Snow Day

Thursday afternoon it started to snow.. A LOT!! It didn't stop all afternoon and into the evening.  When we went to bed, Sean had snow plowed twice.  I get that we live in Utah, and we are very use to snow, but this one dumped on us, quickly=!  We received more snow in Davis County than the mountains got.

At 5:55 the next morning, my cell phone rang and I received the automated message that school was cancelled.  I couldn't believe it.  I have never heard of school getting cancelled in Utah (at least not since I was in elementary school).  I was thrilled.  I turned off the alarm, and went back to sleep. It was glorious.

Sean came home early from work and pulled the kids on the 4 wheeler in the sled.

 They loved it!

 Look at all that snow!  19+ inches.  Yikes!  Our temperatures have only been in the teens too.  Awesome.

 Looks like Tayler got dumped off the sled.. but no worries,, here she COMES...

What a Nerd!!  Oh such fun in the snow. 

I personally don't like the snow, but I am glad my kids do.  I will gladly bundle them up and send them out to play and have the hot chocolate waiting for them :)

Rylee's birthday

I have a hard time believing that my second child is now 8!  I will admit that her birthday immediately after Christmas has always been super hard for me, and I feel that sometimes I short change her because I am exhausted from Christmas, but this year, I made sure to do everything I could to celebrate her.  She is such a sweet girl and I sure love her!

 She woke up and we had breakfast with Dad before getting ready for school.  I gave her a new outfit to wear to school that she got to open that morning with her breakfast.

 She had a great day at school. I made her a special lunch and we all put special notes in it. She said she loved that, but couldn't read them all because they made her cry and didn't want to cry at school.  Her class made her a special birthday book too.  My sweet neighbor that carpools with me, went and got everyone cupcakes from Sweet Tooth Fairy to celebrate her.  She made sure they sang to her going to school and coming home from school.  Love you Kim!

When Sean got home opened presents and then went to dinner. (She chose the Training Table.. shocker!)

Thank you to all that sent her presents, cards, texts, phone calls.  She felt very loved and had a great day.

She really did love reading all her cards.  Those words mean the world to her.

Rylee had been BEGGING, PLEADING, for an ipod Touch for a long time.  Well I told her there was NO way she would get one yet.  Sean and I decided to get her one for her birthday, but I wrapped it in a big box and put a whole bunch of books in it to trick her.  When she finally got into the box and realized what it was she screamed and then bounded towards me with the most excitement I have ever seen.  It made it all worth it.  I cried with her.  She was so cute and so grateful.  It seriously was the most excitement I have ever seen from any of my kids, for any gift they have received.

Brent and Ashley sent her a sweet soccer shirt.  Love it!

I think it was a pretty good day!!
We had her Friend's birthday party on Saturday.  We decided to do it at GET AIR (which is a huge trampoline place).

We had passes to jump for 90 minutes and then had our party room for lunch, cake and ice cream and presents the last 45 minutes.  It turned out great. Those kids were SOOO tired after 90 minutes!
I really love her friends.  They are all darling girls.

 I ordered Chick Fil A kids meals for everyone and brought cupcakes and ice cream cups.

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Such a fun day with a great group of girls!

Happy 8th birthday Ry!  I hope this is the best year yet. We sure do love you.

The PITCH

 Sean and 2 of his buddies, opened up an indoor training soccer facility in Layton the beginning of November.  I finally took pictures of it to document.  It has been a lot of fun and has become my kids' second home, which they all love. 

This is the preschool room for the Lil' Dribblers classes.

 The front

 the conference room, where you can have the food for your parties

 We have a huge lounge where parents can come and sit while their kids are practicing and training.

 There is rarely a time that a family soccer game isn't going on.  I am thankful that my kids are always active and doing something.  They all love the sport/game too.  Last session for indoor, Tayler finished at the top of her division for scoring and so did Jayson (Rylee's team didn't play last session). I am proud of their hard work and dedication.  There are definitely times when I am "sick" of soccer, especially with Sean coaching all 3 teams, but I love watching my kids play.  I am  a very proud mom!

The facility is called "THE PITCH"