Grant's First Year Playing Soccer

Grant (and I) have been waiting and waiting until he got the opportunity to do SOMETHING. For years, he has waited patiently while we shuttled Meili from preschool, to gymnastics, from soccer to dance, from kindergarten to birthday parties. So it was finally Grant's turn... and he loved it... mostly :)

 Soccer consisted of 45 minutes on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the month of April. On Tuesdays, they did practice drills, and Thursdays played a game against another team.

 Grant's favorite was crawling through the cardboard box. If he could, we would try to skip the rest of the drill, and just move right on to the cardboard box.

 Because of work, I was only able to go to one of his games. And it was hilarious. Josh said most of the games were similar, but the one I went to was definitely the most extreme. As long as Grant had the ball, he was the happiest little boy. The second someone got it from him, he turned around, broke in to tears, and sulked all the way over to me. Then we talked him through it. Explained that's how the game works, and told him to go back out and try to get the ball again. Which worked really well, until someone took the ball from him again.

 This was the best picture I got

of the sulking.

 

 

 Here's his whole team with his infinitely patient coach, Anna.

And when Grant got his treat, certificate, and shark water bottle, all hurt feelings were forgotten!

Destination Bunco

Words cannot describe...

 What would I do in my life without my once a month Bunco night where we don't play Bunco, and we tell ourselves (and husbands) that we will be home at a reasonable hour, but we (and they) know that we never will. Where we pretend that we are going to take it easy on the treats, because we're currently eating healthy, and then decide the second we get there that healthy eating is overrated. And the list of inside jokes that we tell newcomers to fill them in, grows infinitely longer. Where we all know each other's crazy and not only love each other in spite of it, but more because of it, and we've seen each other's best, worst, and mascara smeared, tear stained cheeks (both from laughter and tears.) Oh dear... What would I do in my life without all these beautiful women?

 Lindsey, Lacey, Kaleena, Jamie, Sarah, Christy, Alisha, Hilary, Connie, Brynn (and Katie, Jenna, Kira-who weren't there at the time of the picture, and more that have moved on, but we still haven't forgotten)

Easter

 

My kids always get plenty of practice finding Easter eggs every year. On Friday, one of the women that I used to work with, did an Easter egg hunt at her house.

That night, we dyed Easter eggs at my parents' house. Saturday morning, my parents did their Easter egg hunt.

 Going through Grant's Easter basket with him was pretty awesome. He was SO excited about EVERYTHING!!!

 Then we headed on to Honeyville for a third Easter egg hunt in 24 hours.

 These pictures are from Easter morning....

It looks like the kids weren't quite ready to wake up.