Spring Soccer!

Soccer Season is in full swing...er kick!

 Katelynne's team name this season are the (Green Apple) Jolly Ranchers :) For the first time in a few years they don't have red uniforms and Coach Andy was able to get a fun Kelly Green color. 

The girls are having fun together in their last season together after so many years. Next year most of the girls will move to  Select (Club) Soccer and since they have to try out for that and are placed according to skill level, they won't all be on the same team again. It's been a FUN few years with a fantastic group of girls from all over the city and different schools and the best coach who is so kind to the girls and coaches with positive reinforcement - we lucked out big time when we were placed on the team the very first season that she played!

Thanks to Gramps, Grandma Mary and Grandpa Willie for driving up for the big game on Saturday!

The girls loved "winning" their zero minute game due to forfeit but it was still really fun to see everyone on such a beautiful spring day!

Go Jolly Ranchers!!!

Cousins!

Sam and Nat came over and got to spend the night on the pull out couch, which was very exciting! 

They loved it and thought it was REALLY fun to get to sleep on such a cool bed!  Trevor joined in the fun for the last picture (he usually sleeps with Woody or Buzz but ran to find a stuffed animal because he wanted to be just like his cousins) :)

Thanks for coming over, we love you!!

Friendship Bracelets!

 

Katelynne was able to host her friends from church for Activity Day girls for the Friendship Bracelet activity! Kassadi's Mom came to help too (Thanks Chelon!!) 

I remember making them and using safety pins to pin it to my jeans but I wasn't sure how that would work for them so I tried tape on the tile floor.  We used tie-dyed duct tape :)

The girls seemed to have a lot of fun and some of them were able to make more than one!

I love that everything that we loved as kids is coming back 'in style' - go 80's! :)

Katelynne had her Writers Camp at school the week before the TAKS test and she really loved it!  There were tents put up in her classroom and they "camped" out all week. On Friday afternoon, parents were invited to come and listen to the stories that the students in class had worked on all week. You can see a picture below of the tents and how they turned the classroom into a campground for the week.

Katelynne wrote about when Tyson, our boston terrier, died a few years ago (he was 13). I'm so proud of her sharing how she felt that day and writing such a beautiful story! She's a fantastic writer who has always given lots of 'sparkle words' to keep you engaged throughout the story.

Here are some photos of Katelynne's friends in her class, presenting their stories:

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At the end of the presentations, everyone had s'mores!

I'm so glad that I got to spend some time at the school with Katelynne for a fun activity!

Lego Fun

Trevor loves to play with his friend J.D.   Because someone at our house has been sick for the past 6 weeks (!), it's taken awhile to be able to have J.D. over to play lately so they were very excited to get together. They've had big plans to pull out the Star Wars stuff and make a movie for youtube. 

 They pulled out almost all of Trevor's Lego supplies out of his drawer in the built-ins that we have downstairs dedicated to just legos :) and had fun building fun things for Lego Star Wars and taking tons of pictures for the movie that J.D. is putting together.

They had a snack of cookies and fruit smoothies and even kept the snack right by them while they worked on legos so that they didn't miss anytime working on their video project.  All of that stuff around them are little tiny legos and boxes of more legos.  I don't know how Trevor manages to pick up every single lego when he pulls it all out but he usually does (they are so tiny!!).

Thanks for another fun day J.D., we can't wait to see the Star Wars Lego video! :)

Science Fair!

Trevor and Mommy went to the Science Fair to see Katelynne and Audrey's project because Katelynne was home sick with the flu with Daddy.  {Trevor and I came down with the flu the flu 2 days later}

You can see the red ribbons hanging on their project behind Buddy, they got 2nd Place for their project!!  Their project was "Does Active Breath Take Dog's Breath Away". They found that active play does take their stinky breath away (who knew?) :)

Mostly though, they had a lot of fun playing with the dogs and putting their project together. Way to go!!

Cowboy Trevor

Happy Texas Day!  It was the Hoedown at school and Buddy had a ton of fun!!!! Look at that handsome cowboy!