Melissa Basua

Today was award day at Nik and Zoe’s school. Each child in the whole school gets a medallion in the category that best fits that child. Zoe got the friendship award. Mrs. Bird said that Zoe is well liked and a friend to everyone. She also said that Zoe was nice to everyone. What a …

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Ammon is a big boy now. He graduated from preschool this week. He got a cap and a diploma. I even had a parent-teacher conference with Miss Kara. She told me how popular Ammon is in school. She said the other kids actually fight to sit next to him! They have to take turns sitting …

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It’s my Scooby-Doo’s 10th birthday. Well actually, it was yesterday- the 15th. My little boy is becoming a little man. Before we know it, Nik will be bigger than all of us. I love you son. You make me proud to be your daddy. Hope you had a great birthday!

Since Nik and I are involved with the local youth baseball league here in Spanish Fork, I decided to create a separate blog for the team I am coaching. We are the Blue Jays. We had our first game on Wednesday and won 12-9. Nik did really well… but if you want to know the …

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I think every family has one. The one child that always gets blamed for all the bad things that happen. In my family it is the third oldest, Jason. If something was missing, Jason took it. If something was broken, Jason broke it. If something was not put away, Jason did it. If anything happened, …

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Nikolas had his first game yesterday, a practice game, but a game nonetheless. He is on the Blue Jays. He looked so sharp in his uniform. He started at first base, moved to catcher and finished by pitching. He got walked on his only at bat. He had a good game. The score was 2-0 …

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Today Britain and Kalixta had their first ever dentist appointment. Ammon went too for his normal check up. They all received cute letters from the dentist, telling them what was going to happen. They were excited to go and ride in the fancy chair that goes up and down. We get there and it is …

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A little late I know, hope everyones Easter was great. We had a wonderful weekend. Saturday we had our usual BBQ with egg hunt and confetti eggs. Some of my family was here along with two families from the ward. The weather was perfect for a BBQ.  Adam made his delicous carne asada. Click here …

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This past weekend was great. Mostly because of General Conference. Even better was when my buddy called me because he had two tickets to attend the Priesthood session on Saturday night.. The seats belonged to an Area Authority so they were about 30 rows back from the podium on the floor. I could see the …

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Ammon started crying down stairs (not too unusual) so I went to see what had happened. He told me that Britain had hit him (again not too unusual) in his eye. So I called Britain upstairs to talk to her. Me: "Britain did you hit Ammon in his eye?" Britt: "No!" Me: "Where did you …

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