Baseball is over...for now.

The kids had their last baseball games 2 Saturday's ago. It rained the entire day. Jennifer loved being in the rain. She kept on trying to lick the rain. Aubrey's game was at 8 am and it poured on us. Eric's game was at 11 am and it poured on us. Aubrey had an outdoor baseball party at 4 pm and it poured on us. I am getting a little rained out! I have to say though, for as much fun as the kids had playing, I am SO GLAD it is finally done. Since they were on different teams we had 2 different practices every week, and 2 different games.

On Thursday it was my work's annual golf tournament at Hill Air Force Base. I originally signed up to play, but ended up having a trial during this week. The trial ended up getting continued last minute. So I ended up volunteering at the tournament instead. It was pretty fun...a lot better than putting in a full day of work!

I was officially elected onto the board of directors for the Utah State Bar Paralegal Division. I have already had one of those exciting Board Meetings. I will find out at the next meeting where within the Bar I will be participating for the year.

The kids went to Hogle Zoo last week with the daycare. Aubrey is obsessed with jaguars for some reason. That is the animal that she is always pretending to be. So when she found out she was going to the zoo, she got really excited that she was finally going to see a jaguar. At the end of the day when I picked the kids up, I asked Aubrey if she saw the jaguar. She started crying and said that it scared her. Aubrey's teacher said that the jaguar was pacing back and forth and roared (hissed?) straight in Aubrey's direction. The jaguar is still her favorite animal, although she now says her favorite animal is a "scary jaguar".

Our little ballerina

Aubrey had her ballet/hip hop/jazz dance recital 2 weeks ago...I am slow at getting the pictures up. She was so much fun to watch! Dad and Diane were able to make it up to the daycare/school to come watch her as well. She was really excited to show them her school. :) The kids are now in summer camp. Every Monday and Wednesday they go on a field trip, then every Tuesday and Thursday they go to swimming lessons. They put Eric with the big kids and he is loving it! All of his friends from growing up at the daycare are still in the Kindergarten class. I thought he would be sad to not be with his friends, but the "big kids" (ages 7-12) have really been good with him. He didn't want to leave them. So last week they went to the Tracey Aviary and a hike up to Ensign Peak (in this rain).

We went to Lagoon on Friday for the Parry Family Reunion. We got out of the park right before it started raining (about 10:30 pm). The kids had so much fun going on rides. I hate the spinning rides, so my Aunt Sharon took them on one. We got drenched on the Rattlesnake Rapids...except for Zac who is the loser that wouldn't go on ANY water rides. Dad took Eric and Aubrey on the "terror ride". Eric came back telling me that there was a scary woman in spider webs. I guess he told Dad after the ride, "I don't want to, but I think I'm going dream about this tonight."

I started up another boot camp exercise class last week. This time I don't need to lose weight, I just want to get more tone. My quad tendonitis is still hurting, and the sports medicine orthopedic told me to strengthen my quads and core in order to prevent the tendonitis from occurring again. It is held right by my house at the amphitheater. It has rained on us every night. At one point it was pouring, and I laid down on my mat and it was just a huge puddle. Then while we were doing some leg exercises, the rain was pounding our faces. I looked around and everyone had their eyes shut...including the 2 trainers. Hmmmm...at least I could cheat on my form since noone was looking.

I have been crazy busy with work recently. I have two tax evasion trials coming up (hold back your excitement). Still working on tons of seizure warrants for the ponzi scheme case. And the big artifact case was finally unsealed with search warrants executed, so now I assume I will have a lot of work tomorrow. I had a suppression hearing on Thursday that started at 1 pm. It was suppose to be over at 4pm, so I didn't call Zac to get the kids. By the time 5pm hit, we had finished calling all of our witnesses, still thinking we would be out any minute. Then defense had some witnesses which we weren't aware of, and the Judge says, "I don't have anywhere to go tonight." Great. So at 7pm we finally finished the suppression hearing, but then he wanted to rule on some outstanding motions. At this point, I finally had to stand up and state I needed to leave. The daycare closed at 6pm. Eek! I didn't have a phone to call them, so I booked it over there. It was a sad sight to see them there. Aubrey was crying because she thought I had forgotten her. :( Days like this I wish I didn't have to work.