Spring Soccer

Owen played Spring soccer with his same team from the fall and they did awesome, ending the season undefeated. Although no official score or wins/losses is kept the kids know if they won or not; so do the parents :) Owen became aggressive this spring and really went after the ball. The team entered a tournament that didn't go as well as their regular season. They ended up playing 3 teams that were a year older than them, which really made a difference and ended up loosing all 3 games. But I was so proud of Owen and his determination to continue to give it 100%! For the first tournament game 2 of his teammates spent the whole game crying on the sidelines, which left Owen and 3 other kids that really didn't try. But Owen never gave up, he was strong to the end even though he was tired and had to stay in the whole game.

These are pictures from the regular season.

Christmas 2010

Oh wow, am I way behind! And I don't have a good excuse. But since this blog is to document our lives mainly for myself I will just try to catch up in the next few days.

We continued with our Christmas Eve tradition of going to temple square during the afternoon. Again we enjoyed the temple grounds without all the hustle and bustle and without all the crowds. Ralph and Edy joined us this year and I believe they enjoyed it also. Although we don't get to see the lights we do get to feel the Christmas Spirit, which is something I love. I'm sure this will continue to be a family tradition in the years to come.

This year the we didn't even need the reminder sign, although we still put it up. Jason and I ended up waking the kids up so we could get going.

Ry's favorite gift, an IPod nano, engraved with his name on the back.
Apparently we needed more Legos at our house! Zach's fav...an IPod dock.

Owen's Pirate Birthday Party

Aaargh! Owen turned 5 years old! And to celebrate the occasion he had a pirate birthday party. He had a great time being the "cap'n" and having his buccaneers join him aboard his ship in search of the treasure. After the treasure hunt, which they did find, the pirates enjoyed pirate pizza, peanut butter planks and cannonball grapes. A couple of pirate games were played and then the cap'n got to open his presents. He had a great time and I think all the kids did too.

Cupcakes were very easy to make..Owen even helped.

Ethan and Luke

Ethan, Nicholas, Kaleb, Riley, Hallee, Isabella, Owen

Luke, Ethan, Arianna, Brody, Bridger

Owen's party was actually a day before his birthday so he had 2 days to celebrate. All Owen said he wanted for his birthday was the lego airplane...and he got it. We must really love this kid! Happy Birthday Osie...we love you and are so happy you are in our family.

HalLowEeN!

For Halloween this year we didn't even go to the pumpkin patch; nobody wanted to go. We were lucky enough, though, to have a pumpkin vine spring up at the side of our house. So we ended up with 2 pumpkins. The only boy brave enough to put his hand inside and help me scrape the seeds was Owen. Zach and Ryan wanted to design the jack-o-lanterns, but they didn't want to help clean them out. They did, however, want to dress up like girls for Halloween and they are quite cute.

Granny, ghost and cheerleader...I love it!

Zach posed like this for EVERY picture. He really got into character.
Ryan started the night with granny-style high heels, but couldn't keep up with his friends trick-or-treating so he had to take a detour and change his shoes.

Our cute little (friendly) ghost, Owen.

Zach and his friend Boston.

Zach with all his squad...and the slasher Jason, who apparently didn't get the message about what to dress up as.