END of School BBQ!

Friday nights at the Coombs' House you can catch an outdoor show!  Bring your pillows and blankets and something to share.  In celebration of the end of the school year and the beginning of summer we had a BBQ with some of our friends and neighbors!  It was great to get together...we counted 37 children there that night!  That's a lot of kids!  I sure love our friends!

On her actual birthday...

Take 2 on her cake!  I wanted her to have cake on her actual birthday - as well as her party!  She got into this cupcake a little better than her birthday cake!

Millie's 1st Birthday Bash!

Our sweet little Millie is such a joy in our lives.  She turned 1 on June 1st!  That is her golden birthday!  I decided to throw her a Rainbow Birthday party since she is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow (I know - I'm cheesy!).  It was so fun to plan a rainbow party because the colors are so vivid and bright!  Thanks to pintrest - I was able to find lots of cute ideas! 

We held the party in Grandma Janice's backyard.  It was the perfect atmosphere and the weather was lovely.  Not too hot and so refreshing after a rainy weekend.  The garden was just as magical as ever.  Chris was the decorator and I had to get the food going.  We were so happy that most of our family came down to celebrate with us!  It was quite a drive for most of them!

Happy Birthday my sweet little girl!  You have a bright and colorful future ahead of you! 

Millie with Great- Grandpa Gene.

My mom gave her this little wagon and she LOVED it!

Lots of lovely presents!  She got a lot of new clothes, a few new toys, beachwear and a life jacket for boating!  Thank you everyone!

Halle and Millie (6 months apart)

Grandma Kathleen and Grandma Janice

Papa Kim and Grandma Susie

Consumed with BASEBALL

When signing up Carter to play baseball, Kimball BEGGED to play too!  Kathryn then got on board and insisted she got to play too!  SOOO our lives have been consumed with baseball.  Kathryn plays on Mondays and Wednesdays, Carter plays on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Kimball plays on Saturdays!  It has definetly put our lives into fast forward. 

Kathryn has been pretty cute playing TBall.  She is pretty flighty about it and thinks chanting "Let's Go Glory, Let's Go!" in the dugout is what it's all about!  She is left handed - which has been fun to see how she figures it out.  When her team is outfield, her coach always tells them to be "Down and Ready."  However, no matter how "ready" she is she nevers sees any action - unless she's playing pitcher or 1st base.  The little girls are so funny - they just watch the ball and wait until their coach tells them to run after it!  They have finally figured out where to run and that they need to throw the ball the 1st base.  We need to work with Kathryn and her throwing but her focus for the sport might not be long term.  She does sure love to play baseball with her brothers and feel like she's part of "the know."

Carter, on the other hand, can't get enough baseball!  He continues to be a natural at anything related to sports.  Grandma and Grandpa got him so batting gloves and Grandpa has been practicing with him catching pop flys and throwing the ball.  Carter says it hurts when he catches Grandpa's thrown ball. (I REMEMBER thinking the same thing about my dad's throw!)  He does pretty good on the outfield and actually gets so frustrated if the other boys aren't doing their job.  He has often been critiqued (both by us and the coach) to stay put in your position and let the other kids take care of their area.  This year he is playing coach pitch.  His coach pitches overhand, which is a little more challenging to hit, but he does fairly well.  He has struck out a few times (which really frustrates him) but the majority of times he gets a hit!  He has really improved on his skills this year!  We love watching his games and cheering him on!

Now, KIMBALL, is thrilled he is finally able to play anything his older brother is! He asks everyday whose baseball day it is! He literally counts down the days everyweek! He is playing in the Layton City Rookie League and it is the funniest thing to watch. These boys all want the ball and will tackle each other just to touch the baseball. They are learning where the bases are and the game rules so it's so fun to see their trial and error in learning the rules! Kimball played 1st base his frist game and was tickled that he got to touch the ball everytime! Watching him hit is so fun too! He swings with so much enthusisam and energy! You would think it would equal a homerun with the amount of force behind it, but it usually hits the tee along with the ball. His good friend, Bo Barber, plays on his team. True to Kimball's character - he dresses up in his baseball uniform almost daily!

Grandpa and Grandma's 60th wedding anniversary

Doug and Janice Mayne celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on May 19th!  Grandma and Grandpa are such influential people in my life.  They are both really hard workers and through life's trials they have pushed through lives challenges together.  Our family all got together with some of their close friends to celebrate this great occasion.  All of my brothers were able to be there and most of my cousins (we were missing Jessica and Jon and Joe and Megan).  We had a lovely dinner, an open mic which memories were shared of the two of them, and then dancing.  Grandma had been super sick (with pnemonia) and we were all praying she would have energy to be at the party.  The evening turned out spectacular!  It was the party of the year!

Some of the photos from the actual wedding.  They were married in Grandma Dean's front room on Main Street in American Fork. (This is the home that they live in now).

Grandma and Grandpa cutting the cake 60 years ago.  Backers' Bakery (from Salt Lake, Utah) made their wedding cake and still is in business.  It's one of my favorite stores for yummies!

Kathryn and Aspen

Blaise, Dean, Carter and Kimball

Miranda and Millie

Kimball fell in love at the party.  This is Mia Mary, our 3rd cousin.  She adored Kimball and the two of them were unseparable!  They danced together all night and she doted on his every need!  She called him the next day wanting to check on her little buddy.  He has asked to go to her house, almost daily!  She will be an excellent babysitter...too bad she lives so far away!



All the great grandkids got to hold up a letter in an acrostic poem that describes our grandparents!

Kathryn's Dance Recital

"Little Sister" got all pretty for her dance recital!  She takes from EXCEL dance, and has seemed to love dance.  She took with her friend, Sophia Malan.  They always looked forward to Wednesdays when they got to go learn ballet and tap.  Her teacher's name is Erene. Her costume was a big surprise all year.  I think it was pretty cute and showy on the stage.
Our biggest obstacle was to get her hair pulled back into a bun.  We geled her hair as much as we could and we put it into two tiny buns.
Grandpa Kim and Grandma Susie came to see her recital.  Her daddy gave Kathryn a bouquet of flowers after her recital. Our family went to lunch together afterwards.

Mary and her Little Lambs

 The best part of teaching pre-school....being my kids' teachers!!!  This year I got to dress up as "Mary with her Little Lamb."  It's always so embarrassing to get in that dress, but the pictures turn out so cute!  Kathryn and Kimball were Jack and Jill.  I'm excited to be done with preschool for a few months so that I can just enjoy being a mom to these cute kids of mine!