Candi

June was a pretty busy month for us. I know, it’s already July 13th and I am still talking about June…so I am a little behind. It’s the story of my life. One of these days I will actually blog when things happen instead of weeks later.

I share all of these photos on Facebook and Instagram, but not everyone follows me there or is on the net daily to see all of these little tidbits of our lives. So this is the first and last time I will apologize for the duplicates for you peeps. I plan to do monthly “pictorials” to share the photos that I had taken for the month and didn’t make an entire blog post about.

Karli is constantly writing me sweet little notes. Sometimes on post-its or I’ll find messages she wrote on her dry erase board. She gave me the most heartfelt note ever.

Sometimes Karli writes down words to songs like this one. Funny thing is I did this ALL the time when I was younger. Especially as a teenager, I would constantly look for songs to fit how I was feeling so I would record songs off the radio on my tape player and then play and pause, play and pause – while I wrote down the words. Ahhhh, the days before we had the internet to look these sort of things up.

We got new carpet everywhere except the bedrooms. After 11 years with 4 kids and 4 dogs…it’s was time. The new carpet doesn’t look much different than the old, just a bit darker.

Blake turned 12 years old and he is growing like crazy.

The pups continue to get into everything and drive me crazy. Weekly baths are a must with white pooches.

Where as Tori and Shaggy just chill and stay out of trouble as always.

Chase and Karli put on this play for me which I still am not quite sure what was going on. They had me cracking up!

There were many extremely hot days most of which were spent indoors prior to all the baseball games that we had to endure in the heat. Other times were spent in the pool where my kids are getting some crazy dark tans.

As I was cleaning up some emails I found these photos from Chase’s baseball game and I just had to share.

There is my little man, the crazy one in the bottom left corner. The kid certainly has a personality all his own. Then there is Ken up there checking out his own muscles and my dad is to the right of Ken with the huge smile, just having a blast.

Chase’s team almost went to the championship game this year, but unfortunately they lost in the playoffs. There was this big dispute over unfair game play that really just made me roll my eyes and once again think how this small community we live in is so full of politics it’s insane. Long story short, the opposing team had a player that played on a different travel baseball team so he missed 14 out of the 16 season games that were played. Then the kid shows up for the playoff game and scores 4 of the 7 points that the team had as well as being the closing pitcher. It was just a sad situation and the parents on the sidelines were going crazy talking about it. Ken knew it was wrong, but when you have a game to play there isn’t much you can do. They played the game as usual and then Ken filed a dispute with the league afterward. The board voted and the game score stood as is – we lost 6 to 7.

It came down to there really is no official rule that says a kid is disqualified if he misses most of the games. Of course the coach wasn’t going to kick him off the team for never showing up (like he should have) because he was the best player he had. At the end of the day though, Ken said our team did make a few mistakes and we weren’t hitting well most of the game, so it is what it is. It was just sad that Chase’s team did so well- they went 14-2 for the season, and our chance to play in the championship game may have been prevented due to another team basically cheating.

Chase and Blake are both finished with baseball for the season, but Andrew still has almost another month to go. There for awhile I was at baseball games every single day of the week. Of course last night I decided to miss Andrew’s game because I wasn’t feeling very well and Andrew got a home run. Figures!!

(both photos courtesy of Crystal Jozsa Photography)

Karli did such a great job at her dance recital. I have to upload the videos yet, but when I do I will be sure to share. For now, here are the photos. She looked so pretty in her costumes! Her tap routine, the outfit with the hat, was a small group of only 4 girls and they did such an awesome job. Her hip hop number was the white outfit and had so many girls of different ages and they did really well, except the routine was too short! Karli loves hip hop so much! The turquoise outfit was for jazz and she was the youngest and much smaller than all the other girls. A couple of the girls were Andrew’s age! She struggled at times during practice to keep up with the older girls, but overall I was so proud of her. She did well at the recital and she learned so much in the class. We can’t wait until next year!