Rainy Baseball Games, First Track Meet, Lake Giesler, and Elder Soares

Rex pitching to Lyle during Monday night's game.

The played through a downpour and some hail.  Now they are real boys.

Came home and lit the canes up.

Rex roasting a hotdog from behind his heat shield.

James pulled some of the coals from the fire so we could stand the heat.

Hyrum waiting to throw the javelin at his first track meet.

Action Sequence:

Hyrum had his last math team competition on Wednesday evening.  He had his first track meet on Tuesday.  It was nice, but a little, breezy cool.  The line for the javelin was super long and by the time it was his turn he said he threw 20 feet shorter than his warm-up.  I think he still may have had the longest throw though.

      He also ran the 4x100 and the 2^nd 100 in the medley.  

Wednesday I went with Rex and Lyle to the McNary Dam for our field trip.

Bryant had just got to shake Elder Gong's hand and was packing up to fly out to Guatemala.

We thought he would fly out early Thursday morning to Guatemala City and have a 9 hour bus ride to Coban.  We didn't hear from him that day.  When he called us for just a few minutes on Friday he said they actually stayed the night in a really cool hotel in Guatemala City after visiting the consulate and didn't take the bus to Coban until Friday.  He was in good spirits.

For the next two days, Rex and Lyle played with their bait "treasures" they found at the river.

Thursday we woke up to Lake Giesler--the pond had overflowed overnight.

Friday after school the boys decided to use Bryant's inflatable raft on Lake Giesler.

When James posted this picture on FB one of the comments was, "those boys know how to turn lemons into lemonade."

This morning we got to go to the Toyota Center and listen to Elder Soares.  We had a couple of boys who weren't feeling too perky while they were fasting.  Last night, Talmage had a YSA meeting with Elder Godoy and Sariah and Hyrum were at the Parley Building with a broadcast of Elder Soares from the Gage building.  Talmage said Elder Godoy was really funny and there were a lot of questions about marriage.  I think Sariah and Hyrum thought their meeting was good even though Hyrum was really dragging his feet beforehand.