Just like Cal Ripken Jr. and the 1988 Orioles (story in this book that we love), this wasn't the easiest season for Zach's baseball team.  They played 18 games… and lost 18 times.  It was especially rough being a catcher in the first year of kid-pitch in UT, where there are a lot of wild pitches, and…

To this. I love conference weekend!

Every year, the OMFS program holds a "chief dinner" to honor the chief residents – it was almost surreal that it was finally for Nate!  It was such a nice evening, and I was so proud of Nate.  It was so neat to see the respect and admiration he had earned from his co-residents and…

We had the debate on tonight while we cleaned up dinner and Zach was pretty interested… towards the end he asked for a paper and pen, which we gave to him without much thought.  What we weren't expecting was a pretty good rundown of the candidates positions – although we're not fact checkers, so you'll…

  Today after school we had NOTHING.  (Well, unless you count scouts, but that only involved us riding our bikes with Zach down to the church and him being dropped off barely an hour later…)  With our recent after-school lives of baseball, tennis, t-ball, and more baseball (often with at least 2 of them on any…

Emma had a birthday party up north, and we thought we'd make an adventure of it for the rest of us and visit the museum at Hill AFB while she partied away.  It was a whole lot more museum than we expected, and we all really enjoyed it!  Except Meg, who wasn't thrilled to not…

**So, I am finally getting to the point where I am ready to put our last few weeks in MN into our family history.  I thought I might be most effective if I did them one at a time – so here is the first of what hopefully will be many "flashback Friday" posts until…

This is Carter headed to school on Cowboy Day.  (I had given him all sorts of "cowboy" clothing options, and this is what he insisted on.)  Looks pretty authentic, right?   

So Carter wasn't overly enthusiastic about signing up for t-ball – kind of like he thought it was what he "should" sign up for (although we definitely let him be the one to choose)… and I wondered how it would all turn out.  After the first 3 games… it appears that he loves it.  LOVES…