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!!

Flood

The Meramec river flooded this week. The kids and I went and looked at
it at 2 different spots, amazing.

Friday day off

And we spent the day chiilin and playing monopoly before the big trick
or treat extravaganza! Been awhile since we just hung at home with not
much to do!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from Wil and Kate! Kate was the cutest ladybug and Wil
was a cute girl! Lol.... More candy than they can possibly eat was
gathered. Kristen went to a sleepover party :-(