Basketball

Cannon got the award for "most athletic" from coach Bradshaw

Cannon with a few of the boys and coach at their pizza party.

Lyla getting here award from Coach Joe Smith

 We had a great basketball season this year with all three kids playing and finally wrapped up all the end of season parties with Miya's on Wednesday playing lazertag. I didn't get any pictures of Miya's party, but she had a fantastic coach this year and her team went undefeated. Miya got "most improved player" and did such a great job playing with girls that have played club ball together for the last 3 years.
Lyla played her first season and got "best in dribbling" from her coach. His name was Joe Smith and he told us that he stopped at the BYU bookstore one time they were driving through so he could get something since he shared the name with the Prophet. He was a nice guy and Lyla had a great time learning to play.
Cannon had 12 boys on his team so it was a lesson in cheering teammates on and enjoying the time he got to play. He enjoyed the boys on his team and he had a great coach.

Slumber Party

Cannon entertaining the girls during breakfast with his sunglasses and rollerblades.

Miya and Tenli

We had the younger Newville kids over for a slumber party a couple of weeks ago to try to let Alexis and Kris catch up on sleep after her surgery. I am not sure that was accomplished, but we had a great time with the girls. Miya and Tenli slept down in the cabin and I thought they might be nervous about it, but they were just excited for the privacy. They stayed up late watching movies and slowly made their way up late Saturday morning.

New Bikes

I was riding Miya's bike around because she wasn't so sure about the bigger bike.

Sweet Lyla barely going over the bump on the new bigger bike.

Cannon was super excited about the bigger bike and was all over the ramps.

This is just how Miya felt about her new bike...she has since changed her mind.

I have been working at giving the kids a little more freedom and now let them ride around the park without me. They all have to stick together and they can't stop and play while I am not with them, but this is still pretty huge since we live in a not so great neighborhood. I have even let Miya walk home from school with her friends and she is pretty excited about that new development.

Scouts

 

Cub Scouts is one of those things that I am learning to love and Cannon is in his second year. I was just called as the Cub Master and have no idea what I am doing, but I am really excited about it. We have been deep into basketball and missed most of the last few months of scouts, but Cannon was able to be at his Blue & Gold banquet last month. They did a cute skit and he was excited about being there. I had to take the girls to basketball games since Phil was staying for Bishop duties he got some pictures of Cannon getting some awards, but I am not sure which ones. Brother Watts is the new Committee Chair and is doing a great job with the boys. Things should be pretty fun these next few months until the summer break.

Cabin

I have looked everywhere for the before picture of the outside of the cabin, but can't find one of the front to compare. The door to the cabin was on the side and we moved it to face the water and added the stairs and the overhang for the porch. Plus the top window is new since we finished off the loft space and made two bedrooms. I love how it all turned out. We cleaned up the black top and put another coat this last fall. We are gearing up for painting the house as soon as we have warm enough weather this spring. So fun to get things done.

I finally found a few pictures of the outside of the cabin at different stages of work while I was listening to General Conference this morning.



The day we cut out the new door.

We got the new window in for the bedroom upstairs.

Getting the stairs and small porch started and working on getting primer on the house.

We had a few hours here and there to work on projects so it took a few days to get all the primer done.