Soccer Season

Soccer season was a lot of fun this year. I was Cloe's Soccer Coach. She did a great job playing and learning. The whole team was a lot of fun and we had two games and even though we didn't officially keep score our team won both games. Yeah!! Go Tigers! (That was the team name that the kids came up with.)

We've also started Dance Classes. I'm teaching two Ballet/Jazz classes and a private lesson my six and up class is a lot of fun they are just eager to learn and seem to hang on my every word. :) My younger class, includes my children, and they don't really want to listen or they just can't listen for so long, so I'm experimenting with different strategies for the class. My Private lesson is for someone who is Autistic and she is my age and it's really nice to be able to do everything that she likes and wants to do.

We have also started preschool with some friends and the girls are enjoying the time although I really can't tell if Cloe is paying attention and just doesn't look like it or she's just not paying attention. Maybe Cloe needs to do something without mom. :)

Get the Camera

Whenever the girls are cuddling Paige so cute they say, "Get the Camera Mom" This is one of those moments. The other day in the bath Dakota tried to talk me into going and getting the camera but I didn't let her talk me into it, but it was cute. :)

The Visit Continued...

Dakota and Ice Cream Cone

Mom and Paige Cloe, Paige, and Aunt Colleen

Paige, Uncle John, and the Tongue
Paige, Dad, and The Tongue

Us Making Aunt Colleen Laugh Brent, Paige, Chris, and Aunt HollyGrandma Nessi, Dakota, Great Aunt Colleen, Cloe, and Great Uncle JohnWhile we were in Casper we mostly enjoyed a relaxing couple days visit. We went to Hometown Buffet, we went swimming, shopping, and hanging out goofing off.

Three Trails

My Aunt Colleen and my Uncle John came to Casper to visit and so we wanted to go see them while they were going to be close. Closer than Panama or Wisconsin. I just love them. They are so fun to spend time with. My Uncle John is so funny, he always gets everyone laughing and I just love how honest he is and he is just such a sweetheart and hard worker and just enjoys life. It's those kinds of people that are not only enjoyable to spend time with but make you want to be a better person. Okay just don't tell the authorities about the Bronze Horse Climbing incident and then we are fine. :) We went to the Three Trails Museums' Pioneer Soldier Reenactment.

When I Grow Up...

...I want to be a firefighter or Police Officer. Steve and Brent

Cloe

We got to see the fire truck, and then when we left we also saw the truck leave and go to a car Fire.

Uncle Steve and the Girls, they love hanging out with Uncle Steve

Cloe Driving the Truck and Dad riding along

Dakota Driving the Truck

Cloe ready to go put out fires

Dakota dressed and ready to work

We went to go see Uncle Steve at work at the Fire Station. Brent will admitt that he is a little Jealous of Steve becoming a firefighter. I believe that they both have great jobs of service to the community and great When I Grow Up Jobs :)

Dance Baby

The rec center has some fliers going around so I can start dance classes for this year and so I've been ordering shoes, leo's, and other things we might need. Dakota has the Jazz shoes on and Cloe has the Ballet slippers on. They were so cute and I felt like a proud mommy so I had to get their picture and then the hug it was priceless. I was calling Dakota my "Jazz baby" (something my dance teacher used to call me) and she was repeating it and it was also priceless.P.S. FHE plan for this week worked out really well. We'll see if it works long term. We had a lesson on honesty. I did the lesson I couldn't think of anything too exciting but I know the girls love stories so I told them the story of the boy who called wolf (Lindsay version, of course) and then tied it into our heavenly father's love and commandments. Activity and Snack: It was so cute before FHE Dad said, "Cloe lets go talk" and they went skipping off to plan their parts it was so cute. We did Ice cream and a drive (can you tell who had the pull on that one?) Dad was supposed to be in charge of snack and Cloe activity but it seems awfully reversed to me. :) It was fun and Dakota did the song we did Mother tell Me, I'm not actually sure if that is the correct title, but I sang it to her once and she hasn't been able to stop asking for it, she loves it, it's a primary song. (One that reminds me of good times with my mom.)

Some is better than none

So here are some of the fruits of our labor one of my favorite things that we planted was the grape tomatoes. They are great on salads and to snack on even Cloe ate a whole pile of them before I could even get them in the salad. I learned an important lesson in the garden that morning as we were picking off tomatoes. Some of the tomatoes weren't good and I had to get rid of them and I started to think that it wasn't perfect because I didn't have all of the tomatoes. Also the girls were picking off some of the green ones which didn't even have a chance to grow yet. But then I thought about how our Heavenly Father knew that even he wouldn't get all of his children back. I also thought about the story of the wheat and the tares and that he would also get some wheat with the tares. So really what I thought was perfect really isn't perfect at all it's knowing that I'm going to always be learning and growing and changing everyday that is the plan of Happiness. And then I had to be happy because we had a lot of tomatoes. I also had to remember my father-in-law reminded me when weeding the garden that not only did I not have to get all of the weeds when weeding that getting one everytime I came outside would help and that would be better then nothing and also that I might get some of those flowers when I weed too but I still have some flowers (even after the ones the girls picked too.) I just love those analogies and they really helped get the point across to me that SOME IS BETTER THAN NONE and having ALL is NOT PERFECT.