BYU Baseball has started practicing again, which is hopefully a good sign that the season will go on this year.
Every year they come to St George for a weekend scrimmage. It's always fun to go watch.
Gentry enjoying the game in style.
Gentry has been wanting a herb garden so bad...she's so funny. She was sooo excited to finally bring one home and get it started.
Hallee called and asked Gentry if she wanted to go get something to eat. Normally she just honks, but today she knocked on the door. When Bo answered, Hallee was there with a rose. Haha!
Almost a year into covid...this is so sad.
Disneyland has been closed for 10 months.
Loved this...yep!
Oh, what a month it has been at work. Due to how crazy and stressful it has been, our bosses got all of office gals flowers. It was sweet. After a intense month of meetings, discussions, and going back on forth deciding whether or not to let Vicki go, it finally become apparent. We let her go the same week that we had also hired a new secretary so now being down one in the office we all had to band together and train not one but two new secretaries. It has been a long, exhausting couple of weeks as we have all worked extra hours trying to train and still keep up on our own responsibilities. I think we're finally starting to see the end of the rainbow and hopefully things we go up from here.
I LOVE this view. Walking around the house on Sunday mornings seeing everyone in their own rooms on their own devices involved in their own classes. This was Adam attending young mens. :)
Austin did an interview for The Salt Lake Tribune. It was such a sweet tribute to his mom.
BYU third baseman Austin Deming is familiar with the unexpected, and ready for what’s next as 2021 season begins
Deming was 12 when his mother was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer.
(Tyler Richardson | BYU Athletics) Austin Deming gets in position to make a play against Saint Mary's, March 30, 2019.
Through the best and the worst times, baseball has always been there for BYU third baseman Austin Deming. And luckily for the junior, the 2021 season is just around the corner.
The last year has been a rollercoaster of a year, having the 2020 season canceled after 16 games. While Deming is all too aware that baseball is just a game, he’s appreciated having something to look forward to and to serve as a sort of distraction.
The first time Deming really relied on baseball to help him get through a tough period was in middle school. Deming was 12 when his mother was diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer. After a year of chemo and radiation, Mindy Deming beat her initial diagnosis, but the cancer moved to her brain. The mother of four then faced a Stage 4 brain cancer diagnosis and underwent another year of chemo and radiation.
Through his mother’s cancer journey, Deming never feared he’d lose her. It wasn’t until he was taking his younger twin brother and sister on a tour of his old middle school that he realized the severity of his mom’s diagnosis.
“I ran into an old teacher — this would have been my freshman year of high school or sophomore year,” Deming said. “And she was like ‘your mom’s a lucky lady. She’s a miracle — she shouldn’t even be here.’ And I was like ‘oh, wow.’ That was one of the first times it really hit me and I realized. It took two years to really realize the significance of it.”
Because Deming and his siblings were young, Mindy and Eron tried to protect their children from worrying or getting too scared about the situation. However, there were still noticeable changes in the Deming household.
Eron made sure to drive his wife to all of her appointments, which resulted in Deming and his siblings carpooling with classmates and teammates.
“I kind of had to mature pretty quick,” Deming said. “My dad was always there for us; he was good, very helpful … but also it was chaos. You have three younger siblings, mom’s out for two years, so I had to kind of take care of them.”
However, even though Deming took on more responsibility with his younger siblings around the house, his parents made sure their oldest child didn’t miss out on his passion: baseball.
Through his mom’s two-year cancer journey, Deming continued playing with his travel team. The team coach and players rallied around Deming, wearing pink jerseys those two seasons and offering endless support.
Looking back, Deming wouldn’t change anything in regards to how he was forced to mature early and take care of his siblings, but is surprised his parents insisted he keep playing baseball.
“But my dad always tells me how much that pushed my mom, because she loved watching us play so much,” Deming said. “... My dad says that pushed her a lot to want to beat it.”
And Mindy did beat it. The 47-year-old has been in remission for eight years.
What Deming was also able to learn throughout those two years was how to roll with the punches — something that’s been needed even more recently.
The junior third baseman has seen how other BYU teams have managed to have successful seasons through the pandemic, but they’ve still had to endure cancelations, postponements, last-minute additions and more just to have the chance to play.
The team, which opens its 2021 campaign Saturday at Texas State, is hoping for a normal season, but staff is also making sure to let their players know anything could change at any time.
“Another thing I’ve taken away is definitely don’t take anything for granted,” Deming said. “If we go out and we’re able to play, just know we could not play tomorrow. That’s what I learned last year with the season getting canceled. Kind of just trying to have the normal mindset and, if something does happen, hopefully you can push through it.”
Opening day of college baseball. I love that we can watch the ESPN app on our TV when we watch the games.
Poster Child
Gentry got a "color by numbers" poster. It's huge and she works on it almost daily. Can't wait until it is finished. She is very much into the arts.
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