May in a Nutshell

May brought to an end my preschool. We had a great year. Abby is my girl in yellow, my neice Ana is the other girl and my nephew Benson is the one in the black shirt. It was fun seeing them twice a week. We made a lot of memories.

At our elementary, it's tradition to have a great big field day at the end of the school year where the kids compete in running and jumping events. Ty made it to the finals in the jumping contest and he tied for 1st place with 3 other boys.

This is Ty pitching his first game ever. He has only played one year baseball and then this year. He kept asking the coach if he could pitch and finally at one of the games Ty walks out on the pitchers mound. I told Tucker "oh, Ty is just going to pitch a few balls until the pitcher comes out on the mound." Well, no other pitcher came because the coach told Ty he could pitch. He did pretty good for never having pitched before and I must say I was pretty nervous.

Another baseball story this month about Ty was that when he'd get in a game and up to bat he'd just stand there and either strike out or walk. Well, at home and at the pitching machine we'd see a different Ty--he could hit the ball. So finally I told Ty if he'd just get one hit I'd give him $5. It only took him one game and he got a hit. Then at the next game he got 2 homeruns. Bribery works at the Hancock home!

A week ago Jaimee ran in conference track. I have never been so nervous in all my life. Preliminaries were on a Thursday and she had to place 1st in her heat or get one of the next best 4 times to make it to the finals. After so much work on the hurdles, staying late after practice, icing her shins every night sometimes twice a night, wrapping her legs everyday, having the coaches rub her shins until they bruised, and taking as much Ibuprofen as I'd let her, her hard work paid off. She placed 1st and made it to finals the next day.

Below is the "finals" in the 100 hurdles. Amazingly, 4 out of the 8 girls that made it to finals were from Rigby. She places 2nd right behind one of her teammates. It was an awesome race!!!! Jaimee is in lane 3.

She also made it to finals in the 100 and ends up placing 6th overall in that race. Her medley got 4th and her 4x100 relay got 7th (Jaimee and another girl had a terrible hand-off--the baton flies up in the air and Jaimee catches it between her arm and her side and then takes off running. Her coach said she was ready for the Olympics because in the Olympics they throw it in the air, but they don't catch the baton like she did).

Eliza Shippen, Jaimee, Cienna Madsen, Hailey Stone and Brittany Hayes. All of them except Brittany ran in her 4X100 relay.

This is our shy little Kylee running in the 50 meter dash at the schools field day. She surprised us all and got 1st in the finals. She was so excited!!! She's the cute one in orange.