Plain Old Kentucky Boy

Coltin was given an assignment by his English teacher to write a letter to her telling a little about himself. He handed me the letter tonight and asked me if it sounded ok. Well, it was a very sweet letter that made me proud and brought tears to my eyes as well!

Dear Mrs. Roller,

Hey! I am going to start off by saying I'm really going to enjoy English this year. One of my goals for this class, is to earn all A's for the year. My name is Coltin Yantz, and this is going to be a wonderful year!

I love to play basketball. I happen to play for East. I have 1 brother and 2 sisters. My little brother Nolan, loves to mess around. He can be annoying sometimes, but mostly he is fun to play with. Nolan plays baseball. He is really good. My younger sister Kami, is very lovable. She plays soccer for a club called Commonwealth Soccer Club. She is AMAZING! My older sister Peighton, is everything you could ask for in a big sister. We do everything together! She plays soccer also. She plays for East High Varsity team. She is currently going head to head with another girl for the spot as starting goalie. Between you and me, she is going to get it. Now my parents couldn't get any better. They are 2 loving and caring parents. My dad Tim, is a nurse manager and my mom, Mariah, is a substitute teacher.

Now I hope you have learned a little about me. All I am, is a plain old Kentucky boy!!

Sincerely,

Coltin Yantz

Backtracking and trying to catch up!

I have not been the best blogger/journalist for the last couple of months or so. I think that I am so overwhelmed from all the activites and pictures that I just don't know where to start. So I have decided to just backtrack a couple months and just dive in with hopes to catch up. There is no rhyme or reason to the order of the pictures, but at least I will have them in my "journal"!

Kami definitely has learned the game of soccer from her big sis! She has some mad soccer skills at such an early age. Here she was playing in the Bluegrass State games. If you look closely at this picture you can see that she left a boy on the ground in her determination to get the ball down the field! She is not intimidated in the least! Her team went undefeated!!

Nolan swings the bat around as he patiently hangs out for yet another one of his siblings sporting events!

Nolan's Yankee t-ball team celebrated the end of the season with bowling party! I can't believe he will play coach pitch next season!!
Coltin's Astros team won the season tournament! Coltin also hit his 1st out of the park home run this season. He also hit another one during the tournament!

Coltin received his awards and Nolan had to be in the pic as well!

Kami has Grommie hooked on the Nintendo mini games now!!

The kids like to help Poppa work on his boat in anticipation that he will take them fishing!! and he has!!

Kami has been really busy playing 3v3 soccer all summer. This picture is after she played 5 games in about 4 hours and her team won the silver medal!! Then we hurried back to Nicholasville to watch Coltin's baseball team win the season tournament!!

These goofy bald guys waited patiently while the girls met their teachers for the next year.

This was Mr. Moore. Kami's 3rd grade teacher. She LOVED him and learned a LOT from this special man! Her bf Peyton also LOVED him!

We had a quick but great visit with our long lost Atlanta cousins. They stopped in on their way to Chicago for a hockey camp.