Coach West

We just finished up the Soccer season.  The boys had a great year.  They both met their goal of scoring a goal.  Dallin scored 7 goals for the season, and Joshua had one goal.  They both improved from the Fall.  It is really fun watching them play.  This year Michael coached Dallin's team.  He really enjoyed coaching them.  The kids are so sweet.  We really liked all the kids and their parents.  Michael got a few sweet gifts at the end of today's game.  We really enjoyed the soccer season.  :)  A few of the parent's asked me if Michael has coached before because he was so good at it.  I'm glad everyone loved him as coach and glad he loved coaching.  :)

Mother's Day

 This is picture of the wonderful things my children made for me for Mother's Day.  They did a wonderful job at making me feel special.

Michael got me a running visor and new socks that are suppose to help prevent blister.  I can't wait to try them out.  Thank you!  Michael and I have great mothers and grandmothers.  We have wonderful examples in our lives.  We love and miss our Moms lots.  We hope they both have a wonderful Mother's Day!

We had a big storm and got close to six inches of needed rain.  I enjoy the occasional storm.  This picture doesn't do it justice, but it was raining cats and dogs. 

 We had wicked winds and Torando warnings as well.  We lost a tree.  It didn't hit any cars, people, or house, so we are in good shape.  :)  No tornadoes touched down, it was all precautionary.

The house next door has a tree that branch fell into our yard.  The tree needs to be chopped down, but the house is foreclosed.  We are hoping the bank will take care of this.  We lost one more smaller tree that came down today.  I guess the our yard will be easier to maintain. now.  :)  My kids take after me and enjoy the storm.  I am glad they don't get scared and can enjoy it with me.  

I love Kinder!

The kids are so sweet. They still get to have fun and play.  They also get to learn to read.  I love 5 year olds.  Dallin had his program last night.  He did great.  

They did songs about spring.  It was adorable.  After they finished we were dazzled by the folklorico dancers.  Leah loved the all the colorful dresses.

If only I could be a fly on the wall at school.  I would love to see what Dallin does at school.  He is such a great kid.  It was really fun to see him shine.  :)

Let's Go Fly a Kite

The kids are really enjoying their kites. 

We are really enjoying the spring!

Easter Weekend!

My cute kids are Easter morning.  We had a wonderful time. It is great to celebrate the Resurrection, and teach my children of Christ and how he died for us.

Jenny let Leah borrow her dress from when she was a little girl.  Leah loved it.

The kids got kites and enjoyed flying those.  They also got lots of candy.

On Saturday we went to the park for hot dogs and an Easter egg hunt.  We also did a nerf gun war while we were there.  

The kids loved hunting and finding eggs.

Evan was just interested in playing on the slide.  He was making every stranger worry.  He loves to climb and go down the slide by himself.  He is actually really good at it and has never come close to falling off.

On Friday we worked in the yard.  The kids were a great help.  The boys were pretending to be Pa and Mr. Edwards.  We have been in a Little House on the Prairie kick lately.  I am loving that they love it.  :)

We did family pictures later on in the day on Friday.  Jessica was great to put up with us.  I'm hoping we did something she can work with.  :)

We also got our teeth checked out.  The kids are all cavity free!  

Blue Bonnet Season!

Michael just got back from Arizona.  He brought back scorpion suckers for the kids.  Leah wasn't sure she wanted to eat it.  

It is Blue Bonnet season again and per Texas tradition I tried to squeeze in a little picture.  The weather wasn't great.  It was really windy and then started to rain on us, but we got it in.  :)  Jessica has her hands full when she takes our family pictures next week.  It is hard to get everyone looking.  ha ha

Evan looks so tired.  He was not enjoying the wind.  He is walking all over the place now.  I  can't believe how big he is.

Joshua is busy with soccer and loves playing outside.  He is really enjoying reading.  He loves science and has been reading a quite a few tornado books.  He gets excited about storms.

 Dallin is busy with soccer as well.  He is reading pretty good himself.  Dallin loves gym and art.  He got into an argument the other day with Joshua over when his hair would start falling out like Dads.  I had a good laugh listening to that conversation.

Leah is happy almost all of the time.  She is a great helper.  She loves to sing, and to color.

Race, Soccer, and Conference

We had a great weekend.  On Saturday the boys played thier first soccer games.  They did great!

Michael is the coach of Dallin's team.  It happened by accident, but he seems to be really enjoying it.  Dallin loves it.

Michael and Dallin's team is really good.  Michael had to try and explain to 4-5 year olds that they needed to slow down making goals.  The other team had a hard time getting into the game.  

Joshua's coach is really working with them to start passing which is great.  Joshua team did great too.  Even though they don't keep score, Joshua will tell you they won 3-2.  I heard it was a great game.  I had a race that morning and couldn't make it.  I hate missing stuff!

I did the Fairview Half.  It was an awesome course with longhorns, alpacas, and horses.  They had pacers in 5 minute increments.  I loved not having to manage my own time.  Michael thought that it was really weird that I took a picture with the pacer.  I spent a good two hours with her and she really encouraged me, especially the last mile. I finished last out of the group that was trying to be sub 2:10.  ha ha She helped me get a new personal record of 2:07.  yeah!!

Jenny and Liz did great too!  It fun to have friends to run with!  

After the race and soccer we got to relax and watch Conference.  I made cinnamon rolls and cookies.  It was a fun weekend!