weekend again...

Ok, hard for me to come up with catchy titles...lol...the weekend was the same and different. I always think I will have more time to blog on the weekend, but it seems to be less time! I can't even begin to blog even HALF of the things that go on in our lives and/or the conversations and activities that occur. So here is the weekend in a nutshell... Friday was gorgeous out! Kate and Wil jumped out of the car before we got home and went to play with friends! Kristen and I jumped on the trampoline, ok I jumped a little and then she just bounced me around. We laid in the sun and talked. I do not have permission to post conversations with KJ anymore without her approval, let's just say that sometimes middle school can be rough! Growing pains for everyone!Then we made sausage and cabbage since it is one of her favorites. We sat down to eat and a neighbor stopped by. Then her and I went for a ride in his hotrod car...the best cure for middle school blues ;-).

We went to the neighbors who had a fire pit going and the kids played and rode bikes outside. One of their friends almost had a bike meets car tragedy, but luckily the driver was doing the speed limit, but it freaked us all out. We have two boys in our circle of friends who are getting ready to turn 16 so it was a good lesson for them to see, so hopefully they will never speed down a subdivision! It was getting late and windy and the kids were starving, again. So we ordered pizza and of course the "permit" only drivers wanted to drive and pick it up, lol, too funny! We went inside our friends and had a great evening of dancing and pizza. The boys had a chess tournament that Wil won (yes he was the youngest kid there ;-)!!!

Saturday, Wil woke up with a wicked cough (we have all been passing around this head cold), so he had a treatment. Daddy took Wil to his team pictures and basketball game and I dropped off Kristen and then went to Kate's soccer game. Kristen went to Uncle David's to help Aunt Sara with the kids, since she thinks she broke her toe and Uncle Patrick was recovering from his surgery. William won his basketball game 18-17 and Wil had 13 points. Wil said he was the hero. Daddy said he was just on fire, and had every single rebound! Kate lost her game by one point in a heart breaker. Seems the cold bug has hit her entire team as the were only THREE players their counting Kate! We had to borrow a few players from the team before us! Kate had an incredible game, but couldn't get the ball to go into the goal! Shots off the post and so many close calls. She played incredible and never got a rest! Then we were off to her basketball game. Unfortunately we did not get there until half time and the score was 3-7 (super low)... the team missed Kate and their assistant coach (me). We ended up winning 3-25 something and Kate had a great game with shots, steals and rebounds!

Then off to Uncle D for Kristen and Hannah's party...taking care of the salad, decorations and cake for us...then back out to William's first Fenix indoor soccer team. He is playing in a 3rd grade select league (as a 2nd grader). His team won 7-0 (I think)...anyway he played so incredible (considering he already had a game and is fighting a head cold). We have not seen a lot of these boys since the fall and Wil looks very tall and lean. His foot skills are very impressive and he had several incredible touches and saves! The team is really fun to watch, even if I do complain about them winning by so many points! The boys know the game and execute it like much more mature versions of themselves.

Then back to party! Kristen and Hannah had lasagna and THREE cakes! It was a great day. Kristen is the most happy about the clothes and the gift cards and the cash! She can not wait to go to the mall!!


Kate and Wil spent the night with the other 10 grandchildren! Boy there are a lot of kids and we took Kristen to another birthday party so she could have a sleep over. She knew she had an early soccer game and did go to bed by midnight but then she got "made-over" in her sleep (payback for when she did that to her brother!). And she woke up and stayed up until 4 am! I can't tell you the other things that happen at a sleepover, but she had a ton of fun and I really like her group of friends!

We were up early and off to Kristen's game. She was exhausted when we picked her up! Her team lost 4-3, but I have to honestly say that it was one of her best games ever. She hustled on every ball, had once touch roll back move that was SWEET and a beautiful assist off the board right to her teammate who scored. She was also short players because of the nasty colds going around, so between having other girls fill in for them and being moved up to a more competitive league this session, they did pretty good. It was still a hard hard loss to take as it has been months since KJ's indoor team has lost!

Let's see then it was off to play at Uncle D's before an afternoon basketball game. The less said the better, but Kristen still played awesome and hustled her little tail off!! And Kate had footskills at Viz too! So that's this weekend's highlights...