Boys Will Be Boys

Here is a group photo from the last soccer game of the season. It's cool to see the kids go from a bunch of boys who knew a couple of kids to a team that looks forward to seeing each other each week. The Hubby was the coach again for the boy's team. It seems that the same amount of patience is needed each year even though they are one year older!

The Boy loves the group aspect of soccer. He is a natural pack animal.

He appeared to be counting the number of players on the field while he was in the goal. It gets kind of boring over there when your team mates are doing a great job of keeping the ball down field.

Now it appears that the ball is getting closer. He stopped a lot of goals during this game.

I love this photo because it is not my kid out there break dancing. Sometimes I focus so much on whether my kid is paying attention so it is good to see that it happens with other kids. I am sure that his parents are sitting on the sideline thinking, "Why does my kid have to be the only one on the field goofing off?" My advice to new sport parents is to look around when you think this and I am sure that you will see other plane/cloud watchers, dirt diggers and paper/rock/scissor players out there.

They eat up the parent praise!

Blah, I mean Ho Ho Ho

I hate Blogger, I was suppose to be posting about the Boy's last soccer game, but alas I keep getting this stupid Bad Request page when I try to upload photos. So, here is my first pass at round 1 of Christmas Cookie baking - what do you think?

Festively decorated sugar cookies
Snicker doodles
Peanut butter cookies with a Hershey Kiss
Magic Bars/7-layer
Chocolate Chip
and some sort of mint cookie.

What is on your baking list? My hubby will have to answer because I am convinced that he is the only person (aside from Julie and Puna) that read this Blog (: Of course his brother is making bacon chocolate chip cookies for his work cookie exchange so we may not want to hear from that side.

Amazon

I look at these pictures from Grand Parent's Day at the Pre-School and all I can think of is "Man my daughter is an amazon!" Her Uncle and Cousin on the husband's side are really really tall and I think she may have dipped into this gene pool. Tall girls are cool, right??? I always complain when I try on pants that they are too long and I could be at my current weight if I was like 4 or 5 inches taller - no problem. I mean, who cares if she towers over the boys at the middle school dance? She could get a volleyball or a basketball scholarship but too bad she wants to be a jockey or something else horse related.

They made ice cream which is the yearly tradition for Grand Parent's Day at the school. I tried this once with our friends who came over for dinner with their son when we first reconnected. It wasn't a pretty scene. It seemed like such a cool idea in theory, but in reality we wound up with cream all over the kitchen and the adults were tossing ice cold bags back and forth in their hands with ski gloves on. It was a true mess. I can't believe that they ever came back. It was quite frightening. So, if you come for dinner and want ice cream you may want to bring a pair of ski gloves and an apron.

Fall Festival

This pose reminds me of the Titanic - I'm the king of the world!

I think we had more fun in the store than we did in the Fall Fest area.

I even hate fake snakes

The kids were so scared of Grand mom in this mask that she had to convince them to pose with her.

The saying above the door reminds me of my Father-In-Law.

This is cool, but boy is it bumpy!

Too bad the fittings weren't tighter, I wonder if I could get one of these as the time out chair !

I hate corn mazes about as much as I hate snakes. I have no sense of directions and the kids like to plow through the rows of corn.

Can you find the missing child?

So sweet when she wants to be!

I can never get both smiling at the same time.

So, we headed to the girl's pumpkin patch field trip to find out that it was canceled when we got there. We made a 4 plus hour round trip to wind up at the Garden Center 5 miles from the house!

Upwards - The Journey Begins

We have been pretty busy with soccer this past season. Both the hubby and I are coaching. I am coaching the 4 year olds and he has the second grade boys. I think they both have their own rewards and challenges. The kids love all of the attention especially when they get to run through the Blast Off Tunnel before the game.

They have learned sportsmanship, but like all 4 year olds, they really like to win and score goals.

They have also made friends and it has been pretty cool seeing them come together as a team and for some to come out of their shells.

This is my nephew and he is on my team. A favorite position on the field is grass picker. Don't get me wrong, he has had is share of goals both against us and for us (:

Aren't they so cute!

They are just learning the rules of the game. Here they all stand eagerly waiting to see if the ball will slowly make it's way into the goal.

They have all become a lot more confident.

Here's Bella, she scored 6 goals in one game. Of course, she has scored 6 goals in total all season, but whose counting (: Tonight is our last practice and our last game in on Saturday. The season of being hoarse on Sundays is just about over. I spend most of my time calling their names to bring their attention back to reality, but hey they are 4.

Boo!

I should be cleaning and getting ready for soccer, but here I sit. This was our most recent trip to the pumpkin patch. I think we had more fun in the store of the garden center after we got back from the hayride. Grandma' is in the mask and the kids were all freaked out.

A Very Dangerous Game

So my Sister-In-Law pictured above flying through the air encouraged everyone to come out and join the new county Adult Kickball League. We thought the injury waiver was pretty funny, I mean it's kickball right! Here she is flying through the air which was in the game before she fell running to first base and banged up her leg.

This is my Brother - doesn't he look so happy - stay tuned.

This is my Brother falling on his head.

This is my Husband running over my Brother causing him to still have a stiff neck weeks later!

This is Larry, he is a determined military guy. In a subsequent game he fell running to first base and broke his clavicle. He stayed in the game and caught 3 balls before he went to Urgent Care who has seen many Kickball injuries over the last few weeks.

This is Larry's wife being silly. I think this might be where she pulled her quad which may have led to her tearing her quad while maneuvering a diaper change.

This is the Husband, God please keep him safe during the last 2 games!
Anyone want to play next year, but you must have good insurance and also sign the waiver. Perhaps we are getting old????