Easter 2011

For the first time since I have been teaching (16 years), the girls and I had Good Friday off of school (it was called 'testing break'--hello separation of church and state...) Regardless it couldn't have come at a better time! It was a great 3 days off...including today's Easter Sunday gathering with family and friends.

My Easter Chicks! :-)

Emily and Austin--they make us all feel really short these days!!

Family Volleyball Game! Glad to report none of us got hurt :-)

Poor Molly spent her entire day eluding the Putz kids...which must have wiped her out!

Water Balloon Time!

Mom always makes sure all of our holidays have way too much food!!

Anaheim Volleyball tournament!

This past weekend we all headed over to Anaheim for Codi's volleyball tournament. We left Thursday afternoon in a 15 passenger van...thank goodness for Craig, who enjoys driving...the task was all his :-) The girls had a great time...and played some good volleyball most of the time. Codi had a great weekend...and has become quite the little aggressive, confident libero :-).

Probably the best part of the tournament was that we had good friends that were also there with their kids' teams playing on the court next to us all weekend!! Carli was able to hook up with their kids for a quick trip to Disneyland :-)...It was a great trip for sure :-)

The team heading from hotel to Convention Center

During some of the down time--we walked to the mall....the kids all got in these bubbles on water...looked exhausting to me!

Game time :-)

Team Train Massage :-)

We were literally the last team out of the gym on Sunday at 5:15pm...drove home from there getting home at 11:45pm...again...thank goodness for Craig!!

Dbacks games :-)

This past weekend was a great weekend of Dbacks baseball games! They had their season opener Friday night---it was a fun night with fun people!! :-)

:-)

Marci and I

The whole group that celebrated the home opener :)

The girls with uncle lance!

On Sunday we headed down for another game---it was a great game and we finally got to hear the "thunderstruck" as JJ got the save!!

Lauren and Codi!

Carli and Ethan

Where did MY babies go???

So excited to have many more baseball weekends this year!!!

Time to Swim Again!!

I love this time of year! School is starting to wind down....baseball season has started...and the temperatures begin to climb so that the kids can swim! They seem to not mind too much what the temperature of the water is!! My kids may not ever swim again at our house after swimming over at LoLo and KK's new pool!!! Huge water slide and diving rock! :-)

Carli and Lauren (love the nose plug!)

Carli and her buddy Kayla---love this pic!

Codi looks so tall in this pic :0

Codi and Lauren about to jump!

Carli coming down the water slide :-)

Opening Day!!

This time of year is always exciting with the baseball starting :-)...I have never been to an opening day here with the diamondbacks..always seems to fall during the week during school...This year I was lucky enough to go to opening day...especially with it being in Colorado!! I had never been to Coors Field---very nice ball park...they have good fans...and seems like just nice people in Denver :-)...The weather there could not have been better!! --Mid 70s for both of the games that we went to! Kelsey, myself, and the twins flew over Thursday afternoon...and meeting more of Kelsey's family there :-)

Front gates at Coors Field

Opening day festivities/atmosphere was very exciting...the military did their part in giving everyone goose bumps :-)

Me, Kelsey, and Paige :-)

The whole clan (poor Hayley must have been trying to find JJ)...This game lasted 11 innings...Dbacks finally went up and JJ came in and shut the door!! Worth the wait for sure!!

I kind of like holding babies :0 Ainsley was quite the opening day trooper :-)

Story behind this...after the long game...we all walked back and got some food at a mexican food restaurant...assumed JJ would eat at the field...he didn't--came back to the hotel starving and we had just all eaten---Here comes room service---If you look carefully, he has about 5 plates in front of him!! Ok...definitely not as funny the 2nd time around!! :-)

My 2 little roommates for the 3 nights :-)...they love any type of technology and can use all of them better than I can!!... :-)

Thanks so much Putz and Kollen families!! xoxo