2nd Grade Campout

Afton's class

The 2nd grade at Afton's school had a campout activity at the end of September. Her teacher asked a few mom's to help him get prepared for the activity. We had to help make some decorations and then set up the classroom. The mom's had a great time trying to make paper mache rocks. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Our rocks looked a little sad when we started but in the end they turned out to be pretty good looking rocks. I was able to go help in the classroom the day of the campout. It was such a fun activity for the kids. In her classroom, their teacher told a scary story around a campfire. It was a true story about him and his brother when they were little. Then he talked about his pet tarantula and snake. He had remote control ones hiding in the classroom and I got to control the tarantula. It was hilarious! I've never heard kids scream that loud. In the other classrooms, they got to make smores and sing songs and learn about constellations. What a fun activity!

Sitting around the campfire and listening to the scary story.

The scary tarantula.

The awesome decorations! It turned out really cool. You can see some of our awesome rocks.

Afton's got bangs!

Afton has been wanting bangs since the beginning of the school year and I'd been putting it off and off again and then again. I guess I was having some mom issues about letting her get bangs, but I finally gave in and let her get them two days before picture day at school. Probably not the best move in timing, but they turned out really cute. Afton just loves them and kept asking me if I thought her friends at school would still recognize her.

The cut.

Right after the cut. She also got her hair trimmed.

The other day, Logan's best buddy, Grey, came over to play. These two are hilarious together. They're about a month and a half apart and they just love one another. It's so cute! When three year olds get together and have conversations it's so funny! I love it! Their main conversations are about trucks, diggers, excavators, dump trucks, and.....poop. Couldn't forget that last one. When either of them say that word the other one just laughs and laughs. Boys! And Grey calls Logan "Logan Daley" no matter what. For example: "Hey Logan Daley come here", "Let's play outside Logan Daley", "Logan Daley you are my best friend." He has an older brother named Logan, so our Logan has always been Logan Daley to him. It's so cute.

Don't you love those big blue eyes?!

mOrE soCceR

Dax and Afton had their first games on the 11th of September. They both did really well in their first games and had a lot of fun. This is Afton's first year playing and she loves it. She likes to run, so it's a perfect sport for her to play. If I remember right, Dax scored a goal and Afton almost scored a goal. I didn't get any pictures of Daxon's first game because I'm helping coach, but I got a few of Afton's. At the next couple of games, I was able to get some of Daxon's team before the game started and then I put Afton in charge of my camera and she took some pretty good pictures. Our Saturdays have been really crazy but it's worth it. I love watching their games and they are having so much fun. Logan has also come out of his shell, and he's actually staying on the court and playing in his soccer game without crying. He loves running around even though it's usually not after the ball. It's usually after Max. It's so funny to watch this age group play. Logan will just be wandering around the court and we'll tell him to kick the ball and then he'll try to find the ball and usually gets distracted with something else. Although, he has scored two goals in his games. One goal, he was right in front of the net and Max passed him the ball and Logan kicked it in. He turned around with this big grin on his face and put both his arms up in the air. It was really cute. The other goal was kind of the same way. He was in front of the net and someone kicked the ball that way and he just finished kicking it in.

Afton's first game. They didn't have their uniforms yet so they had to wear a dark color shirt. She's with her friend Ashley in this picture.

Getting ready to play in the game.

Logan's 2nd game. He did really good. Scored a goal and didn't cry.



Afton's 2nd game. They had team pictures that day. (L to R) back: Alyssa, Olivia, Elizabeth, Mya, Ashley, Katelyn. Front: Micayla, Katelyn, Kayla, Emma, Afton, Angelina. Coaches are Brittany and Ashley. Their team name: The Cheetah's.

Here she is with her two coaches. They are both college age and don't have any family on the team. They just love soccer and coaching. I think it's great that they stepped up to coach and Afton loves them.

The game. Afton scored two goals in this game. It was so awesome!!

Daxon's 2nd soccer game. Their uniforms are actually pretty decent looking this year. We had told the team that they were a dark blue and asked them what they wanted their team name to be. They decided on "the Sharks". Daxon's jersey number is 4.

Dax with some of his team mates.

The Sharks- (L to R) Emily, Dylen, Sydney, Dax, Tyler, Ranauldo, David and Christian. Missing are Conner and David.

Next 4 pictures by Afton. Daxon dribbling the ball down the line.

I love how they all huddle around the ball.

Misty and I with the team during half time.

This was Afton's 3rd game and I wanted to get a good picture of her in her uniform. She's number 7.

SoCoER tIMe!

Our lives have officially become crazy and hectic now that soccer has started. I don't know if I'm looking forward to it or not. We decided to let all three kids play this year. I know......WE ARE CRAZY!! So bye-bye to our Saturdays for the next two months. And bye-bye to Wednesday, Thursday and Friday nights for practices. I think it's a little ridiculous. What were we thinking! I guess we were thinking that we wanted our kids to have fun and get some good exercise. It's only two months right? It'll go by fast and I know the kids are going to have a blast!

Logan had his first game on the 8th of September. He's playing in the same age group that Dax played in last year. It's the 3 & 4 year tot division. So he's one of the younger ones. We found out that Max, Misty's little boy, was also playing so they're both on the same team. They had a little practice before the game and Logan did great. But.....(yes there is a but) when the game started that was a whole different story. Jason started walking off the court so the teams could play and Logan ran after him, grabbed onto his leg and started crying. He wanted his daddy to stay out there while he played. We tried to make deals with him and tell him we'd get him ice cream if he went out and played but nothing worked so Jason ended up on the court/field with him the whole game. He just kind of pulled Logan around where ever the ball went. At least he stopped crying. Totally night and day compared to Dax last year. I guess he was a whole year older. Dax couldn't wait to get out there and kick the ball and Logan would barely even go by the ball. Hopefully before his next game we can get him to come out of his shell.

Logan and Max before the game and very excited about their blue shirts!

Showing off his new blue soccer shirt

I love this picture. It totally shows how Logan was during the game. Logan is hanging on to Jason's leg for dear life.

Practicing making goals before the game.

Afton and Dax hanging out with Dylen

Doing a cheer before the game. Go Blue Team!

I had to post these pictures too. Logan is really into guns and swords right now and he tries to shove as many as he can fit into his pants. It's hilarious! This picture is so funny because you can see the pointed end of the sword poking through his pants.

Boys are so funny! He loves his weapons.

Updates

Sorry that it's been so long since I've posted anything. I actually have a legitimate excuse this time. The hardrive on our computer crashed so for the last week it was getting repaired. We were computerless for a week! It was crazy! Now we have it back and it's working great. I thought I'd give a few updates with some stuff we've been doing:

On Saturday, the 28th of August, we had our Ward Temple day. It was a great day! I had to help with the primary kids and I recruited my husband to help too so we were able to be with our kids for the day. We started off the day with a nice lunch, then the parents dropped off their kids and the primary did some fun little activities and we also did a tour of the visitor's center. The kids really enjoyed it and it was nice for us because we only had about 20 kids so it was perfect. I love our ward Temple day, especially when I'm not in charge of it.

Our family in front of the Oakland Temple.

Logan, Afton and Dax. I love these Temple grounds. They are so beautiful!

Seriously, I don't know what to do with Daxon's smile. I need to put him into some smile lessons or something.

On Wednesday, August 25th, we went swimming at the Fallentine's. It was over 100 that day and I knew we wouldn't have too many more hot days to do some swimming so we took advantage of the heat. Logan and I picked up the kids from school and headed over to the Fallentine's for some fun in the sun.

Logan and Afton with their new little friend, Mr. Frog! The Fallentine's always have these little toads in their filter and every time we go swimming the kids have to check the filter for toads. We found one this day.

Saturday, August 21st was the day of birthday parties for our family. We had two different parties to go to. We started the day off at Ruby and Nathaniel's party. They are both in our ward and Ruby is in Logan's nursery class. The invite was for him but they said our whole family could come. They were all so excited for the party because they had this huge blowup water slide to play on. It was gigantic! Afton and Dax had a blast going down the slides and shooting each other with water. Logan, on the other hand, wouldn't go near the thing. I think he attempted to climb up the slide one time but decided that was enough for him. So he was content jumping on the little trampoline.

The huge water/play structure.

Logan smashing the pinata.

All the kids waiting patiently to have their turn at whacking the pinata.

Look how happy they are with their cups full of candy from the pinata. The kids were using this little plastic bat to hit the pinata and it really wasn't doing anything, so Afton thought she'd help in the process and make the hole bigger where the candy was put into the pinata.......by ripping it open with her hands! She must get her patience from her dad.

Later that night, we went to our 2nd party. This was also a combined party for two brothers, Steven and Caleb. This party was at a park that had water spouts so the kids were even more excited to get wet again.

Dax, Brenden, Steven, Finn, and Logan

Dax on the big rocks. the boys loved playing on these rocks.

I love this kid! He has the best smile.

He got a blue ring pop at the party. Need I say more?

On Friday, August 20th, Afton and I went with our friends, Krissy and Emma, to the play "Annie". The community theater was putting on the production at our local high school and there were a lot of people from our ward who were in the play. So the girls were really excited to see their friends perform. The lead role of Annie went to a girl in our ward. Her name is Chloe and she did such an awesome job! She's a great little actress and has a beautiful little voice. We were so proud of her. I wish I would've snapped a picture of her with the girls after the play. She was so adorable in her "Annie" attire.

Getting ready to watch the show. Krissy, Emma, Afton and me.

Emma & Afton