War Wounds

Tyler is playing summer league AAU at the moment. Monday night he had an 8:30 game in Mabton. So we were in Pasco at 4 for Kendra's volleyball game, headed home as soon as she was done and had just enough time to scarf down some dinner before we headed to Mabton for Tyler's basketball game. He had a great first quarter. Was playing very aggressively, getting some steals and blocks and hustling down the court. Then right at the beginning of the second quarter he went in for a lose ball and ended up in a pile of bodies on the floor. The other players got up fairly quickly but Tyler wasn't moving. We all thought he was just being kind of slow and needed a minute to catch his breath or something. His coach even commented.."he's a farm kid. He's good!' And then we heard him start crying, he lifted up his head and there was blood everywhere! His coach ran out on to the court to help him, blood was running through Tylers hands that were covering his mouth. We all assumed he had lost some teeth! Got him off the court and out into the hall by a sink and by that point he had blood running down his arms and dripping off his elbows. When we finally got the bleeding stopped.....we were shocked to see just a tiny small cut in his lip where it looked like a tooth had went through.

All that mess for a cut lip!! We figured that was the end of it and by the next day he would be just fine. But.....

Two days later and the swelling still seems to be getting worse instead of better! He is complaining of a sore tooth as well. A friend of ours who was at the game and is a dental hygienist, checked his teeth out right away when it had happened and they didn't seem to be lose at all. However, she said that it's very possible that he fractured a root or damaged a nerve which could cause a tooth to die. So for now, we're waiting a couple of days for the swelling to go down and then we'll see what we're dealing with!

Coach Cass happened to be working in the Mabton gym that day and helped with the clean up. I had to get a picture of her and Kendra together! Partially because we love Coach Cass!! But also, because it's kind of funny to see the two of them side by side:)

Summer league volleyball

After doing four years of summer league Monday night volleyball games with Brandi, we got a year off. And suddenly, we're right back at it again with Kendra. This year the Monday night games are being held at Pasco high school at 4:15. The first night was rough! It almost seemed like this group of girls had never played before. Their coach was wanting to run a 6-2 rotation so that Kambree and Kendra could both set but the girls had never ran that rotation during club and were very confused!! Thankfully the next week went a little better:)

Colfax Basketball Camp

Once again, we headed to Colfax for basketball camp. The girls have always LOVED this camp! We headed down on Sunday afternoon so we could have a better chance of getting a good parking spot for the camper. The school is undergoing construction this year so parking was definitely more limited. The kids slept in a classroom at the elementary school this year but thankfully we still had access to the high school gym as well. Lynn and Kambree came with us as well as Jacob Rainer. He came last year to hang out with Tyler and they had a great time!

Some of our games are played at Steptoe school. We were lucky enough to get a personal tour from one of the office staff who happened to be in the building. The original school was built in 1908!!

The bathroom has a very low section of ceiling that you have to duck underneath to get to the sinks and lockers.

The ceiling just gets lower and lower every year.

There is an old gym down in the basement of the school

Apparently this gym still gets used by the 46 students who attend this prek-8th grade school.

The second gym, added in 1940 is a quanset

Coach Kyler letting off some steam in between games.

The girls all slept in the classroom but hung out in the camper during some of their down time ::)

All the basketball players slept in one of the classrooms, Prosser had 24 girls attend camp! 

Having a great time at the Colfax pool....

But forgetting the sunscreen

Completely worn out after a long day of swimming and biking

The boys took advantage of every time out and half time to shoot some hoops

Getting in a pick up game with some of the 7th grade girls

Cheering on Kendra...

Always entertaining Bryce

Our home for the week

Early-Bayer wedding.

Congratulations to Ethan and Maddy!! What a beautiful and unique wedding. The wedding took place on the tarmac at the Prosser airport with the reception Jim's airport hanger. It was beautiful. But of course, it was on one of the first super hot weekends of the year. Bob spent some time there the day of the wedding helping hang up some shade cloth to try and provide some sun relief. Everything came together really well and we had so much fun!!

AWARD CEREMONY

The end of the school year is finally here!! Thanks to 'snowpocalypse 2019' we had several extra days of school to make up this year. Tyler was really hoping to get a 4.0 GPA this year but due to some struggles with an ELA class...he had to settle for a 3.9! Kendra had a great year as well and received several different awards, including a 4.0, athletic achievement, and some sort of award for high SBAC testing scores. Very proud of both of them!!

Officially a freshman!

Visitors

Matt and Leanne bought a camper from a relative in Pasco so they parked it in our driveway over night, and then headed home the next morning. Short and sweet visit but it was so nice to spend some time with them and get to know the boys a little better. We decided that Tucker fits in very well in our house, and Tyson is an absolute doll, whom we are proud to welcome to the family!!

Batter up

Tyler played baseball again this spring. This is only his second season doing it and we could definitely see a huge improvement. I hope he continues to play!! His team did really really well, went all the way to the championship game and then lost to a team they definitely should have beat:/ It was just a game where they made lots and lots of errors and got in their own heads. But it was a very fun season with a great group of kids and parents!