Birthday Boy!

Here is Josh with his friends making gingerbread men. By this time they were a little hyper from eating candy. One of the boys was totally excited when he found out that they each got to make their own and said" this is like the best birthday ever".

Here's the famous potato cake. It was delicious! No one wanted to eat the cake cause they were full from pizza and candy earlier. That was ok we got to eat it all ourselves. I can't believe that 10 years ago Josh was born. Man has time flew by.

POISON OAK

Last week Bryon, Josh, Claire, and I went gold searching in Grass Valley on Bryon's friend's property. We found an old mine but we didn't find gold. What we did find was poison oak. Josh got it the worst. He has it every where. Bryon got some on his face and wrist. I got one little bit on my leg and arm. Next time we go gold hunting, we will go when Josh is in school. Lucky Claire didn't get any.

Josh's first meet

Josh ran with 154 fourth grade boys. He didn't come in first but that doesn't matter, he finished the race. He came in 149th place with the time of 11min. 46 sec. We are really proud of him; it's not easy running 1 mile cross country. Way to Josh!!

Thankful

Just a note about how I'm doing. Chemo and radiation isn't that bad minus the tiredness, feeling like your a zombie, and nausea. I'm glad that I get the weekends off; time to somewhat recuperate. Today I feel good.
Josh is powering out the cross country and his first meet is this Thursday. They have to run a mile, Josh says it's hard to run a mile, we will see how his meet goes. Josh isn't class rep, he didn't turn his paper on time, he was bummed;but when I told him that he would of had to make a speech, he was glad that he didn't turn his paper in.

Back to School

This is the beginning of 4th grade. Josh really likes his teacher, Mr. Wells. Bryon and I went to Back to School night last Tuesday and his teacher seems to be a young cool teacher. Josh found out that only the 5th graders do band, so we'll have to wait till next year. So Josh has joined the cross country team instead. Plus he's running for Class Representative, wow. I was shocked. I guess he has is father in him; I was not into that in school. What a way to start the school year?

Utah

It's been tooo long!

It's been too long since we last posted. We just got back from Utah and we really enjoyed the time we spent with family. It was great to see Tricia and kids from Texas. It was also great to see Jared, Lani, Grant, Tammy, Sharon, Richard, Sarah, and all the nieces and nephews. It's to bad that we don't all live close to one another; but we just have to make due. We'll post some pics later of the trip to Utah. School starts for Josh in a week and a half and we are hoping to have him join the school band and learn to play the clarinet, we'll see!!

Scoring

Joshua scoring one for the team.

Way To Go!

At this last pack meeting Josh received his bear, gold arrow, 2 silver arrows, a music beltloop and his Faith in God patch. He was pretty excited. We had to miss a baseball game but it was worth it.

Go Josh Go!

norris scores

Joshua scored on this hit by his fellow teammate. He is working on his slide!!!!!!!!!

norris gets his 2nd hit of the night

So this was Joshua's third time up in the game. His first at bat was a line drive to the second baseman. His second hit was a double down the third base line. Notice the speed on the basepaths. His team won the game 15-13. So far in the season he is 4 for 6 with 2 rbi's. We have enjoyed his team so far. Joshua was really excited after the first game to quote him he said. "man I hit the ball everytime".

pinewood derby

This picture was taken in January after the pinewood derby. Josh placed second in our ward. It was longest derby that I've been to, about two hours. We combine our pack meetings with 3rd ward so we had a lot of boys racing. Josh also received that evening the monthly patch and one red bead. This month (April) he will be receiving his bear, gold arrow, and 2 silver arrows; plus he's not that far from receiving his Faith in God patch. It's good times. Josh also started baseball two weeks ago. His first game will be next Tuesday. I think that his glasses have helped him out, he can now catch and hit the ball! Yeah!

Silly Joshua

I was looking through our pictures that we downloaded on the computer and I found this one of silly Josh. We took it when Bryon was working for "good old Raging Waters". Josh can be a real goof ball.