Soccer

We signed Blake up for indoor soccer. He's on a team with two boys from church. On the way to his first practice, he cried and CRIED and said he didn't want to play. When we got there, his friends were kicking the ball around, and he loved it within two minutes. He is so competitive and loves to play hard. When the practice was over, he said, "I won, Mom. I got a goal." He's never played any sport, so for being his first time ever kicking a ball or playing, I thought he did really well. Now we have a ball for him to practice at home. I'm excited to see how he does in his first sport. I can already tell he's going to be athletic. More pictures to come from Blake's first soccer team.

Catch-up post

The kids playing their "drums" after church today. Blake uses his spoons to hit the metal spoon/spatula as his "cymbals."

This is what's been keeping me busy lately--preparing our RS Birthday Celebration. I loved how it turned out--so beautiful decorated with everyone's antiques, and a wonderful program. It was a lot of fun to plan out, but now I feel like I can take a deep breath.

After I went to a "rockstar" baby shower, I came home with these cool glasses. Blake loved them, put them on, and went to get his guitar to really be a rockstar.

The "snow" that we got on the daythere was supposedly snow on the forecast out here (which is not common!) It was more like lots of hail that mostly collected on the trampoline and Blake and Joel made snowballs out of it.

Another picture from the snowy day--there was snow on the mountains right behind our house--I've never seen this before. This picture was taken from my car window while Joel was selling his civic, in the picture, to our mechanic. He got a new car, Chevrolet Cobalt, so the civic is gone! Now I'm the one with the old car.

We took a trip to Garden Grove to visit my sister Cindel while my mom was there. Here are the cousins together--the best picture we could get! We went to IKEA and had fun. Blake and Julianna loved Olive's toys.

The puppy that showed up on our back door right before Valentine's day. This dog immediately warmed up to our family. It was late when found the dog, and church was the next morning, so it stayed with us until after church and slept at the bottom of our stairs. I am not a dog person, but I really loved this dog. After church we put up signs, and it turns out it's our next-door neighbor's dog! We were sad to see it go, but since then it has escaped a few more times, eager to come visit us again. I love this dog! And that is a big deal. Maybe we can get a dog like this--someday?

In other news, I've had to stop running for about a week or so because I injured my foot! I was reaching to get something out of a cupboard while standing on a chair, and a very heavy, old aluminum thermos fell directly on the top of my foot. I thought I broke my foot, the pain was so bad. But after icing it for a few hours, I was able to at least limp around. Of course the next daywas when we were going to buy the car, so I had no choice but to walk on it, and the day after that I had to teach in Relief Society, so I knew I'd be standing on my foot the whole time! But amazingly it has gotten better each day, but not enough to where I feel comfortable to run. I am only 4 weeks away from the half marathon, so I don't know what I'm going to do.

Well, I feel better being caught up now!

Because I went to BYU...

I'm not all into sports or anything, but these people had some good things to say about the BYU honor code so I wanted to share.

I do have other things to post about, and I will get to them soon!