Buh Bye for now.

Hey.

So I am pretty sure that my frequent blogging days have come to an end. I am still keeping this though, so don't totally leave. Still check back! Or add me to your reader. Or something. I will try my super hardest to blog more, but like all mothers of 3 who happen to work full time, work in each of the kids' classrooms 1 hour a week, as well as coaching a kinder girls soccer team, who tries to feed her kids healthy dinners all while keeping up the laundry of said 3 girls, I am busy. Insanely so. Exhaustingly so.

I still have things I would like to document and hopefully I will work some of those memories free soon so I can blog about them. For now though I am saying buh bye. See ya soon I hope.

Me

Its the most wonderful time of the year - Soccer Time!

Its soccer time! What a wonderful day at the fields. Maddy's team lost, but seriously only because those girls were exhausted . No lie. The yellow team had 5 subs, to the black teams 0 subs. And the girls moved into a bigger field. A much bigger field. I seriously think it's twice the size of the Kinder/1st grade fields. AND they play for 25 min halves. So the Black Hawks were running their little hearts out. They were leading 1-0 for most of the game, but the Yellow girls ended up scoring 3 goals on them in the last 5 minutes or so when my girls just couldn't do it any more. I was super proud of them. For reals. I am normally not the Black Hawks coach either. My hub & father in law are the coaches, but they are both out of town this weekend at the Ducks football game so it was Coach Stacey to the rescue!

Alex's team WON! What an amazing bunch of kinder girls we have. I am one of her coaches, but had to miss the whole game because both the girls' games were at the exact.same.time. (Like half of the rest of the season too) They won 3-0. Alex even got to play for the opposite team for a few minutes because they just didn't have enough girls today.

I am super excited for this soccer season. I love pretty much every thing about it. Well, except for when it pours down rain. Or when it snows. Since both have been known to happen around here. Lets go Black Hawks & Blue Unicorns! (Alex totally came up with her team name too. The Blue Unicorns. How flippin cute is that?!)

Maddy with the ball. Doncha just love the "M" wristband?

Lets go #1 er, 1's! Alex rocks.

Hustle!

Are the games over yet? And yes, I have boogers. What's it to ya?

Post game pic of the really sweaty soccer girls.

Coach Stacey & the soccer super stars. Oh and Peyton too.

First day of school! (Ok ok, it was a few days ago, but I'm busy!)

Here they are folks! What I am sure you have all been waiting for. First day of school pics! Maddy is my great big 2nd grader, and Alex is in Kinder! Holy moly that went fast. They both had fantastic first days. Maddy has her two BFF's in her class again and Alex has a bunch of boys in her class but since she is pretty much a tomboy herself she won't have any problems finding a best friend soon.

WOW!

My girl Alex is amazing. She is! She woke up yesterday morning and said, "Momma, I want to get my ears pierced." I was pretty shocked that she had made that decision to be quite honest. See, I offered for her to get hers done at the same time as Maddy back in July and she adamantly refused. There was NO WAY IN H E Double hockey sticks that anyone was going to come close to her with an ear piercing gun. Nuh uh. So, since I had told her that anytime she decided she wanted to get them done, we would go out as soon as we could. It happened to be a good day yesterday so off to Claire's we went. When we got there, she sat up in the ear piercing chair and she was ready. I had asked for them to do a double piercing, so we could get it done all at once and they stepped up, counted to three, pulled the trigger and voila, Alex has pierced ears. With.Out.A.Tear.Shed. Nothing. Not even a squeak came out of that girls mouth. Like I said, Alex is amazing. Now, bring on Kinder!

Pip Squeak

You know that old saying, "When life hands you lemons, make Lemonade?" Well I have a new one for you. "When life hands you a toddler covered from head to foot in VASOLINE, Blog about it!"

Another one bites the dust

My 7 year old daughter has become an Oregon Ducks Football fan. We're talking a big fan. HUGE. Its cute, but also a teensy bit disturbing. I mean come on.
1. She's a 7 year old.
2. She's a 7 year old GIRL.
3. Did I mention she's a SEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL?!

Is it me? Am I that out of sync with little girls? I thought they were supposed to be obsessing over Hannah Montana and Barbies & stuff. Not when & who the Oregon Ducks are playing.

This morning she was super excited. Her Ducky's are playing tonight. She got up, got dressed, brushed her hair & teeth, made her bed, came into my room, went into my closet, picked out MY clothes because she wanted me to to wear a GREEN shirt, then went into Peyton's room and picked out Pip's clothes because she wanted her to wear her Ducks tee shirt, all with out me saying one word to her. Then she says to Trav "Daddy! I am so excited because the Ducks are on TV tonight! I want some new Ducks clothes because mine are all too small now." And of course, when anything has to do with the Ducks Trav is all for it and tells her he will get her some soon.

And you know what Alex said? "The ducks are poopy butts, GO BEAVERS!"

So the war continues....