Soccer fun

As I am posting this, we are finished with soccer. Brady had his last soccer game this morning and since I haven't posted any pictures from the season, I figured we would have a lot of pictures all at one time.

Since this is the first sport he has been able to play, since they aren't available where we live until they are in kindergarten, it was a change. At first he was having a hard time, "Mom, I'm not good!" I kept telling him that everyone else was just learning too, so stop worrying so much!

By the end of the season he had a blast and loved it! He had so much fun playing and had a smile on his face the whole time. He seemed to understand the rules and was quite intense about following the ball. You should have seen the last game when he was goalie, hilarious! He needed some reigning in, because he was going to get that ball!

It liked watching him learn and start to excel at something, but now we will take a break. I am not too excited for the next sport, touch football, so we will take a break and hopefully will have a basketball player next!

Carter enjoying his breakfast, too cute not to post!

Brady's first soccer black eye! I believe this was from his second game.


Brady as goalie


Brady throwing the ball, love that Carter is right on the field!


Brady with his trophy, the soccer ball rolls, he thinks it is so cool!

Team picture, I wish he would smile!

Pumpkin patch and corn maze

Last year we went north and we did the same this year. It was a lot of fun, getting pricey the older the kids get and they love the corn maze, so that makes it even more. Here are some pics from our outing.

Bryce with the kids

Creative Canning

This year was the first time that I really canned. Last summer I did some peaches with my at my in-laws and that was a learning experience, since I had never canned before in my life. Crazy, since my mom canned like crazy when I was little, but I was too little to remember.

So I went crazy, I ordered a 26 pound box of apples from Bountiful Baskets and then I ordered 96 pounds of pears, yes, crazy! Over conference weekend I canned like crazy. I made: apples, applesauce, pears and then fruit cocktail, because I added a half a box of peaches to make it more fun!

The fruit cocktail is frozen so no canning there, not that it didn't take a lot of time to do. I am happy with the results and glad that canning really is only once a year! Maybe next year I will do it again, if I am that crazy again!

I was amazed at how Leilani and Carter were. They were so awesome to make up games and keep themselves entertained, without tv. I had to put up a table, since I had no where to put all of the unfinished cans and they made a cute game using old lids and tops from other cans.

Here are all of the cans and the kids' air-hockey table:

Rollin' and eatin'

A month or so ago I made some whole wheat buns using our favorite bread recipe found here . I have tried making buns by just balling them up and then cutting them in the middle, I found that they are crumbly and very messy. My sister-in-law gave me this idea and it worked great!


I rolled out the dough and took a big cup to cut them into circles. Place on a cookie sheet and bake, I believe it was for about 12-15 minutes. Match up similar circles for your sandwiches or burgers and yum! They weren't crumbly and were very soft, even Bryce said, "Not nearly as bad as I thought they were going to be." Thanks babe!

Here are some cute pictures of the kidlets helping me roll them out.

I think Carter liked eating the dough raw, more then cooked!

June Pics

Most of you know that I am probably one of the worst bloggers out there, but I also have to tell you that I think about posts all of the time and never get to them. So, I decided to back-post some pictures that I really wanted to share but either forgot or couldn't because my computer was down or I hadn't uploaded the pictures to my computer, both are true!
June was a fun month with lots of activities, mostly Aspen Grove. There are lot of pictures, but I did cut back on a lot of them!


Brady stretching with his best friend at Track Camp in the beginning of June. It was hot, but they sure had a blast!

Working on his running technique.

Carter's first hair cut! I need to cut his again, he has the most hair of any of my other kids had at his age.

Sporting his new do. Poor little nose, he had a crash on our tile floor earlier that week.

Brady in his rock climbing gear. Have I said how much I loved Aspen Grove?

Leilani's group, the Trompers doing their cheer on stage.

Leilani, so happy to be a corn! Each group did a skit from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream coat, I believe her song was the Elvis song and something abour corn, obviously!

Brady's group the Bobcats doing their cheer on stage.

Brady's group doing their skit from Joseph

Brady dancing with his first "love" Auri, he still talks about her and his sister loves to tease him about it!

Carter loving his Moma (Bryce's mom)

Carter dancing and having fun!

Carter and Leilani ready to go after a long week at camp. Carter is holding Leilani's hand, I think this is so sweet :)

My 3 little Cougars

Family Picture on the bridge

Free Mockingjay

I am trying to win this book, Mockingjay, the last of the Hunger Games. I still have not picked it up, but will soon!

http://myrnafoster.blogspot.com/2010/09/late-mockingjay-giveaway.html

Check it out!

Ballet class

Today Leilani went to her first dance class. She was so excited. When we tried on shoes in the store she instantly started twirling and pretending to do ballet, it was so cute!

I was a little nervous, because I dropped her off and didn't stay, other than to take a few pictures. She has a few friends in the class and a mom is the teacher, so that was a relief. She went straight to her friends and that was it! She didn't want to take off her leotard once we were home, fun for her.
All of the little girls were so cute, it was so much fun to see them all!

I am glad that she had fun, she has been dancing around the house since she could walk, so it is nice to be able to have her in a class. It is also so much fun for her to make friends, her friends have been Brady's for so long so this is the year of friends for her!

After I typed this all up, I realized the use of FUN, every other word almost, sorry! It was so much fun though :)