first snow!
Here Mom is helping him make his first snowball!
Here we were looking for the next cache and Kason took the lead. We never did end up finding it, but we still had a lot of fun.
Obviously some more then others!
LOL...got caught!
So Darius and Kason found quite a few clay pigeons so we decided to play ball with them. It was a lot of fun.
Jordan one handing it...can he do it?
Jessica....funniest thing ever...if I was taking her picture she could not hit it. She probably tried 30 times, but as soon as I put the camera down she would smack it!
Tyson thinks he can do better with a bigger stick.
Jordan trying again.
Mom rocks the big stick and the pigeons!
Poor Darius is just really hurting. So on our way up here there was one corner that had a lot of snow. As we were going around the corner there was a sign and I told Tyson to stop because I wanted to read it, which was a bad idea. As we were trying to get going again we kept sliding around and got stuck. The wheels just kept sliding on the ice. So we decided to get out and put some sticks under the tires. The ice was super, super slippery. Darius went to throw a stick and literally both of his feet came straight out from under him and he landed right on his tailbone. It was really really funny but I could tell he was really hurting and it continued to hurt him pretty bad throughout the day.
Kason, trying his hand at the big stick and the pigeon and he smashed it out of the forrest!
Such a sweet picture! David and his Dad!
We just spent a lot of time taking picture of this photogenic baby! He just has the sweetest face and the camera just loves him!
Taking my turn with this sweet face! I just love this good natured, loving, smiley baby!
I love him so much, sometimes I just want to eat his face!
He just has the prettiest big blue eyes!
Gosh...you just can't help but smile looking at this picture! Just such a happy boy!
A family outing wouldn't be complete without doing a family music video. We chose Pentatonix to sing with today, we love them! Here is the first one.
Here is our second. We would have done more but when the car started having issues we were more worried about that.
Our third cache for the day. This one had a story to go with it about a robbery and a shoot out at these rocks. So Tyanne is reading us the story while Darius and Kason check out the treasure!
Jessica, David and Tyson making their way up to the cache.
Well as we are making our way to the third, fourth and fifth caches (there just happened to be 3 right close together), the car all of a sudden keeps dying. It is like it isn't getting any gas. It had done this once before and Rob thought it was because we had gotten water in the gas tank and we did just top off the car in Pina just before coming out. Great! So here is Tyson trying to get a cell signal to call his friend's dad and ask him what he thinks. He teaches Auto Mechanics at the high school.
Looks like they got a picture of me heading out behind one of those trees!
So Tyson is staying with the car. If we leave it off for a few minutes it would start back up again so we would walk ahead sometimes and at time he would go ahead and we would have to catch up.
Tyson giving me a ride after taking a hike to the trees!
Tyanne giving David a ride! He seem very happy about it!
The kids walking up ahead to the next cache. What a sweet scene I love it when the kids get a long!
Here is Jess, David and Me bringing up the rear!
Jessica getting her groove on!
Even though we are in the desert...the scene was really beautiful! Kinda crazy, within a matter of minutes we have gone from being up in the pines to being in the desert.
David walking with his Mom.
Tyanne signing the paper in the last Geocache. We only hit one of the three caches' here because for one the car was really giving us issues and two we actually couldn't really drive to the last two. The ravines were just too deep, we actually got stuck and had to push the suburban out. The poor suburban had a really rough day. It took us a while to get home because it just kept dying. We would have to sit for about 5 minutes and then it would start back up again. We eventually made it back home after a great adventure!
