Friday Night

The weather was beautiful last night.  We couldn't help but stay outside as much as possible.  We took the kids to the battling cages for the first time.  We had lots of fun!

Birthday Videos

I finally got around to recording everyones birthday videos.  One year I'm going to get a microphone so you can hear them better, sorry!

Weekly Happenings

Things are getting busy at school with only a few weeks left.  The kids have lots of fun field trips planned this week alone.  Ethan is going on a field trip tomorrow to canoe down a river.  Cole is going to the library for a field trip and Liv is going to the Zoo on Tuesday.

We have about two weeks left of soccer season.  Cole had some tough games this past weekend.  He got pretty aggressive in one and the ref told him he had to take a 5 minute time out and go sit on the side.  It was pretty funny.  Cole definitely needed to cool off, but I've never heard of a ref putting a player in time out without giving them a card.  Cole's interests have switched from soccer to football and basketball. Lately, he spends a lot of time at the neighbors doing this...

Ethan had three games this weekend.  They won two and lost the other.  He played well.

Liv had her spring gymnastic performance.

Here is a video of her beam performance.  She was chosen, along with two other girls, to do a beam routine. It's kind of hard to see her at first, people are standing in the way, but as she starts you can see here.



The boys are prepping for their next TKD test.  It's pretty intense and they have been training for 6 months for this.  It's been tricky to try and fit this in with soccer, but the boys only have a few weeks left.  Liv gets bored and spends her time at TKD doing tricks in the other room.

We also did Ethan's birthday piñata a few weeks ago, which I never blogged about.

We've had some stormy rainy days lately.  That means we've spent time playing with the kids in our empty basement.  I had to snap a picture one evening because we have three different sports going one.  Cole is playing basketball, Ethan and Shawn are playing baseball, and Liv is playing tennis.

Liv has been practicing for the big 2nd grade spelling B.  She is nervous, but she can spell great.

The boys are getting some new suits.  Here is Cole getting measured.

Liv and I went on a shopping lunch date the other day.  We had fun!

The last exciting news is that the pool is finally open.  We have already been swimming this year.

Liv's 8 year old pics

Finally getting around to posting Liv's birthday pictures

Landscaping

I told Shawn for Mother's Day I wanted to finish the landscaping and plant lots of trees, bushes and pretty flowers.  So we've spet a lot of time lately at the nursery.  We even got a riding lawn mower!

12

Ethan turned 12 yesterday.  It was a big day around our house.

We had Ethan's special chocolate chip and butterscotch pancakes with bacon for breakfast.
Ethan opened gifts.  He got some clothes and new shoes.  Cole and Liv gave him a new baseball mitt, which he has been wanting so bad.  The big gift this year was a cell phone.  We thought about this ALOT.  This is a big step, but in the end we felt good about getting him a phone.  He has been so responsible so far, and in all honestly it will be much easier for me if he has a phone :)

I took donuts to Ethan's class at school.  After school Ethan had his 12 year doctor appointment and then soccer practice until 7:30.  I brought pizza for all his soccer team after practice.  They kids had fun eating pizza and then played some basketball before we had to head home.

For Ethan's birthday cake all he wanted was cheesecake.  He LOVES cheesecake.  I picked up 5 different kinds of cheesecake from The Cheesecake factory earlier in the day and we enjoyed that before bed.