Worst of 2009

ok, just because it has to be noted...
our friend Laura Albes dieing suddenly was the saddest moment of 2009...
then our neighbor's house, the DuPonts, burning down the day after Christmas...
Chris being out of work most of the year...
and my Sis AND Bro both moving to Pheonix...

Goodbye 2009

Kristen's TOP TEN 2009

1. Taylor Swift concert

2. Grease Frenchy

3. Boating/Lake House

4. Chicago

5. Family Vacation

6. My birthday/Kidnapping Kim for her birthday

7. Driving to AZ with 4 kids and Aunt Sara

8. Dad job

9. First overnight trip to Camp Wyman

10. Daniel Born

Footie jammies

Sizes 1 year to 12 years!

7 a.m.!

Jake, grandma, and grandpa all got up to watch Kate's games! She won
both and scored in both games!

DuPonts

Our good friends the DuPont's house burned down the day after Christmas. We are sad. Everyone is ok and I look forward to the day I can post the picture of the new house.

Best Christmas ever

So the new cell phone has not left her hand for the past 6 hours!

Santa coach

Santa came and coached Kristen's soccer game!

Gingerbread house

Is complete, christmas Eve dinner was a success....Santa can come!

Merry Christmas Eve!!

Happy 1st birthday Leah!

So glad we could celebrate with you!!!

Kristen show choir 2009

The pictures are not the greatest, but we could not be more proud!! I have some very sketchy video that I will try to upload later too! After the new year I will bring the camcorder and take some decent video! Way to go Kristen, you are beautiful and sing like an angel!! I am still working with imovie, do not know how to edit the music or timing just yet, but eventually I will get it.

Tough being nine

Basketball game, soccer game and bowling birthday party!! Nice to be
Wil!

Winterwonderland

It's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas

Not enough to play in but enough to make the Christmas music seem
merrier!!!

Kate's winter party

Here is Kate playing left-right at her holiday party! So sad that it
is her last school Christmas party, growing up does stink sometimes!
And although Kristen doesn't have school parties anymore, she took
small stockings with candy and ornaments to 10 different teachers, her
class went to the movie theatre and then she performed her show choir
dance for her school! Fun day for all!!!

School Christmas parties

Well school is out for the winter break! The kids had a great time!
This is Wil playing heads or tails at his party. He didn't win this
game but won two others and was very excited about the bulldog stuffed
animal he won.

Fractured Fairy tale

Check out William's Fractured FAIRY TALE...HERE!

Bath

Dear William... When your little boy has a fit for the one hundredth
time about how much he HATES taking a shower or bath, especially when
he just took one the day before yesterday (seriously what is the deal
with little boys and washing???)... And when he finally goes upstairs
and gets in the tub and he dumps the whole bottle of bubble bath in
the tub... I am go to send u this post!!!! Love-Mom

Birthday tulips

My birthday was awesome! Thanks to all my family and friends who made
it special! I said I was only going to keep this blog for a year to
give my children a glimpse into their lives in 2009, but I see that it
has grown into much more...we will see what my 42nd year of life
holds... Thank you Kristen, Kate, and Wil for giving me more opportunities
than I could ever have imagined!

Birthday soccer game

Soccer birthday game and u get to play goalie for last 9 minutes!
Sweet! Winner!!

Party pics

Thanks to everyone who came and made the day awesome for Wil! We missed our other cousins and can't wait to see them in a few weeks!

Happy 9th Birthday, Wil!

I guess it's official when it's on TV! So happy for him, but sad for
me. It is terribly cliche when people say that the time with your kids
goes by so fast, but it is painfully true! Happy Birthday, William,
you make my life and our family complete, we love you!!

Soccer and grandparents

Grandma and grandpa have been in town all week celebrating Wil's
birthday. Alhough we had a fairly light week, we still managed to take
them to breakfast with Santa and 4 soccer games! Wil played his first
ever indoor futsol soccer game, against 7 th grade girls! Although
they lost it was fun to watch them learn the game and they hustled the
whole time! KJ lost her indoor game, but they had no coaches and were
missing 4 players:-(... She will do better next time g and g are in
town. Kate won her first futsol game (and scored) and lost the second
one(she was just helping out the second game and had limited playing
time). All the kids were very excited that g and g came and watched
them play.

Kate

Frog jammies (super soft)... I am sure next year St Nic will have to
go to aeropostole for jammies, but mommy is happy she still luvs these
this year!

Wil

Star wars jammies and blow pop in his mouth.

St Nicholas Day

St. Nick visited and brought all the usual items: coloring books,
jammies, Christmas socks, pencils, candy, toothpaste, a Santa for
Kristen, a snowman for Kate, and a nutcracker for Wil. Kate and Wil
were the only ones here, Kristen was at a friends and everyone else
was asleep. Wil instantly put candy in his mouth and Kate did all the
dot to dots in her book, somethings never change. It is still
priceless to see how excited they were this morning... Even KJ when
she finally got home was super excited, her Christmas toe socks an
Jammie shorts were her favs!

DSi

So the DSi is a huge hit!he luvs it and all his new games!

Wil birthday

Wil celebrated his birthday tonight! It could not have been more
perfect... Ok, so if ANY of my siblings were here :-( it would have
been better! Hard to believe they all don't live here in St. Louis :-(.... But we have the best friends in the entire world and MOM and Vic and Kris were
here to represent and Grandma and Grandpa came from KC and we are having a fabulous time! He could not be
happier! Luv u Wil!!!

KJ soccer

Kj lost her indoor soccer game today! She hustled and had a good game
even though they were short 3 players and had no coaches!!

KJ lights

Kristen helped in the Santa shop again this year. She is so big!!

Breakfast with Santa

Wil looked like he ran through some Christmas lights! Although they
are big, we still had a great time!

3 wins gets you...

A ticket to the championship game at 2:00 today. Way to go Kate!!

Let the merriment begin

The Christmas decorating has begun!

Happy Thanksgiving

You know it's a good time when all three Ohler kids are playing
tripololy! Wil learned to play poker (not sure that's a good thing),
and all of them came out ahead. Too much food and drinks consumed.
Thanks again to John and Jan for hosting. It was a good time!!

Academic all star award

Way to go Kristen!! Tonight KJ received an award from the district for
her outstanding test scores! (that's her in the white shirt and skirt)!

Champions!!

CHAMPIONS!!!!!

St. Louis Archdiocese CYC 5th grade city-county champions! There are
not enough adjectives to describe the joy...more later! Congrats Kate!!!

3 in a row!!

Kristen has had a goal in all three of her indoor soccer games! This
time she kneed it in! WOW!! She got the monkey for the game (MVP).
She's awesome!

Semi final game WINNER!!

Kate won 2-0 and she scored a big left footed goal! So awesome!!
Championship game Sunday at 2:30!!

Way to go Kate!

Winner!!!

OMG!!! So awesome! First round winner 4-0!! Way to go Kate! Fabulous
assists!!

Wil haircut

Wil's timeline

Wil seems to have had a timeline assignment for the past three years!
This year he added Sonny and our trip to Chicago as new events! It has
been an awesome year for him!

Times 2...

and Kate had two more games this afternoon...and she had two goals...wow...(we will know tomorrow where she plays for the next round, county championship)...but we celebrated the division championship win at subway and brought home two tubs of ice cream!!

Kristen had another amazing game of indoor soccer! She was down 4-0 and came back and tied the game 4-4 at the end! What incredible second effort she put in, she scored and hustled back to make several saves...her coach named her the MVP of the game, never discount hustle and heart, cause that girl gave her all!! Love both my girls!

A picture is worth a thousand words!

Championship game

Ok... Here is the scoop! So the championship game was played at 3:30,
and started a bit late! TOUGH game, 0-0 at half. Kate played amazing!
0-0 at end of game!! Overtime! 0-0 end of overtime! Time 5:00, sunset
4:49!! No lights on the field! OMG parents are having heart attacks!!
Refs CALL THE GAMe! Rescheduled for Sunday morning! They will play ten
minutes of second overtime and then penalty shots until a winner! My
stomach is in knots an Chris can hardly speak! Ahhhhh the joys of
parenthood! On a sweet an funny note while the refs and coaches were
talking about the darkness the girls on both teams were cheering and
screaming at each other and laughing together! They're all just good
kids! Love u Kate ( no matter what happens!)

50 bucks

Aidan and Emily came to Kate's wc game! So fun (except for that one
small item of Emily walking on the field, oops).

AND then there is the discussion in the car where I am trying to
explain to Kate that she should take shots on goal from further out
because her legs are soooo much stronger this year and her telling me
no (because she knows everything and you can't convince her of
anything until she experiences it for herself! Please lord give her a
daughter just like herself!) so as she is pouting I say fine, if you
ever score from far out I will give you 50 bucks ( ok so not really
the most creative parenting technique).... Soooo what happened in the
second half of the game??? Yup, she takes a shot from FAR out and the
ball sailed through the air and into the upper left hand corner of the
net (no chance of anyone touching it)... She is amazing!

On to the championship

Kate won the semifinal tonight! We play Sat! Bushia came and watched a
Winner!!

Veteran's Day

A belated thank you to all our veterans, Chris, Dad, Alan, Richard, Uncle Sonny (and numerous friends!)!! Kate and Wil learned the marine and coast guard songs as well as lots of other patriotic songs and sang for the veterans at our annual veteran's day assembly! Here is the video (made by my BFF Brandi ;-) that was played during the assembly.

Squids under the lights

Wil played a make up game last night. They ended up winning 8-2. It
was a good game and the best part was Uncle David got to see Wil play!
Wil's team also got matching stocking caps with their numbers on them.

Champions!!

Kate's St. Paul's CYC team ended up the regular outdoor season
10-0-0!!! Amazing job Kate! So super proud of you!! Finished the
season tonight playing under the lights! So much fun to watch the past
ten weeks! On to playoffs!!

Self haircut

And checkout Wil's bangs... He cut them himself. Arghhhhh

Happy Birthday Selah!

Today was Selah's first birthday party! So in between soccer games we
stopped by and gave her a stroller and baby. She loved pushing the
stroller!! The kids would have stayed and played all day!

Kick the coach

Wil's soccer team played a game today called kick the coach. Each kid
got one shot on goal at the coach's behinds. It was hysterical and the
boys LOVED it. They are undefeated so far this season!

Soccer

Here is a picture of Kate's new indoor soccer team jersey. Yes, it
does seem crazy that I am letting her play on another team but it was
important to her and her self esteem to have a team just for fun! She
had her firt game tonight and ended up tied 5-5, but was sooo happy.
Fun and fast game!!

Wil won one game and tied the other. He played goalie for a half and
allowed one goal ( a penalty kick, which he stopped one just minutes
before/ I think the ref liked blowing his whistle) but he had at least
4 saves, not to mention playing midfield the first half. After the
second game he had a full blown asthma attack and has had a few
treatments this evening and just fell asleep from a migraine. Thinking
it's seasonl allergy related but he might have a virus too, will just
have to wait and see.

Kristen won both of her soccer games today! She played out of er mind
awesome in BOTH games. In her first indoor game of the season
She SCORED and then played goalie and had two amazin kick saves that
were rockets! 7 th grade girls are HUGE and can kick hard!!! She
rocked!!

And we get to do it all again tomorrow! Yeah ( I think ;-)

Indoor soccer

Let the madness begin!!