Buffet

Isabella said to me the other day "apparently, mosquitos think my body is an all you can eat buffet".

Too busy

Summer has arrived and life seems so busy - always on the go.

This week starts VBS at church so I'll be there helping everynight from 6:30-8:30. Yesterday after church I asked Ava what she learned in church and she said "God again. Every time we always talk about God." She seemed a bit confused as to why the topic never changed. LOL When I asked Isabella she told me she was learning about Moses. We asked her what she could tell us about Moses and she said "he's a really old guy who trusted God". :)

We are now on the hunt for a piano. We found a piano teacher for Isabella and she'll start in August so we are searching Craigs List to find a decent piano. Steve wants to buy a keyboard and pressed on and on for the keyboard purchase. HE wants the keyboard!!! She can only start out on the keyboard as she learning the notes and then we'll have to buy a piano. I say spend a couple hundred dollars more and just have a piano to match what she is practicing with. ugh

Steve and I went down to Mark and Amy's and played a few games of pool. It was a lot of fun. Really Mark and Steve played pool and Amy and I moved the balls around between their shots. Next up - ping pong battles!

Today we are off to the gym, then going to the pool with Jack and Amy and then home to get ready for VBS.

Soccer 2009 - Go Silverbacks

Yesterday was the last game of the season and our little soccer girl scored a goal. And it was intentional. LOL She was ready for the pass. Stopped it, turned and kicked a strong kick and SCORE!!

The look on her face was better than the bragging of her scoring a goal and then as she was running down the field Steve and I looked across the field at each other and it was sweet. We just shared a look of pride as parents not coach and mom. Sweetness it was I tell ya!

Isabella showing the number 2 sign instead of #1 since the Silverbacks placed 2nd in their league.

Coach and Daddy with his daughter and player.

Silverbacks on stage receiving their trophies. The kids were so excited and all sat together in a row with Steve away from their parents. It was sweet.

Ok, now I get the bad parent, I'm going straight to hell award for sneaking a picture of Ava while they were praying. It was just too cute to pass up the photo opportunity.

Here is the team acting silly before the ceremony started.

Next year Ava will be old enough to play and I told Steve he will be coaching 2 teams instead of just 1. He wasn't overly thrilled with my statement.

Ormond Beach, Florida 2009

Lots of lessons learned this trip...1) Never ever drive again. Even taking 2 days to make the trip. It still sucks. 2) 7 days on the beach - day in/day out - is too long. At least with kids this age. They wanted to swim 12 hours a day making very tired kids. Very tired kids = very stressed out Mommy. 3) Check out immediately and find new accomodations once you find out your condo has wet carpet padding from 3o inches of rain 10 days prior and makes the place stink. Also, if you smell cigarrete smoke upon entering room - and its a non-smoking room. Again, check out immediately. It WILL aggravate your daughters asthma. 4) My hair does not adjust well to the humidity.

Ok, now that all the logistics are out of the way - we did have a good time. Especially the kids. They would wake up at 7:00 am every morning and want to hit the pool immediately. We were in the pool every day by 8:30 which wasn't that big of a deal because it was almost 90 degrees that early in the morning.

When we arrived a huge thunderstorm had just passed through and we were greated by a beautiful double rainbow. It didn't rain or cloud up once the entire time until the day before we were to leave and storms rolled in. So, we left a day early.

As I headed to the grocery store to buy some necessities (aka - beer and coffee), Steve took the girls out to the beach.

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The girls the afternoon we first arrived jumping the waves.

Daddy and his girls searching for sea shells (we kinda had to force/make them do this each day. Don't they know you are SUPPOSE to do this when you go to the beach???).

Me and the girls (all 4 of them). LOL

Ava chilling on a raft in the pool.

Ava being Ava and throwing a fit because her sand was not coming out of the bucket.

Isabella washing the sand off of her hands.

It's still not coming out!!!!!

Ava deciding to start over and dumping all the sand from her bucket into the ocean.

Family foot portrait. :)

Ava in the ocean

Isabella testing the water. She actually swam in the ocean a couple of days. I was shocked she decided to do this. She watches way too much Discovery TV and Animal Planet and knows what is looming in the ocean. LOL

Steve throwing Isabella in the pool.

We went and played Putt Putt one afternoon. They LOVED this. Isabella did really well and was able to par most holes. Ava - not so much. She was very innovative with her method of getting the ball in the hole. The girls hair is so matted and messy because they had just got out of the pool and threw some clothes on before we headed out.

Me and the girls at the putt putt course. See how well my hair is reacting to the humidity??? This was the only time it wasn't in a ponytail or me having a hat on.

Here is a picture of Ava's method. Throw down putter and push the ball with your hands. Worked every time!

We went to Outback after putt putt and Ava ate all of Steve's green beans. She put it in her mouth like braces in this picture. LOL

Only family picture of the entire trip - other than our feet picture.