The Seven of Us

Add caption Kenna's softball team rocked this summer!   Although they weren't flashy, they were solid.  Actually, Kenna was a little flashy in one of her tournament games. She hit a grand slam!  And her team was solid enough to win the league title, defeating both Yuma and Ogallala twice.  They were wilted warriors, since they played their tourney during the hottest week of the summer.  I guess the 108* weather just energized them! 

Corbin turned five on November 7.  In some ways five years is a long time:  Time enough to wake up with a restless baby upwards of  three times per night for more than 600 nights; time enough to buy endless diapers & wipes, time enough to listen to a baby scream during every single car trip for an entire year.  In other ways, five years isn't quite enough time:  Not enough time to keep a child close; to teach the gospel; to hear a genuine child's laugh; to foster a sense of self strong enough to weather the world for another ninety years.  It's not enough time to sit close and read together, to watch a child form first letters and numbers, or to listen to a gazillion sincere questions asked with a child's innocence and excitement.    Five years is too many years to capture with the written word.   We celebrated his birthday two or three ways:  At home, where he (hurriedly) opened a few books and a dart...