Jake & Scott's Birthdays

Yes, I really am this far behind. In June we celebrated Scott & Jake's birthdays. We were down in Mesa so Jake got to choose to go to Amazing Jake's. He thinks it's named after him. We also had a little Morris family get together at my sister, Heather's. We had skateboard cupcakes at Jake's request and he got the skateboard he'd been begging for for months. I think he enjoyed himself!

Baseball, Baseball & More Baseball!

Baseball is another huge part of our summer and spring around here and also. Jackson starts us off in March playing for Graham County Little League and by the time that is wrapping up when school gets out the Thatcher league is ready to start up and the little boys join him. This was our first year where all three boys were on different teams and Jackson overlapping and playing on two teams at the same time for a few weeks. So a lot of our weeks we were attending 6 games. It was pretty crazy and pretty hot but the boys all love it and that makes it worth doing.

Jackson started pitching this year and developed a great arm. By the time he was finished with Graham County and starting the Thatcher league he had gotten really good. He also got lucky enough to get on Brandon Lunt and Dustin Seale's team and Dustin used to play semi-pro ball and was able to give him some good coaching. His Thatcher team went on to win the league.

His best game was played the night before the championship game where they were trying to win a chance to play for the championship. They were tied up with a team and it ended up in an hour and half of extra innings. Jackson ended up pitching all but one of the 8 innings and also hit the winning run. It was an amazing game. He was so proud when they let him keep the game ball.

Jake excelled at hitting and is going to be a good little ball player and Joey is such a fast runner and did really well too. It was fun to let them play.

Championship Team!

Morris Reunion at White River

Our summer started out with a weekend to the White Mountains for my annual family reunion. My family has been going there yearly for 59 years. Next year will be a big celebration for the 60th year. Uncle Tink's family was in charge of the games this year and did a fun activity where it was like a carnival with lots of little carnival games for everyone to around and participate. It was complete with cotton candy, face painting and even a kissing booth (my cousin Ryan handed out Hershey's kisses). My kids were nervous to go to the kissing booth until they realized what happened there.

This year was the first year that there was no volleyball right after the family games. The Morris family are huge volleyball fanatics and usually there are volleyball games going most of the day. Unfortunately, this year there was another family camping right on the volleyball court as well as a very large old tree that fell down right across the back. We hope to get our court back next year.

We still managed to have our family talent show in the evening with lots of fun skits and musical numbers. My brothers kind of have a little family band they mess around in and they gave an awesome performance. Most of the family is very musically talented so there were lots of great numbers.

There was lots of playing in the river and plenty of campfire sitting as well. It was a fun weekend. The kids love to camp and it's even more fun with cousins.

I enjoy spending time up there with my family but it's so much work with all these little ones and so exhausting trying to do it when I'm pregnant. So... this was probably my favorite part of the weekend. The quiet drive home.