Shelly's Beat BBQ Boredom™ House Party

We had another PARTY....  this time we grilled pizza...  YES you read that right we GRILLED pizza and it was GOOD... THANKS NEAL...

Ethan's Birthday Party

The best party of a summer birthday having a swimming party.  The worst party of a summer birthday having it storm during you pool party.  Here we are trying to wait out the storm with food, cake and ice cream.  We also opened presents.  The pool finally opened and stayed open for all of 15 minutes before more lightening.  The storm won.  BUT everybody had a good time. 

Happy Birthday Ethan...

Family Vacation

We just spent a week on vacation at Disney.  Yes yes I hear the shock.  We did lots of stuff we haven't done already.  Really there is stuff we haven't done.  We did 3 tours Behind the seeds at Epcot and 2 at Disney Family magic and Mickey's milestone magical tour.  The family magic was a scavenger hunt around the park.  Emma LOVED it.  The Milestone tour was exactly what Riley wanted to do.  the behind the seeds at Epcot had a little for everybody.  we went to Whispering Canyon for Ethan's birthday an what a sport he is.  One of the many things they did to embarrasses him was make him do the hokey pokey for the whole restaurant.  Here are some of the pictures we took while we were have fun in the HOT Disney Sun......

Soccer is over and swimming has begun

Soccer season has ended and we had to do ALOT of bribing to get Emma in the game.  She did LOVE the tunnel after the game and wouldn't miss the chance to run through it.  Emma LOVED her coach well as long as she would stand next to her on the field.

Riley finished his soccer season on the same day swim meets started...  He played a game at 8:30 am then ran over to the swim meet that started at 7:00 am.  What a busy day for him.  His soccer coach wasn't the easiest this year.  His goal was to get the kids more competitive;  which meant Riley got to run laps during games since he liked to play with whom ever was sitting next to him.  He was able to get Riley to break out of just playing defense.

Ethan and Riley are on their 3rd season of summer swim league.  At the first meet both boys improved every time for EVERY Stroke Riley's free style got better by 6 seconds.  Ethan improved his breast stroke by 3.5 seconds his back by almost 5 seconds and his free by almost 1.  Both the boys also raced on relay teams and did well.  There is fewer meets this year then years past so it will be interesting to see how well they will improve.

On a side note...  I learned an important lesson from Ethan on Saturday also.  Ethan is really growing up.  He is not the fastest swimmer on the team but fast enough to be put on a relay.  Several of the boys on the relay team were not happy Ethan was on the team and let him know that.  I don't know if Ethan knows I that I saw this since I was on the other side of the pool; but I saw how they were giving him a hard time.  It really hurt my feelings.  Ethan had to tell me it didn't matter and he was OK.  What a lesson to learn "let it go"  I can't do that if you know me.  We got the results of the swim meet and the boys making fun of Ethan did swim faster then him but by less the 8 seconds.  Again Ethan reminded me It's OK.  Heck I couldn't swim 50 yards in 36 seconds.

I'm very proud of my kids.  Sorry no pictures this time forgot camera.

Comparing Toe Injuries

For those who have been around us lately know that are feet have been suffering.  On good Friday I decided to move a wall with my little toe.  The wall didn't move.....  

Ethan was helping me get dinner ready Sunday May 16 and if you ask him he was winning a knife fight.  But I need a new crock pot now since it got broken some how. 

Soleil® Spread the Sunshine House Party

We had another House Party!!!  Bic Soleil gave everybody Razors ear buds and sunglass cases.  We had alot of fun!!! 

Star Wars weekend

The boys LOVE Star Wars...  Disney is doing their Star Wars weekends and May 22 I took the boys down.  (after swim practice and 2 soccer games)  They had alot of fun and want to make it a yearly trip.  Ethan decided to spend some money on his new "backpack".  Now he wants a Chewbacca costume so he can put Yoda on back.  The only disappointing time of the day was Riley really wanted to get 'Caption Rex's" autograph...  well you had to get a ticket that they handed out starting at 8:45 and they were all out by 8:58.  We didn't even head down until 12:30.  Oh well...