Softball 2011

I was able to find a men's softball team for Kyle to play on during BYU's Spring Semester.  I overheard a friend in our ward mention that he was playing and so I called him to see if Kyle would be able to play on their team.  We have usually had a ward team but weren't able to get one this year.  The team had a spot for him.  The team was also able to pick up another schedule too so double the games.  Last week there were 4 games, 3 of them were played in the rain.

The team is really quite unique that he plays on.  Half are deaf.  One of his teammates along with being deaf is blind in one eye.  It has been a wonderful learning experience of how to signal, call out, for fly balls and just to communicate in general.  This has been Kyle's favorite season of playing softball.

The teams record in the regular season is best put this way 0 wins and the losses whose counting.  The win column is filled with the reasons why I like intramurals, friendships, fun, and being active.

Tournament play began tonight.  Warren and I went a were able to watch, I guess I should say catch small glimpses, of the game.  Warren, of course, likes to explore, thinks that he deserves a turn to bat, likes to hang the bats on the net on the backstop, play with the balls and gloves, look for the airplanes in the sky, and hug his dad while he is waiting to bat.

If they won tonight they would play a second game.  They WON the first game by forfeit!  Warren and I arrived after they had began the second game.  We had a nice walk over to the fields seeing all the buses, motorcycles, vans, bikes, and finding the "W" on a few signs for Warren.  We are so glad that we went.  I was able to see the team play really well today.  The players bats were hot and they were also blessed a couple of times where the defenders appeared to have holes in their gloves.  Kyle had 3 really great hits that we were able to see.  A double was hit to left field near the left foul line, a double to center, and one to go down in history... a HOMERUN to left center, it almost made it to the parking lot (good thing it didn't or it would have been a double) it was a beautiful hit!!!  He still can't believe he hit it that far.  Their run in the tournament will continue, yeah for more time to develop friendships, more fun on the fields, and more time being active. 

Easter

On Saturday we had fun having practice Easter egg hunts with Warren at our house.  Kyle did a great job of training him, while I was cooking.  Later that night we dyed eggs together.  I am sure glad that there were 2 of us to help Warren.

We had a fun time together.  Sunday we enjoyed spending time with Kyle's family for an Easter dinner.  

Most of all at this time we are grateful to the Savior.  President Monson read some words written by Emily Harris in his closing address of the April 2011 conference that I'll share with you.

The linen which once held Him is empty.

It lies there,

Fresh and white and clean.

The door stands opened.

The stone is rolled away,

And I can almost hear the angels singing His praises.

Linen cannot hold Him.

Stone cannot hold Him.

The words echo through the empty limestone chamber,

“He is not here.”

The linen which once held Him is now empty.

It lies there,

Fresh and white and clean

And oh, hallelujah, it is empty. ¹

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Trip to Vegas

When I was talking with my parents one night they informed me that they were going to Vegas to spend time with my brother down there.  I invited myself and Warren so Kyle could work on school.  The great thing was that school was ending and Kyle said that he would be able to come too.  A mini family vacation.... This turned into a middle child family reunion.

We arrived Thursday evening, where we stayed at my brother John's house.

Friday, we went to the hotel where my other brother, Sam, and his family had stayed and we played at the pool.  Warren started to like the water it was great!  He had a fun time playing with his cousins.  Kyle stayed back at the house and worked on his application to work as an ESL teacher at Snow College.

Saturday, we went to watch my brother in the triathlon.  When we arrived at Lake Mead we saw him pedaling towards us and then we saw him run across the finish line.  It was fun to watch.  I have always been on the participating side of events and found it rewarding to see all of those who were competing finish and think of all the hard work and training that they put in prior to the event.  We then headed down towards the lake to play.

Later on that day Julie, Sam's wife brought a fun Easter craft for the kids to do.  Decorating foam eggs and paper wreaths with chicks, eggs, bunnies, etc...

Sunday, went to church and then after that and lunch we headed back to Utah.  We really enjoyed our trip and our looking forward to our family reunion this summer.  We are excited to meet our newest little nephew that will be coming soon.

April 11th

We celebrated our 3rd anniversary married over a three week time period.  On the 11th, for FHE we talked about the temple and looked through our pictures of our wedding day.  We found out my parents were going down to Las Vegas so we decided to go too, I'll write more on that later.  On the 29th we went and did sealings at the temple and on the 30th Kyle surprised me with 12 dozen roses and then we went to dinner.  Thanks to Stephanie (Kyle's sister) and the Hansen's (we won their awesome baby sitting services from a ward auction) who watched Warren.  He had a wonderful time both days.  Thanks to our wonderful mother who gave us a gift card to Applebee's for Christmas too.