Video of Kade’s first varsity at bat

Sorry, these are all out of order 🤦🏼‍♀️

Spring turkey hunting, the boys got Erik to join them!  

Can you even see them walking through the yard? 😆

Look at these fearsome turkey slayers

Mason doing the polar plunge fundraiser 

My own personal trumpet concert!!

Trixie was not amused

Mason’s 5th grade band concert last spring.  Not going to lie, he looks pretty dang cute playing trumpet!!

Mason had the opening line in his 5th grade musical.  He seems to love performing, I’m surprised he didn’t try out for the fall high school play this year.  Maybe I’ll talk him into the spring one…

Video of one song from the band concert.

Mason’s opening lines of the play

 

Ok these pictures are completely out of order.  

The end of basketball season took us straight into baseball without much of a break!  Kade and mason both played in a 3:3 tournament.  It wasn’t super competitive (as you’ll see in pictures below of kade playing.)

The next week Kade started his spring baseball season for school ball.  He started out on JV but moved to varsity after a few games.

There was a varsity tournament that Kade was told he needed to be at but wouldn’t play.  Erik and Mason were fishing down the road, I was barely watching the game.  Well, it was the bottom of the last inning, we were down with the tying run on 1st.  2 outs, bases loaded.  I happened to look up and see Kade on deck!  His first varsity pitch (he’s in 8th grade).  He swung, got a base hit!  We still ended up losing by 1 run but from then on, he played varsity.  Right field and last hitter in the line up but still 😆 can only move up from there!

A couple times varsity had two 8th graders and a 7th grader in the lineup.

Kade Tyeson Kelton

These 3 have been playing together since they were 7!

3:3 tournament 

Erik couldn’t resist giving a few pointers even though there wasn’t supposed to be coaches.

Kade playing against his summer baseball teammates.  Not a lot of great basketball was played this game.

But Kade’s team did end up winning it all!

Kade’s first JV game

 

More winter picture catch up

Of course these didn’t load in order 🤦🏼‍♀️

Mason 11th birthday was in February, he talked me into a sleepover and ice fishing with 3 buddies.

Kade and Erik braving the cold with those 4 hooligans!

Mason’s birthday is right after his cousins’ Isaac and Eve and the day before Uncle Mike’s.  So we just did a family celebration with all the birthdays.

Bubba and Nibble.  Those 2 are pretty dang entertaining!

One of the dress up days in school this year was dress as your first initial (i.e. Kristi Kite). So mason dressed as the elementary principal, Mr. Midge!

He’s such a fun, easy going guy who totally speaks Mason’s language.  So we had fun with this one!!

Mr Midge gave Mason and his buddies the nickname “The Naughty Niners”.  Mason’s buddy Nyle (who is a Niner) dressed up as a Naughty Niner.

Mason handed out pink slips 😆

More basketball!

The boys ice fished, I brought lunch. Hot dogs and chips on the frozen lake!  It was a great afternoon!!