Sunday, September 27, 2009
Fun in the Fall Sun
Every year we go to the Pumpkin Patch/Corn Maze with the girls. It is always so much fun and it seems like everyone gets along when we do this. The older the girls get the harder it is getting for everyone to get along. Jaycee the oldest can barely tolerate Kennedy the middle child and Grace the baby starts acting like another child when her sisters come to stay with us. But every year on this day for some reason we all have a blast! I love my family even if it is complicated at times!
I usually like picking out pumpkins in nice cool fall weather but this year was not the case. It was 95 degrees outside so the whole "fall feeling" was not there!
We also go through the corn maze and it is hilarious with these three girls. This is my children of the corn picture! They are always posing, scaring each other and even helping one another out when they get lost. Me, I stay right behind my husband and my eyes are always on Grace. I have no idea how he knows how to get through that maze but I'm sure glad he does because I would be stuck in corn land forever if it weren't for him. It was a fun weekend even if it felt like summer outside.
I walked outside and found Grace sitting on the big rock by our pond with her toes in the water. She was just sitting there very peaceful trying not to move much because she "didn't want the fish to eat her feet." I started thinking about how big she has gotten and how truly blessed I am to have this child who will be 5 years old before I know it! This picture is my little piece of heaven!
Grace and I went to Jump n Jungle for her BBFF (boy best friend forever). We had so much fun! Grace didn't really play with Cade so much because, well she was out numbered by boys quite a bit and although she likes to play with boys she only likes to play with one boy not a whole bunch of boys. But she said that she was having fun and she didn't mind Cade playing with those boys because she liked going on this one slide over and over anyway!
We did catch Cade at one point and they were able to get their picture taken together. These two have been friends since birth. They always play so well together and it has been such a blessing for me to watch the two of them grow together
Classic blue tongue from the birthday cake! Good times and Happy Birthday Cade Hyatt, we love you!
Monday, September 21, 2009
soccer tears and bribes
Grace had her first game on Saturday and she was very excited....until we pulled up to the field and the tears started. We encouraged her and reminded her of how much she loves soccer...didn't help! She got on the field and continued to cry. She said she did not want to play! And let me tell you people, the child was serious!
This is Brandon carrying her off of the field and then he changed his mind and carried her back on the field where she continued to cry! He told her that she was going to play....ummm, no she wasn't!
She slowly backed herself away from the rest of the game and continued to cry. The poor coach on the other team even tried to help her and she really got mad. You will notice she is in the corner of the field and the rest of the team is playing. Brandon then went and got her off the field!
So it was time to pull out the big dog...Mimi! Mimi told her that she would take her to ChuckE Cheese (eeeeek), buy her a new dress and even an American Girl Doll! Did this help you ask? NO! The girl was not going to play soccer today or ever she said! Her father was very upset about all this since he had someone come in and work for him at the station while he came and watched his...little soccer star? He went back to work very upset but I don't really think Grace cared about how everyone else felt. She did not like people looking at her. Unfortunately Grace had another game later that day and she said that she would not play. We went and ate lunch and took a nap and again we reinforced the bribes! 
Well what do you know...it worked! This is game two; Grace and her Papa warming up with both of their tongues sticking out to the side (I too did this when I played soccer, I call it the Crouch tongue)! 
Grace even helped me with some cool stretching with her team. We did the itsy bitsy spider stretch and she told me that next time she will teach me some more...NEXT TIME? "Yes mommy, I like soccer and you know I cry on the first time." So now I know and maybe she had forgotten about the bribes!
Grace is #4, the cute one twirling her pigtails! The girls didn't do very well. They didn't really get the concept of kicking the ball. They just kind of watched the other team, who by the way has played together for one season already so I call this the professionl 4 and 5 year old time. Grace said that the orange team was just too fast! And she really wanted to kick it but couldn't catch them. 
These are the directors of the the soccer league encouraging the Pink Pixies to kick the ball into the goal and try and get the ball from the orange team. I started thinking that Grace's entire life has been about me telling her not to take things away from people and here I am yelling at her "GET THE BALL!" They were very confused and the parents very frustrated.
Grace did actually kick the ball and I was very proud and turned towards Brandon to see how proud he was but then remembered that he had to work and he was missing this very special moment! Oh well he got to see her throw her ball earlier when she didn't want to play!
This is Brandon carrying her off of the field and then he changed his mind and carried her back on the field where she continued to cry! He told her that she was going to play....ummm, no she wasn't!
She slowly backed herself away from the rest of the game and continued to cry. The poor coach on the other team even tried to help her and she really got mad. You will notice she is in the corner of the field and the rest of the team is playing. Brandon then went and got her off the field!
So it was time to pull out the big dog...Mimi! Mimi told her that she would take her to ChuckE Cheese (eeeeek), buy her a new dress and even an American Girl Doll! Did this help you ask? NO! The girl was not going to play soccer today or ever she said! Her father was very upset about all this since he had someone come in and work for him at the station while he came and watched his...little soccer star? He went back to work very upset but I don't really think Grace cared about how everyone else felt. She did not like people looking at her. Unfortunately Grace had another game later that day and she said that she would not play. We went and ate lunch and took a nap and again we reinforced the bribes! Well what do you know...it worked! This is game two; Grace and her Papa warming up with both of their tongues sticking out to the side (I too did this when I played soccer, I call it the Crouch tongue)! Grace even helped me with some cool stretching with her team. We did the itsy bitsy spider stretch and she told me that next time she will teach me some more...NEXT TIME? "Yes mommy, I like soccer and you know I cry on the first time." So now I know and maybe she had forgotten about the bribes!
Grace is #4, the cute one twirling her pigtails! The girls didn't do very well. They didn't really get the concept of kicking the ball. They just kind of watched the other team, who by the way has played together for one season already so I call this the professionl 4 and 5 year old time. Grace said that the orange team was just too fast! And she really wanted to kick it but couldn't catch them. 
These are the directors of the the soccer league encouraging the Pink Pixies to kick the ball into the goal and try and get the ball from the orange team. I started thinking that Grace's entire life has been about me telling her not to take things away from people and here I am yelling at her "GET THE BALL!" They were very confused and the parents very frustrated.
Grace did actually kick the ball and I was very proud and turned towards Brandon to see how proud he was but then remembered that he had to work and he was missing this very special moment! Oh well he got to see her throw her ball earlier when she didn't want to play!
So the final score was something like 25 to 3 with 2 of our 3 points being scored by the other team...oh well, we'll take it! So did Grace forget about the bribes you ask! NOT A CHANCE! Did Mimi and Papa take her to ChuckE Cheese...NOT A CHANCE! They went back to Artesia and stuck me with the Big Cheese, EEEEEK! Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Pink Pixie
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Grace O
Grace and I went for a girls weekend to see Megan and her wonderful family. We spent the weekend shopping for Megan's baby girl, Ellie, and Grace got some good stuff too! KK (Megan's sister Kim) has a Mac and it has all kinds of fun things to play with! Grace thought making these pictures was the most fun and we all agreed!
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