Tuesday, August 20, 2013

First Day of School

I woke up this morning to the sound of my kids getting themselves ready for school.  I heard them each take showers and then help each other make their lunches.  When I got out of bed at 7:30 am the were all ready to go...school doesn't start until 9 am.  I was so proud of them for being such responsible independent kids.   They were all super excited for the first day of school!  

 This year Dallin will be in 6th grade, Shelby in 4th, Cody in 1st, and Darcy in Kindergarten.  So all four of my kids will be going to Foothill Elementary.
 The bus came 10 minutes earlier this year than it did last year, so it was a good thing my kids were so early today.  I was hoping to get a picture with all the cousins together at the bus stop, but because the bus was early the Cherringtons arrived just in time to jump on the bus and the Esplins missed it alltogether.

 I'm going to miss having my kids around.  This summer was a lot of fun.

Heading off to school...hope it's a great year!
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Sunday, August 18, 2013

Soccer!

This past week has been a fun one for our family.  Dallin is on a competitive soccer team called Utah Valley United.  He has been practicing with them all summer long and they had a tournament this past week.  It was the Adidas Cup Tournament and was held in West Valley.  They played on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings.  Only the top two teams from each bracket would advance to the semi-finals on Saturday.

The first game they played Dallin scored a goal within the first 5 minutes of play.  It was really awesome. Here's a picture of the goal kick.  I was so excited that I jumped up to cheer and missed taking a picture of his arms raised in victory.  So you'll just have to imagine him running with both arms raised and the biggest smile on his face!
They went on to win their first game with a final score of 2 to 1.  The second game was a hard fought game with a final score of 0 to 0.  But we were super proud of the boys for keeping their opponent from scoring any goals.  It was quite an accomplishment.  Their 3rd game we played the number one team in our bracket and tied them with a score of 1 to 1.  That was another hard fought game on a 100+ degree day.  
Our team advanced to the semi-finals and played a game on Saturday morning.  We played the number one team from the other bracket.  It was a crazy game.  We held them off the entire 1st half but unfortunately they scored a goal during the second half.  In an effort to get a goal we pulled all of our defensive players up to press for a goal and they were able to turn it over and score another goal.  So we lost that game 2 to 1.
 It was a brutal game with lots of fouling being done by the opposing team.  We were proud of our boys for having good sportsmanship and playing fair, even with the other team was playing dirty.

 It was really fun to watch Dallin and his team play.  They had Dallin playing offense and it was great to see him kick in the turbos leave everyone in the dust.  He has several great shots at the goal that were just barely stopped by the goalies.  I'm excited for the rest of their games.  They are really exciting games to watch.  I had a hard time sleeping Friday night because I was so excited for the Semi-final game the next day.  I woke up at 3 am and couldn't get back to sleep until after 6 am.  Dallin woke up around 6 am and came in saying he couldn't sleep either.  So we kept each other company for a little while until we were able to fall back asleep.

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Funny Quotes

  • Darcy came up to me the other day with a permanent marker and said, "Mom, is it okay if I use this pregnant marker to draw a picture?" January 2012
  • Darcy was in a bubble bath the other day having a great time. She made a beard out of bubbles and put bubbles on her head to make herself look like Santa. When it was time to clean off the bubbles I parted the bubbles to get down to the clear water and she said, "Oh, I didn't know there was water down there!" December 2011
  • Darcy calls hangnails or snags on her nails "Pinchies". She says "Mom, can you get this pinchie off my toe?"
  • Whenever we do something fun Darcy always says, "Lets to dat adain." I love her little voice when she says it.
  • Every morning Cody comes into my room while I'm still in bed and tells me, "Mom, it's light outside. It's time to get up." To which I reply, "Okay, let me get dressed." So now when Cody is getting dressed and I call to him his response is, "I'm getting my dressed on!" I love it. No more getting dressed at our house...its now know as "getting our dressed on".
  • I like to make fruit smoothies for breakfast sometimes. Cody calls them Smoot Moolies, so that has become the name for them at our house. The other day when I was making a smoot moolie Cody asked if he could help me make it. I said he could so he jumped up on the counter and picked up a banana. He proceed to peel it and then handed me the peel and said,"Here's the armpit mom." I wasn't sure if I heard him right so I asked him what it was called. He said, "The armpit...you know the thing that the banana is in." November 2009
  • This afternoon when we were driving to the store I had a funny conversation with Cody. “Does Matt have a house?” Cody asked. “Well, Matt is here to buy a new house.” I replied. “Ooooo, that sounds fun!”Cody said. About a minute passes and then he says “How is he going to carry it?” I’m trying my hardest not to laugh. “I think he needs a big rope.” Cody said, happy that he figured out a good solution to the problem. I just love Cody…he keeps me laughing all the time. January 21, 2010
  • I was really tired one afternoon so I flopped down on the couch and said, "I'm pooped out!" Cody came over and snuggled up to me on the couch and said, "I'm having poop time too!" July 2009
  • When I told the kids that James was going to be going to California, Cody sat up straight and excitedly said, "Like Lightening McQueen! He went to California!" October 2009
  • The other day James said to Cody, "How's my buddy?" Cody got a very serious look on his face and said, "Name's Tody!" (He still can't pronounce C's very well.) The only things he will let us call him, other than his name, is big boy or funny kid.
  • When we were first potty training Cody he said he needed to go to the bathroom during sacrament meeting at church. So I took him to the bathroom and sure enough he did his business in the toilet. This was one of the first times he ever did poops in the toilet so he was really excited. When we walked back into sacrament meeting (we were sitting near the front of the chapel) he loudly proclamed "Daddy, I did giant poops in the toilet!" December 2008
  • Cody comes up with cute names for things. Mostly because he has troubles prononcing some of his letters. Some of my favorite names are "Daddy's Toke-Toke" for Coke, "Dr. Seuse" for Dr. Pepper, the "lurnal" for urinal, and "peanutbutter jam" for peanutbutter mixed with honey in a bowl.
  • Shelby had a hard time saying her G's when she was little. So we were working with her on how to say Grandma. She could make a growling sound pretty well, so we we had her growl then say grandma, so she used her best growling voice to say "GRRRR AMA"
  • The sun was shining in Cody's eyes the other day and he pointed at it and said, "Mommy, that circle is burnin' my eyes!" January 2009
  • Heres a list of funny words our kids have come up with for things: Fwaps (Cody's word for patting Darcy's back), bednight snacks, square noodles (ramen noodles), peeps, giant poops, dishwasher (Cody says this is where we wash clothes), low-low (lawn mower), regular grandma (Shelby's way of describing the difference between Great Grandma and her (regular) Grandma, oopadaisy (Shelby)
  • When we were building our house Shelby and Dallin spent a lot of time here with me working on it. One day when I was putting up the finish trim I couldn't find the hammer. I was looking all over for it and just didn't have any luck finding it. Shelby (2 yrs old) made two fists with her little hands and said, "It's okay Mommy, you can use my bammers!" November 2005
  • When Dallin was 1 yr old, he used to love making car noises. His favorite noise to make was the sound of tires screeching and then a crash. So EVERY time we would apply the brakes in the car we would hear his little voice from the back seat..."errrr kshhhh"
  • When Dallin was about 3 years old, he always liked to sit between James and I on the couch. But his way of saying it was cute. He would say "Can I sit in the tween of you?"
  • When Dallin was about 4 years old, I let him and Shelby skip naps because we needed to go somewhere. As we were driving on the road Dallin said, "Wow, look at all these people who are skipping naps too!" I guess he thought everyone had naps during the afternoon! Summer 2005