dirt bike

I posted like 3 or 4 post today so you might want to scroll down and read them all :) got to get them in when I have time

Ok so I haven't posted pictures of William ridding his dirt bike lately. In fact I don't think I have posted any of him ridding all completely by himself. He has been able to ride by himself for a long time. I think like the last 9 months (maybe longer) but for awhile Nick would run with him. Well the last 6 months or something like it he has been ridding completely by himself. Nick will even hop on one of the other dirt bikes and ride with him. He has almost crashed a couple times and he usually jumps off the bike. He can't reach the ground so there aren't a lot of other options for him. When he wants to stop he has to ride into Nick since he can't really grab the front brake yet. In the last month Nick has been letting him ride in second gear. The kid flys around the pasture. He Loves to ride with Tom and Phil and he will pass them and race them...  He has been able to pull out of some tricky situations that have seriously impressed his daddy. He seems to understand when he has to give it gas or he will crash. He can make some really tight turns and get out of them. Crazy kid has some serious talent! These seem to be the areas that God gifted him in. We were watching the X games the other day and they were doing flips and stuff on bikes, Williams eyes were glued to the TV, and there was this mom on the side line watching as her 15 year old rode and I saw serious fast forward of my life and that is scary because I personally think if you are into extreme sports of any kind to be good you always have to push the level of what you can do and what you can't and so you always have to play with your risk reward which inevitable means you potentially could get seriously hurt... anyway I am getting way ahead of myself... for now he is just really really enjoying riding his dirt bike!

Soccer

William started soccer this year. We are pretty excited. He really loves it. I played a lot of soccer growing up so I am excited that he seems to be pretty into it. He had to be 4 by August 1st to be able to play this year and he turned 4 July 29th. That is pretty exciting but it also means that he is going to be the youngest on his team almost always. There are a couple kids on his team who turned 6 in August so they are a full two years older. So it should be interesting. We signed him up to play with his cousin Kate and he didn't get on her team at first but I called the league and they were able to switch him onto her team which I was super excited about because they can only play together for two years and than the league splits boys and girls. The other fun thing about their team is that out of the 12 players 10 of them are from our church so he has a lot of little friends on the team. The coach and the assistant coaches are also from our church so that is fun.

waiting her turn...

he had a soccer parade this weekend and a little 15 min game so when I get those pictures off the camera I will out them up :)

Church Camp

Back in the beginning of August we had Church camp. I love Church camp! It is always fun to hang out with everyone and let the kids play together. This year we went up to Scott's Flat Lake in Grass valley. The group camp site was awesome! There was a circular drive area that the kids all road their bikes on. It was pretty fun. (I didn't get a picture of that sorry :( ) Anyway... here are the pictures

leading worship

some of the cousins

Gav playing crazy eights with Kate and Dan. Cards... a camping must!

Maria loving on my baby :) miss you Ria

the lake was dirty but warmer than Donner where we have had camp in the past.

Dan and Chrisy brought up some Kayaks, so fun! Nick got water in it and decided to try to dump it out resulting in getting a ton of water in it. lol

My kids finding entertainment in putting rocks in the Lake

Dan and Autumn

The kids getting ready for worship

Autumn in her cage

Those were all the pictures I had but one of the families even brought a boat which was super fun! Wills got to go on a tube with Nick which he loved and he told us he wants to buy a boat. LOL someday he can have a boat 5 horsed and 10 dogs... We had a great time and are excited about next year.

Williams final birthday post

well if you haven't checked the blog recently you might want to go back and read that last few post because I have been trying to catch up so I have put up more than I usually do :) so anyway. William turned 4 and this was my families celebration. William and Uncle Dan are birthday buddies so we did a joint party.

Ruth has been saying she was going to bring up her horses this summer and she finally did and coincidentally it was Wills birthday. How fun is that!

Here he is getting a ride with Gavyn. My brother Nates son

this was the first time Rach had ever really ridden a horse. She didnt' want to at first but she decided to go for it and had fun.

I have no idea what I thought was so funny.

Allie and uncle Matt

present time

here are Jonathan holding Jillyan and Heather holding Keira

miss those two

Uncle Dan opening his presents

blowing out candles

(that is Heather's little guy Logan in the background)

kinda funny we used 5 candles for Dan 3 and 2 and he laughed about it and he didn't manage to blow them all out. Totally funny!

Happy birthday guys we love you both!

Will's birthday post #2

okay so as previously mentioned we celebrated William turning 4 multiple times. This was our family celebration after dinner. After his gifts we went and got some ice cream :)

a father sanctioned activity not mommy

thank you Grandma and Grandpa!

baby :)

and this crazy girl!