September Soccer '10

Sammy was a Silverwolf!

1st Day of School 2010

This is how we do 4th and 2nd grade!

{Museum of Natural History- with friends}

{Sam is 7}

Sam turned 7 in January!

It was a Sunday bday and we had just driven home from California the day before so it was a little less planned than usual, but he didn't seem to mind the "Backyardigans" cupcakes :)

We had a party for him and all the other January bdays at Grandma's house the day before we left cali too so it was A-OK

Happy Birthday Buddy!

{Fall Soccer}

Sam the soccer star!

{1st day of school}

{this is how we do 3rd grade at our house}

{the big 1st grader}

{ready for school}

Just a cute pic

of Sam that I need to print out, frame and look at when he is being the little instigator, troublemaker, stinker that he is, and I am ready to ship him off to military school, which I am, on almost a daily basis.

T-Ball

Sam had his first experience playing T-ball this last summer.

He was very excited and it was fun watching him play another sport other than Soccer. The team was made up of almost his whole soccer team and coached by our next door neighbor TJ. We are never going to be able to move away from this neighborhood or else Sam will have to make all new friends AND teammates.

{Kindergarten Graduation}

Sammy


ahhh, proof of accomplishment! Now he can get a real job!!

the Graduate and his teacher, Mrs. B

the Graduate and his mommy

{Sammy the Soccer Star}

Sam had another fun season of soccer!

He was on the same neighborhood team he played with last year and they really worked a lot better together as a team. He is already signed up for the next 2 seasons so I guess we are not moving any time soon. And I am officially a soccer mom! But not in a bad, stereotypical way!

Winter Treats

Since the snow is never going away, Sam and Brooke decided to go out and tromp around in it...

and eat snow,

and try snow angels...

and eat snow...

this girl's BIRTHDAY is tomorrow,

so get ready for PINK overload!

PS- did you know that the STEPHEN'S French Vanilla hot chocolate is WHITE?

It was news to me!

Sam is 6!

Today Sam turned 6!

He had his 1st real friend party, with 6 friends...

and

9 cousins and 2 brothers and 1 sister.

Our house was full of food, friends, family and fun!

We had a great day and find it hard to believe that he is already so big!

We love you Sam!

He Got It...

OUT!

This just In...or, er, uh, ...Out actually

Sammy lost his 1st tooth!
and the 1 next to it is ready to come out anytime.

A New Career for Sam

Goin' to school to get some knowledge...

Still smiling after the 1st day of his new career. He threw a fit because I drove him to school and wanted to take pics of him... Mr. Independent

Sambo!

POPSICLES = BLUE LIPS

Tubing at Gorgoza Park

Jim took the boys to Gorgoza Park for a fun day of tubing. I took the babies and went shopping at the outlets at Park City which was just up the road. That is my kind of snow fun! A fun day in the snow for all, for sure! Gorgoza Park is really cool, they have 6 or 7 lanes to tube down and a tow rope back up to the top of the hill. No real exercise involved except for the heart pounding excitement of the downhill racing. Jim says the "kids" lanes are not scary at all, no real threat of accident, barely "catching air", Jake and Sam loved it! They bought the 2 hr ticket and the kids wanted more!

"See ya!"

A Cautionary Tale and A Birthday Rat

As per the usual request, we celebrated Sam's 5th birthday at Chuck E. Cheese. This particular restaurant seemed to be wilder and rowdier than usual, especially for a Thursday night, but we continued on. Sam didn't want a cake this year, so we stuck candles in the rainbow sherbet and used up about a ton of tokens on games. We ordered pizza and salad bar but the boys were too excited to eat any of it. Brooke was in a non-smiling for pictures mood but she had a lot of fun on the horsey carousel. Jim took the pictures so he's not in any of them. :)

Good times!

Jake was a little less than thrilled about the pink horse :)

Cool gifts!

Unfortunately I should have known better about a salad bar in a place like that and had food poisoning for the next 5 days. And poor Max, I informed him at 3 am while we were hanging out around the toilet together that he will not be having any birthday parties with Chuck!