Christmas 2010 in photos

As like every year, we travel to both Troy's parents and then to my parents. This year we had just as much fun, getting to see Santa, open gifts, and eat lots of food. Christmas is such a fun time to be able to spend time with family! Love the holidays!

Feeding the Deer

At the cabin we always seem to have quite a few deer stop by and eat the deer food that we leave out for them. Infact that eat so much of it that we now have a small herd that are permanent residence. Marquel and Troy love going out every morning to see what the deer had ate, and if they need to leave some more feed. One this specific morning Marquel and Troy went to feed the deer only to find that all of the deer food was gone. Marquel decided that she would leave a special treat for the deer. An APPLE! (Now deer don't usually eat apples, but these deer were special, and they did eat the apple) With eating the apple Troy had the bright idea to put out a salt lick. So off to IFA to buy a salt lick and then to set it out and wait and watch to see if the deer will try it.

First Time

When January rolled around Troy had made the decision to pursue a new career in Welding, so moved himself up to Manti to attend Snow College, while he is loving Snow College and life as a student he is really missing family life. Marquel and I try and go up at least twice a month and then go and do something fun. On this particular trip we decided to take a walk out on the ice! This was Marquel's first time! We were able to see people ice fishing and hear the ice shift and move under our feet! We had such a GREAT time!

I have what?

So I went to the Eye Doctor for a check up and to get a new pair of these. Ended up finding that I have these.. My first thought was WOW! I have had a hard time with depth perception, and things have been getting blurry lately, but I was just thinking that my stigmatisms were getting worse, so to find out that I have cataract's was a shock. The Dr. said that the type of cataracts that I have look like there is an orange peel on the my eye, the dibbles in the orange peel look like black little dots that prevent my eye from being able to focus clearly. My options: Eye Surgery, which after the surgery I will loose almost all of my vision up close. When my eyes get so bad that glasses help my site I will have the surgery. Could be 6 months down the road, could be 2-3 years. As for now. I will be wearing these.

All-Stars 2010

Marquel was choosen to play on the Cedar National All-Star Softball Team. She was up north when I heard the news and so I called her right away. Marquel was so excited that she cut her visit short and headed back home to start practicing with her new team. They started practicing a week before the games were to begin and Marquel loved every minute of it!

The games began on June 17th. CN was to face off with Washington. They had a rough first inning with Washington scoring 9 runs. All I could think was this was going to be bad... But the girls came back and scored 10 and ended up winning the game with a score of 19-9! They played Awesome!!

Winning the first game put us in the championship bracket and gave us a friday game bye. Play resumed Saturday morning with us playing Enterprise. Enterprise's team was a great little team and beat us by 10. We were then faced to play Cedar American. We beat Cedar American with a score of 14-9 and then had to play Enterprise for the championship. In order for us to take the championship we would need to beat Enterprise twice. The girls went out there playing hard and better than the early game but still came up short. Losing to Enterprise by a score of 7-4.

All in all it was a Great tournament and Marquel had a blast! She played short-stop, 2nd base and left field! She loves short stop and 2nd the best. Her batting was awesome, and she worked hard! Infact she worked so hard that a club coach invited her to come and practice with the local travel team. She is excited about that and will start practicing with them next monday!

Stealing 2nd

Giving a Cheer after beating Washington 19-9

Close up... Down and Ready

Playing Short-stop

Throwing a girl out at 1st

Getting ready to run home

Congrats Marquel and Cedar National on a Great Tournament!!

Sleep-Over

Welcome to Grandma and Grandpa's Tahlia! This past week we were able to take Tahlia for a sleep over, It was lots of fun and I do believe that Marquel was in Heaven!! Marquel loves to take and babysit this little one, she packs her arounds, feeds her, bathes her, and will even put her down for a nap... If Only I could get her to change diapers (lol) Marquel was a big help... Thanks Marquel
I had totally forgot how hard having a little one around is and how much work they really are. Waking up 3 times a night, diaper changes and never enough time to get the house clean. Wow! I guess I have found and love my independence, and for awhile thought that I would love another little one around. My thoughts have changed. I will take this little one and then be able to return her to her mom.
Thanks Ange for letting her come and stay we had a blast!

Tahlia is strating to walk, so she would take a couple of steps and then regain her balance and clap... So Cute Yea!!

I believe bath time was her favorite. She was splashing and laughing

Splashing and Laughing!

Summer Time and Life is.... Well...

School has been out for 2 weeks now and life has been crazy busy! I thought that once school was out you were to kick back, and relax. I have been mistaken though, as life here at the Mitchell's has not slowed down.

I had the opportunity to travel with a group of 8th graders from the middle school back to Washington D.C. It was an amazing trip with lots of sight seeing and lots of laughs. Let me back up a little: All of us teachers were eating lunch in the faculity room a couple of months ago and one said. I have an extra spot for the D.C. trip, Teresa would you like to come? I of course jumped on the opportunity and started helping with the plans. School ended on the 28th of May and we flew out on the 30th. We spent a week in the Nations Capital and was able to see many many things. We went to the Air and Space Smithsonian, the Native American Smithsonian (my personal favorite) The Natural History and American History Smithsonian's. We were also able to go to Ford's Theater were Pres. Lincoln was killed and then off to see all of the memorials. (Which were amazing!) I loved the WWII Memorial, the FDR Memorial, and of course Hiro Shima, Korea, and Vietnam Memorial's. They were all amazing. We were able to take a tour of the White House which was way cool and then on to Arlington National Cemetery. (another favorite of mine.)

We visited the Capital, more memorials, and then on Thursday we took the kids to Busch Garden's. This place is amazing holding more than 8 rollercoasters, water rides and lots of fun for the kids. Friday before leaving we were able to go and see the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Bill or Rights! All original documents and a must see at least once. It was now time to board another plane and fly home with a two hour layover in Georgia, we were figuring a nice relaxing trip home.... Wrong! It was raining in Georgia so we had to fly down to Knoxville TN to refuel the plane. By the time we take off from Knoxville our connecting flight was supposed to be leaving for Vegas, stressed and tired we were able to find out that the airlines delayed our connecting flight and we were able to board it and head for home. We arrived home just after 4:00 in the morning. Exhausted. But not wanting to trade the experience for anything in the world. Thanks Jen for inviting me... I will travel with you any where! :)

Well, that was last week and this week has been nearly as crazy, from picking Marquel up in Manti, to getting her ready for All-Stars softball! She had a great softball season as was choosen to play on the all-star team. I am excited to watch her and know she will do great! Great Job Marquel!!

With only 10 weeks left of summer, I am wondering if it will slow down at all! I have classes that I am scheduled to take this summer, getting lesson plans ready for next year, and just heard I may be going to girls camp! Whew.... I am already exhaused! It's going to be great... I'm really ready for a quick trip up the mountian to shoot my bow, or through a line out to catch a fish.. Maybe we can fit it all in!