six months

vivian is now six months old!  

she is so much fun to have around.  

she is such an easy going girl.  she is learning and watching and happy.

she loves when sadie sings to her, laughs when the boys attack her or talk to her, she smiles when i put her down for her nap, she like to eat real food, will now cry when we get into the car until i turn on her favorite song (what makes you beautiful) to which she immediately stops.  she has started clicking her tongue, sitting up with help, rolls across the floor, and continues to sleep through the night and wakes up with huge smiles for whomever gets her out of her bed.

seriously love this girl.

saturday's events

abe played in his last soccer game of the season.  our cute cousins, lily and sam, slept over and were great fans.  vivian continues to be a darling groupie and enjoys watching her brothers' games.  she has seen a lot of soccer!  she points her toes all the time and we decided she will be a ballerina....or is practicing her form and will have a perfect soccer shot.

 the fan club watched intentley as abe made an awesome block.

 abe took a second to wave to lily who kept yelling, "hi, abe!  GO ABE!!!"

 abe has always played offensive positions and sometimes keeper, but on this new team, he has filled the defender position and done it really well.  it was just killing him though, that he hadn't scored a goal all season.  he really wanted to get one, which is tricky being a defender.  this game, anytime his team had a corner kick, abe would run up and find a spot and try to help out, hoping to get a goal,  then rush back into his defensive position.  in the first half, abe got a head on the ball and just missed the upper corner.  then, in the second half, in the final minute of the last game of the season...a corner kick...abe rushes in and finds a spot in front of the goal.  his teammate kicks it, and abe headers it in for a GOAL!  what a finish!!!!  

the cousins liked playing and max even showed sam how to pee on a tree.  what are cousins for?!

we got slurpees to celebrate, then, drove to look at the most amazing view that i recently discovered.  the kids wanted some cousin photos:)

the cousin/engagement photo

we watched kai's soccer game in the afternoon.  he is a tough, competitive player and takes it very seriously.  dave is his coach, and a handsome one at that!  can you spot him on the sideline?

kai's team was ahead 2-0 at the half.  feeling really good, since the other team had only lost one game and they were supposedly really good.  

(kai scoring to put us up 1-0)

the other team scored two quick goals in second half and it was a tied game with about one minute left.  kai was determined and took the ball down, faked out the goalie and placed it in the left bottom corner.  it was awesome!  dave took him out of the game because there were only a few seconds left, to give a another kid a chance to get back on the field.  in those few seconds, arsenal kicked off and quickly scored.  the game was over.  a tie.  kai was devastated.  he said, "that was worse than a loss!"  he had been so determined to get the win, and then to just see his hard work evaporate while he watched on the bench was too much to take.  it took a good thirty minutes to recover enough to leave the field.

sadie did an amazing job as our sports photographer and captured all the important moments of the day.  thanks sadie!

tennis

max takes tennis lessons and loves it!  his coach is really good with him and says 

he has high hopes for max. 

 i hope one day puma will sponsor him, since he purposely wears puma from head to toe as often as he can.

no more lousy iphone pics....dave bought me a camera for my birthday and i finally broke it out.  so excited!

crazy

crazy hair day at school. 

 kai actually loved this new do and hoped crazy could be the new norm:)

loved max trying to wink and be tough....he's such a kind, nice, thoughtful kid!

my hawaii

since the boys were gone with grandma and grandpa for fall break, we shipped sadie off to her friend's house for the weekend.  she was thrilled to spend the whole weekend with hadley.  they stayed up late, ate out, went to the byu football game, made t-shirts and had a great time.

then, dave and i went on our own sort-of trip.  we keep talking about going on a big trip, but when it comes right down to it, i don't care where we go.  it's just nice to get away together.  we went to salt lake and stayed at the little america (thanks fred!) and i loved it!  we shopped, enjoyed each other's company, drank hot chocolate, ate out, went to a movie, finished sentences, ordered room service, watched fox news, and we didn't have to hurry.  it was my kind of fun!  plus, every time we stay in salt lake it has changed so much from the last time, it feels like a new place.  it was perfect....little vivian included.  

 vivs liked staying out late, riding the train down town and eating garlic mashed potatoes. she knows her dad will give her the good food and she gets so excited...AND she got to wear this adorable hat!

it's funny now that we have five kids, taking one with us seems like no big deal.  she is fun to have around and didn't interrupt us when we were talking to each other, so she got to stay.  she was pretty excited about chillin' at the little america! and so were we!

happy fall break!!!!

dinosaur land

this fall break my parents took the boys and their cousin, ben, to dinosaur land in vernal.  when they picked them up, they gave them each their very own travel bag for the trip, full of treats, a journal, a camera, activities, and $10 to spend however they wanted.  they explored, swam, ate out, read books, watched movies and basketball, as well as memorized their talks for the primary sacrament program.  they had such a great time and i get the feeling they were in no hurry to come home.

what could be better than a cousin trip with grandma and grandpa?!  

day with grandpa

i checked kai out of school early so he could spend the day with his grandpa.  it was the perfect day for it because it was picture day, and the picture lady was so rude to kai.  it took a minute for him to explain to me what happened between the sobs.  i am proud of him for telling me his feelings and his experience instead of holding it inside.  so it was great that my dad had planned to spend the day with just kai.  he took him to BYU so he could watch his cousin, tyler, practice with the basketball team.  kai and my dad were the only people watching the practice and afterwords, tyler took kai into the locker room and introduced him to all the players.  

they shopped at the byu bookstore and ate ice cream and then went to the football game to watch alex, our other cousin.  kai had a great day being spoiled by grandpa.  my dad printed all the pictures and made a book about their day and gave it to kai.  

thank goodness for grandpa!!!!