Soccer 2009

This is big sister's 5 year of soccer and we were so ready to start the new season. But what we didn't expect was for me to be coaching. It's like the ONLY sport I known NOTHING about. And I mean absolutely NOTHING. If I knew anything about soccer it was through big sister's first 4 years of soccer but it wasn't much. BUT I do have to admit that it's been a lot of fun. We haven't won a game yet but the girls are having a blast. We have a very young U9 team. Only two of the players have played before and big sister is the one that has played the most but she's the youngest player. Crazy!!! Little sister of course is enjoying shining her "spirit hands" has she calls them for her big sister. Daddy has been in charge of taking pictures for me since I'm doing the dirty work :-) I have to say that that he's not doing too bad of a job. Thank you Daddy!!! Oh yeah...and our name...are you ready for this...the Orange Popsicles. I tried to convince them to be the Orange PushUps but that didn't fly. Oh well :-) And one more really cool thing is that I'm coaching with one of my dearest friends and her daughter is big sister's best friend is playing on our team.

Trying to get our two players that have played before to work together. It didn't work...they became more competitive. Oh well...didn't hurt to try.

Weekend Fun

This weekend we had a lot of activities going on. One of the last ones was a Lifecare Block Party at our church home. Each year we have a block party to showcase all of the Lifecare groups. Each group comes up with a theme to decorate and there is LOTS of great food. Our groups theme this year was Hutto Hippos. BUT our oldest baby girl found another group with a pirate theme and decided she wanted to trade to that "cool" group. Hence the half pirate / half hippo pictures below. It was very cute. This party is always a lot of fun.

A very dear friend of mine and I posed for a self portrait (but of course) meanwhile her husband (below) and I showed up with the same tshirt on so we thought it would be cool to pose for a picture BUT we had to do something funny. He and I LOVE to call ourselves "dance partners" because we LOVE the 80's and all the crazy moves that came with that time period.

Notice the orange H in the mix of black cups on the table? Another friend of ours helped me throw this craziness together.Another pirate hippo picture!

Our oldest baby girl doesn't go very many places without these LOVELY glasses. Isn't she cute?

Dear friends, silly girls and a trip to Gattiland