RCC Soccer Camp!

Later in the day after we danced in the rain we took the kids down to an elementary school in Kent where our church was hosting a free 2 day soccer camp. Last year Owen was old enough to go, but we decided to wait one more year so both the boys could go together.

 

 

After getting their shirts....that were the smallest size they came in...hilarious! They headed across the field to get their soccer balls.

 

 

Mr. Richie stopped by to get some Zeke snuggles. Mr. Richie is wonderful with the kids and he always and I do mean always has Skittles for the kids. Some of the kids actually call him the Skittle Man!

 

 

Look at how big these handsome boys are getting!

 

 

Since we arrived early the boys were able to just kick their balls around and play for a bit before the structured activities started.

 

 

They were expecting about 140 kids, but since it had been pouring that week I think a bunch of people decided to stay home. While we were there we just got drizzled on for about 5 minutes.

 

 

After a while we got out the blanket and settled down. Ella and Zeke had fun together!

 

 

She loves to maul her baby brother...thankfully he doesn't mind too much!

 

 

Maybe a little!

 

 

Then it was time to begin. First all the kids had to gather in the middle of the field and then they split the kids up according to gender. The boys lined up to do some warm up/stretching exercises.

 

 

Running across the field and then coming back bringing their legs up really high.

 

 

After stretches they split the kids up according to age and then they played some games.

 

 

Beautiful spectator!

 

 

This is Jack's friend Hansie...I hope I spelled that right. Jack talks about him all the time. They are in the same class at church. Jack is very much attached to Owen so it's been wonderful to see him branch out and make his own friends. I hope the friendship that these boys have started turns into a lifelong one!

 

 

Entertaining the little munchkin!

 

 

The final huddle of the night!

 

On our way we decided to treat the kids to caramel sundaes from MCD's.

 

 

Owen kept saying he didn't like caramel...blah blah blah...then he tried it! Surprise, surprise he liked it! Such a silly boy!

 

 

YUMMY!

 

 

Caramel lips!

 

 

This was probably a bad idea...

 

 

As you can imagine he and everything he could possibly touch or spill on was a sticky mess! It was fun though!

 

The next night Michael took the 3 older ones by himself so I could stay home and take care of some garage sale business. At the end of the camp each of the kids got to keep their soccer balls and their shirts. It was great fun and we can't wait for the boys to participate next year.

Dancing In The Rain!

A couple weeks ago we had a week of rain. I don't mean sprinkles...it was torrential downpours! One afternoon while Logan and Zeke were sleeping I thought it might be fun to go outside and dance in the rain with the kids.  

 

 

Ella Bean was the first to venture out.

 

 

Then Owen ran through.

 

 

Here comes Jack!

 

 

Then I got out there with them and jumped and danced around.

 

 

It was so fun seeing them enjoy themselves!

 

 

Doing some funky moves!

 

 

Then Jack wanted to dance with Ella.

 

 

Then Owen danced with Ella. One thing I didn't get a picture of...because I was a participant...was Owen dancing with me. It was so precious. He asked me and then he wanted to slow dance and twirl me. Melt my heart!

 

 

Drenched!

 

 

Then Ella decided to take a load off and sit on this box on our deck not knowing it wasn't stable. Oops! We were all laughing....it was a fun reprieve from the normal everyday stresses!

 

 

Love my life....love these kiddos!

The Last Of The Disney Shirts!

 On Tuesday the 25th my friend Angie came over to spend the day with me. While she was here I got so much stuff done...it's crazy what you can accomplish when you have a friend to keep you company and talk with. One of the things I had been putting off was finishing up the Disney shirts for Zeke. I had pretty much burned myself out making the ones for the older kids. Anyways it was time to finish them up!

 

 

 

Zeke's pirate shirt had to be a little different than Owen and Jack's since his shirt was a darker red than theirs. I had to use yellow for the bandana since red just blended in with the shirt.

 

For his second shirt I was going to make a shirt that looked like he was wearing a Mickey tie, but then Jack asked me to make a shirt with Pluto on it. I went to Joann's and got the Pluto decal at 50% off. so it was less than $2! The shirts both cost me $3.88 at Wal-Mart.

 

 

I was going to cut out letters to spell DOG, but I didn't really want the word dog on my sons shirt. Then it dawned on me that Mickey always calls Pluto his PAL and I thought that was cute! I love the way I was able to make Pluto peek out around the 'L'.

 

Each kid has 2 appliqued shirts for the trip. Now the next project is to make the trip timeline that will hang in the car so the kids will have a visual of where we are going and how close we are. Only more months until our trip!

Let's Take A Dip!

The kids finally talked me into putting the pool for the first time a couple weeks ago. The weather hadn't necessarily been HOT yet, but the kids were dying to go in the water.

 

 

Thankfully the pool is easy to inflate with the car compressor. It took probably 10 minutes to fully inflate it. Add water and...

 

 

I had some excited kids on my hands!

 

 

Owen doing some funky dance!

 

 

Testing the waters!

 

 

Happy Girl! Since the weather hadn't been nice I didn't have Logan's swimsuit so she just used one of Zeke's Little Swimmers.

 

 

While the kids were swimming I set up the towels in the sun so they'd be nice and warm for them. I also put out my blanket so I could lay down and soak up some rays. I told the kids that the area with the towels needed to stay dry. Of course within 5 minutes I caught Owen splashing water at Jack while he was laying on his towel! That's when Owen got put in the "penalty box" aka his towel. He had to sit there for 5 minutes not getting to play. That happened twice!

 

 

Jack spent most of his time running back and forth from the pool to his towel....he towel was soaking wet!

 

 

When Zeke woke up I put water in the water table for him to play with.

 

 

Owen is great at photo bombs!

 

 

Once the kids got more used to the freezing your toes off water they started splashing and run and doing all sorts of tricks in the water.

 

 

Using the inflatable sizes to help with your cool water tricks is a must!

 

 

Bouncy...bouncy...bounce!

 

 

Ella was trying to get out of the pool, but then slipped and feel in! It was funny!

 

 

Cute baby boy was soaked from his play time! You might notice the red spots on the back of his legs. Well he finally had his appointment with the dermatologist and Zeke has officially been diagnosed with eczema. The doctor prescribed two different steroid creams...one for his face and diaper area and then another for his arms and legs. We also rub him down with Eucerin moisturizing cream....the kind in the tub not the pump. It's good stuff! His skin already looks gorgeous now!

 

 

See his sweet red cheeks...so glad his skin is healing now. Hate seeing my baby suffer!

 

Of course a few days after we put the pool up we had a week of rain! We drained the pool and set it up by the house so it wouldn't kill the grass. I'm sure it will get lots more use this summer though!

My Girl!!!

 

~ Ella Grace ~

 

It just amazes me that she can be as gorgeous as I think she can get and then she wakes up the next morning even more gorgeous than the day before!

 

Love that girl and her spunk!

There's Nothng Like Splashin' Around...

In the toilet!

 

 

Especially when it wasn't flushed!!!

 

 

And of course you should most definitely play with a toy in the water...

 

 

This little piggy got dunked in the pee water!

 

 

Hahahaha!!!!

 

 

He had the time of his life and then he got cleaned!!!