VERY SCENIC BUT VERY SCARY!!!

A few weeks ago Kyle had a football game in Globe, AZ which is over an hour drive from our house. Here are just a few pictures of what we had to drive through to get there. It was really beautiful, but me and my white knuckles just can't handle those narrow winding mountain roads especially when going down the mountains and I'm the only driver on the road who seems to drive careful....or maybe a little too careful. :o) It was nothing like the mountains I had to drive through coming home from San Diego.....which I was almost in tears the entire time doing especially dealing with such high winds too! But these kind of roads just scare me way too much!!! But the surrounding mountainviews were pretty amazing! And no I didn't take these pictures while driving.....Casey did!

SAY CHEESE!!!

FOOTBALL HIGHLIGHTS

Kyle's team won AGAIN.....16-0.....which makes them 8-0 for the season and this game was their first playoff game. Again, I wasn't able to get any pictures or video.....someone's gotta watch Ryan and Drew while the game is going on! :)

Shane had a great game last night.....even though his team lost! :( He had two touchdowns.....one on the very first play of the game when the QB handed the ball off to him and Shane ran the entire length of the field. I wasn't able to get that one on video, but I did get his other TD plus three awesome catches he made! Check Shaney out in action.....

OUR LITTLE CUTIE!

Drew is getting soooo big and everyday he's changing more and more. Lately he's been doing such fun stuff like....climbing out of his crib in the middle of the night calling out "Ry-Ry, Ry-Ry, Ry-Ry". UGH!!! And not just once at night, sometimes we're up for 4 hours straight! He is trying so hard to be like Ryan, which I'm not really sure is a good thing. :) He's just lucky he's a little cutie!

IT'S FINALLY RYAN'S TURN TO PLAY!

After sitting through soooo many baseball and football games for his brothers, it's finally Ry-Ry's turn to be part of a sports team. He is now playing T-Ball and is absolutely loving every minute of it! He's playing on a team with a bunch of kids from the neighborhood, but has made lots of new friends too. He thinks he is soooo cool in his very own uniform....which he calls his costume! He had his first game last Saturday and you'll see in this video his VERY FIRST at bat and it was a great one!

THE LEADER OF THE BAND

Casey is playing percussion this year again in the school band. They had their first concert last week and Casey was chosen to be the schools very first Student Conductor. He was in charge of getting the band warmed up prior to the start of the concert. He took this honor very seriously and you could tell he was a bit nervous on stage when they introduced him to the crowd. But of course, he did a really great job! We're soooo glad he's back to playing percussion instead of that VERY loud trombone he had to play last year since he was the new kid at school and they already had enough percussion players. He definitely enjoys playing the drums, especially since it seems that he's constantly tapping on something or making drum noises with anything he can get his hands on.

YOU GOTTA SEE THIS!

So, Tiger Woods started playing golf when he was 3 years old! Well, watch this video and see Drew, who is ONLY 21 months old and this is the very first day he ever tried to play T-ball. It totally doesn't matter that he holds the bat upside down, no matter how many times you hand it to him the right way, he still hits the ball almost on every swing! He even knew how to throw the bat down and run....probably from just watching the other boys play!!! We'll save this clip to show him when he's a future All-Star!

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?

Shane is in the middle of his flag football season and so far so good! Once again, he should be called "Mr. Speedy" cuz he's soooo fast! He is preparing for next year when he will hopefully put a little weight on that super skinny body of his so he can play tackle. He has already scored quite a few touchdowns.....the following video is one from last week's game, but I started taping the play a few seconds late so you can't see how far he actually ran.....probably about 35 yards total. Also, check out the sky in the background....absolutely beautiful sunsets at this time of year!

WHAT TIME IS IT? DAWG TIME!

I can't believe I'm just now posting a picture (and he's getting tackled - UGH!....Thanks Aunt Di-Di for taking the picture though!) from Kyle's football season since he's already played seven games! Sorry, but I'm sure most of you have already heard VERY descriptive play-by-play details from Rory following every game! :) His team is currently undefeated and playoffs start this week. He goes out there every game and just plays his little butt off. No matter what position the coach puts him at (receiver, running back, safety, defensive end), he dominates each and every time. We were a little worried going into this new league (it's REALLY intense - almost like military treatment sometimes) especially since Kyle had a really hard time during the preseason training camp they held five nights a week, three hours a night for the ENTIRE month of August. But put him in a game and he totally becomes the star player. Rory and I even get parents making really nice comments to us about how much they enjoy watching him play. And even some other players have asked Rory if they can teach them how to play and run like Kyle. The best part is Kyle actually truly enjoys playing and just goes out there and to win, but still has fun! (I wish I had more pictures or even some video to show you, but usually I'm way up in the bleachers and can't get a good picture from so far away or I'm too busy jumping up and down and cheering - I'll try to get some during playoffs!) GO DAWGS!!!

OUR CALIFORNIA ADVENTURE

The kids were recently off school for ten days for their Fall Break (another plus about Arizona!) so I took Casey, Shane and Ryan to California for the week. Kyle had to stay behind since he could not miss any football (which he was actually fine with cuz he's so dedicated to his team), plus he already had a week away by himself when he went to St. Lucia with Rory a few years ago. Hmmm, St. Lucia or California....which would you choose? Anyways, we drove to Los Angeles first and spent a few days at Disneyland and California Adventure and then a day at Knott's Berry Farm....which is by far the place we had the most fun at and we'd highly recommend it to anyone who hasn't been there (coolest and scariest rollercoasters ever, no long lines and it's cheap!). Next up, we drove down to San Diego and went to Legoland which everyone had a blast at too since it was their first time there. Even with Ryan pretty much crying after every ride.....not because he didn't like it, he just didn't want to ever get off the rides (including Space Mountain!).....we all had a really great vacation! Hope you enjoy all the following pictures and videos showing some highlights from our trip!

WHAT'S THE BEST THING ABOUT DISNEYLAND?

Meeting Mickey Mouse!

OMG! - IT'S THE RIPTIDE!

Casey went on this "Riptide" ride over and over and over at Knott's Berry Farm. Since there was hardly anyone on it, the ride would just start up again if no one wanted to get off. I think this is Casey's favorite ride ever! Don't watch this video on a full stomach! Seriously, I got sick to my stomach just standing nearby watching it. YIKES!

Shane's Favorite Ride

Shane is gonna kill me when he sees that I posted this picture. He got REALLY mad at me when I was trying to take this picture.....I had to sneak taking it without holding the camera up very high. LOL! It's cute though!

Look who we met at Knott's Berry Farm.....

It's SNOOPY!

Check this ride out......

I know this may be hard to view cuz it's sideways, but just tip your head to the left and watch this video. It's a really cool ride at Legoland that Casey couldn't get enough of! You get to choose what level you want to do and I thought Level One was bad that Ryan and I did, but this is Level Five.....the highest level!

Ryan's New Friend

This guy was made out of something like 75,000 Legos! We even saw some characters that were made out of more than 250,000 Legos....it was pretty amazing.