Soccer Camp

I heard about a fun soccer camp I just had to get my boys involved in. They loved it! Even Tristan, that wasn't technically part of the group, enjoyed playing with the coaches a bit.





Here's a fun video of a song one of the counselors did with the kids, my kids LOVED it!

A Weekend With Grandma

We had a nice long weekend with my Mom in town. We tried to go to the lake house of a friend and had a nice picnic there. Our dreams of paddle boating all day and swimming didn't work out as our heat wave ended and a nice cool breeze blew too strong. The house was right over the Mass boarder and they power was out because of the tornado that hit close a couple days prior. Oh well, we made the most of it. Connor even got in the water.

We got to see the boys play baseball this weekend. Connor even got to try out being catcher.

My Mom spent a lot of time reading to the kids and they loved playing games on her phone!!! We're glad she could join us for a short while. We don't see enough of our family. That's the biggest drawback of living out East all by ourselves. Love you Mom!

Baseball Season

The boys are on baseball/t-ball teams this Spring. It's so fun to watch them get excited about playing! They love it! They got a chance to go to a Rock Cats game with their Dad and it was COMPLETELY rained out. They get to go again later. Even Tristan likes watching their games. He wanders around playing with balls and couldn't be happier. Here's a couple pics...

Soccer Finale

Today was the last soccer practice/game of the season. It was so fun to be the coach for the Red Dragons! The kids were GREAT and everyone of them got better and better as the season progressed so I wasn't totally useless either. I got to hand out medals to them today too. I'll miss my little soccer team.
Here's all the kids that played (all teams) this season...

Connor showing off his medal...

My team: (left to right)Samantha, Mackenzie, Fineas, Olivia, and Connor

Boogy Boarding

Here's my little surfer dude. Connor wanted to bring a boogy board to the beach and try it out today. He did pretty awesome and most of the time LOVED it. He was really brave too and would fall off but get back up. He did take a couple of bad dives while being helped by my sister (just the luck of the waves) but after some convincing and remembering the fun he was having he chalked it up to my sister's incapability to help him and tried again. Whatever works! He determined he likes the small waves better.

On the other hand, today was not Haydn's day. He got on the boogy board, at first, on his hands and knees. He wasn't happy but he was ok. I brought him all the way in to shore with a wave. He decided then that this was NO FUN. He cried/whined pretty much the whole time at the beach. He didn't like Connor riding the board either. Maybe he sensed danger? Who knows?! I was surprised since he is my little dare devil. Then again he is only 19 mo. old, maybe boogy boarding is too much to expect. It was fun to try it though. Poor Haydn!

Connor's Soccer Team

This is Connor's soccer team. It's a parent/child class where basically they learn how to control a ball but it's a soccer team. All week Connor has been so excited to play soccer with his Daddy, oh and his friends Katie and Lexi too! They met for the first time today.

Here's Connor playing soccer with Katie and Lexi.


This boy is all about soccer!

Great KICK!

Here's what they did today...They learned how to control the ball with small kicks. They got to dribble around a cone and back to help them learn control. Connor did really great.

They learned how to stop the ball or "put the brakes on". They would dribble the ball until the coach blew his whistle and then they would stop the ball.

Then we played a game of sharks and minnows. Mommies and Daddies were sharks trying to take the ball from the minnows.

Haydn had some fun too! Just try to tell him he's too little to play soccer!