Baseball

It is Dallin's first year playing baseball and he is really excited. His team is the Red Sox. Saturday was opening day for his baseball league. There was a parade, ceremony, lots of fun with bounce houses, home run derby contest, hotdogs, etc. . . it was FUN! Here are some pictures:

I love this picture of Dallin-- His hat is too big and kept pushing his ears down, making him look like a little elf.

Coach Billy rounding up the team, getting them excited for the parade

Decorating the truck

The beginning of the parade

Here they are at the end of the parade! Go Red Sox!!

ENCHANTED

Dallin and Sierra have been asking to see the movie "Enchanted" for a while now. Well, we rented it this weekend. Loved it! Sierra was, well, enchanted by the "real life" princess. It was priceless to see her watch a movie depicting life as she, an innocent 3 year old who ADORES princesses, views life and love. During the Ball scene she hurriedly said, "Mom, Mom, I need you to pause it!!" I did so, as she ran out of the living room . I thought she just had to go to the bathroom and didn't want to miss anything. Moments later she came back, dressed in her fanciest dress-up clothes so she could dance too. So cute!

Our new look

Well, here it is. . . after nearly 3 years (yep, we started blogging the summer of 2005--check out our archives!) of the same looking blog we decided to give our blog a new look. What do you think?

MUD

Have I mentioned lately how much I dislike mud?

Uh Oh, looks like trouble!

Trying to catch him and put him in the BATH!!!

Dog Sitting

This week we've been dog sitting Deacon, Grandma Sue and Papa Mike's dog. The kids LOVE him! He is such a sweet dog. Here are some pictures from the past couple of days . . .

Sierra thought Deacon looked uncomfortable laying on the ground, so she brought him a pillow.

Deacon never begged for food from the table while he was here-- even though the kids' table is at his level and that is where they eat everything except dinner (it would have been really easy for him to sneak a half of their sandwiches or crackers while they weren't looking.) Anything that fell on the floor is fair game, so it didn't take him long to figure out that during meals the best place to sit is under the highchair.

Deacon is a very well behaved dog and NEVER got on any of the furniture without us inviting him up. After a few minutes of quiet around the house, I got concerned and found Deacon and the kids in Dallin's room getting ready to take a nap.

HAPPY EASTER FROM THE RICES

OK, those of you with kids know how hard it is to get them to stay still and look in the same direction for a cute picture. Here is our attempt at getting a cute Easter picture of our kids before church today. Keep your eye on Grant (he's a busy one!!) The next four pictures were taken in a matter of seconds one after the other. . .

GOING. . .

GOING. . .

GONE!!!

Sierra was excited to wear a pretty new dress to church and even more excited when she got to wear PINK ribbons in her hair while Dallin was just playing it cool.