Weekend plans changed

This last weekend Kylan had a basketball tournament down in Roy. He was actually playing with the sixth graders because they had a couple of guys that couldn't make the tournament. We were pretty excited to go and see how he played against kids that were older than he was and taller. He actually was the 3rd tallest kid on his team which was a new experience for him.
Heather spent Friday getting ready and packed, Stephen got off work early and we headed down to the high school for the tournament.
We were doing really well with time getting to the school at 6:10 when his first game started at 7:00. As we were walking in there were a lot of girls walking in for a dance competition. My boys commented that they were glad that they didn't have any sisters and that they didn't have to sit through dance competitions. I am sure that I would feel differently if I had a daughter but I agreed with them.
As we got to the door we saw his coach and he said that the tournament had been changed to a different location. Apparently nobody let our coach know. So we left one of the parents of the kids behind to let the others know and we headed to the new location with some pretty bad directions. It took us until 6:50 to get to the new location. We ran in hoping everyone else showed up in time to make the game that started in 10 minutes. As we went in and tried to sign in the lady behind the desk said that the tournament had been changed to a different location. She tried to sent us back to the place we had just been but our coach finally got her to call the person in charge of the tournament and apparently it had actually been moved to a 3rd location even farther south. There was no way we were going to make it to the game in time but we tried hoping that they would be lenient with us.
So once again we left one of the parents behind to guide the rest of the team that were still on their way and headed to the 3rd location. We finally showed up in the right place at 7:15 and ran in. We had 5 players with us and decided we could at least start the game and hopefully everyone else wasn't too far behind. We ran in and found an empty gym with the refs sitting on the bleachers. Apparently nobody was told about the location changing and almost nobody showed up. Pretty lame planning. Anyway, our coach decided to just get his money back and apologized to everyone for wasting their time. We were a little disappointed but there wasn't anything we could do about it.
We decided to not make the night a complete waste. We love to watch Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on Food Network. They made a trip to Utah and we decided to try one of the places that they had visited in Roy.

The Burger Bar


Waiting for our order


Stephen and Heather


Our food! Are you sure we can eat that much?

This is just a little hamburger joint and doesn't have any seating. So you either have to take it to go or eat it in your car. We decided to get out our camp chairs and eat next to our van.

Stephen taking his first bite

Heather right before her first bite. The kids think that it looks like my hamburger is sticky it's tongue out at me.

Gavin enjoying his dinner in the van

The group picture. Everyone liked the food and ate really well.

We liked this place. We just all got hamburgers which came with a lot of fries and fry sauce. When we were done we tried a couple of their shakes and they were really good. When we got home we re-watched the episode with this place on it and decided that next time we go we need to be a little bit more adventurous. We are going to try the buffalo burger, onion rings and maybe the elk burger.

New Tradition

Last year we just happened to eat at our favorite Mexican restaurant on Cinco de Mayo. They had a good deal for dinner that included your drinks and dessert. We decided to go again this year.

Everyone enjoying the chips and salsa.


Cute Beck and Kylan

Hunter and Beck's arm. Lately Beck has to have his arm in every picture. So if you see a random arm in a picture you can almost bet it is Beck's


Gavin cheesin' it up.

Gavin loves the chips also.

The best part of the meal. Dessert.

I am a fan

I have become a fairly recent fan of Jon Schmidt. Check out this video that I think is awesome. I love both of these songs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v3d6SFcDys

Before I was a Mom...

Before I was a Mom,
I never tripped over toys
or forgot words to a lullaby.
I didn't worry whether or not my plants were poisonous.
I never thought about immunizations.

Before I was a Mom,
I had never been puked on.
Pooped on, Chewed on, Peed on.
I had complete control of my mind and my thoughts.
I slept all night.

Before I was a Mom,
I never held down a screaming child
so doctors could do tests, or give shots.
I never looked into teary eyes and cried.
I never got so happy over a simple grin.
I never sat up late hours at night watching a baby sleep.

Before I was a Mom,
I never held a sleeping baby
just because I didn't want to put him down.
I never felt my heart break into a million pieces
when I couldn't stop the hurt.
I never knew that something so small could affect my life so much.
I never knew that I could love someone so much.
I never knew I would love being a Mom.


Before I was a Mom,
I didn't know the feeling of having my heart outside my body.
I didn't know how special it could feel to feed a hungry baby.
I didn't know that bond between a mother and her child.
I didn't know that something so small could make me feel so important and happy.

Before I was a Mom,
I had never gotten up in the middle of the night
every 10 minutes to make sure all was okay.
I had never known the warmth, the joy, the love, the heartache,
the wonderment or the satisfaction of being a Mom.
I didn't know I was capable of feeling so much, before I was a Mom.

-Author Unknown

I love being a Mom - Happy Mother's Day!!!

On a side note...

While I was going through the pictures for the last post I laughed because when we were taking the picture of all of us at the Saturday morning hunt, Stephen was first standing behind Kylan and was having a hard time seeing the camera. So we have decided that we can't stand behind Kylan anymore because he is getting so tall.

I decided to leave this little tidbit out of the post because the post was long enough. But then Melissa commented on how tall Kylan was. So I will share the picture.

The first picture

A little better

Kylan is getting tall. He has always been tall and eats us out of house and home. We have to buy him new clothes twice during the school year, once at the beginning of school and then another time in December or January. I try and buy the longest pants that will fit him at the beginning of the school year, but every year we end up buying at least a couple of pairs of pants again. We also buy shoes at least twice a year and always new summer outfits each year.

Hunter might end up taller than Kylan though, we will have to see. Hunter is in Kindergarten this year and he is wearing clothes that Kylan wore in the 2nd grade.

I was tall growing up (not that I'm not now) but I didn't like it until I hit high school and some of the boys were taller than I was. I didn't like being the tallest one. I think that it is different for boys than girls though. It is cool to be a tall boy (not that it isn't cool to be a tall girl, it is just different).