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Saturday, November 28, 2009
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
where's my trophy?
Logan's soccer season has officially come to an end. It was his first year playing "Under 10s" and a longer season. He had a blast at all the practices and games as he improved his soccer skills. He was lucky to have a talented coach that loves the sport.
The last game was quite intense. The crowd was on it's feet for most of the game. The other team scored a goal in the first half and with a minute left in the game our team also scored a goal. Wow. The energy was thrilling! The game ended with a tied score 1 - 1. And we were all happy with that. They played their best and that's exactly what we're after.
Here's one last picture with Logan and daddy, who was one of the assistant coaches this year, happy with their performance and happy it's come to have finished with such great effort!
Way to go Logan! You are our soccer superstar! (And don't worry...you'll get your trophy in one week at the team party.)
The last game was quite intense. The crowd was on it's feet for most of the game. The other team scored a goal in the first half and with a minute left in the game our team also scored a goal. Wow. The energy was thrilling! The game ended with a tied score 1 - 1. And we were all happy with that. They played their best and that's exactly what we're after.
Here's one last picture with Logan and daddy, who was one of the assistant coaches this year, happy with their performance and happy it's come to have finished with such great effort!Way to go Logan! You are our soccer superstar! (And don't worry...you'll get your trophy in one week at the team party.)
Sunday, November 22, 2009
BMX Bike Park
Trevor and Logan have found a new passion. Riding bikes at the BMX park. It's a great in-town location out at Woodward Park. The park itself is full of tons of professionally installed dirt mounds for doing all those cool bike tricks.
A few action shots...
And only one battle wound so far. Trevor tells us, "It doesn't hurt - just looks bad." He is toughening up!
The boys love going out there with their daddy. Jeremy equally enjoys spending time out there enjoying nature, biking, and quality time with his boys that are finally old enough to enjoy these types of activities. He's been looking forward to these moments since we first talked about having kids - finally a dream has come true!
Got our helmets on for safety!
A few action shots...
And only one battle wound so far. Trevor tells us, "It doesn't hurt - just looks bad." He is toughening up!
The boys love going out there with their daddy. Jeremy equally enjoys spending time out there enjoying nature, biking, and quality time with his boys that are finally old enough to enjoy these types of activities. He's been looking forward to these moments since we first talked about having kids - finally a dream has come true!
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Trevor's 10
Trevor turned 10 years old back in September. It must have been a busy time for us because this most important birthday did not make it onto the blog! Trevor is acting older and more mature every day. He loves all the new extracurricular doors that have opened for him at school, the prestige of being a 5th grader and a varsity football player, and has been reading the Harry Potter series and LOVING it! He's preparing to start babysitting for us and is very interested in cooking all of a sudden. He knows this is a major responsibility of a babysitter so he's been begging, "please, can I learn how to make mac and cheese??" at least once a week. These are all character traits of a boy that is growing up too quickly. I finally had to tell him to just slow down a bit and stop getting older already! We can hardly remember the days when he looked like this:
(You'll have to scroll up and down to get a great look at this baby picture compared to his birthday picture. Boy! Where has the time gone?!)
To recognize his aging process, Trevor had the traditional week of birthday celebrations.
1. He began with a birthday party with the Duran side of the family...
where he got a crisp $10 bill for being 10 years old,
a fancy schmancy new chess board game - his new passion thank you to Gramma Elizabeth,
and the most awesomest wonderful gift a 10 year old boy could ever want.... a BB gun.
Here are some of his cute party guests:
2. The next celebration was a party with the Ward side of the family (sorry no pictures from that one!) when we did all 5 September birthdays at one big party.
3. Then on to his actual birthday morning that began with a small family party, a pile of presents, and a cinnamon roll to start the day!
4. That night Trevor got to choose his favorite place to go out for his birthday dinner with mom and dad - his very own date night! He chose the greatest most best and delicious location of all time.... Me 'N' Ed's Pizza! It was divine dining and a perfect way to end his special day.
5. Trevor's last birthday celebration was a repeat from last year's party - Laser Quest. Trevor invited some good friends to come out for an evening of laser tag and fun.
We got to play 2 games back to back - It. Was. AWESOME! Even Jeremy and I got in there and ended up whooping all the kids. Who says adults can't have fun at a kid's party?
Trevor's menu item of choice for dinner was $5 footlongs from Subway. (Those ads and commercials must look so tantalizing on TV because those sandwiches are always requested at our house.)
We finished off the night with some cupcakes and mint & chip ice-cream - Trevor's favorite! - then headed home.
Laser Quest was a great finish to a week of celebrations.
(You'll have to scroll up and down to get a great look at this baby picture compared to his birthday picture. Boy! Where has the time gone?!)To recognize his aging process, Trevor had the traditional week of birthday celebrations.
1. He began with a birthday party with the Duran side of the family...
where he got a crisp $10 bill for being 10 years old,
a fancy schmancy new chess board game - his new passion thank you to Gramma Elizabeth,
and the most awesomest wonderful gift a 10 year old boy could ever want.... a BB gun.
Here are some of his cute party guests:
2. The next celebration was a party with the Ward side of the family (sorry no pictures from that one!) when we did all 5 September birthdays at one big party.
3. Then on to his actual birthday morning that began with a small family party, a pile of presents, and a cinnamon roll to start the day!
4. That night Trevor got to choose his favorite place to go out for his birthday dinner with mom and dad - his very own date night! He chose the greatest most best and delicious location of all time.... Me 'N' Ed's Pizza! It was divine dining and a perfect way to end his special day.
5. Trevor's last birthday celebration was a repeat from last year's party - Laser Quest. Trevor invited some good friends to come out for an evening of laser tag and fun.
We got to play 2 games back to back - It. Was. AWESOME! Even Jeremy and I got in there and ended up whooping all the kids. Who says adults can't have fun at a kid's party?
Trevor's menu item of choice for dinner was $5 footlongs from Subway. (Those ads and commercials must look so tantalizing on TV because those sandwiches are always requested at our house.)
We finished off the night with some cupcakes and mint & chip ice-cream - Trevor's favorite! - then headed home.Laser Quest was a great finish to a week of celebrations.
Friday, November 20, 2009
Lizzie Plays Soccer
Lizzie had a great soccer season. She made lots of new friends, scored lots of goals, and got lots of daddy time as he was one of her coaches during her first year of soccer!
She is quite the little athlete. She runs like crazy and pays attention the entire time - no wandering off to pick flowers or anything like that. She really gets into it!
This second picture is classic. The look on her face is priceless. She scored one of her first goals and was so pleased with herself and could hardly believe it - that's what sheer joy and disbelief look like on a 5 year old.
It was a great season and we look forward to many Lizzie soccer seasons in the years to come. Goooooo Lizzie!!
She is quite the little athlete. She runs like crazy and pays attention the entire time - no wandering off to pick flowers or anything like that. She really gets into it!
This second picture is classic. The look on her face is priceless. She scored one of her first goals and was so pleased with herself and could hardly believe it - that's what sheer joy and disbelief look like on a 5 year old.
It was a great season and we look forward to many Lizzie soccer seasons in the years to come. Goooooo Lizzie!!
Thursday, November 19, 2009
That's My Boy!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009Trevor made his mama proud today. He sang in his first real choir performance! Several other elementary schools were there, all in uniform, and they even had to sing in front of 3 judges that scored their performance. They looked so sharp in their new tuxedo shirts, bow ties, and cumberbunds. And they sounded great! The first song they sang was in Latin - wow. That's huge for an elementary school choir! And the second was a fun Christmas song the kids really got into this one. Trevor is front and center - right in front of his music director and also got to stand next to his best buddy, Jacob. Trevor's other good friends are easy to spot. Jacob E. is also on the front row, as is Elder, and cousin Emma is up on the 3rd row (she's the cute blond in glasses).
Seeing Trevor up there took me back to all my years of singing in school. That was my thing. I LOVED singing in choir! I sang in every choir from elementary, to jr. high, to high school and even some in college - sometimes 3 or 4 different groups at a time! Watching him sing brought back so many fond memories. It was such a treat to see him perform. I hope to have this opportunity many times in the future. For now, we look forward to his Winter Program on December 8th.
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