New School Year 2016
Well another school year is upon us, and another summer has gone too fast. Its always tough going back to work after being able to spend all day, everyday with my family. The boys are growing up so fast, which is good and bad at the same time. When they are younger, you can't wait till they grow up a little more, but now we just want them to slow down.
Haydn is in grade 8 this year. This will be his last year at the Junior High. WOW. Next year he will be at the high school. I can't believe we had a boy that old now. He will be 14 in a few weeks and have his Learners License soon, Crazy! So as for now he is the top dog in the Junior High and then he will be back to being low man on the totem pole next year at the high school.
Haydn just finished his grade 8 volleyball season. The boys had a good year, but seemed to always end up in 2nd place. We finished 2nd in Rally Point (in Calgary), 2nd in divisionals and 2nd in the final Zone tourney. The boys had a great season , but always seemed to just come up short in the championship games. The Zone tourney the boys played great, but just came up against a bigger and better GS Lakie team from Lethbridge.
Haydn had a great season. He was one of my main setters and probably one of my most consistent servers (which is great at this age). He received two "Player of the Game" awards during the season this year. We had a lot of fun driving to and from tourneys with him and his friends. We even dropped into see Luc at the hospital in Calgary with Haydn and a couple buddies, which was a lot of fun for them.
Haydn just finished basketball tryouts and he made the team. This will be the first main sport that I haven't coached or helped coach with Haydn. It will be good to just sit back and watch the game and not have to worry and coaching from the bench (I will just coach from the bleachers now haha)
Brody is in Grade 5 this year at the elementary school. This will be his last year at the elementary school. Next year he will be up at the Junior High with me. I loose Haydn to the High School, but I will gain Brody at the Junior High.
They changed the football age for Brody this year, so he couldn't play regular football he had to play flag football. He was a little bummed out, but it was good for him to play flag and work on his moves and running. He had some good runs for touch downs this year, but he still missed using his size to run people over hahaha.
Brody is in an after school volleyball program right now, where they practice volleyball skills and learn the game a little more. He does pretty good and can serve a mean over-hand serve. He will also be starting an after school basketball program next month.
Both the boys started a indoor baseball camp in Lethbridge that runs every Monday until March. It will be good for the boys just to keep up of their hitting and fielding skills during the off season. I am excited to see how it helps them once the actual baseball season starts. Both the boys loved the first day and can't wait to go back.
Tyson started kindergarten this year. He was pretty surprised when he realized that he had to go to school everyday (even though its just for a half day). Tyson is a really bright kid who loves to draw, and is actually a great artist. Sometimes he will use words that we would never know he knew the meaning of or how to use them in a sentence. He sleeps just like his dad....not well. He takes a while to calm down at night enough to fall asleep hahaha Its always an adventure at bed time for him.
Update on Luc
Luc has come along way since his accident in June.There was a time where we didn't know whether he would live or die and then we didn't know if he was ever going to be able to move any part of his body. He is able to move a lot now. He still can't walk, but he is definitely on the road to learning to walk again. Each day and week he gets a little bit stronger and is able to do more and more each time we go up to visit him.
Kristi has loved going up and helping him. Last week she went up and took Luc out to the movie in Calgary. They went to the movie "Trolls" hahaha. It is so awesome to see him getting out of the hospital and doing some normal things. We met Kristi up there as well on the weekend and took the kids to Chuck E. Cheese and Luc came with us haha. There were so many people and I thought it was going to be too much for Luc, but he seemed to have a good time. He loves giving the boys a hard time and its fun to see them laugh back and forth. After that we went to the mall and looked around some of the stores. Luc loves to buy Stance socks and he bought the boys a pair for their upcoming birthdays.
Luc always seems to have such a positive attitude around us. It would be easy for him to be down in the dumps about his situation, but he is always ready to work hard and make things happen for himself. I am not sure I could have had that same attitude being in his spot. He will probably be in the hospital for another 6 months, which will make it almost a full year in the hospital by the time he is done. The goal is for him to be walking by the time he leaves!!
Halloween
Haydn dressed up as the wrestler John Cena. Him and a buddy trick or treated for a while, but then went to a friends house for a party.
Brody was a couple different things. He had a purple blow up fat suite that he wore to school. Then he dressed up as a Yankee baseball player to go trick or treating.
Tyson was Luigi because he is in love with the game "Luigi's Mansion" right now.
Lennon was a Butterfly and she was so cute.
We only took Tyson and Lennon to a few houses and then went to Justin's house for Pizza like we always do.
Other Pictures
We won a softball tourney in Okotoks during September long weekend. We played against Micheal Ferland (who plays for the Calgary Flames), and I out homered him 3-1. boo ya!
We won the intermediate side of the tournament.
We had a "Colour Fight" at the school. Everyone had this coloured powder and threw it at each other.
Haydn made the basketball team again this year. He has really grown to love basketball over the last year. He asked me the other day if I would be mad if he told me that basketball was his favourite sport and not baseball haha. I told him he can like whatever sport he wants, but he always has to play baseball haha. 
Brody turned 11 on Dec 4th as well. He had a birthday with Mom. They went into Lethbridge and shopped for a present, went out to eat and went to a movie. I honestly can't believe how fast these boys are growing up. I really wish we could slow down time so they don't grow up too fast and then think they are too cool to hang out with Mom and Dad. 
