yesterday marked the 7th anniversary of our wedding day! we spent our anniversary weekend painting, painting, painting! we are moving wednesday, and it is just a busy time!! but we will take some time to ourselves very soon. i am so thankful for brian and his never-ending patience with me. :) we've had a wonderful 7 years, and i look forward to many more together with my love.
i have totally forgotten to blog about the fact that we are just a few days away from moving! it's just down the street, and i can't wait. i wish i could tell the whole story right now, but i have got to get to bed or get packing or something other than blogging. we are excited and tired. my husband is the epitome of patient. and i'm the epitome of.... well... nobody finish that sentence please. :) i can't wait to get settled.... really settled. i am so weary of cardboard boxes. this is what our living room looked like earlier this month as we were collecting boxes....
my kids warmly accepted the avalanche of boxes just like another member of the family! they have been troopers through all of this, and we all just can't wait to play in our new backyard and finally have our swing set back up!!
i will get back on here eventually and share how the move goes. and then there's our july trip to nashville for my grandmother's 90th birthday. and maybe one day i'll finally finish blogging about our christmas trip to disney. a girl can hope, right?!
see ya from our new (old) house! :)
ethan lost his first tooth over the weekend! it had been loose for a couple of weeks, i guess, and i was slowly preparing myself for this milestone. a first lost tooth. this means he's really growing up. i was ready to cheer on the inevitable, but my momma's heart was breaking just a little. ok, a lot. nevertheless, we pumped ethan up for his tooth falling out. he was excited and he was ready.
the kids spent saturday at brian's parents' house. when we picked them up that afternoon, i noticed ethan's tooth was gone. i exclaimed-- ok, i screamed-- "did you lose your tooth?!" brian's mom chimed in--ok, she screamed-- "you lost your tooth!?"
and in the most casual, unexciting way, ethan said, "yeah." (he is so his father's son.)
"WHEN!?" (i'm still screaming.)
"while i was watchin' the movie." (he's still totally unenthused.)
"YOU DIDN'T TELL NANA?"
"no."
"WELL, WHERE'S YOUR TOOTH?"
"right here." (and he shows me the teeny tiny sweet baby tooth that i am sure i will keep forever.)
"OH MY GOODNESS! ETHAN! YOU LOST YOUR FIRST TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTH!"
and the rest of the squealing and yelling is history.
my mom was cleaning out drawers and found this picture of me back when i was amelia's age. looks a little like amelia, don't ya think? well, besides the fact that my hair was out of my face. :) and i am pretty sure i was just as loud as she is. my parents remind me of that on a regular basis.
i hate to post a picture and run, but this month may very well be the busiest month ever. more to come soon.
way back in the spring, we were living and breathing soccer. we were also selling our house and moving.... so this post just never happened back then. before life gets totally busy and crazy in the next few weeks, i had to make sure this post did not fall through the cracks! so here's a little peek into ethan and caroline's spring 2011 soccer season. (some of caroline's pictures are courtesy of a dad on her team who had a rockin' awesome lens. i was sort of jealous. but then he gave us all a cd of pics at the end of the season, so that helped curb my envy.) and i hope you like orange... 'cause there's LOTS of it.
ethan's team was the hungry howies "slicers", and caroline's team was the "rockettes". 
ethan could not wait to get back into the swing of soccer. he was all smiles before his first game...
in the last minute of his first game, ethan scored a goal! yay!
i love how the parents make a tunnel for the kids to run through after the games. the boys always run through twice. :) it looks like ethan's season is off to a great start!
the kids' games were often at the same time, but their fields were right next to each other... so we just parked our chairs in the middle and went back and forth.
here is caroline's cute team getting pumped up for their first game.... "girls rock!" caroline is #2 with the braids.
caroline's favorite part of the game?! the snacks afterwards, of course!
did somebody say snacks?! i think this girly girl had some sort of snack or beverage in her hands at all times. 
caroline was a good bit shorter (and younger) than most of the girls on her team.... which meant that most of the game, caroline was simply tagging along behind the group with the ball. (there she is on the right...)
she rarely kicked the ball during the game, but she just kept truckin' along. i expected lots of sideline pitstops, complete with a "mommy, i'm tired.... mommy, i can't get the ball..." but caroline stuck with it and did not complain once about the running or the lack of ball time. now if that would just transfer to cleaning her room. :)
caroline did take her turn at kicking off, throw-ins, and corner kicks. here she is near the end of the season on a corner kick.
i love this one of caroline concentrating during pre-game practice! go get 'em, tiger!
the grandparents all helped keep amelia happy during the games. water bottles usually did the trick....
my favorite part about watching caroline play soccer was this... her braids bounced as she ran by and waved at her fan club. look at that smile- you'd never know she hadn't scored a goal all season!
i wish i had this shot on video because these sweet girls were each in their own little world-- doing anything but preparing for kick-off! :) 
amelia can't wait until she can get out on that soccer field like her sister! 
it was always fun to have some friends come out and cheer on the kids with us!
ethan worked on playing defense this season, and he really enjoyed the challenge of stopping the other team. he ran hard to get those balls! 
at first, i complained to brian that i wanted him on offense so he could score, but brian told me to let the coaches do their job. :) so in time, i grew to enjoy watching ethan thwart those goals... 
and caroline, as you can see, was not all too interested in ethan's games! i'm just glad this wasn't during her game!
ethan grew more aggressive this season-- he got in there to get the ball, even if it meant squishing up next to other players. never mind the fact that he is pushing on his teammate in this one. :)
as i was looking through pictures of ethan in action, i noticed a pattern when he kicks the ball. he balls up his right fist and sticks his right arm out... and he has the same "concentration" face is almost every picture. can you see it?! i had never noticed this during his games. 
ethan played strong all season, and then right as we moved, ethan became very hesitant to play during the games. he would be perfectly fine and happy and excited right up until kick-off. so daddy would talk to him....
mommy would bribe him.... the coaches were so patient with him... and eventually during the last game, after two games of sitting out almost the entire game, ethan finished well. we never really got to the bottom of why he didn't want to play (and really, it was obvious once he was out there that he did want to play), but the mother's guilt really set in. we'd traumatized him with the move, we were too busy unpacking, etc. etc. we may never know exactly what was going on, but we just did our best to be patient with him. we made it very clear that he did not ever have to play soccer again after this season but that he was to finish his commitment to this team.
speaking of commitment, we were so happy with the kids' coaches.
ethan's coaches were a husband and wife team who were wonderful. there were several inexperienced players on ethan's team that improved so much thanks to the patience and encouragement of mr. and mrs. coach z. :) here is ethan and coach z at the end of the year party at her house.
here are all the slicers!
coach danny sure did work well with caroline's team. he is a varsity football coach, but he knew just how to handle these little girls. he was so encouraging to his team, which also had several inexperienced players. 
the rockettes!
caroline was so excited to get her very first trophy! (which amelia broke this week... we love gorilla glue around here.)
so that wraps up our soccer season that wrapped up 3 months ago. fall soccer is starting now, but we are taking a break from the busyness and the heat of soccer for now. we are hoping for them to play again in the spring, but now we live down the street from a ball field... so we may take a stab at t-ball and baseball next season-- much to daddy's chagrin. :) we'll see what the spring holds!
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