Spring Break!

Momo spoiled her grandkids (and kids…) by taking us to Palm Springs for the night….

Lila already loves her some vacations (and her Momo) :)

….she also LOVED the water.  The girl was a fish.

Now Drew was a different story.  Remember my boy who leaped off rocks into the water.  Yeah, he now decided that he didn’t like to get wet.  

 

Jett and Luke loved it though!

Little Lou

So, being the mean mommy that I am, I decided that he needed to get in the water.  I knew he would have fun :)

Totally hating me…..

but literally moments later, loving it!!! See, I know my boy…… :)

       Luke, my cautious one, wore swim floaties in the wading pool.  Yep, the whole foot and half of water :)

 

He adores her.

  

  

 

  

Best buddies

the reason we love California….

it was a beautiful day so we decided to meet Rin Rin at the park.  Drew wasn’t able to go because he was feeling like this…..terrible.

Jett taught Luke about dandelions which he learned from Little Bear….a prominent teacher in his life :)

 

his cheek is still a little puffy from a run-in during soccer this morning…i think he is secretly proud of this “war injury”

The little miss got her hands on her mommy’s coffee.  When she took that away, she found auntie’s.

…and she loved it :)

here she is trying to feed the non-existent birds

cutest little legs I have ever seen…..

Luke adores his cousin….when she fell in the sand he wanted to be the first to come to her rescue

poor baby with all these boys….

  love her.

Way to go Stingers!!!

Today was the official first day of soccer!  Luke’s game was at 8 AM.  He wanted to make sure he was ready on time……..so he got up at 5.  Lovely.

  

I am not quite sure who was happier about soccer…Luke, or his biggest fan, and sport lover brother, Drew.

Why does he look so old in this picture?

And the chaos begins! :)

 

Luke’s first official goal! (see the ball in the net?)  And the best part, the-tongue-out-and-run-back-to-the-huddle… :)

 

Drew made a new friend, Josh, and they played like the big boys….we just had to keep them off the field. :)

ok, so you can’t really see the kid in the first picture (the blonde little boy behind Luke) but moments after this he was clothes lined by the kid.  He came running up to Daddy screaming he was choked.  And wanting to know why, oh why, would a kid want to choke him in soccer?  HA!  Little did he know that that kid was the most aggressive little guy…I think he was confusing the rules of tackle football and youth soccer :)

Best buddies and team mates.  Look closely at Luke’s hand….I think he was trying to keep score.  At this point it was about 8-0……us.  Not sure if he would be trying to keep as close of track if it was the other way around.

Well….maybe Luke needs to be schooled on some of the rules too :)

Brayden and Luke, cheering on their team

Halftime! 

Starting to look like actual soccer! :)

keep your head down and run!!!

Go Luke!!

too stinkin cute….

and a huge hit for the kids…..the parent tunnel at the end of the game!

um……and who is that running with the other team????

The start of soccer season

Luke started soccer today with Coach Daddy.  Besides the fact that it looked like herding cats, the kids had fun!  Expect many more pictures of this on the blog for the next couple of months. 

Luke and Brayden

Drew wanted so badly to be a part of the fun.  Luckily, he had his good buddy Ally to kick the ball around with….

….and to take him to the playground….

The team.  They are still deciding on a team name…right now it is down to Chargers, Broncos, Dragons or Bride.  (don’t a few of those seem like Daddy led names?!?)  :)