soccer Saturdays

Well this is William’s first year of soccer and we are all having a ton of fun. Soccer games on Saturday bring back tons of memories from my childhood. I love the sport and am really enjoying watching my little man play. Here are some pictures from the game he scored his second goal in. I was nursing baby so I set the camera up and handed it to Aunt Chrisy so thanks for the pictures.

Kate getting the ball

Wills is trying to turn it around

he finally got it through all the those players

Kate taking a shot

Wills shot. Until this point I think we were tied 2-2 but we don’t “keep” score…

this part seriously cracked me up he scored and than came sprinting to half field. So funny and cute. the look on his face was priceless!

getting a high five from coach Scott. For under 6 they let the coach stay on the field to help direct.

Kate got two goals right after Wills!

We signed him up to play soccer in Auburn because he get’s to play with his cousin Kate and it is only coed for U6 and than they split boys and girls. It has been so fun for them to play together. We are also having tons of fun playing with all the kids from church. there are 12 players and 10 of them are from church. That certainly won’t be the case every year but we are enjoying it this year.

Parent tunnel! I seriously wonder how long the kids would do this if we just stood there and cheered because they LOVE it!

outside fun

I took some 6month pictures of EmmaJane (which I will put up on my photo blog later…) she is my cousin Tara’s little girl so Tara watched my kiddo’s while I tried to snap some pictures. Here were a few I took of my kids while we were at the park.

Keira taking a rest in her stroller. She is such a good baby!

William is finally pumping like a champ!

this cute little girl loves to swing especially on a beautiful day

eating her toes! She loves to eat her feet! I think it is super cute.

what’s up mom?

I guess I don’t care that much.

October already?!?

Wow time really fly's by! I can’t believe my baby just turned 5 months. She has gotten so big. I will start feeding her solids soon and I can’t believe it. Honestly I would like to keep her a baby for awhile longer. I feel like it took us awhile to get to solids with Wills but not with Keira. I think it because all things baby have become second nature I have to admit that I cherish her baby moments a lot more than with my big kids. I really enjoy sitting down to a half hour of nursing because I am like “wow I really need a break”, lol. I have so much more going on in my house that I hardly have time to focus on the time passing. My day is consumed with actually having to focus on getting things done or this house would look like a chaotic mess, wait, even when I get all the chores done that is how the house can look. I wonder what the point of cleaning is sometimes. I am mostly being facetious but it is so frustrating to freshly mop my floors and have the kids spill juice all over or walk in with mud on their shoes… that list goes on and on and is the story of my life. Never fear though because I don’t function well in a disorganized mess so my home will stay mostly organized and clean at least in my definition, you may not think so which is fine with me . Nick says that every woman has always complained about that and always will its just part of the job.  Honestly it is a “job” I love so I shouldn’t complain I am a blessed woman!

So with the passage of time comes development and my little baby is full of them. She has been making lots of different noises lately. She is exploring the different squeals and squeaks her voice can do. It’s pretty cute. She makes very sweet little sounds and loves to converse with us. Keira is also our first thumb sucker. The other two have had pacifiers (we are trying to get rid of Allie’s) but they didn’t go for the thumb. Keira loves her thumb. I wish she didn’t suck her thumb in some ways but it really is pretty cute now. Keira also wiggles all over the place. She can move pretty far. I will put her down in her crib face one way and she will be facing the other way when I come get her. Keira also rolls over all the time. She loves to be on her tummy so as soon as I set her down she flips to her belly. This week she also was able to roll back over from her tummy to her back. She is just so cute and I love her to pieces. when I go to bed at night I just want to grab her and snuggle! Wills tells me things like “mom we have the cutest baby in the whole world”  to which I heartily agree. He sure loves that baby girl! She enjoys him as well, as long as he isn’t over doing it. Keira is also a belly sleeper. She loves her belly. I started putting her in her own room this week because the crib in there is better than the one by our bed but I don’t like it. I like having her right next to me. I am kinda silly but I just like having her there. Keira also wants to eat food. She is fascinated by us eating and will try to grab the food and put it in her mouth.  Another thing about my babies is that they all have had a TON of hair at birth and than most of it falls out and starts growing in. Keira was the same way and now her hair has grown back in and she is a fuzzy headed little baby.

Well I have to run but I also wanted to mention that Allie is mostly potty trained. She goes potty and poopy on the toilet which is nice because Wills struggled learning to go poopy. Allie does well most days but yesterday she had a lot of accidents. It was frustrating! She had a rough day yesterday in a lot of ways though. She got in a lot of trouble and she kept telling me “but I don’t want to do that or I don’t like that” when I told her to obey to which I kindly replied (at least the first time…like I said she had a rough day and mommy wasn’t always patient) well that’s the thing about obeying mommy you don’t have to want to but God tells you to obey mommy. (I just read that back and realized it sounds so sweet and calm so honestly after getting told she could either listen or sit on her bed she would yell at me that she didn’t want to, get a spanking and than sit on her bed crying… we did that a lot yesterday) Mommy and Allie are going to learn and hopefully grow a lot together…

after days like that I always call my mom to see how she survived an stubborn two year old, Rachel really was difficult so mom had lots of practice. LOL Rach was a breeze I just want to hear her reaction to me writing that. I was mom’s trouble maker and my dad thinks it’s great I have one of my own.

here are some pictures

getting some love from brother and sister

she has a sweet smile!

our little thumb sucker

and than this crazy girl! I think she looks so cute ridding her bike! she peddles like a champ and I think its adorable. And yes my kids are frequently half clothed when we are at home

women’s retreat

I was able to go to out church’s women’s retreat this year. For one reason or another I have been unable to go the last few years so this was my first time. That means it was Nick’s first time home with Wills and Allie overnight (My sister or mom has kept them before so it wasn’t Will’s and Allie’s first night away.) They all did just fine with out me! I knew they would. That was the weekend of William scored his first goal. He called me up to tell me he scored. I was kinda bummed I missed his first goal but he scored the next weekend as well so at least I didn’t miss his only goal.

I had a great little weekend away. We left Friday afternoon and came back for church Sunday morning. We had two study sessions and lots of good food. Plus The house we rented was really really nice which was relaxing.

here are a few pictures.

Study and worship time. Ruth led us in singing

Sara Packard holding my baby while talking with my momma

these lady's did lot’s of work! they did all the food and it was really yummy

and we played Bunco. Julie Vincent doesn’t just play Bunco she PLAYS BUNCO!!!! seriously. It’s something you have to experience to understand and appreciate fully.

here were Keira’s little friends on the trip. Beckett and Abe. They are a week apart in age and a few months behind Keira.

here is Emily getting some cuddle time.

and here is my little sweetheart. she enjoyed being held the whole weekend. I didn’t have anything to do at this moment so I tried to get a smiling picture of Keira holding my camera with one hand in low light with a 50 mm lens… I thought they were kinda cute

catching up

I went to start writing this post and my initial thought was well I’m behind again… lol I think I better stop starting my post like that and just realize that I am never really behind I just have to readjust my thinking... So to catch you all up on us here are some pictures.

I have some pictures on my camera to process of William’s soccer game last week. He scored his first goal the weekend I went away on a women’s retreat (figures huh!) he called me and told me all about it, that was very cute! He also scored last weekend. Seriously adorable!!! I will write a post about that later.  But her are some pictures from his first soccer game.

I think this photo is so funny because it show’s how much bigger some of the kids are on the field. That kid is seriously a head taller!

William also started our mommy and me style preschool on Wed. I am really excited to be doing school again as a group because it is great interaction for the kids and great motivation for this momma to stay on top of his schooling. He is loving school. He can write his name now and so he walks around saying W-i-l-l-i-a-m pretty silly little guy.

I taught the other week so I took a picture of each of them at the end of class.

I finally got this one but I took all of these to get there…

and this silly girl likes to participate when possible

Here are the kids in his class. Jocie, Canyon, Harper, Hadley, and Dixie had to leave early so we didn’t get her picture.