Spring Soccer

 The girls went undefeated this soccer season.  They were so excited.  They played really well, and had so much fun being on a team with friends.  Shaylee, and Addison both scored goals this season.  Addison was really excited since she was 2-3 years younger then all of them.  She has so much confidence, and I hope she never loses that.  Addison is great at any position she is in, but she excels at defense.  Even if she is on offense I'll find her running back to help out the defense.  She loves to take the ball from other people, and is quite good at it too.  She is very persistent.  Shaylee love playing mid-and forward, and I think that is her best position too.  She has great ball control, and loves the game so much.

Brecken's 2!!!

Brecken had his birthday on May 9th.  It was on a Saturday this year, and we had soccer games all day.  To say Brecken loves Balloons would be an understatement, so we blew up a bunch and put them in his room when he was asleep.  We woke up to yelling Balloons over and over. We then went downstairs and opened presents.  He was so excited to open gifts, and have us sing to him.  He was in heaven when we wheeled out a scooter, and tied to it a bunch of balloons.  He was definitely more excited for the balloons.  For breakfast we had a donut and chocolate milk.  He loved it and was so excited the whole morning.  We then headed out to the girls soccer game.  It was so cold, the weather was rainy and windy and 46 so we all froze.  Finally grandma took all the little kids to the car and we watched the rest of the games.  The girls won and both girls scored goals so we were excited.  We had family down since it was mothers day weekend so aunt Stephanie was able to come and watch.  After soccer we all headed to St. George to meet up with Devin, Lisa, and Tynlee at the pizza factory.  We had Matt and Marci's kids there as well.  Grandma Eves was watching them for the week.  So the kids were in heaven eating lunch with all the cousins.  During lunch Addison started getting sick, and she was burning up.  We had to get to Preston's game so we made her sit in the car and lay down.  After the game we headed home since Addison was so sick.  That night my sister Lisa had a gender reveal party.  We all thought it was a boy, and come to find out we get to have another cute niece join our family.  While we were there we borrowed one of Lisa's cupcakes and sang to Brecken.  He loved the candles, and cried when we took them out.  He went in for his 2 year old check up and he is a whopping 23 lbs.  he was 36"  he was 4% in weight, and 87% in height.  He is tall and skinny.  He sleeps really well.  Hates most food.  Really picky eater it's awful.  He also doesn't talk that much.  He loves being outside and playing in the water.  His favorite things are bubbles, and balloons.  He loves his mom and is attached at the hip.  He does like going to nursery now as long as his favorite teacher is there.  He also loves the park.  He doesn't care to ride his little bike or scooter he would rather walk or run.  He loves to jump on the tramp, and loves when we are all on it together.  He knows his shapes, and colors.  Mostly.  A lot of times he will show me the wrong one when I ask he to show me a certain thing.  He thinks it's funny when I tell him No.  He has the best hugs, and loves to play with his older bother, and sisters.  He loves Applesauce, but only the kind that squeezes out of the pouch.  He is great and loves showers, anytime one is on he runs to the room and tries to undress to get in.  He also loves the popcorn song.  He knows all the actions, and loves to sing, and music to dance too.   We sure to love this little guy.  Happy 2nd Birthday Brecken.

Spring Fling

 We went to our annual School Spring Fling.  Its like a carnival to raise money for our school.  The kids love it.  We had a great time this year.  They kids are getting old enough…they head off with their friends and we hardly see them for the rest of the night.  I did get a few pictures of them, and they seemed to be having a great time. Preston spent most of his time at the dunk tank.  He loved it.  Shaylee and Addison wanted their face painted so I stood in the long line for them while they weren't around to different booths. Breck enjoyed the bounce houses. Our school does a raffle for baskets full of different things.  You can buy tickets and put them toward a basket you want to win  if they pull your ticket you win the basket.  This is actually where they earn most of there money.  The kids go crazy over these baskets.  They had lagoon tickets and even Disneyland tickets this year.  I let the kids each put a 1$ worth of tickets in whichever basket they wanted.  there was 101 baskets this year.  We were walking to our car when we heard Addison's name chosen as a winner of one of the baskets.  She won 4 free swim passes to the hurricane pool, and squirt guns, a sprinkler toy, bubbles, and a bunch of outside water toys.  They were so excited.  I guess all that prepping that they weren't going to win because their chances weren't great, and it's a waste of money…really sent the message home.  ;)  I really think every time I give that talk we end up winning something.  I think I need to give them this lesson in Vegas. ;)

Activity days!!

I get the opportunity to be in a calling where my girls are.  I am an activity days leader.  I love it.  My favorite calling.  A couple weeks ago we had a stake activity "Cruising to the Temple".  I got to go with my girls, and about 30 others girls in our ward for a Friday afternoon of fun.  It was so fun to be with my girls, and learn about way to get us to the Temple.  We all had fun, and enjoyed our time together.  I didn't get to be with them the whole time, I had 30 other girls and they mixed the wards all up, but I did manage to be with them for a few classes.  I sure do love my girls and the beautiful young women they are turning into.

Soccer, Soccer, and more Soccer

We have been doing soccer since the first week in March.  The kids are awesome at it, and love it so much.  I put Addison up with Shaylee this spring season for 2 reason's…1st last season Addison dominated the little 1st graders, and even the 2nd graders, and 2nd reason, I didn't want to have 3 games again.  So Addison and Shaylee were on the 3-4 grade teams.  Shaylee is in 3rd grade, and Addison being in 2nd they were some of the youngest on the teams.  That didn't stop them though.  Shaylee has great ball skills and pretty much takes it down the entire field by herself.  She loves dribbling.  Addison thank goodness has great confidence out on the field.  Some kids might be scared of kids 2-3 years older then them, but not Addison.  She is the first one to the ball to take it away from people.  People are surprised that she is so young because she does so well, if not better then the girls in that age group.  We are undefeated so far going into the last 2 games.  Preston has had a great year as well.  He has been playing middle mid field half way through the year.  He has great ball skills, and sees the field so well, and where the ball needs to go.  So that has been a great position for him.  He even has had a couple goals as well.  Which is great,  He's usually the play setter he has such a great eye for the field that he pretty much assists with every goal.  My kids love the game which makes me happy since Dean and I love it and played growing up.  Only 2 games left then we have a jam packed summer full of soccer camps, basketball camps, golf camps, swim team, Summer games, College Soccer camps, Soccer tournaments, and hopefully a family vacation in there somewhere.  Cant wait!!!