Soccer Star

Julia played on the Red Hawks this year.

They got progressively worse as the season went on. It was SO frustrating watching them. I just wanted to go out there and tell them, "Look at the ball! Get the ball!" And then watching them finally get a bit aggressive and get in there and take the ball from their own team. . . Julia had fun though. She mostly just ran back and forth following everyone around. Or stood out there twirling in circles waiting for her turn to get subbed out so she could rest. She claims that she likes soccer though and wants to play again next year even though she told me that she doesn't need to go to practice anymore because she "already knows how to do soccer"

Lydia did a good job entertaining Kayla during the games :) Neither of them find soccer very interesting.

Talia did great cheering for Julia though. Every time she saw her sister out there she would yell, "Go Julia!" and it was so cute :)

Jude skipped a lot of the games since he's big enough to stay home alone for an hour or so now.

Waiting for the Doctor

It seems like we don't spend nearly as much time at the doctor's office as we used to. I guess we don't since we aren't taking babies in every few months to be weighed and measured and checked anymore. . . And we don't have to take everyone since we can go while Jude and Lydia are in school. But I kinda miss the waiting room shenanigans sometimes. Today was fun. And Julia apparently grew 2 inches this year! She's still only 44" tall and 38 pounds (the 35th% and 20th% or something like that), but I was convinced she had stopped growing completely the way Talia has been catching up to her so quickly.

And yes, Julia pants are covered in Emojis, and she LOVES them.

Valentine's Prep

Lydia's class party is today so I had the kids write their names on all their class valentine's last night. Jude rushed through his having no fun at all. But these two wrote their names their best and talked about which friends would be getting which cards (when in reality they don't get to personalize anything anymore)- Lydia did make a special valentine for a boy in her class named Bennion that she is going to give to him after class. I support this completely because Bennion has been a good friend to her all year and never tells her that they aren't friends anymore like the girls do.

Muffins with Mom

Muffins with Mom at Lydia's school. This is before Kayla dumped the juice over of course.

Also, I was wearing pink too in case you haven't noticed that we live in a VERY pink world. Poor Jude can't see pink though! He thought my pink shirt was gray until I held my gray sweater up next to it. Apparently the only difference is that pink is darker. I find it very funny that Jude can't see the dominant color in his life. Perhaps his color-blindness is a defense mechanism to protect himself from pink over-taking his world too?

100th Day of School

What a cutie! And I love that she is wearing this sweater too. It is her absolute favorite shirt right now :) Also, when did we start celebrating the 100th day of school? It's just another reason to count to 100 I guess.

Snow!

Sorry for the picture overload here. I couldn't choose a favorite, I just love snow too much!

I loved that Julia tossed it in the air and let it snow down on top of her head. That smile of hers. . .

Talia was outside ALL morning. She would still be out there if she didn't need a diaper change and a drink of milk. She loves to be outside any day, but you add snow and it's a whole new love.

Her attempt at building a "frosty the snowman" was very short-lived. This snow was the famous Utah powder and was way too dry to build anything with.

Kayla lasted about 2 minutes before she wanted to come in. I made her tough it out for about 15 minutes though. She was more than happy to come inside when her forced playtime was over though.

Ugh- this kid is SO CUTE! She's the only one who will still actually say cheese for me.

Happy Birthday Jude!!

Look at my not-so-little baby boy :)

Dad has decided that when you turn 8 you get a doughnut the size of your head. Jude was really close to finishing that thing too. And Lydia was a bit disappointed in her doughnut that was not quite as big as her head, but still massive. . .

Scouts! A new book, shirt, scriptures, everything he needs!

And new shoes. Size THREE! I truly can not believe he's already 8. Some days I miss my little boy, but mostly I just love having him around. He's such a sweet boy (when he wants to be) and so stinking smart that I just love talking with him. I do moon-walk away when he starts describing Pokemon though. . . that's what his friends are for.

What's Your Wi-Fi Password?

We went to my parent's house today and Julia was SO excited to wear her new shirt.

A couple weeks ago when we were up there the first thing Julia said to my dad when she hopped out of the car was, "What's your wi-fi password?" And my dad just thought that was hilarious. So when I saw this shirt a couple days later I scooped it up and saved it for our next trip to Grandpa's house. She loves their little joke :)

First Day of Kindergarten!!

Look how excited this girl is to be going to Kindergarten!

And the bus stop is at the park this year so it's double exciting!

(It was at a vacant, dirt lot last year- boring)

And she's off!! Didn't even look back!

But she has a bunch of friends on that bus with her so I don't blame her.

Home again- I think it's safe to say she had an exciting first day.

Love this kid!