Soccer Time

Thomas started playing soccer for the first time in September.  Prior to going to Thomas’ first game, I had never been to a 4 year olds soccer game.  Boy was I missing out.  It truly one of the cutest things I have ever seen.  There’s nothing like watching the kids as happy as ever when they kick the ball in the wrong goal and celebrate because they think they have done the right thing.  The kids and the parents alike were happy to be there and having fun just running up and down the field. 

Saturday I had a completely different experience than I had the first week.  The kids happy.  The parents from the team we were playing weren’t so happy.  I have never seen parents act so ridiculous in my life.  They were yelling and screaming that one of the kids on our team grabbed the shirt of one of the kids on their team.  Right after one of their kids knocked down three of the kids on our team.  These ladies were nuts.  They got up from their chairs ran up to the field and started yelling at their coach to do something.  Even he told them to relax.  What was sad about the whole thing was their team was ahead by like 6, there was 3 minutes left in the game, none of the kids were hurt and none of the kids even knew that the other kid did something wrong.  C’mon people these kids are 4 years old!!! 

I hope next week is a better week.  Here’s some cute pictures of Thomas and his team.

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It’s been a really long time!!!

I can’t believe that it has been so long since my last post.  I have never gone this long without posting something.  My life has been a rollercoaster ride the last month or so.  With the end of summer activities, my computer busting, craziness at work and my own health issues I haven’t been able to get it together enough to post anything.  But, I’m happy to say I’M BACK ON TRACK! The past couple of days I have tried to look back at the last month and tried to figure out what lessons that I can take from these experiences and what I have come up with is

1. Always listen to that little voice in my head.  It wont lead me astray.  Go with my gut.

2.  Back up my data on my computer so I don’t freak out when it blows up!

3.  Don’t over schedule myself and take time to smell the roses.

4. Realize that I cannot change people’s attitudes, experiences, or motives and I cannot take on others issues as my own.

5. Be the best friend that I can possibly be!

My family and friends are unbelievable and have been patient, understanding, thoughtful and encouraging even when  it wasn’t easy to be. I am grateful to all of them and appreciate all that everyone has done to make this time a little easier.

Noelle the model

I woke up one Saturday and I decided that I wanted to go play with my camera.  So, I packed up Noelle and a few changes of clothes for her and drove around Stockton trying to find places to take pictures of her.  We ended up at the University Park campus and at Oak Grove Regional Park.  I was lucky that Noelle was in a good mood that day and was able to get some really cute shots of her.

 

   

 

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The joy of cousins

As many of you know my Mom was married in September.  Which meant that Troy, Julie and Tyler got to come and visit for the weekend.  Kelly and I had been telling Thomas and Noelle for weeks that “baby Tyler” would be coming to visit soon.  Every time we talked about it they would get so excited and ask if he was coming tomorrow.  Thomas was thrilled and really wanted Tyler to spend the night at his house.  Unfortunately, with them living far away we don’t get to see them nearly as much as we would like but this year has been unusual and we have gotten to see them more than we normally would (that really tells me that it’s possible and we just need to work a little harder on doing it). Troy and Julie came in on Saturday morning and my Dad and I picked them up at the airport.  By the time we got to Kelly’s house Tyler was ready for his nap. Kelly and Dave had the kids running last minute errands so they weren’t home.  The kids were very disappointed when they came home and Tyler was sleeping!  But when he woke up the fun began!!!  It was really cute to see them all playing together so nicely. 

Thomas is very protective over Tyler and wanted to help him do EVERYTHING!

Noelle wanted to give Tyler hug after hug after hug!!!

We had all the kids upstairs playing after their baths while we got ready for the wedding.  All of the sudden we heard the music going in Thomas’ room and when we went to go in and check in on them we found Thomas giving the littler kids dancing lessons.  It was about the cutest thing I have ever seen!! 

They had a blast playing together!!! 

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How time flies

It’s no secret that I love to take pictures.  Today as I was cleaning up the playroom with Noelle, I started looking through a couple of the albums that were laying on the floor that the kids had gotten down. I love looking through the albums and seeing the kids transformations and looking back at all of the fun times that we have had together (and there have been a lot).  I have 25 albums that 500 pictures in all of them for a grand total of 13,000 pictures.  That doesn’t include the stack that I have that I don’t have albums for yet or the ones that haven’t been developed yet.  I started the albums when Thomas was born and he’s only 4 1/2.  That’s a whole lot memories.  It’s amazing to me how fast time flies and how big that the kids get and how quickly the kids change in just a short amount of time.  

As, I said in my last post, Kelly and I took the kids to the Sacramento Zoo and Fairytale Town a couple of weeks ago. While we were walking through Fairytale Town we were talking about our last trip there in March 2006 and how small Thomas was when we went.  I tried to take some of the same pictures that I remember taking when we were there before to do some comparisons. So, here we go.

 

 

Noelle’s transformation has also been huge in just the  past year alone.  To think that at this time last year she wasn’t even walking to seeing her dancing and jumping to Barney today is amazing! 

Since she has started playing with her babies, she has always been such a good Mommy (other than always wanting them to be naked).  She is constantly changing their diapers, feeding them, rocking them,  reading to them, singing to them and even putting them in timeout when they are misbehaving!

    1/2009

2/2009

The next ones were taken today.

Getting ready to give the baby a bath

Teaching the baby to use the potty and even teaching the baby how to flush the toilet.

 

Taking the baby to the zoo

Changing the baby’s diaper.

and reading to the baby before her nap. 

She is such a good Mommy.

Lastly, even though I don’t get to see Tyler nearly as often as I would like. I’ve been pretty lucky to see him as often as I have this year.  I spent a week with him in San Diego, then he came for the weekend for Kelly’s wedding, we saw him for a short time a week ago, and then he is coming again in September for my Mom’s wedding.  Each time he has changed so much and is always doing something new.  His transformation is just as amazing as Thomas’ and Noelle’s. 

4/2008

11/2008

12/2008 2/2009

3/2009

6/2009

8/2009

8/2009

I love these kids and I love to look back and see how much they have grown, how their personalities show through in the pictures, their happiness in all of their experiences, and especially how totally cute they are!!!

How time flies…

Sacramento Zoo

Kelly and I took the kids to the Sacramento Zoo Fairytale Town last weekend with Terri, Rob and their kids.  After that we headed over to Old Sacramento and had an early dinner at Joe’s Crab Shack.  We had an hour wait to be seated but the kids did fantastic waiting patiently.  During our wait we headed to the corner candy shop for a little treat. 

   

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Happy Birthday Indy and Bentho

Wednesday was Indy’s 5th birthday and today is Bentho’s 7th birthday so we had a little birthday party for them last night.

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