Brinn's Softball and Meg's Track

This summer Meg participated in a city track league.  She did awesome!  She ran the 100, 200, long jump and the 4x400.  Her long jump was amazing!  She jumped over 9 feet.  The highlight, though, was when she ran the 4x400 and ran faster than everyone on her team, including the 2 boys!  Yeah Meg!  Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures of that...

Brinn participated in Springville's Coach Pitch Softball.  She LOVED it and did a great job.  Especially batting.  Way to go Brinn!

Emmett and the High School Reunion

This year was my 10 year high school reunion.  Because I was one of the class officers way back when, I was lucky enough to get to plan the reunion (please note that that was said with sarcasm).  So, we went to the reunion.  It was fun to be back in Emmett, and it was great to see some of my friends from high school.  I wish that we were closer together so that we could hang out more often.  I was reminded how lucky I was to have such good friends during high school.  I only hope my kids can be as lucky.

While we were there we got to hang out with Grandma Hallam and Maria and her kids.  We even got to stop by the Cherry Festival, which brought back lots of fun memories.

Riding their one ride at the Cherry Festival.

Sitting on Grandma's tractor.

Family Hike

We decided to go on a new hike as a family to Big Springs.  The hike was pretty, the springs was disappointing.  It had already pretty much dried up for the year and it was only June.  I can imagine in May it would be pretty.

How Eric would have preferred the whole hike to go. 

The girls helping Eric hike.

Meg and Buddy up ahead.

Everyone else...

The Birthday Boy

The first week of July means lots of birthdays in the Rockwood house.  Eric turned 2 just a few days after Meg's birthday.  He definitely got into the birthday thing this year.  He loved opening presents.  He loved cake.  He loved all of the attention he got and he loved all of the cars.  Notice that in all of the pictures below, his cars are present.  This boy loves anything with wheels, particularly cars, trains, and tractors.  He is a ball of energy.  Always running and on the go.  He loves playing with his sisters and loves when his dad wrestles with him.  He is learning more and more words everyday.  Some of my favorites these days are "thank you, mama" and "what?"  He says "What" anytime you say his name.  He is such a sweetheart, we love him to pieces.

Notice the cars on the seat...

This is an old lawn mower that doesn't have the mower attached that Steven fixed up.  It goes really slow and Eric loves to drive his "tractor" all by himself because he is a big boy.

One of Eric's very favorite people.  Steven wouldn't take a picture with him (imagine that), but he loves "Teve" too.

Helping himself to seconds.

The Birthday Girl

Meg celebrated her 12th birthday this last week.  Yup.  That's right--12.  She is now officially a young woman.  Earlier in June she got to go to Girl's Camp and Sunday got to go to Beehive's for the first time.  It is all very exciting!  Meg is an amazing girl and a great big sister to Brinn and Eric.  She did so well in school this last year and is getting ready for junior high in the fall.  She is still playing the piano and is enjoying having her own room now.  We love having Meg in our family!

Meg and her awesome 6th grade teacher, Mrs. Sumsion.