Thunder

The boys are playing this soccer this spring!  They are both on team Thunder and are even playing against the older age group to have enough teams to play for the season... that just means that our boys have to work that much harder since it's been a couple of years since they have played and they aren't part of a returning team.  

For the first game the boys were all still figuring out how to work together and what positions everyone was.  We lost 2-0, but our goalie really did a great job and saved us on quite a few attempts on goal!

Here is Grant and Talmage walking out for the beginning of the game.

Half time talk with coach

The girls have made friends with the other little siblings on the team.  They had a great time riding and pulling this wagon during the game. 

Jeff had to go help with a baptism so he didn't get to stay the whole game.  Here he is giving some advice before the boys go out for the second half. 

We will have many a Saturday at the soccer fields this spring.  It will be fun to see the boys progress in their soccer skills ;).  Go team Thunder!

Castle Park

On Thursday we met up with friends from Fort Worth at our old "Castle Park."  I didn't realize there was an obstacle course there too!  The older boys were organized and running through the course.  It was fun to watch them :).  Oh and they were timing each other too!

There was this monkey bar set that was part of the course but none of the kids were tall enough to get up it.  After we (the mom's) bugged the boys about it, Talmage went up to get up them :)

After making it to the top he went across!  So cool to see my kid working it out on the obstacle course!  Way to go Talmage!

Grant's timed run...

Over the walls

Around the poles and then through the cement tunnel and back to the start to end the timer!

Talmage's timed run...
Over the wall

The tall wall :)

Around the poles and through the tunnel and then back to the start!

Clark and Lorna playing on the playground.  Sarah was such a good friend to my babies :)

Sandra and Cherilyn

Lorna likes to be like the big kids

Slide!

Feeding the ducks :)

It was a beautiful day and the kids had a great time!  The mommy's had a great time too!

First Speech

Our spring break was so busy this year partly because we had a 4-H speech competition to prepare for.  We had been preparing for it for about a month, but getting everything ready was very tedious, especially with everything else we had to keep up with during that time.  

Talmage gave a speech about raccoons - how they have migrated from the rain forests to the cities, how you can tell if you have a raccoon problem and then how to safely remove the raccoons.  He did a lot of research on it and put his speech together really well.  He helped make the poster boards and really did a great job.  He is a confident speaker and does well interacting with adults, which is great because the judges are adults and they get to ask questions at the end of the speech!  For the county competition no one was competing in the same category as Talmage so he took 1st place, but I think even if he did have competition he would have done well!  He got a score sheet from the judges afterwards and it was scored really high :).

Grant gave his speech on super powers.  He identified real people with real super powers and talked about different types of powers people can have.  He then taught how to develop 3 different types of super powers.  He was really interested in this topic and did a lot of great research on his own.  It was fun to see him excited about something like giving a speech :).  He had a girl in his same category and she took 1st place, but he also did really well!  

Next we go to district for the next level of competition!  That will be an exciting experience!

Congratulations to our awesome 4-H kids!

Refashion day

Wednesday of Spring Break I hung out with Tiffany and we had a sewing day.  I refashioned each of my girls one of their pair of jeans into a skirt.  It was a fun idea off pinterest.  I think the adult version probably looks better (since women have more hips than girls), but the girls love them and it was a pretty easy sewing project - especially by the third one!

Here they are modeling their skirts...

Lorna, Sandra, and Mhari

working the poses

Mhari

Sandra

Lorna... not quite so good with the posing

Tiffany got a pair of pj's made, a skirt for her and a hat too.  It was a pretty productive day all around :).  

Spring Break!

Spring Break came and went so fast that I'm not even sure it was a break ;).  We played with lots of friends on Monday and went to a cool park on Tuesday with friends.  Here is the evidence of our fun Tuesday :).  

The hard part with so many kids and trying to take pictures is that they are always all over the park and it's hard to get photos of them.  Well, the park happened to be pretty busy that day so I snuck some photos while we ate lunch :).

Here are some of the kids eating.

Lorna sharing our friends food

Mhari, Grant and Talmage at the trash can... yup that's how I got a photo of them.

We sat by this small hill while we ate and the kids decided it looked like a great spot to play.  

Lorna and her friend :)

The sad part is that this was a really cool park and I hadn't taken any pictures of that with the few photos I took.  Right before we called it a day Lorna was playing by this trash can (since there are stairs up to it) and I decided to try to get a good shot of her and the park.  Now you can see how cool this wooden castle park really is.  I'm sure we will be back again to explore without quite so many other friends on spring break with us :)

Love her ;)

Sleepy

Our little Clark is such a sweetie.  He just keeps growing and trying to keep up with all of the older kids.  They are so good with him and just help him become part of their fun!  He is going to be 4 this summer and so he is trying to let go of his naps.  He still takes them but they aren't very long anymore.  This day we were out and about and he missed taking a nap.  He was going strong until dinner.  It was the cutest thing to see him sit there and slowly nod his head until he just put it down on his arm.  Then he still tried to feed himself while he was laying sideways on the table.  He didn't last long after that ;).  

Oh our big dog just keeps growing up.  We love you Clark!

Silly Bug and Dog

Lorna is growing up so fast.  She is so smart and fun too!  She knows where the snacks are and really likes to eat before it's time for bed.  She has gotten so good that she just goes and gets a bowl out and food and sits up to the table with her food.  

I did help her with her snack this night, but she is a cutie!

She also likes peek-a-boo :)

Boo!

She was being cute with Daddy and honking his nose (missed that photo).  She honks all of our noses if we let her.  Here she is honking Clark's!

She also gives kisses if you ask... sometimes :)

She also likes to play with Daddy!  Here he is tickling her.  She is just waiting to get tickled :)

Clark's turn

Daddy likes to play with his fingers as rhinos.  The kids wave to him and such with their little rhinos ;)

 Lorna and Clark are such good friends.  They love playing together.  Here they are hiding from us!

Back to check on Daddy who was ready to fall asleep for his Sunday nap :)

Kisses

They are such cute, silly kids!