Flag Football Season

Again, we finish another flag football season. This year was Taylor's 2nd year and we could see lots of improvement. Taylor played really hard and was really good at pulling flags on defense. He even had a couple long runs (one only yards short of a TD). We are really proud of him for working so hard this year.

Austin's Summer of Soccer

Well, we were really excited to start Austin in his first competitive sport this summer...good old soccer. He was so excited to start the season, he would talk about it all the time and practice in the house and in the yard. However, once we go him out in the field on game day, something would click, and he just didn't want to be out there. We got him to play a few minutes and he enjoyed being goalie, as long as Dad was right there behind him. I think he learned a lot, and there are still a few more games, so we'll see what happens.

Middle Child Syndrome...

I have always worried about the whole "middle child" thing. I've never wanted Austin to feel neglected or anything because he is the middle child, although assuming we have more kids, he won't always be. But I just realized I just posted one post about Taylor and one about Emma, so being the fair mom that I am, I figured I better post one about Austin. But WARNING...the pictures following are kind of gross!!! The other day I accidentally ran over Austin's toe with the shopping cart. OOOPPS!! He insists on climbing all over the cart...so it was bound to happen one of these days. Needless to say, we make quite the scene in Walmart. Anyway, thanks to that little accident, Austin is now in the process of losing a toenail and Ira thought it would be cool to take some pics....don't look if you think you'll be grossed out!!

Watch out...little diva is here!

So it's been a new experience for me being the mother of a little girl. It is crazy to me just how much being "girly" comes naturally. Emma has only brothers and yet she is ALL girl. Here is a picture of Emma modeling her little tutu I made her. She loves to twirl around in it. The next pictures of Emma wearing these little boots she found the other day at Old Navy. She is obsessed with shoes. She saw them and insisted that I put them on her. Once they were on her feet she just grinned and grinned. And let me tell you, when I took them off of her to put them back she threw a pretty good little tantrum. She could get a little expensive!!! She loves to shop and she's not even two! But look how cute the boots are....at least she has good taste ;

He's all grown up!!

So i always forget that the pictures are going to go up in the opposite order so they are always backwards from what i wanted...but oh well! Taylor turned 6 on Wednesday. I can hardly believe it...where did the time go? And even more than that, when did I possibly get old enough to have a six-year-old child?!?! The day after Taylor turned 6, he had his first day of first grade!! It is so weird to have him gone all day. I get him up and get him ready and then i don't see him until almost 4:00! But he is loving it already and doing so well. He is such a good boy and we love having him in our family. On Saturday we had a party for him with all his friends. It went really well except for the small fit Taylor threw when he was the first one to get out when we played "Hot Kryptonite" (our version of hot potato). He's still working on the being a good sport thing :) Gotta have a little drama right?!?! Oh yeah, my neighbor went to lunch with her little boy on the first day of school and she sent me a picture of Taylor having his first school lunch. I was so nervous that he would trip and spill his lunch everywhere and then be starving all day...but he did just perfectly!

Horseback Riding

A friend of ours took Tay, Austin, Emma and Daddy to a ranch to go horseback riding. The kids had a blast, and I couldn't believe how well they did riding by themselves.