"I'm a Big Kid Now!"

We signed Jacks up for soccer this year (he barely made the cut by 2 weeks, so I think he is the youngest on the team). We decided he needs more social time with kids his own age. He is painfully shy and we are hoping that by playing soccer and going to preschool he will come out of his shell a little. The first game was pretty tough and he really didn't want to go out and play, but if Bert went out too and ran up and down the field then Jacks would go out and at least run. But he has already improved a lot! We had his 3rd game on Saturday and he went right out and played the whole game and got in quite a few kicks. We have one of those really polite teams where they aren't very aggressive so the other team is scorig quite a bit more than we are. But I really don't care as long as Jacks is having fun!!
I had myself all geared up for some clinging and crying when I dropped him off for his first day of Preschool. I was gladly surprised that he went right in and didn't even look at me when I said goodbye to him. He is loving it and loves coming home with new pictures to hang up on the wall!

Here we go again...

So I'm in the boys' room cleaning and the boys are running up and down the hall chasing bouncy balls. All of a sudden there's a big crash and I look down the hall and Cooper has fallen into the door. I assumed he had just hit his head really hard, but I could tell that he was crying differently and was taking longer to console than usual. (He's like 30 seconds max and then he's off doing something again.) So I asked him where it was hurting and he pointed to his right wrist. My heard sunk and I thought "Oh no, he has broken his wrist again!" I called Bert to tell him about it and ask if he could possibly come home from work if we needed to take him to the doctors. I said I would watch him a little longer and see how he does and then let Bert know. Well just a few minutes after I got off Cooper tried to get up off my lap and he put pressure on that wrist and just started screaming and crying. I called Bert up immediately and told him to meet us at the doctors. After the X-rays (which he was very brave for) the doctor told us it's broken again in almost the same place as last time! I can't believe it! I started worrying on the way to the doctors that they were going to become suspicious of me bringing my kid in again just months later with another broken arm and investigate me! Thankfully they understand that little boys are just wild and crazy and always running and falling!I think it hurts more this time around, but he has still been such a trooper! Poor guy! We go in tomorrow morning to get the hard cast put on which will make me feel a little better because he is still wanting to be that crazy boy who runs and falls and the hard cast will protect him more.

He's got quite the black eye from colliding with the door. This picture was taken when we got home from the doctor's office...it has gotten even worse and I need to take another picture of it! It just breaks your heart to look at him! Hopefully he will only have to do the cast for 3 weeks again!

Silver Lake & Tibble Fork

Erin and Dave went camping last week up American Fork canyon and the kids and I went up to spend the day with them at the lake. We first went to Silver Lake but it had been drained quite a bit and there wasn't much of a beach area to play on. Mostly just mud. So we ate our lunch real quick and drove to Tibble Fork lake.

This picture is so priceless! He totally takes after me and doesn't like to be dirty! He had thrown a rock in the lake and this splattered back on him! He was so mad and wanted me to clean him off right away.

These boys can get pretty dirty, pretty fast!

Baby Tate was soooo good all day! He was content to sit in the backpack or on a blanket on the beach!




This is about as far in as they ever got! The water was pretty cold and the mud was very slippery.



We were going to spend the night and then go home in the morning but it started raining around 5:30 and we didn't really want to stay after that. It would have been so hard to entertain the kids in the tent all night!

Bee's Game

A couple of weeks ago we went to a Bee's game up in Salt Lake. Bert got free tickets from work so we headed up with Tiff, Erin and her fam, and Casey! We had a good time! I was worried that it would drag out and be too long for the kids and for me (because sometimes my attention span is as long as the kids when it comes to sporting events ;) , but it actually went pretty fast and no one ever complained of being bored.The boys spent most of the night looking and asking for The Bee! They always wanted to know where he was and if he was out entertaining crowds they would get excited and point. Just now as I uploaded these pics and started blogging them, they saw the picture and were just as excited and are asking to go to the Bee game again. It was a lot of fun!

Singin in the Rain

Some of the Keele women got together last week and went to see Singin in the Rain at the Hale Center Theater. I had so much fun! They did a great, great job with it! That has been one of my favorite musicals for a long time! I used to watch that movie all the time growing up. It reminds me of my Grandma Williams and I wished so much that she could have been there with me watching it! I had a great time ladies! Let's do it again real soon!

(L to R - Peggy, Terri, Nicole, Jessica, Lynette and Ali in the front row)

My cute little cross-dresser!

I bought 2 new pairs of shoes about 2 weeks ago and the boys can't get enough of them. They ask to wear them around the house and sometimes they don't ask and they just come walking out of my room with them on! It's pretty funny to watch Cooper try to walk in them! He does look really cute in them, doesn't he?

Payson Lake

We went up to Payson Lake on Friday with some of my family. It was a really fun day! We took Erin and Dave's canoe and just played in the water and on the beach. I think the kids really enjoyed themselves!