Sooo Funny!!

So Monday night I did a FHE lesson on having order in the home. I talked about how parents and kids have certain responsibilities. So one of the responsibilities that I talked about was that the parents need to be a good example to the kids.
So I come home from work yesterday and Shane tells me about a conversation that he had with Dylan. I can't even remember what they were doing, but Shane swore...DAMN. Dylan turns to him and tells him that he needs to be a better example to him. I thought that was the funniest thing. I just love how honest kids are. :)

Dylan & Dallas -- Football 2009

DALLAS - #34

Dallas has been loving football this year. He is one of the receivers for the team. He made an awesome catch in one of the games...brings tears to my eyes that my boys are this old. :) Dallas has been very dedicated to football this year and never complaining about the practices or the running. He is a great kid!!

DALLAS & DYLAN

after the Juan Diego game

DYLAN - #44
Dylan has also been loving football. Although, he is the one that complains about having to run at practice. I think I would too. He has been working very hard this year. He has been playing Defensive End on starting Defense. He has been doing awesome. In the last game, he had many awesome tackles. He did such a great job that they named him Dominator of the game. So he gets to wear that jersey to practice for the next week. He came home yesterday so excited because they are putting him in as Tight End on the Offense.

#44 on the end

Having twins playing on the same team can be a bit of a struggle with competition. Dylan is a lot more aggressive than Dallas and gets a lot more playing time. It doesn't seem to affect Dallas and he is very happy for his brother. But it can be very hard as a parent to make sure that you are congratulating both. It made me sad when at the end of the last game, one of their team mates came up to Dallas and said, "Good job Rodabough!" Well Dallas knew that he meant to do that to Dylan and said, "It's not me...I'm Dallas." Dallas takes it like a champ. It doesn't seem to bother him. But I know that if the tables were turned and Dallas was playing more than Dylan....Dylan would have a hard time with it. They have totally different personalities...so crazy..but they are the greatest boys!!

I have been a bad blogger lately...so here is catch up!

Tyler - Football 2009

TYLER - #32

This was Tyler's first year of playing tackle football. He realized it was a much bigger commitment than flag football where there were no practices. We were trying to decide what team to put him on. He is in 3rd grade but should be in 2nd. So did he want to play with his friends that would be twice his size or did he want to play with his age and not know anyone. Well he chose to play for the 3rd grade team. He struggled because a lot of the kids had already played for at least one other year. So getting used to the many, many practices was hard for him. But he has been having a lot of fun. He is usually going up against kids twice his size but that doesn't scare him. He has no fear.

Tyler - blocking

Tyler getting ready for a kick return


Tyler playing on the line - #32

Tyler lining up

in a huddle

Pumpkin carving and Cookie decorating

Last night the boys carved pumpkins and I made cookies for them to frost and decorate. Lots of fun!!

Tyler

Dallas

Dylan

Dylan, Tyler, Dallas with their pumpkins



Dylan carving with Dallas being silly.

Tyler getting ready to carve

Dallas done carving

Back to School 2009

Tyler, Dylan, & Dallas at school

Dylan, Tyler, Dallas -- getting ready to leave for 1st day of school

Dylan

Tyler

Dallas

7-Peaks

Took the boys to 7-Peaks before school started

Lake Powell 2009

I didn't take a lot of pictures this year...seemed to do more video taping of the wakeboarding instead. Normally Dallas is the only one to really love wakeboarding and this year both Dylan and Tyler got into it. Both Dylan and Dallas are jumping the wake now. We told them that if they are able to jump it and land it, then we would buy them another gerbil....well we have added 2 girl gerbils to our family. Tyler did really well too...it was so fun to watch them progress and love it!!

Dylan jumping the wake

Tyler

Dylan with his fish

Marysvale 2009

Some pics of our trips to Marysvale a few weeks ago. We four-wheeled, hiked, relaxed, and ate some good dutch oven food. It is nice to get away from reality for awhile.

still has snow -- the boys had fun playing in it for awhile..

an old cabin

Dylan & Dallas's Friend Party

Dylan & Dallas requested the exciting candy bar game. They could have played that for hours, except for the kids who had 4 candy bars and wanted the game to end right then before someone could steal any from them.

They played some Red Rover.
The newspaper game.....


Cake Time

Present Time

17 Crazy Boys!!

Dylan & Dallas's 10th Birthday - Family Party

We had Dylan and Dallas's family Birthday party on Sunday. We gave them their PowerWings and we had given them their new baseball helmets last week so that they could wear them before their baseball season ended.

They chose to have dutch oven peach cobbler for their dessert instead of cake.

Dallas

Dylan's helmet had a skull and bat cross-bones with his name in flames.

Dallas's helmet said FEAR THIS with blue lightning and his name on the back.

Dylan

Dallas and his craziness

Dylan