Soccer Champs!

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Ansley was fortunate to join up with a team that has (for the most part) played together for a couple of years. The coach is amazing and does such a great job working with the girls and really teaching them skills. They won their little championship tonight but it was stressful! The game was still tied (0-0) at the end so it went into over time - they played two 5 min quarters and it was STILL tied, so...it went into a shoot out (penalty kicks- not cool!!!). Ansley was one of the 5 girls to do a kick (the goalie stopped it). At the end of each team having their 5 kicks, it was tied at 1-1 so it went to sudden death with the kicks and we won!! Ansley plays goalie at least once at some point in the game, but thankfully she didn't have to be goalie for this! The girls also had their playoff game for the older division (U10) today. At the end of overtime it was 1-1 so we went to penalty kicks then also, but we lost that one :-(. We actually played that game (against the older girls) before the younger championship one, so the girls really did well - they were not playing with fresh legs by the time their age level game started.

Glad to have a rest from soccer now (only Cole is playing basketball at this time). Ansley said she was sad soccer was over, so I am thankful she wasn't sick of it. We have had fun watching her play, but it's time for a little break!!

One of the pics is of Ansley getting ready to do her penalty kick. Just a wee bit stressful for mom! :-)

Easter

Here's some pics from Easter weekend. We decorated eggs, made resurrection rolls, talked through the resurrection eggs, egg hunting of course, and made bunny cupcakes (yes, I know some of the bunny's are a little evil looking!). Kallie had fun on her first egg hunt. She threw all her eggs on to the trampoline and then climbed in there with the eggs to look at them. Chris and I had fun being the hiders :-)

Lukey Luke

This little guy is such a mess. He is constantly getting into stuff - pulls things down out of his closet that I have stored, gets into our craft items, pulls out puzzles, literally makes messes all the time. And then it turns into a battle when he has to clean them up!

One Sunday morning he was dressed for church in a nice polo style shirt. I saw him a few minutes later with a jacket on over it & didn't think much of it since it was cool out. We then got to church and he took his jacket off and jumped out (I now realize this was all planned on his part!)... Looked over and saw he had changed shirts - had on an old t shirt that had a bleach stain with a nice sweater vest on over. I wanted to laugh at how he looked but took a picture instead :-)

He also has had a few cuts and bruises in the last few weeks. A run in with the fence and then fell off the little power wheels jeep and got a nice cut above his eye (a Dr who lives on our neighborhood stopped by to look at that one- saved us a trip to the ER!!)