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If you guessed that this is Ozzy's knee and it WAY to big to be on a 13 year old - You're right!
It's offical, he's got the Burch Family "Kneasles". We spent a few hours at Insta Care after he injured his knee while playing in the last game of the season on Saturday. We have to go see an orthopaedic specialist next week. (P.S. For a good laugh, you need to ask Becky what Ethan said when we sent her a picture of his knee while we were still at the doc's.)
He's in alot of pain, thank goodness for pain pills!
Before pain pills....

After pain pills...

Strawberry Jam Anyone?

You know summer is just around the corner when you can get good strawberries and put them to good use. Mel forced me to make a couple of batchs of Strawberry jam. Wish you were here - we would share!

Happy Easter!!!

Happy Easter everyone!! We had a nice, QUIET Easter though the boys didn't get out of coloring Easter Eggs. I think Josh might have even smiled a bit! We went to the Easter Car Show on Saturday and a movie that afternoon. Mel made a very nice ham dinner on Sunday and it was a BEAUTIFUL day in Southern Utah.

Pineview Border League 2009

Automotive Contest 1st Place Winner

Here he is - the 1st Place winner of the Dixie State College Automotive Contest. And NO - his dad did NOT help him.
Josh participated in the annual contest held at the college this spring. All of the local high schools were invited and brought their best automotive students. They went through several "stations" some of which were: brakes, heating & cooling, steering & suspension, transmissions, tool recognition and more. He also had to take a written exam. He got the top score out of all the students. (He was outscored only by an instructor that participated for fun - and it wasn't by far!). His prize - a tuition wavier to Dixie State College! Though he was ineligible because his dad works for the college he still got to choose from some pretty cool tools. WAY TO GO JOSH!!! (and you though he was just a pretty face-hehe!!)

Spring Break 2009

We have had a great Spring Break this year. The boys have been out of school all week and have had lots to do. Josh went on a road trip with a few of his friends to Toole and then to Delta Utah. They took their motorcycles and went riding first on the race track at Toole and then drove to Delta to camp and ride there. They "camped out" - which consisted of sleeping in the vehicle and eating a whole package of hotdogs between the four of them. (No ketchup, mustard or paperplates involved.) Guess they got those great "camping skills" through all of their Scouting adventures...

Austin wasn't going to be out done though. Him and friends, Jack and Steve, went on their first solo motorcycle ride. They went out to Fort Pearce and rode as long as they wanted. Mom - being the Nervous Nellie that she is - followed them out and made sure they got out there OK. Then it was up to them to get themselves home. They did and had a blast.

We also had Justin, Jesse and their cute baby girl Addyson down for the weekend. We were able to spend a couple days in Vegas with them and then Mel and I were on for babysitting duty while Justin & Jesse stayed another day in Vegas siteseeing. We had sooo much fun with Addyson. These are a few pics of Addyson playing in the water. (Why is it so much fun to watch somebodyelse's kids make messes?!?!)

Border League

After two rounds of try-outs, Austin was fortunate enough to end up on the roster for the Border League team. He is really excited to play in this league even if it means getting up at 5:00AM to be at practice at 5:45AM. He is about halfway through the season and since is buddy Jack, who is also on his team, has been out of town Austin has had the opportunity to play point guard. He was pretty nervous about remembering plays, but has done really well.