Somebody's special day :)

Kace just had his birthday. Not just any birthday, but his EIGHTH birthday. So special :) He was so excited. We celebrated at the Jones' on Sunday with the meal of his choice and of course presents :). He got a journal, book, money and a tie tack. Then on Monday some of the Andrew family came over to celebrate. Nate and I got him a bike. We were going to just get him new puncture proof tires (because they are ALWAYS flat), but a new bike was only $20 more.
When I was a kid we loved playing and competing against each other in tetherball. I suggested to my mom that Kace would like a tetherball thing. So she painted and fixed up our old one, got a new ball and it was a hit. Kami even tried to beat me. Didn't happen.

My family has an interesting tradition. I don't know when it started or why, but for the birthday song we always sing as crazy and loud and off key as possible. The first time Kace heard it (and Ty too) I think they were frightened, but now they just laugh and "sing" along. I have included a video, but keep in mind that Cort, Erik, Heidi and Clayton (always key participants) were missing, so it wasn't as good as it normally is, but you will get the idea. I am not for certain if Nate and Grandma (my grandma) like the tradition, because they always sing normal or not at all. Party poopers :)






Nate really wanted to try out the new bike. You should zoom up and see the look on his face, it is pretty funny.

Had to include a picture of Ty, who could resist this kid :)

Football is here!

Everyone who knows me knows that I LOVE football season. From the time I was little I remember watching and going to games with my family. I remember my dad drawing up a field and explaining the rules and what a first down meant when I was probably 8 years old. My parents have instilled a deep LOVE for BYU football. They have been going to all their games for 30 years.
Kace has been so excited to be old enough to play football and has said for a long time that football is his favorite sport, even though he has never played it. Maybe it is because he watched his uncle Mac and Isaac when he was little, or maybe it is because our Saturdays in the fall are devoted to football (except for Nate when he is hunting).

So football has come and Kace is playing halfback on his little team. He loves it! He also gets to occasionally play outside linebacker, but there are a lot of kids so kids don't usually get to go both ways. There has been one thing that has been hard for me. When the BYU games start next week Kace's games will all conflict with theirs. I am DYING............it is a hands down decision to watch Kace, but I love watching BYU too. Thank goodness for TiVo and the parents who get the stupid mtn. channel. Don't worry, I enjoy watching Kace I think even more than BYU. It is so much fun :)
Around here they let the 7 year olds play on their own team and the 8 year olds on their own team. We really liked this because that would mean that everybody has the same amount of experience. If he was playing with the 8 year olds, he probably wouldn't be able to play as much because there are older, more experienced kids. Anyway, it has been a great experience and so much fun! This last week they WON! This was a really great feat because the all 7 year old team (playing against 7 & 8 year olds) has never won a game in the last three years. Kace scored 2 (almost 3-he got tackled on the 1 yard line) TDs, and was so excited, he did his little strut walk. Here is one of them. Sorry it is small :)






We have been working with him at home doing different plays. Nate gets so into it. Probably because this is what he did when he was a kid. Most people don't see Nate as a football player, but he was a dang good one........or so I have been told. :) When he was Kace's age he played RB too, but also got to play more defense. He really wants Kace to play defense (as well as offense) because that is what he loved. When he got older he played outside linebacker in hs and free safety at Ricks.

Grandma and Grandpa Shaw came and watched his game this last week and so did Kami. Kace was so excited that someone was coming to watch him. Thanks to them and thanks to Kami for speeding so fast to the game that she got pulled over. Sorry sister :)

please

please comment on kace's blog post, he checks multiple times a day for comments. He is sure he is going to get TONS! :)

The weird bat

This is Kace adding a new post to our blog.

Everyone should know that we have a shed getting built. The people who were putting the siding on were working when they saw a bat. One of them got his staple gun and started shooting at the bat. So now we have a dead bat right in front of our shed.

PS show this to your kids. They will love it.

"You wanna see my......."

So our little Ty the guy has a really hard time saying his "c" and "k" and "g" sounds. We try to help him and say it slower and all that, but it isn't really helping. He can say the sounds by themselves, but putting them altogether in a word is a different story.

Ty also loves his kittens. There are about four left that haven't "disappeared" and whenever anybody comes over ty always runs up to them yelling (he doesn't have a quiet voice), "DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY TITTIES?" um...........WHAT?! Mostly people laugh and laugh and then want him to say it again (as if he really didn't say it the first time). Ty, of course, has no clue and patiently asks them again......this time saying he has LOTS of TITTIES. :) Don't know what to do with him and don't know what I would do without him! Obviously in the above picture he is sad because Kace is holding his tittie and he wants to be the one to hold it. All is well when he gets his way (see bottom photo)!

Pianoman Kace

Kace has been playing the piano for one year now. He started at the beginning of 1 grade taking lessons from Carolyn Francom. She is WONDERFUL! I haven't really had to bug him (too much) about practicing. He has picked up on it quick and is a good little pianist!

A month before school got out a talent show flyer came home and I asked him if he wanted to do anything for the show. He said, yes, and then tried to decide what he should do. Piano, singing, tell jokes, juggle, hit a ball. He finally concluded that he would play the piano. I was pleased with his choice, mainly because it FREAKED ME OUT to play the piano in front of people when I was younger. I remember the music lady calling me weekly and every time I she called I would get an anxious feeling in my stomach, knowing that I should say yes, but always saying no. I was just too scared. My fingers would go cold and clammy and I would basically FREAK OUT! So I was really pleased that Kace would WANT to do this.

He had a piano recital a couple of weeks after that. He is always nervous about the bow and it is always pretty funny :)

chickens and the vet

Last Sunday we went to Nate's cousin's homecoming talk and then came back to our house with the rest of the Jones family to celebrate Father's Day. We started out by looking at the shed that we are building (or the "great and spacious"-that's what I call it)! It is coming along nicely and they should be done framing by the end of this week. :)



Anyway, we were all sitting outside enjoying the beautiful weather when Donene (Nate's mom) wrote her name on the back of their camp chairs (she was going to girls camp that week and wanted her chair's to still be her's when she got home). So Ty wanted to write his name on his chair as well, I didn't want that so much, and there was this chicken that was running around in the front yard so Nate said, "Go chase that chicken and color on it!" That's what every little boy wants to hear so Ty took off with a big grin on his face. Imagine our SHOCK when he got the chicken and actually started coloring on it. Caitlin said, "It has got to be sick to let him just run up and grab it like that."

So the next day I went over to the Roberts' to take something back to Kim and left Kace home to do his chores and I accidentally left my cell phone in the car. So after visiting for a little bit (okay it was probably a little longer than that) I asked Keaton (Kim's son) to call Kace and make sure he was okay and still staying on task finishing his jobs. I heard Keaton start laughing and said something about a chicken. I then asked to talk to him and heard a tearful Kace tell me that the chicken was sick and one died and that he wanted to call the vet. I said we can't call the vet for a chicken. That was when he told me that he already had called the vet. WHAT SEVEN YEAR OLD WOULD CALL A VET?!

He looked the number up in the phone book (didn't know he could do that!), called, and then explained to whoever answered the phone his chicken situation. Thankfully, they told him that he needed to ask his mom first. :)

When I called Nate and told him that Kace had called the vet for the sick chicken his response was, "No, no, no, no, NO! Not for a CHICKEN!" It was a pretty classic "Kace" experience. Leave it to Kace to take matters into his own hands :)

I know most of you have probably already read about this incident on facebook, but I wanted to have it in my "journal" so I always remember it. :)