"Whot Shot Juanito Bandito" Video!

Hey everyone!  

If you didn't have a chance to see the show over the summer, or on tour, now's your chance! 

It will be online for only a short time!

So if you wanna laugh, and see some awesomeness, watch it now! 

Click HERE!

Basketball Boys

Carter and Tanner just finished with another season of basketball.  TJ was their coach again, and they just love it.  One day Tanner asked TJ if he could be his coach his whole life, for every sport he plays.  It was so cute.  They are spoiled rotten by their amazing Dad.  Tanner is still a year younger than all the other players in the league.  I'm so glad that we decided to let him play instead of waiting for the 1st grade.  He is a head taller than some of the kids out there.  Tanner is so kind to his teammates, and tries to include them all.  There was a boy with some growth issues on their team, and he never got a chance to have the ball.  Every chance Tanner had, he would pass the ball to him.  He is such a great example.  

Carter got back on the court after not playing a few games last season.  We ran into a little bully problem with a kid on a different team.  Parenting is hard.  I'm so proud of him for gaining his confidence back, and working so hard.  My boy loves to shoot!  That's pretty much all he does all day.  He reminds me of my childhood days when I would pass the volleyball on our roof, and then wait for it to come back down to me.  I would do that for hours.  If he keeps practicing like this, we are going to have one amazing basketball player on our hands!  

Here's the team: 

 Melanie, Addi, Ethan, Ben, TJ

Hannah, Carter, Jordan, Alex, Tanner

 Jordan lives two houses down from us.  These three boys are such great friends.  

 Handsome, handsome boys. 

"Mom!  Let's line up 13, 14, 15!" 

Carter has some great ideas.

Carter's Stitches

This past Friday, I got a very scary call from the school.  The secretary that called was a little bit frantic, and wasn't really telling me what had happened.  She just kept saying that I needed to get to Sunrise as fast as I could.  Finally when she said the word stitches, I started to breath again.  I expected something so much worse!  Not that it wasn't bad, because it was.  

Carter tripped over a chair in his class and hit his head on the corner of a desk.  He also hit his eye on the way down.  His teacher wasn't in the room, so I think that made him even more scared and upset.  There was an aid in the room that helped him though.  Mrs. Buttars felt so bad that she wasn't there.   Carter is really lucky to have such a great teacher.  

When I got there, they had Carter all bandaged up.  I took a quick peek at the injury, and there was no doubt in my mind that he needed stitches.  So off we went!  We went to Dr. Mckenna's office, where he fixed him up with 7 stitches!  Carter was so brave!  He was so nervous, and asked TJ if he could maybe not get stitches and do something else to fix it.  The shot was the only thing that hurt him though. 

It's so hard watching your baby be in pain.  I can't begin to imagine all those Mom's out there that have kids with really scary injuries, or illnesses.  What an eye opener little things like this are.  

So here are a few pics of Carter's before injury: 

And after he was all stitched up:

His cut was super deep.  You could see his skull, and it was really gross!  My first boy with stitches, and I'm sure it won't be my last!  :)

Valentine's Day

What a fun Valentine's Day.  My Aunt Helen made my boys these cute pillows.  Aren't they adorable?!?!  Hayden is loving the chocolate fondue! 

TJ's Birthday!

My TJ had a great birthday!  Mom made him three cakes to celebrate.  What more can you ask for?  :)