Hyrum's Baptism

On June 5th, 2011, Hyrum was baptized and confirmed a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He is now the fourth member of our family. Which gives us more baptized members than non-baptized members of our family. I am so proud of him for making the decision to not only be baptized, but also to have the desire to be taught by the missionaries before being baptized. He was baptized by his father and confirmed by Elder Robison. Hyrum was the first confirmation that Elder Robison had ever done.

Spring has sprung!

And so has baseball season. We are very active in our local baseball organization this year with 3 of our boys playing. Adam is playing T-ball, Hyrum is playing machine pitch and Ben is playing his 2nd year of PeeWees. We have been crazy busy with practices every week night except Wednesday, and last week was the first week of league games.
Hyrum started out with a coach pitch tournament in Ringling. His team won their first game on Friday night, and had two really close games on Saturday afternoon.

Hyrum's first time at bat. He didn't get a hit, but he did get hit with the ball.

He got to play the pitcher position when fielding even though he didn't pitch.

Adam's first game was on Tuesday. I didn't get any good pictures, because we were facing the sun. Adam had another game on Thursday. Not only did Adam's team win this game, but Adam got his very first run.

Adam up to bat. 

Running to 1st base. This is the first time he made it to 1st without getting tagged.

Waiting at 1st for the next batter to hit.

Woohoo! He made it to 2nd base.

Rounding the corner at 3rd base to run home.

Crossing home plate.

Ben played his first game on Tuesday too, but I didn't get any pictures from his game for some reason. Thats what you get for trying to watch three different game on the same night, and because I was cheering so loud. Ben's team scored two runs, and he was one of the runs. Way to go, Ben! Ben's team had another game on Thursday, but Ben got sick during Field Day at school and couldn't participate in the game. He was there to cheer on his team mates though.

Hyrum had his first league game on Tuesday. This was also the first time to bat with the machine pitching which makes the pitches more accurate. 

He didn't get a hit, but he was so close.

Tonight starts week 2 of baseball games galore. Thursday the boys all play at the same time on different fields, so I will be running like a mad woman around the ballpark trying to catch a little of each game. It should be interesting.

I know it has been way too long since I last posted on here. There hasn't been much going on here in Oklahoma for us lately except baseball practices galore. The boys have there first official league games tonight, and I will be posting pictures. Other than that, I have been trying to prepare for Girl's Camp in June and Youth Conference in July. Also, Hyrum is going to be taking the discussions with the missionaries starting this Saturday. I love that he has expressed interest in doing this before he is baptized. It's hard for me to believe that he is going to be 8 in just a couple of weeks, and then he will be getting baptized the first weekend in June while Michael's mom is here. They grow up way too fast. So, stay tuned for some good posts coming up soon.

This is the reason why mother's worry about whats going on at home when they are away. Thanks goodness this didn't occur in my home. But, if it ever did, I would hope that Michael would video it too, because this is just too funny. (Sorry about the lame movie trailer at the beginning.)

Somewhere over the...

Our family tradition, since we are of Irish descent, is to have an authentic Irish dinner for St. Patrick's Day every year. My house was filled with the scent of corned beef, potatoes and cabbage this afternoon. YUM!! We also bought some Dubliner cheese imported from Ireland. Some liked its robust flavor (Michael, Ben and Hyrum) and some did not.

And, while our oh so yummy corned beef was on the stove I was painstakingly coloring and layering rainbow cupcakes for dessert. I don't know that I will ever try to make them again, but they did turn out beautiful, if I do say so myself. I definitely didn't hear any complaints when it came to eating them.

After all is said and done, a merry St. Paddy's Day was had by the Bickerstaff family.

10 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 1 day ago I married my sweetheart. 

June 30th, 2000

He was literally heaven sent. No, he wasn't perfect and he still isn't, but he tries. He can make me so angry, and he can make me laugh out loud. He makes me feel beautiful even when I'm bloated, cranky and still in my jammies when he gets home from work. He understands me even when I don't quite understand me. And, he always says he loves me before going to sleep at night even if we aren't happy with each other at the time. We are like 2 puzzles pieces that fit together so perfectly, and along with our 5 other puzzle pieces, we are complete.

I love you, Michael, on Valentine's Day and every other day too!!

SNOW!!

Finally something to show for the freezing cold weather.

The view of the fresh morning snow from the front door.

With 11 degree weather with a -10 wind chill and 23 mph winds what do the kids want to do? Go play in the snow, of course! It took at least 30 minutes to get all the boys (Dad included) bundled up for outside play.

Adam lost interest is getting the picture taken before it was done.

They only lasted outside for maybe 10 minutes, but they had loads of fun before they started crying that their hands were frozen.

Levi didn't want to have a snowball fight so he just watched the craziness.

Michael was as excited as the boys, if not more, to get the fight on.

You can't tell from all the layers, but Levi is smiling for the camera.

Angela was less than happy that I wouldn't let her go out too. Maybe when the winds aren't blowing so hard.

"Mommy, I want to go out and freeze with the boys."