D and HIS INSANE SCHEDULE

I'll have a few photos to post in the next few weeks because D has a part in "Lion, Witch and Wardrobe" with Lelu too. He's the White Stag and one of the witch's army. Yes, he and Lelu are on opposite sides. He also has a part in the high school's musical "Oklahoma". So every day after school he has rehearsal for Oklahoma and MWF nights & Sat morn are his Narnia rehearsals. I've become the typical overscheduled mom and kids - but in my defense, they want to do all this stuff. I promise.
And he, B and Lelu still manage to go run or mountain bike every weekend together.

D also loves high school, loves our new ward and is just in happy land right now - don't get me wrong - he does get surly, disrespectful and tease the kids regularly - but overall I am sighing AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Ari the Super Gymnast

I just put this photo on because Ari and her BFF Sierra LOVE to dress up and wear each others clothes - pajamas, swimming suits and these lovely outfits to name a few. Kelly (her mom) and I are constantly returning clothes because they want to wear them home. See Lucy on her throne in the background? That's just another dog irritation of mine - she thinks she belongs on the hot tub and has put a hole in the cover - yep a hole! - reminding me how little control I have over the other living things in my life.

I realize she is not actually doing any gymnastics here, but the kids found this duck at Mr. T's football game after her gym class - so at least she is in her leotard and isn't she cute with the little duck? I talked to one of my new neighbors who's daughter is competing in gymnastics and she recommended this new place. I guess they've trained a couple of the level 10 world gymnasts. I've been disappointed with her last gym because they weren't moving her up and teaching her anything new. She started last week and they already moved her up to level 2 and told me she'll be moving to level 3 within a month. She wanted to play football too - but I told her girls don't play football and then at last nights game - 2 girls were on the other team. I hate being found out - I just said, well girls in our family don't play football. I know that's sexist - but we're talking about my feminine ego here and football is not feminine!

Lelu is Playing Soccer Again

Thank heavens the weather is nice (knock wood) because it is really lovely to sit out and watch 2 soccer games and 2 football games a week. She couldn't wait to play again - it seems soccer is her favorite sport right now. She's taught Izzie how to play with her - it's pretty cute. I'll have to try and videotape that.

Lelu's a really busy girl right now. She's running track once a week with a track club - 2 soccer games - piano - and she got a part in "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" at our local Draper theatre. She's one of Aslan's followers (a fox) and has a few lines and dances with Edmund, Lucy & Aslan. They practice 4x a week for 2 hours. Next week is opening night and then she'll have 4 performances a week for the next 3 weeks. Poor thing is very tired every night - but she loves it.

Mr. T's 1st Year of Football

So here we begin with flag football! This is Mr. T trying his turn at the kick off. He did pretty good at that. But what we've discovered (to B's total enjoyment & pride) is that Mr. T can THROW the ball hard and straight. He's not much of a blocker or tackler like D. As I have previously mentioned in the past - we have every single moment of D's football career on videotape. But B didn't think flag football at age 6 warranted videoing UNTIL last Saturday when Mr. T was put in as quarterback and threw a perfectly straight pass to his Best Bud Caden. I think it was a good 10 yards and Caden caught it and ran a touchdown. It was so cool. D & B were yelling down to me "Did you see that?!?". Caden's mom & I have a tendency to chat and miss a lot of the game - but we both happened to look just as Caden caught it and ran. For any of you who haven't had the football experience - This was amazing! They don't even usually start throwing passes until about age 9. So needless to say, B was lamenting how he really wished he had that play on video. Mr. T didn't even want to play at first - but he now seriously is sleeping with his football

Being in a New Ward

If you asked me a month ago what the worst part of moving is - I would have said packing, unpacking and all the work it takes, but I've changed my mind. I don't like being in a new ward - it makes me homesick for my old ward. I've totally felt at home in my house so I assumed it would be the same in the new ward. I took for granted that I knew every face and every voice(when you're listening in the lobby to testimony meeting) in my last ward. It also seems like everyone is new here, so we're all just walking around looking a little lost. There's a brand new development with people moving in all the time and so far everyone I've sat next to is new also. The last time we moved, we were overly welcomed. It was Christmastime so everyone brought us stuff and came over to meet us. Today I found myself after Sacrament meeting wanting to drive over to our old ward (they meet at the same time). I guess since we still own the other house, we could just continue to go to the old ward.......would that be a copout or a bad lesson for the kids? For Today, it's a nice thought.