Little Man's First Soccer Game

Big Man decided to sign Little Man up for a soccer league. Now, the last soccer event we signed Little Man up for all he wanted to do was drink juice and watch from the sidelines. So signing him up for another soccer league was going to be interesting, I thought. However, to our surprise Little Man was excited to play with Tio Mike and have Big Man as the assistant coach. This is way you stop the ball and prepare for the pullback, Little Man tells me.

It may have helped that the entire team is related to Tio Mike.... it's like a family reuinion every game! Here's the assistant coach giving some game pointers before the clock starts.

I really love seeing the boys and girls in their jerseys - they are so cute, regardless if they are just watching their shadow, kicking the ball into the wrong goal, or worried about their nails :) It was so much fun watching them play!! Here's Little Man kicking the ball in, just in time for the big orange team to score a goal.....

And it's been awhile, but Little Ax is clapping at everything and trying to take steps! He is growing up way too fast! It's too bad he's not happy when he eats.... take a close look at 4 tooth Jackson!

A Trip to the Snow

It is hard to believe that the holidays have passed and it is already the middle of January. I have been a tardy blogger and Christmas pictures, along with New Year's pictures will surface sometime in the near future. In the meantime, I felt I should update you on our spontaneous family trip to the snow. It really is not in my nature to do things spontaneously, without detailed plans and spreadsheets, but I thought this would be worth it. Everyone has been talking about snow this season and I really wanted to take the boys up to the snow for some sledding and snowball fights. So we rented a small cabin in Flagstaff and headed north for a couple days. Snow was everywhere and our cabin was a few yards away from the sledding hill, aka driveway in the summer. Here's Little Man eating some oatmeal before his snow fun....

We forgot to pack Ax's winter coats, so I layered everything else I had to keep him warm. He was wearing a turtleneck onesie, long sleeve shirt, sweatshirt, jacket, and Little Man's jacket - along with two pairs of pants. He couldn't move and looked like the Michelin Man. At first he thought it was funny....
Then he fell face first in the snow, and didn't think it was funny...

Here's Little Man and Ax getting ready for the big hill.....
Here's Little Man sledding down the hill, he liked it, but eating the snow was his favorite part.

Eating the snow... he made himself breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. He didn't want to leave until he ate all the clean snow. The mind of a three year old!