Maddie's soccer game

Here's Maddie before her game so she's not all sweaty yet. She loves playing soccer! Her friend talked her into trying out for a AA team this year and she's so glad she did. It's a little more serious and two games a week instead of one. She likes to go to her brothers games also with her soccer ball so she can practice the whole time.

Seth, on the other hand did not want to be here. Tanner and Max both weren't home so he had to come. He brought his "magic treehouse" book and almost finished it. He's reading all 43 books in order and he's on #14. Jon said he'd get him a prize when he's all done, wonder what that's going to be.

Here's an action shot. Go Maddie!

I think this field by the mountains is so pretty. The weather's been really great so far too. They have a spring season of soccer too that usually is horrible weather. We'll see. Go, Adrenaline!

Donkey Kong

At Tanner's request, his Grandma and Grandpa got him these giant stickers for Christmas to decorate his room . We thought we might paint Tanner's room first...that didn't happen. Today Tanner was in the mood to put them up. I think it looks really cool and we got it up before the next Christmas, shew.

Seth's soccer game

Seth's team is pretty good at passing which is saying a lot for this age. Seth is having a great time this season. In the past he would get tired easily and not really want to run anymore, but this year he can't wait to play. He asks me how many more days until his next game all too often. Here's a picture of him posing for me instead of paying attention to the game.

Seth is weaving back and forth anticipating where he will throw the ball in.

Pass it to me!!

We got to take care of our cute niece and nephew while their mom was in the hospital having a baby. It was fun to have them, Çhristhopher wouldn't take off this old Batman costume we had. He finally took off the cape so he could go down the slide easier at the playground area.

Max's soccer game

This year all 4 kids wanted to play soccer. I thought I'd highlight each child playing one of their soccer games each week, so bear with me. We have around 40 soccer games to go to this season although we don't get to see all of them because they overlap. Jon and I usually have to divide and conquer. Plus I have my parents that live next door so that also helps. This Saturday, I got to go to Maddie's game for about 10 minutes before I had to take Max to his game across town. Jon was already at Tanner's game. Seth's game was later in the afternoon so we could all go to his. Maddie didn't start so I didn't even get to see her play but Gram, Grandma and Grandpa came to watch and then bring her home. It's a bit crazy on Saturday, but I love watching their soccer games!

This is Max after he scored his second goal. Max took a year off of soccer so I'm surprised he's doing so well. Plus his team was dispersed because they couldn't find a coach so he's on a team with a neighboring town and doesn't know anyone. Max makes friends pretty quickly so he's really having a good time.



The second half, Max played goalie. It's not too much pressure with this age and he really wanted to be goalie. I felt bad for the other team because they had no subs and were very tired by the second half. Max didn't get very much action.

Go, Torpedoes!

New Family Picture

Thanks to Devon getting married we got to have a new family picture. It's always a pain to get clothes that kind of match and to try and keep those clothes clean long enough for the picture but getting the pictures must make it worth it, or we wouldn't keep getting family pictures. The kids have changed so much in the 3 years since we took our last family picture so I'm glad we did it.