Last day of soccer!

Lucy and Ava with their friend Brooke.

Ava showing 2 boys how to kick a ball! GO AVA!!!!

This kid is so darn cute!!!

And so is this one!!!

And this one toooooooo!!!!

Ava telling me "I love you" in sign language... ahhhhhh.

You are looking at the #1 team! Go Freedom!!!!!

I just love her nose freckles!

Madeline and her coaches and the end of the season party.

Lucy and Ava's very first trophies!

Homemade cake (not by me! LoL) with pictures of each player on their own piece!

It's finally the end of the soccer season! I feel so relieved! It's been hard trying to balance soccer three days a week with three kids along with nursing school and EVERYTHING else we have going on. It WAS a good season though. I loved watching Lucy and Ava play for the first time.. I loved seeing the excitiment on their faces as they kicked the ball. I loved seeing Maddie become an even better player than she was last season... I especially loved her fancy foot work. :-) Maddie's team placed #1 in U10 division 1. Fair Oaks freedom U10 girls are officially the best! :-D

Chase time with Poppa!

 All the girls get so excited as they try to find Chris... they have to move fast though, they might get caught and tickled!

 I suppose they feel safer in a group... That way Chris can only catch one at a time. LOL

Or, hiding by Momma is always a good choice!

 Uh oh, looks like the girls found Poppa!  Or maybe he found them!

 Faster!!!!!

 Caught one!!! :-)

Every time Chris comes home the girls ask him to play "chase".  This house gets so incredibly loud with three girls screaming, and 4 people running around!  It's so incredibly sweet though... These girls sure do enjoy their Poppa! And their Poppa sure does love them!!!

Playing with my new lens!

Making cookie brownies

 1st, the brownie batter

 then, the cookie dough

 Put it all together and bake for about 25 minutes

 All my girls say the funniest things at times.  Today as Lucy was cleaning out the brownie bowl for me :-), I asked her, "Lucy, is that good?"  She replies... "mmmmm.. kinda" so I told her, "well, go give it to Ava if you don't like it, she will eat it."  Lucy says... "No, I think I can handle it."  LOL  All this as she shoves more batter into her mouth...

Chris is coming home from a 4 day show today, and every time he comes home I make him spaghetti and chocolate cake (I know... I'm silly).  But today, I decided to combine two of his other favorite treats, brownies and chocolate chip cookies... I will know later if these were a hit or not. :-)

It's exhausting to be 5 :-)

As Chris was reading the girls their nightly stories last night, he noticed Lucy was unusually quiet... then, he looked over and saw her fast asleep. :-)  Like I said, it's exhausting to be 5. :-)  She is so cute!