Basketball End of Season

Basketball Season has come to an end. It has had it's good and bad points.

 It was hard for Chloe to switch to a new team it was hard to go from being on a winning team to being on a losing team. It was hard waiting for girls to learn things she has been working on for the past year. It was hard adjusting to a new coach and his personality and way of coaching. It was hard learning a new position as a post, and switching back and forth between post and wing often. It was hard juggling three sports at the same time.

 However, she didn't give up. She played hard and she was aggressive. She saw lots of playing time. She learned her new position well, and even though her shot suffered the last half of the season she didn't give up and kept taking the shots. She earned her spot on the team. It was a hard move, but hopefully in the end it will pay off. 

The season is over for now, but she is going to continue playing-attending camps, and weekly training's and be even more ready when next season rolls around.

 Bryce has been such a trooper through all the many ball games. He usually manages to draw a crowd of kids who want to play with him.

Proud of you Chloe Girl. I know it hasn't been easy, but you make me proud to be your Mom.

Bring Your Child to Work Day

 A few weeks ago it was bring your child to work day. Chloe didn't really want to come to work with me, because she wanted to get away from school for the day. Landon's work has some restrictions and stuff, so he wasn't sure if he would be able to take her or not, plus Chloe thought his job sounded boring. HAHA. Our good friend Lisa Costanza offered to let Chloe go with her, she is an interior designer. Chloe loved it and had a great time. 

Sometimes Life Throws a Cleat at Your Head

It had been a long week filled with daily ball games and late nights followed by early mornings, school  and work. I think we were all tired and just a little bit testy. I was trying to get everyone ready and out the door, and Bryce just wasn't handling things. He got super upset and started crying. He didn't want to get ready and started throwing a royal fit. I continued to get myself ready hoping that he would cry it out and he would be calmed down a little bit by the time I was ready to get him the rest of the way ready and that's when I was hit right upside the head with a baseball cleat.
It hurt-bad! (that kid has a serious arm and is deadly accurate) I was furious. I got really mad at Bryce, but after a few minutes I calmed down.
Later I laughed about it. I mean how could I not. I realized he was tired I mean we all were, and sometimes it just harder for little kids to deal with emotions and carry on when they haven't had proper rest.
I guess it's kind of like life though-you never know when something is going to hit you (whether literally or figuratively), but you've just got to shake it off, laugh about it and carry on. And it's okay if you take a few moments to be bad, as long as you can move past it.

I'm just glad it wasn't a metal cleat or I might have required some stitches.
#Brycee

Quilts 23, 24, 25, 26-HALFWAY to 52

Quilts 24, 25, 26, 27 I'm halfway to my goal.

24 and 25 aren't shown one was a BYU one I made for one of the girls I go visiting teaching to, and the other had cute frogs on it and it was made for a girl I used to go visiting teaching to.

This one was a patchwork one I made for my friend Brittany (Brydee's Mom). Quilt 26

This cute elephant one was made for Chloe's young women's leader and yes Chloe helped me tie it. Quilt 27

Easter

We had a fun Easter. Miss Gay threw a fun party for the kids and their parents complete with a picnic and Easter egg hunt.

 We dyed eggs with my sister Tiffanie and her kids.

 Chloe is obsessed with pineapples right now, so it was only fitting she made a pineapple Easter egg.

 We went to Fillmore for the weekend. Landon's whole family was there. We spent some time on Saturday at the sand hills, which is an Ellison family tradition. We had fun playing in the sand, playing baseball, and eating some good food. Plus for once the weather was actually really nice so that made it even more enjoyable.

 Being around so many cousins can sometimes be exhausting. At one point I found Bryce asleep in my suitcase-haha poor little guy was flat spent.

 Sunday we opted to stay home and do a little service project instead of going to stake conference. The kids thought that it was pretty fun burning stuff in the burn barrels especially when the fire got a little big.

 We had a great weekend hanging out. The kids loved playing with their cousins. They never want to leave when it's time to head back home.

 I had to get a picture of them in their new Easter clothes, even if it was a week later, and neither one of them was cooperating very well.

It's all about the treats

 Bryce is playing t-ball this year. He is excited to be playing but he is even more excited about the treats he gets at the end of the game. HAHA! Classic. After the first game he was so excited to show us what he got. Landon doesn't get to go to many of the games because a lot of times Bryce and Chloe play on the same night and since Landon is Chloe's coach he is kind of obligated to attend her games, so he will always ask Bryce how his game went. Bryce never tells him if he hit, or ran fast, he always tells him about the treat he got-LOL. One day he got gatorade instead of the common capri sun and he said "I've always wanted one of these". He is a riot. We love our little snack loving t-ball player. #BryceEE

Strep Throat

A few weeks ago on Friday night Bryce started complaining of his head hurting, he had been pretty fussy that whole day, so I wondered if he was not feeling well. Later that night he woke up burning up with fever. Recognizing the symptoms from Chloe dealing with strep for so long, I took him into the InstaCare the next morning. Of course the quick strep test came back negative-hers always used to too-but they put him on an antibiotic anyways since he had 90% of the symptoms including really swollen glands. They told me they would call and tell me to stop them the following day if the 24 hour test came back negative as well, but if I didn't hear from them to keep him on them cause that meant it was positive. Just like I thought we never heard from them. He was pretty sick for a few more days before the meds kicked in. I took one day off work and Tanner took one day off school. Tanner was very helpful and even made a special trip to the store to get Bryce some popsicles at his request.

Finally by Wednesday he was feeling better and he went to school and the babysitter. When I picked him up I could tell he still wasn't back to 100% cause he just wanted me to hold him and even though Chloe had games we needed to get ready for I took a few extra minutes and granted his request. It was worth it for both of us.

He was good as new in a few days-just in time to go to Grandpa and Grandma's house for Easter.