Spring Soccer

Claire and David both played soccer this year.  David played up in U6.  He did fine.  I think he would have been bored in the younger league another season.  Claire is still playing U8.

 

It was a cold spring, which is surprising since we had such a mild winter.  We wore long-sleeve tees under our soccer jerseys almost every single week.  I even took a blanket one week!

 

Some pictures of David one Saturday.  He was kind of hit or miss as to whether he was really into a game or not.  Sometimes, he preferred to play with the scenery.

 

 

Most of the little boys from Claire's awesome fall soccer team played baseball this spring so we had a whole new team with the exception of her buddy Griffin.  This is her team at practice one night. (I get better pictures at a late afternoon practice than I do at an early morning game.)

 

 

 

Here David in action again.

 

 

David missed his last game because he was running a fever ... and it was 38 degrees that morning.

 

Here is Claire's team photo that Will took on his phone.  (I stayed home with David.)

 

 

Claire and her friend Griffin.

 

March Snippets

March and April are always such busy months for us.  I usually just let the ole' blog fall to they wayside, but I'm trying to do better this year.

Here are a few March highlights that didn't get their own post.

 

David made this cool rocket ship at school.  I did not save it so I had to take a photo.  He loves all things SPACE!

 

 

Kid's watching Wreck-It-Ralph in our bedroom.  We affectionately call Luke "Wreck-It-Luke" because he is so destructive.  The movie is really cute and so is Luke!

 

Claire painted this picture in an after-school art class she took this winter.

 

 

Claire and David playing with our neighbor.  I'm not sure what this contraption was but they were all connected with jump ropes.

 

Claire and her friend Avery at church.  Twinkies!

 

David tries really hard to keep busy in the afternoons while I work a couple of hours after he gets home from preschool.

 

Sometimes I just put out a bunch of craft items and let him go to town!  It gets pretty messy!

 

And sometimes he spills a container of dry beans and pasta on the floor and dresses up like a pirate.

 

We played soccer this spring.  And it was cold for most of the games.  38 degrees the last game on April 20th!  We've had to bundle up this season. 

 

Claire finally got some PINK soccer shoes.  Before we've always gotten neutral shoes to pass down to her brothers.  I finally caved on the pink ...

 

Luke needs lots of snacks to keep him entertained at soccer.

 

And he has a nice big boo-boo on his cheek where he fell out of a chair at the kitchen table.

 

Claire went to a roller skating birthday party.  They wear me out!!  She had so much fun though, I had to drag her out of there.  After about an hour of skating round and round, she finally got the hang of it.  I'm just glad I didn't have to skate too.

 

Claire and McCall-the birthday girl!

 

It snowed on March 26th-the week of spring break.  Not much, but SNOW!  SPRING BREAK!

 

Luke and I got to hang out a couple of days while Claire and David were at spring break camp.  I've never been home alone with him much and we had a grand time!

 

Palm branches from church on Palm Sunday.  Luke was a big fan!

 

Claire looking cute in her MM shirt-sequins and all!  (You can't really see them in the picture but Mickey is covered.)   And she is always ready to strike a pose!

 

 

Will has been practicing his guitar here and there.  The kids like it when he plays "Our God" which is slow-going at times.

 

 

Claire has been making her bed every morning-a new chore.  It's not as neat as I would like it but it's made.  It's hard for me not to go in there and re-do it, but I'm trying to let those things go!

 

 

David has been working on riding his bike without training wheels.  He does pretty good but hasn't picked it up as fast as Claire did.  (I think Claire was older when we taught her.)

 

 

There he goes.

 

And down he goes.  We're not quite ready to move to the blacktop yet.

 

Maybe next month ...

Gettin' my scrap on ...

Back in February, I got to spend a whole weekend (Thursday-Sunday) scrapbooking with some of my very favorite people!  We have been scrapbooking together since I was pregnant with Claire.  I think our very first weekend "retreat" was in Gatlinburg the week before I found out if Claire was a boy/girl (Nov. 2005).  We have made a lot of memories together ... literally.

 

Here are some pictures of everyone hard at work. 

 

 

Claire did all of her "scrapbooking" on the computer.  She had a lot easier time packing up than the rest of us!

 

 

I worked on 3 different projects while I was there.

 

#1: a scrapbook about Will's 2011 trip to Cape Town, South Africa. 

 

I finished the entire book on Thursday afternoon/night.  It still needs a few titles and some journaling from Will, but otherwise, IT IS DONE.  I haven't said that about a scrapbook in a long time!

 

I used a Creative Memories Picfolio album.  I highly recommend this if you want to finish an album quickly, but you are somewhat limited in the number of photos you can use.  (I think they are expandable now ... I bought mine back in 2007 ... it's vintage!)

 

 

#2: Claire's baby book.

 

This is a book about my pregnancy with Claire thru her first year of life.  Yes, I know she is ALMOST 7, but I've been busy since 2006!  Here are a few pages from her book that I just love!

 

I worked on Claire's book all day Friday and Saturday and I made it to 8 months (and Christmas).  So I only have 4 more months to go!

 

#3: David's baby book.

 

I know, he is 4.  But I have done a little bit in his book. 

 

Like the title page ... 

 

 

Ultrasound photos ...

 

And pictures of his nursery.

 

I worked on David's book on Sunday morning.  I was missing a few pictures I thought I had already ordered so I spent the majority of time organizing the pictures from his entire first year and separating them out by page and making a list of pictures I was missing that I needed to print.

 

Luke's baby book got no attention at all.  Sniff, sniff.  I have purchased supplies for his album and printed pictures so I am headed in the right direction!

 

Now I just need about 3-4 more of these weekends away to get these baby books finished up!  Ha!