Rylan's First Baseball Game

Rylan has been wanting to play baseball for a while now, even though he has never watched a game, so we signed him up for a summer league.  He had one practice before his game Wednesday. 

Here are a few pics from his first game (They are straight off the camera).

 Ry played First since he wasn't afraid to get hit by the ball.

 Knocking down the throw to first.

 He almost caught it.

 Dad playing catcher.

 Getting water before batting.

 First attempt at bat.

 Eyeing the ball.

 He made contact!!

 Drop and run.

 Blade hands.

 Losing the helmet.

 

 Seconds before the throw to first hit him in the back...

 Running to second.

 Arms up, I am safe.

Ready to run to third.

 Second inning at bat.

 Good eye contact again.

 Blade hands sprinting.

My number 5 waiting on first.

 

"Weekend" In Winter Park

I put weekend in quotes because we are a homeschool family now and took advantage of low weekly rates and went to the mountains Sunday through Wednesday, our "weekend" this week.  We stayed at Snow Mountain Ranch and had a blast.  We played dodgeball and ping pong, went rollerskating, climbed the rock wall, attempted archery, made dream-catchers, went tubing (see pics of the awesome ramp we built), took a couple family classic ski trips, and ate cafeteria style morning, noon and night.  Enjoy some pics to see how much fun we really had. (Might have to just have a sledding post as those pics are awesome!)

Will add more pics later...computer is slow...

The Denver Ballet Presents: The Nutcracker

I am slowly learning the joys of homeschooling.  I was on the waitlist for Nutcracker tickets, a long line that never gets called to attend.  Yesterday, I got the call.  They had 2 schools bail so we got 7 FREE tickets to see the Denver Ballet perform in the Nutcracker!!  I had no time to prepare or even talk to the kiddos much about what the experience would be like but we sure enjoyed it all.


Here is the orchestra warming up pre show.

I thought this light was pretty cool.  I did not realize it would fold up and retract into the ceiling to announce the beginning of the show.  The light is even cooler now!

My favorite scene was all the snow ballerinas.  It was very beautiful.

Costume Time Again!

It is that time of year again.  The kiddos made their requests and I did my best to fulfill the costume orders.  Enjoy the pictures of our Halloween costume try-ons!

*If you click on the picture it will enlarge and allow you to scroll through them all in a larger format*

Fairy Susan

 Lilly She-Ra

 Imaginary Sword...

 Cardboard Knight Rylan

 Enlarge and check out he eye color...

 Ninja Ashton

 Carebear Taryn

 Can you tell how much she loves her outfit?

 Love the buns!