McKade starts soccer

Soccer season has once again begun and is overtaking our lives. McKade is now playing as well as Bodin. McKade jumped right in there the first practice with no hesitation, however he does run up and down the field clueless. He is more interested at smiling at everyone and anyone that is watching him. When he does get a kick in he stops to look at you, gives you a huge smile, and then continues with what he was doing. That smile is worth every penny of soccer season. He loves it, and we are hoping he gets a little more aggressive as the season continues.

McKade is always making comments that crack me up. He told me the other day that he wants to be a dad. Me: Why? McKade: So I can sit in the front seat and eat lots of gum. As he was taking a bath I told him to make sure and get is shoulders, and back. He told me he did and he was washing his knee-bo's. I am glad he has elbows and knee-bo's. The boy comes in my room on Sunday morning as we get ready for church and declares, "Bodin called me a butthead! Is that a bad word?" I let him know that is not a word we say and I am going to talk to Bodin about it. He then gets a smirk on his face and says, "Okay, I called Bodin the butthead." At least he fessed up, but really to come and get your brother in trouble for something you did. Shame on you!

First Day of School

I can't believe they are this old. McKinna started 5th grade this year, her last year in elementary school. Bodin started 3rd. It does not seem possible. Bodin has a male teacher, Mr. Tomci this year. He is super excited about that.

And off they go...

Photo Day

Landons Birthday

We love that we get to spend Landon's and Brie's birthdays with them every year. This year Jason was a trooper and took the boys fishing, his dad was a trooper too and went with him. Ben was suppose to go, but do to some bad weather got stuck in Atlanta doing a work meeting. Us girls, went shopping and out to lunch for Brie's birthday. It was a rather nice day. Now, I do not have pictures from the real birthday trip, but we did take the kids fishing another day as well. It was hotter than heck out there, but we endured until Tommy finally caught a fish and we could go. We then hit up a splash pad. It was a nice day until Van slipped and gave himself a rather enormously huge goose egg on the back of his head. It is so bad, that he now has a bad spot from it. Poor guy!

Landon had a birthday party down at the park, which got a little crazy as a monsoon was blowing in. Much fun was to be had though.

New Babies

We got to meet some new cousins while we were in AZ. First up was Zev. Isn't he handsome.

We then got to meet Sophie. Whitney and Tommy were nice enough to bless here while we were there. Thank you. She is a doll!

We were even lucky enough for Claire to make her arrival while we were in town. She is also a doll.

We go to the Dentist annually while we are in AZ. This year McKade and Journey got to join in the fun. McKade did well for his cleaning, but was not going to let them fix his small cavity. We then went to our pediatric dentist here in Texas and he still was not going to let them fix it. It is a small cavity so the dentist decided to have him come back in 6 months and see if he is any better. She is great and so patient because I wanted to kill him. He screamed and kicked and told the dentist how much he did not like her. EMBARRASSING!