Lacrosse...mania

So the lacrosse season has come and gone...and it seems like it was a blink of my eye. What an awesome season Sky View lacrosse had! They went all the way to the State final game! It was so exciting and so much joy for me, as a mom, to watch Tanton play and suceed so much.
I totally don't want to sound too PROUD... but I am so proud I just can't help it! Tanton broke the Sky View Lacrosse school record for goals this year! He had 42 goals in 12 games, he missed 2 games with an injured shoulder. When I watch him in all that he does, I continue to be in awe of the talent that this boy possesses and how humble he remains...

This whole group of lacrosse players just seem to be such great kids. I love to see my kids be so involved in activities at school and really have fun and enjoy these years, what better way to make memories that will last a lifetime?

Tanton on the go at the Sky View vs. Orem State Championship game.

Getting totally slashed! Lucky his trachea is okay!

Tanton poking a shot in during the American Fork game,

......and everyone

cele-

brating

afterwards!

Tanton making

a couple of

shots during the

West Jordan game.

What a FUN, fun season this has been. Too bad Orem came with all of their guns loaded to the championship game on Saturday because our guys really had a shot of going all the way this year. But, all the way or not, I can only speak for myself and I am so proud, I am almost ready to burst. What a super season. Our Sky View team played with spirit, sportsmanship, skill, and pride. There was never a moment that we could have been embarrassed about any kind of action that any of our players did nor did they posess any kind of unsportmanship throughout the entire season... now that is a winning team in my opinion, regardless of the championship game.

Make a Smilebox postcard

Last but not least, I have to give credit for all of my pictures to Marnie, Tanton's other mom, she takes a million pictures at all of the lacrosse games and does an awesome job! Thanks Marnie! :)

No Bathroom Breaks Allowed...

Last Friday Abby was at school playing softball, a girl asked her if she could cover first base so she could go to the bathroom. Abby said she would. Well... while she was covering first base for the girl that went in for her bathroom break she got a ball thrown to her and she did not even see the ball coming. She said that she was talking to another friend (now I cannot even imagine that! :) ) ....Unfortunately, those softballs don't seem to be too soft!
Brad and I were actually in Salt Lake and fortunately a very nice neighbor of ours was at the school at the time. She called us and totally took care Abby for us (Thanks Colleen!). She took Abby over to her sister, Krista's house... Thanks Krista! Where Abby stayed for about 2 hours until we could get home.

Once we got Abby home and could clean her up and look at everything, Brad could see that it definitely needed stitches. It was pretty deep as you can see from the picture above. She ended up getting 3 stitches inside and 7 stitches outside. Abby was so brave, she did not cry one time from the time that she got hit with the softball through getting the stitches!

Dad at work...

All put together beautifully. We are actually very lucky that the ball did not hit her in the eye, or hit her temple or do any worse damage. It could have broken her orbital bone that surrounds her eye... but nonetheless it is a pretty bad injury, we are just grateful that it wasn't any worse.

After she got all fixed up Abby got in the shower and went to a birthday party for a couple of hours.

That night Colleen called me to tell me how impressed she was with how well Abby handled herself after the injury at school. Facial injuries bleed A LOT and Abby fell to the ground after she was hit. With all of the blood etc. and not being able to really see what was going on, all of the kids at school were surrounding her wondering what was going on, it was pretty dramatic and Colleen said Abby was very brave and very mature about the whole thing.

Unfortunately, the next morning her eye had swollen shut and it took half way through the day for the swelling to go down. Throughout the weekend the swelling kept going down and her eye is starting to heal up. But what a brave little sport my girl has been through all of this. She even said that when she went to school on Monday some of the kids made fun of her. Kids can be so mean! Her eye is looking much better and should heal up to be just fine. Thank heavens!