Soccer- Fall 2010

Today was BOTH boys first soccer game of the season. We were so excited because Dylan is old enough to play this year.

He couldn't wait to play soccer. We were talking about it all week. On Friday, we were watching a movie where a boy was playing soccer. The boy was holding the soccer ball. Dylan turned to me and said," Doesn't that kid know YOU CANT TOUCH THE BALL WITH YOUR HANDS???" He was already thinking like a soccer player. ha!

His team doesn't have a name yet. Brooks told Dylan to tell them to make their name be Blue Lightening since that was his team name his first year.

Dylan did GREAT!  He was excited to have his buddy Andon on his team.

Dylan even made a goal! He was so cute cuz every time he did something good, he would give me a thumbs up. He even had a cheerleader to cheer him on.

Team colors and all, Ryann came to represent her big brother Dylan's team.

Dylan did so awesome for his first game. I think it really helped to have his brother, Brooks, to watch for a couple of years play soccer before he played. Dylan knew what he was suppose to do and had a smile on his face the whole time. We are proud of you buddy!

This is Brooks third year of playing soccer. His team is the Brown Dragons and his coach is one of our good friends, Greg Blue.

He was excited to have  his friend Bryson on his team. We  listened to loud music in the car to get him pumped up for the game. ( this is a tradition that Jake has taught him. :)  )  Brooks and Dylan's games are crazy this year because they are either at the same time or right after each other so one of us has to leave early to get them there on time.

Brooks did great. He made a goal! HIs team is really good! The coach said it was because of his MAD coaching skills, but I think the kids are just plain awesome.

Brooks was super tough this game. He got kicked in the face and kicked a few other places and I about ran out on the field, but I held it together... just barely.  Alright, Jake held me back.

Brooks also had a little cheerleader cheering him on too. And yes, I changed her cheerleading outfit in the car right after we left Dylan's game. Ryann has to represent BOTH of her big brothers. And she did it quite well, if I say so myself. Brooks you are an amazing soccer player and we are so proud of you!

A special thanks to both  Me-mas for coming to both games. We love you!

First day of first grade..."the worst day of my life"

What a handsome guy Brooks is! H e was so excited to start school. He woke up at 6:30am, jumped in the shower, got dressed, and put his shoes on . He was ready for school by 7:00am. He was really excited to wear his Tony Hawk shirt. He is getting really picky about what is "cool." Luckily he has good taste! :)

Brooks is NOT too cool for school!

He picked out a Bakugan backpack and a light up Mario lunch box.

Brooks got to pick out what he wanted for breakfast and he picked out his favorite, cinnamon squares.

Dylan got to wear his new school clothes too. He is starting Mommy pre-school again.

I tried for quite a while to get a good picture of all of them...I failed! THis was the best one. ha!

THey look so much a like in this picture. My handsome boys!

I am so proud of Brooks. He is such a good reader already.

It's so much fun to look at these pictures and see how much Brooks looks like us. Brooks and Jake look so much  alike in this picture.

THis is outside of Mrs. Warburton's class.

Mrs. Warburton

THis was suppose to be such a great day of school for Brooks and turned into a very sad day for Brooks. He went to the cafeteria for lunch and sat by his friends. Someone blew the whistle and all the kids went running. Brooks didn't understand what was going on. So he was confused and somehow got lost. ( I don't quite understand what happened.) By the time he asked someone for help, recess was over. Then, to make things even worse, when school was over, the teacher just let the kids go. THey all went running everywhere and Brooks didn't know where to go to meet me. He was full of tears and had to ask someone for help. I was waiting outside with the kids where the teacher SAID they would be coming out. I knew something was wrong. So I went looking around for him when I finally found him and he was just sobbing. My heart broke! He kept saying to me yesterday that " this was the worst day of his life. I just wanted to go home!"
We went back in the school to talk to his teacher and went over where he is suppose to go after school. He was VERY nervous this morning that he was going to get lost today. He made sure that he said a  few prayers about it. I am just hoping today will be better. I am going to meet him after school so I can go over again where we are suppose to go to meet me.  I love you Brooks and you will do great today!

Outside Movie Night

We invited the neighborhood kids over last night for an  outdoor movie night. We have a projector that we hooked up outside and watched it on our fence. This was our last fun summer activity before school starts. It turned out great! We watched Furry Vengeance and the kids really liked it. What a fun night!

Mason and Addies barnyard bash!

Mason and Addie have to the coolest parties around. They are always SO much fun and BIG! Alexis doesn't mess around! Go big or Go home! ha! They had a barn yard theme. Mason turned 3 and Addie turned 2.

One of the birthday girls- Mason

YES! THEY EVEN HAD PONIES! How cool is that?

Ryann wasn't a fan. ha!

They had fun games.

Dylan was pretty good at the roping game.

The BIG boys liked the horse shoe game.

They had a  little petting zoo.

Look at their cute cake!

WHAT A FUN PARTY!

Half Marathon

My sister Mary and I ran the Farmington half marathon July 10. We  trained for this for 10 weeks.  We ran 3 days in the week and then Saturday. Saturday was our big runs. It started out at 6 miles and went up to 12 miles. When it was my 10 mile run, it was pouring rain and I still ran my 10 miles... in the rain. I don't recommend doing that. NOT FUN AT ALL!  :)   Mary and I wanted to wear matching shirts for the race. I got a text one day from Mary with a picture of a Twilight shirt and said that she found and already bought our marathon shirts. ha ha! This was a joke...right??? No, she was serious. I told Mary that we are going to get some unwanted attention if we wear the shirts. She assured me that no one will notice us. I said okay, and it was a little joke of ours to wear these shirts. As soon as we got to the race to get our numbers and such we were greeted with a, " Hello Twilight girls." I looked at my sister. Then, we went to the bathroom and about 3 girls commented on our shirts. While running our race, there were people yelling out," GO TEAM JACOB!" MARY, I WILL BE PICKING OUT THE SHIRTS NEXT TIME! It was actually really funny!

The night before the race Jake and I drove the 13 miles where we were suppose to run. It was a little discouraging since a lot of it was up hill. And not a lot of shady areas. I trained on the track at  Ellison Park which is all flat, so I was scared. But Mary and I encouraged each other the whole way and we made it. I ran the half marathon in 2 hours 19 minutes 22 seconds.

THis was one of the hardest things I have ever done. But it was such a great feeling knowing that I accomplished something. I worked toward it, and completed it. It was awesome!

It was nice to have the support of my parents, husband, kids, Gary, and my nephew Hunter. My kids even made us posters that they held up as we crossed the finish line.

Dylan's sign ( says Go Mom with lots of hearts)

Brook's sign ( says Go Mom. You are the best.)

The sign Brooks and Dylan made for Mary. It says, Go Mary! Woot!

We got a shirt and a cool medal.

It was really cool because they had physical therapists there to stretch us out. I think it really helped me from being so sore the next day.

Ryann with a cow bell. When Mary ran another  Half Marathon in Idaho, the big thing was to bring a cow bell and ring it when you are crossing the finish line. But they found out it was definitely an Idaho thing. ha ha! There were no other cow bell  in Farmington. ha!

Hunter and Dylan

Jake and Ryann

Mary and I had so much fun running the half marathon in Farmington. It was such a cool experience to run it with my little sis. Love you Mary. And I love all of the people that came and supported us both. Thanks to Jake for supporting me going on ALL of my runs to train for this.  Love you guys!!!

Ryann's ONe Year Princess Birthday Party

Okay, I know this post and the rest that I have to do are super late but I WILL catch up one of these days. This was Ryann's cute invite I made for her. It's a tradition in our family now that our kids first birthday ,we have a BBQ . So that is what we did. Ryann had been on and off sick for about a month so she was still a little out of it for her party. But she started to warm up toward the end.

Ryann's princess cupcakes.

Family

Ryann loves to swing.

Present time

Ryann is playing peekaboo with the tissue paper.

Ryann's presents

Waiting for her cake

I was a little worried with Ryann and how she was going to go about eating her cake. I have trained my kids to NOT like getting messy. Both boys put their finger in their one year birthday cake and cried for me to wash their hands...I know, I am brain washing them. And after watching my nephew Hunter at his birthday party get down and dirty with his birthday cake, I was nervous. Ryann had fun with her cake. She didn't get too dirty. But she IS my daughter and we LIKE some cake!

Then, it was time for our traditional SUPER BITE by Matt Hicks.

Cute Ryann looking up at her Daddy.


We love Ryann so much and she has brought so much joy into our life. I have my little girl now! :)