Friday we went down to the ball field, oh there is just nothing like it in the spring, I love it! I love coaching basketball, its definitely my preference, but I when I'm there something inside me itches to coach, too bad I know how much time and effort it takes... Coach Beck's little boy is about 6 weeks older than Cann Man they were fast friends, especially because he came prepared with a bat and ball! Isaac met us down there and brought Pizza for date night. PERFECT! We were watching the JV game though-they end in a tie-stupidest thing I'd about ever heard!Saturday was just as much fun as the pictures look. We played in the yard and garden, hooked up the bike trailer, and Grampa even topped off the evening by bringing his dogs up. Cannon was so kind as to share is dinner with them. This little guy LOVES dogs. They make him so happy. (I really think I'm toast, its just going to be a matter of time for us)
Sunday was our ward conference so the stake taught our SS class, we had an awesome lesson
on Gratitude. We really do have SO MUCH to be GRATEFUL FOR! I was a great reminder to actually BE GRATEFUL for all of the good things in life. You know the famous Lou Gehrig speech where he says "Today, (real slow and drawn out ya gotta think of the speech here) I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth..." My thoughts stole his line as I got to be home and play with Cann Man this week.

Things Cannon's up too:
Crawling Up on things, the playground at park, a box I left in the living room before taking it out to the trash, the bleachers, anything he can find.
Dunking!

Clicking his tongue against the top of his mouth-this is something he's done be fore but the re-discovery is just as cute.
Extending the ck sound of Yuckckck, or ickckck when we take a poopy diaper out, then he started doing it anytime we were changing a diaper. The kids just a cute little turkey!
And in less darling news...we have a biter! He bit Ava's finger at church (I tell ya those 2 are so cute together but they have a tough love relationship) I thought it was just a fluke-or I wished it was just a fluke-because she was pointing her index finger at him just playing and he chomped on it. But Friday we were at Ann's and he was playing with Mr. Potato head's lips. She's been antagonistic all week and it didn't matter what toy he had, that's the one she wanted. So she promptly took them from him. With his catlike reflexes he swiped them back, which of course did not make her very happy (I'm watching all of this from the couch, feeding the Elsie a bottle) she grabbed his arm with the death-grip squeeze and started prying the lips out of his fingers. So he just ducked his little head into the arm that was providing the death grip and CHOMP. Fluke? Accident? NO WAY, the little stinker knew exactly what he was doing. It threw Ann way off, because it hurt AND it was the first time Cannon's fought back at all.
Anyway...
Here's another movie, movies and pictures is how I entertained myself in the evening when Isaac's off goat'n it. This one's more than 3 seconds long, the left hand was giving him trouble-he's definitely a righty but I think that's why we got the standing :)

Isaac's been doing the goat thing again...if your thinking AGAIN????? ME TOO. My disdain for it doesn't deter him one bit, in fact he asked if he could bring some to our yard again. Oh have mercy. Our mutual agreement is that I don't have to hear about the goats, so sometimes I think its gone away but its really not.
His other project this week was starting a little roofing service project with the scouts, its such a good meaningful project (Cannon and I ended up being the supply cart so we got to see them all up on the roof, working away, it was cool. )

Friday night Isaac camped and Saturday helped out with the scouts selling programs at the air show, and he's got a sweet free t-shirt to prove it. I think he had fun. Saturday night we had family garage night, the boys were tinkering with the motorcycle (its a constant thing and I just think its so cute every time I keep taking pictures) This one is from Thursday. I did my tinkering with the engraver.
Sunday we had dinner with my parents and grandparents. YUM! The roast, Isaac likes meat a lot, I could pretty much take it or leave it but that gravy...I LOVE mashed potatoes and specifically my mom's gravy! I don't usually write about food but...I guess it was just that good!
Monday it was see ya later spring break we headed back to tend Ann and Elsie, then had a LONG day at school school getting ready for the basketball banquet which was Wednesday. I thought it turned out nice though, I've bemoaned that state lose so bad it was actually really good for me to stop and recognize and celebrate a great season!
Good things from the week: Lick'n the beaters, busting through the wrappers (finally) and eating Chocolate with Grampa Frei


And helping dad turn the pages while we read scriptures as a family. Right now Cannon LOVES the scriptures! Our task as parents is to teach him so that will always be the case :)
And our radishes are starting to come up. I refrained from taking a picture-but barely!
Not so good things from the week...I may or may not have buckled Cannon into the double stroller (Ann either) and he may or may not have slid out the front and been clinging to the tray with a "what the heck is going on" expression as I was running him over. UG. I may or may not be the worst mom ever! At that moment I definitely thought I was.
One last pic, lest you wonder if we're really rednecks or not. We are! Here's me hauling the new truck tires over to Isaac in the back of our utility vehicle, little green. Car seat on the other side-Cannon was in charge of watching them. We rolled the windows down so as not to asphyxiate ourselves with the ever so pleasant tire store smell. Really this could have gone with good or bad things from the week, its all about perspective. HAHA, until text time....

We went to the school to help one of my basketball players with pitching this week, the day was just as beautiful as is looks.

Cann was game on to wear his Cubs hat (finally) so we went with it all week. Early Thursday morning we woke to 2 inches of standing...well pouring out into the hall...water in our main bathroom. Yikes. Mess. But just life. Really we're super lucky Cann Man was up in the middle of the night so we found it before it was any worse. Whoever thought I'd be grateful he doesn't sleep through the night?
Found out some sad news about one of my friends this week. Sucks. I'm thankful for friends! They play such an important role in this life. This week I hurt for my friend though.
Wednesday while Isaac was at scouts we went to my moms and while we were messing around with fingernails, Cann Man was earning his first fat lip :( It got pretty swollen that night poor little guy. These two pics are the next night though, you can tell in this first one just how much it slowed him down. The other one is kind of a bad pic but it showed it a little better. The swelling was gone but it got pretty bloody he got underneath and on top. I know, the poor kid's in for it if I really document every scratch... and it doesn't even look like much in those pics.
JIll and Devin we're down soak'n up some of this beautiful weather Thursday so we met up at the fire station park, it was a fun one. Ryker was a little thrown off his grove but Cannon's pointing to the ball on his shirt, and it was so fun to visit. I miss them living here. Along with rock'n the hats Cannon's been doing some pretty cute things this week. Like if we take him in the garage he makes his own version of motorcyle noises. I love it. We'd been messing around with a few of the sign language things things but I got all excited to show Isaac and he just made fun of it so...game over. The jury's still out on whether I'm giving it up entirely or just while Isaac's home. If I made him sign for every little thing I'd think it was stupid too but having him communicate back to me just a little bit is fun.

We got our garden (for now) planted :) and Isaac kept ask'n me if I'd let Cannon play in the dirt, I gave in. It was so cute.

We went for a little walk and found some little league baseball down the street. Cann watched pretty good but he couldn't figure out the screaming ladies behind us.
Well, I guess that's it for now, I'm trying to mix up my blogg'n schedule so its not on Sunday's when we could be spending time together as a family. Isaac says he doesn't mind but, then again can ya ever imagine Isaac saying he did mind? I can't. I'm just not convinced its the best. (We already have different opinions of an ideal Sunday.) So blogg'n sometime in the week should be a simple change.

Monday was beautiful so we went for a couple walks. That night we went to Coach Kittrell's retirement shin dig. It was like the ultimate class reunion, pretty fun.
We've had a good week, play'n outside, with dad's wallet, with Grampa, and it Grama's candy jar...just the usual.
Here's Cannon and Isaac's new air ship, the cloud buster wouldn't exactly fit through the door so we left it in the garage Friday night while we went to the temple. Saturday morning we got it in. Cannon's dog went for a ride but was just a little to heavy, so Pooh won out.
Saturday we had to clean out a the garage to make a spot for the engraver :) it was a fun family day from start (the air ship) to finish (Ann's birthday). I LOVE these next two pics. Isaac better watch out because Cannon is watching EVERY move he makes.

We borrowed (and rigged up) a tiller from my dad's garden and worked on our little garden spot. I'm SO excited, Cannon and I bought some seeds Monday and we're so in the garden zone I even worked on a garden page of his quiet book.
Ann turned 2 on Sunday, but we had a little party on Sat. We roasted hot dogs and had cake and ice cream. It was fun, one whiff of that smoke and Isaac said "We need to go camping." Somehow "Okay" came out of my mouth-it slipped! But...ok-maybe we'll try out camping with the little guy this summer.

anyway just a good fun week!