Hey Batter Batter, Hey Batter Batter... SWING!

Lately you can find the Frye family at the baseball fields watching our 2 star players play ball. Jake has found a love for baseball and is coming out of his shell and working hard to become a great baseball player. He is determined to make the baseball team over at Desert Oasis next year as he enters into high school. With much determination and a lot of practice I believe he can do it. Jake has started pitching this year and has done a great job. It makes me a little nervous sitting in the bleachers watching him, but I think that is the case with any postion.




Batter Up! Jake has been known to smash the ball over the fence for a home run during practice,hopefully he will get one during a game.:)

We had to grab a picture of the spectators on the bleachers.

Onto my little t-baller. Gabe has been waiting to play ball like his big brother for a long time. He has watched Jake for years playing baseball,he is so excited to finally be able to play. This was Gabes first game,all the boys had to be pointed in the right direction to go to 2nd base. It was so funny a couple of times we found the boys running past 2nd into the outfield. Classic.

Gabe looks like a pro already.

This is my favorite picture of the bunch. Jake can be so tender at times. You can see Gabe listening so intently on what Jake is saying to him. Love it!

Egg-celent

For Easter this year we had a last minute change of plans. Our original plan was to come home on the Friday before Easter and spend the weekend with close friends and family but instead Mike and Scott missed us so much they decided to head up to the mountains with all of us and have Easter at the cabin. This was a great idea, however, whoever knows me well would be shocked if I said I had all my Easter shopping done before hand. Well, no such luck but with procrastination brings great times. Right? On the Friday before Easter my sister drove all the way into St. George to get our shopping done. It was a nice break away from the cabin and the kids. We were able to get everything we needed and then some. It was a great day

Saturday came the egg decorating and cake making. I knew I would not be able to get a picture of Jake coloring Easter eggs ( I think he only colored 1 at the most) but I did decorate one for him.

This picture is the only one I got of Olivia decorating her eggs (I should have shut the blinds:( darn it!)

my happy girls

I love how Ella is concentrating here. I also love how you can see her green hands. Ella just gets down and dirty with everything she does. There was no waiting for the egg dipper, she just went for it.

This is the end result of our day, Gabe passed out while we were making our traditional Easter Bunny Cakes. (notice the frosting on his chin)

These cakes are a tradition in our family. My mom has been making these for as long as I can remember, they were passed on from her mom as well. My kids look forward to them every year. This year all I did was cook the cakes the kids did the rest. They turned out pretty cute.

The Easter Bunny did make it to our cabin. The kids were a little worried that he would not find us. AHH! Nice and relaxing weekend.

Spring Break

Spring break could not get here fast enough for me this year. With all the reports and projects due this last quarter I thought time was litterally standing still. But as you can see we made it and we are all well rested due to a well deserved escape to our cabin for the break. I grabbed my sister and we were off on a road trip to Cedar Mountain. Myself, my sister and 10 kids.


The kids were so excited to be in the mountains. The first thing they did was put on their snow clothes. They pretty much played in the snow the whole time we were up there, it was wonderful.

Jake even pulled out the snow mobile and rode the kids around on it.

Here is Amberlie and Olivia getting ready to sled down a hill, a couple of times they would be going a little too fast and catch a little air. It freaked us moms out a little but these girls just laughed and laughed.

Jake made a huge snow cave that the kids thought was the coolest, even our dog would go inside.

On day 3 we woke up to a nice surprise, It snowed! This picture was taken from our portch. Isn't it just beautiful? All the new fallen snow everywhere. AHH, it's just so peaceful and quiet and relaxing. I just love how the snow sticks to the trees.

Zoe loved to play in the snow but, I think she loved staying bundeled up by the fire a little bit more.

After a fresh new snow fall you have to make snow angels!

And have snowball fights.

All the kids had so much fun this week, they would play in the snow until their poor little hands and feet were all wet and freezing. As for my sister and I, we stayed in our P.J.'s for 2 days strait! We had time to catch up on things, made easy "kid" food while the dads we back in Vegas working and were able to watch chick flicks until the wee hours in the morning. It was a nice get away!

WHOA! Where has the time gone?

So I have pretty much been on a hiattius from the blogging world for quite some time. Where have I been you ask? I have been burried in 3rd quarter of school. I don't know if anyone else out there has the same feeling as me but I think 3rd quarter of school is the hardest out of any other quarter. We have had 3 science projects due, a few book reports due, a state report due and a major test on all the major rivers in the world and also a few more projects here and there. WHEW! I am so glad everything got done.

On top of all the school work we have also had 5 birthdays in the past 3 months (just in my family alone) PLUS baseball, t-ball and soccer started. I even put Olivia and Zoe in music lessons. What was I thinking?

Please check back often for some fun posts, as I have a whole heck of a lot to catch up on.

As for now I will tell you the winners of my previous post for a homemade gift...

Suzanne Hales

Karin Baker

Lota Leo

Mitzi McBride

Sherise Shively

Way to go girls you won! Just remember I have a year to make you something FAB-U-LOUS!