He finally gets to play!

Austin finally got to play his first soccer game on Saturday! He was pretty excited. It's his first year playing positions, and he missed most of the practices to learn them, but he caught on pretty quick. He's the youngest and smallest on the team, but he's doing great!

He spent the first quarter playing goalie. Only one ball got past him.

While he played soccer, the other kids were throwing around a football with their dad. Ashley has a pretty good arm on her.


It's funny to watch Andrew throw left handed. He's got a good arm on him too.


Abbie wouldn't throw the ball. She always walked over and handed it to Andrew.

I'm so glad the weather is finally cooperating. This was the first nice weekend we've had in a while. Maybe spring is finally here to stay!

Austin's baptism

On May 2, 2009, Austin was baptized and became a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He was baptized and confirmed by my brother, Jim. It just so happened that my niece, Grace, was getting baptized on the same day, so we had Austin baptized in her stake.

Austin and Uncle Jim (aka Uncle Jungle Jim)

Jim, Austin, Grace, and Sean

Cousins...what a fun memory for them

Skyler, Rachel, and Raeyne

All of my mom's grandkids...Kaden, Austin, Landon, Andrew, Abbie, Ashley, and Raeyne (7 reasons for her to move to Utah!!)

Jim and Tasha with Kaden and Landon

Unfortunately, Abbie was sick the weekend all weekend.
Poor baby.

My mom flew out from Pennsylvania for the weekend so she could be at the baptism. I'm so proud of Austin for making the decision to be baptized.

Kids say the funniest things

I wish I would remember to write down all the funny things that my kids say. I always think I should write it down, but usually forget by the time I'm near paper or my computer. It occured to me today that I should blog the funny things my kids say (if I remember, of course).

A couple days ago, we passed a couple people riding horses on the road. Andrew thought that was very interesting. He was apparently thinking about that this morning, because he referred to "the horses that were wearing people." It's so funny how kids think. I sure hope I remember to start writing down the things that mine say.

Spacer fun

Last month, Ashley got a spacer put in to correct her bite. She talks kinda funny and now she has a huge gap between her two front teeth. Ha ha hee hee (she's not happy I posted this picture!)

Soccer??

When soccer season started, I was expecting four games and two practices per week. That hasn't happened due to the wonderful Utah weather. Austin's first game was canceled due to snow, and Andrew's first game was canceled due to rain. The first game Austin made it to was the day after he hurt his elbow, so he only watched the game. Andrew spent his first game holding the coach's hand because he didn't like the other kids pushing him when he was going for the ball (he's the smallest/youngest kid on the team).

Here he is attached to his coach.

Andrew is doing better at soccer now. He's more aggressive and doesn't hang on the coach anymore. This is the third week of soccer, and he has played two and a half games. His game on Saturday made it through the first quarter before they called it due to snow.

Austin has yet to play his first soccer game. The two games that haven't been canceled he couldn't play in because of his elbow. We headed to his game tonight with high hopes that he would finally be able to play.

The wind was blowing like crazy and the rain was just barely coming down as we were setting up. Here's a picture of Ashley trying to get her blanket under control.


Austin was at least able to get warmed up and play a little with his teammates before the rain really started coming down and the game was canceled.

I love this action shot!

Austin has a game on Saturday, but he'll miss that because he's getting baptized. Hopefully he'll finally get to play next week!!