BB Guns, Dodgeball and Wildfires.....OH MY!

This weekend was the annual 24th of July festivity and celebrations down in the wonderful town of Levan Utah. We had the flag ceremony and the breakfast (which we never have gone to but did this year. It was fun!) and then the Parade. this year the kids were in one of the newer trucks instead of on top. I enjoyed the parade on the sideline next to my wonderful mother-in-law, sister-in-law and nephews. From there we went to the park and played all day and had a picnic. Emily did the BB gun shoot and won! way to go Baby! Zach played a little dodge ball with the girls in the town and won a six pack of sprite for his efforts, then all of a sudden a little ol wildfire popped up right across from the family's Dairy farm and my father and brother in-law had answer the call to go fight the fire. Well, the fire soon got beyond their control and the BLM, DWR, DNR, Forest Service, and all those lovely government departments soon took over. It was awesome seeing all the helicopters and the planes fighting the fire. Paul went to help with the evacuations of the 6 homes that were up on the mountain. They had homes to evacuate and horses and other property to help. Other town members got tractors and helped build fire lines. IT was truly a scary thing to go through but also to witness the hand of God change those winds and save those homes, many miracles occurred, The town was truly being watched over. I am grateful for the firemen and women and police officers that go into danger to help people in need. Thank you!. If you can dodge a wrench, You can dodge a ball!! Look at this BB Gun winning crack shot!! Good job Baby! Don't we look Fabulous! just checking out the fire from the back of the four wheeler with our binoculars!! From the In-laws back yard!

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July 2014!!! Can you believe it is already July?!?!? where does the time go. We just had Zachary's 9th birthday this week, school starts in 3 weeks (first time in year round school) and the gardens are growing nicely. We also had our ward primary parade again this year, numbers were low, but it was a blast!!

Mothers day and flower!

This year in activity days we did these cute picture clip boards for our moms. Hopefully the girls had as much fun putting them together and giving them to their moms, as the Moms are going to enjoy them. A lot of Thought and love and sweat went into coming up with this idea,(Big shout out to Pinerest!) Emily joined the choir at School this year and we had her year end program. Also the 2014 flowers for the yard are now in the ground. I spent all day Friday putting these beauties in the ground, all while working on my tan!! hehe I think I went a little overboard on the Geraniums, but hey!, if you like something keep going with it and buy MORE! Thanks to Skyline floral for the big beautiful Geraniums this year. If you ever stop selling them, I WILL Cry!

Busy! Busy! Busy!

The last few weeks have been one big roller coaster ride for the Bateman/ Hatton family. Elise and Taylor had cute Baby Declan at the end of February (3 weeks early!), Emily went on a couple of field trips, Philip and Amber moved into their new house, Parent Teacher Conference came and went (both kids are doing wonderfully in school!) I started a Quilt class with the wonderful ladies in our ward, Daylight savings time came and kicked our butts for about a week, Yard work officially started for the 2014 growing year!, got the new Christmas present set up in the back yard after a long winters nap in the garage, went to my very first caucus meeting ( Paul got voted to go to the state convention! More power to you sweetheart!) we changed TV service ( which at this point I am not too thrilled about. Give me a month and I can let you know how I truly feel about it.) We got our veggie garden ready to go and planted potatoes and went to the temple all in one day! ( I feel very accomplished!) Zach had the Blue and Gold dinner for cub scouts and Emily had 5th grad Maturation all in one evening(That is what two parents are for! Tag team, your it!!) Yes, I said 5th Grade Maturation, I was rocking back and forth in the corner ALL day!. And, drum roll please...... My Baby Girl turned 11!! (This mamma is feeling old!) March was such a busy month! I don't see when life is going to settle down, I thing it is actually speeding up! Here are pics from the last month.....Enjoy!

Wow!, is it already February?!?!?

Well. Here we are. February! After an exciting and nerve racking time at Christmas, getting the truck back and all the stuff in the wallet back, Life just keeps going. I got a new calling that I have absolutely NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING! Primary chorister! yes, that is what I said. But needless to say it is going ok for the ability that I have, none of the kids had kicked me out yet. So other than that, things are going along just nice. We had a Valentines day party with my kids and nephews. We played some minuet to win it games, a little bingo, and had some pizza for dinner. It was fun! Love these times with them! Also, Emily had her science fair at school. She did her report on Betsy Ross, she came up with the idea for her board and everything. I cant belive how old she is getting. we are so proud of her. Finally, here are 2014 class valentines. I think they turned out cute! without pintrest I would be no where. I give thanks to whoever came up with this really cute idea!