Spring Sports

 

Pace had an amazing season and soccer coach!  Maddie held practices every week and was better at communicating with the parents than any coach we've ever had.  And even with soccer over, she still meets with Pace once a week and works with him on his soccer skills.  Pace really looks forward to this time with her and asks and reminds me about it all week long. 

 

Isabelle had an incredible track season and worked so hard! I was impressed with how disciplined she was about her eating, bedtime, and the way she pushed herself in workouts.  It payed off with  PR's in the mile and 800M. She was often the fastest girl on her team and was told that she'd have a good chance of going to state, but then she got plantar fasciitis the last two weeks of the season.  Hopefully next year she can keep from getting injured!

She sure loves these track friends:

l-r: Emily, Esther and Ruby

Soccer isn't  quite over for Nolan and Abram because they still have the Yellowstone cup tournament coming up, but here are a few pics from the season:

I LOVE everything about Abram's team.  Every single boy, a great coach, amazing players.  This was taken after they won a tournament in Pocatello:

We took Abram's friend, Malachi Bishop to this tournament and he caught this picture of Abram in action"

And this one of Nolan:

I need to try to do better about getting pictures of the boys during their last tournament.

Anni kept going with her gymnastics and got good at her handstands and backbends:

My exercise partner, Ruth, that I lift with every morning:

Her muscles are amazing!  We sure have a good time every day.

Snowball and Napoleon

At the beginning of May, our farmer Nolan started mentioning that he wanted some pigs.  Nolan has been so responsible about taking care of the animals and said he wanted to be the only one that had anything to do with the pigs.  Sounded good to us! Also, a week or so before, we had weaned Barney from Rosie and were getting 4 gallons a milk per day, which was WAY too much milk for us to keep up with.  Shawn and I decided that pigs could be a good way to go - we could feed them our extra milk and produce all summer and be simultaneously growing meat for the fall.  

A day or two after we brought the piglets home, one of them got seriously ill.  It appeared to be having constant seizures. I called Matt and he told me to give it a shot of antibiotics in the neck once per day for one week.  I did that for three days and Shawn fed it milk two or three times per day, but after three days, its neck suddenly got so tight that I couldn't give it a shot.  Matt said the antibiotic was causing the problem and told me to stop.  Snowball lived for a full week, sick and miserable, and we hoped that it was a good sign that she was hanging on for so long, but on the last day I went out to check on her and found that she had died.  Now Napoleon seems really lonely, but is doing well other than that.