Soccer season - Done!

Don't have a picture of Taylor's team, but he played on the Lone Peak provisional team this spring and did great.  I think he is the tallest on his team.  

Owen's team did awesome, winning their league and coming in 2nd in the Championship round.

Bill Jr.

The other day, Owen came home with a goldfish from school.  They had had a market day and some kid had brought goldfish to sell.  What kind of parent would buy goldfish for their kid to sell?  I'm baffled.  I wasn't particularly thrilled at this new pet, but pulled down my fancy crystal bowl that Scott and I got for a wedding present.  We have never used it, so it may as well be a temporary home for the fish until it died.

Owen wouldn't leave the poor thing alone and kept adding Lego trees etc. to the water to make it more homey for Bill Jr.  Lucky for me, it died within a couple of days.

Not too sad about that.

Darning his own socks

The other day, I found Owen in my laundry room trying to darn his beloved Stance socks.  He had pulled out my sewing box and taken out a needle and thread.  Not knowing what to do next, he resorted to his my beloved standby - tape.  He then taped the thread to the needle and was trying to sew the holes when I walked in.  Nice try Owen!

Perhaps in the future, wearing shoes with your socks will help in preventing the holes.  Just a suggestion.

I am in Love

I've looked at the Roomba for years and wondered if they were worth the money, but had never convinced myself to buy one.  However, after recently talking to a few neighbors who did have one and liked them, I decided to bite the bullet and buy my own...on my birthday....as a birthday present to myself.  You only turn 40 once right?  And who wouldn't buy themselves a vacuum on their birthday?

Oh. My. Goodness.  This little guy is a gift sent straight from heaven.

Today was his big trial run all alone in the house to see if he would earn his keep.  I picked up the major obstacles on my main floor, shut a few doors and turned him on right before I left the house to run errands.  I had doubts that it would do a good enough job to warrant his price tag as his mini trial run the day before was a little iffy.

To my amazement, when I returned home the house was swept and vacuumed and he had safely returned to his port, ready to do it again whenever I called.

As soon as I got over my amazement, for I was truly awestruck,  I about jumped for joy I was so pleased.  You mean this little piece of equipment will sweep and vacuum and I don't have to do it nor pay anyone else to do it for me?  Where have you been all my life?  I'm Sold!!

Sure, he doesn't do as good as I do.  Corners are a little tricky and there are spots he missed.  If I were to grade him, I would give him a B+.  But he does it well enough to make it sooo worth the money.   So, in between my weekly sweeping and vacuuming, he's totally got me covered.

Oh and I love him so much, I gave him a name.  Milo.  Welcome to the family.

Procrastinator

That's me.  Don't you hate it when you read your e-mail in the morning and realize the due date for the space derby ship thingy is today and you haven't done a darn thing to get it ready.  Was I reminded about it for months.  Yep.  And I did absolutely nothing about it.

So, the second Owen got home from school we had a marathon derby building afternoon.  With a lot of help from YouTube, and a sufficient amount of spray paint and wood glue, we threw one together. I'm just hoping the thing doesn't fall apart before the race is over.

Swimming on a Soccer Field

Soccer games this past week have been wet, drizzly and cold.  Taylor's game was the icing on the cake, though.  After raining all day, their team showed up at Lone Peak's poorly drained artificial turf field and found standing water.

What a game.  The boys were sopping wet by the end and found it quite the challenge to play with large lakes in the middle of the field, squishy sopping wet turf,  and a ball that kept stopping every time it hit the water. To top it off, Taylor decided to take a quick swim after the game was over.  You don't get that opportunity very often.

Helping with dinner

A table setter and a cook.