Eli Football

This is a clip of Eli getting a great sack on Saturday. He is the one running up through the middle. He is number 7, if you can see that much.
The second one might be better to see because we are zoomed in more. Eli is the one dancing around on the far left side on defense. I wish you could see this in HD. Totally awesome!

Ready for some football...

We are eating, breathing, living football right now. Well, maybe not that bad but the first two weeks of practice, I thought I would pull my hair out over the whole schedule. Now it seems to be at a medium roar.

So since this is our life for a couple of months, I thought I would share a few pictures. Megs is being so patient to go to the games and help with Emma. She has been good to find a coloring book or something to do while we drag her to the games. I think I am going to enroll her into some sort of dance this winter. Then maybe the boys will have their paybacks with a recital or two here and there!

Isn't Megan a doll! I looked at her this week and could envision her as this stunning young lady. I was wishing that I had snapped a picture of her that morning. She was just stunning!

Eli is doing flag football and is getting along good with it. He started out very hesitant to hold off the other boys. Redge has been giving him pointers. Eli had his first game on Saturday and 'sacked' (pulled his flag) the QB. They won 3-1. I think he ran in one of those points.

This picture is after one of their practice games. Eli was a little pooped from the heat. I am hoping things will cool off here so we don't end up with heat stroke. We had a primary activity on Saturday that was outside with a few games. I had to help with an outside game. I think I had heat stroke from being out there for an hour and a half. Part of the time I was on the parking lot and then the rest on the grass. Whew! It was hot! All I could think of when I got done was the boys and how hot they are in their football gear.

I took this great picture on Friday. Isn't it the best!! I seriously started crying when I looked at it on the camera. First of all, isn't Rhett the most handsome boy ever! And look how big he is, can't you just see this grown up hunk that the girls are going to fawn over! Doesn't he just look like a stud in that football gear.

Then you look at little Emma sitting there looking up at him like he is her hero. She thinks Rhett is pretty cool. He treats her like gold! AWWHHH!! They are growing up. *sniff* *sniff*

Summer

I have decided it is crazy to have school in the summer and then have all the other activities that go on during the summer months. We put it all on ourselves, of course!
Megan and Eli are my swimmers this year for swim team. We didn't attend much because of the conflict with scouts and activity days but when we could go it was fun.

Emma was funny one day when I put her down for her nap. She just wasn't that tired and so she played instead!

Today the kids came running into tell me that a butterfly landed on Rhett. These are a few pictures of them playing with the poor thing. It had a torn wing. They wanted to bring it in and doctor it. I just didn't think it would live. They are compassionate!



It is also a fun symbol for the Bodily family to see a butterfly. Grandma Alice loves butterflys! We were thrilled to think this one would spend so much time tolerating our kids handling it.

Gum

Yuck! Emma swallowed a whole pack of gum. At least 10 pieces! She has about gotten into the gum several times but this week (Tuesday) she found Rhett's scripture bag that had a pack of gum in it. All I found was a pile of wrappers and her smelly breath. I think it has passed - she had diarrhea yesterday and her bum has been really sore. Should I be worried? Anyone had this happen?

Idaho Trip

Few pictures from our trip to Idaho... Thanks for the fun time everyone!!
At the airport waiting for the next plane ride
Cute Emma and Dad waking up gma and gpa Bodily - EARLY in the morning. Darn time zone difference was a killer for a few days!
Attacking Sam!!
Eli giving away silly bandz
Cute Emma playing outside
Grandma Lois holding Clark
Shay and Cate
Talent Show time! (Ug - sorry Kyla about missing the top of the photo! I must have been looking at Sam to make sure I got him.)
Jack and Eli playing before the parade.
Eli's tears over leaving Rupert. That about made me lose it!
Braxton pushing Emma on the bike
Boys playing in the yucky pond!
Rhett holding Peter
Megan and Ashley
Playing on the tramp!
Home again safe at last! Thanks Krista for the cute cut!

Megan

Megan is 10 years old! I can't believe that she is in the double digits now!! How time flies. It was just yesterday that I brought her home from the hospital to our little rental in Rupert. ohhhh

She wanted breakfast in bed and so she got it!! She was very patient with me and let us celebrate her big day later. I guess she gets a long drawn out birthday this year.

This is the outfit she got. She is such a doll.

I let her take a camera to school to take pictures of her classmates. She had a ball. She has the best personality to include everyone around her.

I just can't believe she is 10!

phone pictures

Redge took these with his phone.
The kids made a HUGE fort in the bonus room. They turned the chairs to make rooms and had every one of our blankets out. The fort took up 2/3rds of the room. Then they switched from building with blankets to building with the blocks. This was Rhett's block creation.

Emma's favorite thing to do is to put her baby in the high chair with her to eat breakfast. This morning she had two babies in with her, which was a tight fit. Megan started squealing to Emma 'stop'. I looked over at her trying to feed her baby bites of pancake! The baby she was feeding happened to be Megan's doll that Emma is now claiming as her own. But Megan is trying to keep some sort of claim, thus the squealing. Good thing they have plastic heads... syrup cleans up fine!