Warning--More Soccer Pictures...

 Kept meaning to get these pictures on the blog of the games last Saturday as tomorrow is the boys' last game.   (We included some pictures of cousin Justin as he is on Carsten's team.)

Mother's Day 2012

The yearly Mother's Day picture with my two boys. Love. 

Oh, and they spoiled me rotten today!

Hairy McClary

I'm borrowing my brother's very nice camera and so consequently playing around--Hairy makes a good subject (cute too)...

More Soccer Games...

 Soccer games...  The boys' games were too close in time and in separate cities today, so Reese and I missed Carsten's game (Opa took pictures and Carsten scored a goal!).

Then everyone quickly came over and caught most of Reese's game...

Train Trip!

Yesterday we went on a trip with a school group--a train ride from Portland to Seattle and then back again that evening.  We got up at 4:30am, got ready, drove to Portland and got on the Cascades Amtrak train.  It was a 3 1/2 hour train ride to Seattle.  The boys loved it!  So many bonuses over a car ride--no seat belts/car seats, a bathroom just a wobbly walk away, a bistro car with snacks, switching seats, playing games (Uno and Spot It)... and for the parents the price tag--only $14 a person round trip! :-)

 

Listening to stories and watching the scenery...

We then had 4 hours to spend in Seattle how we wanted.

 We wandered all over Seattle.  We started with a two mile walk to a hamburger place that had many gluten free options--yummy!  We then trekked back stopping along the way--a total of five miles! We originally thought we'd do a museum or the aquarium, but it was a beautiful sunny day, so we just ended up walking around. The boys were troopers and slept like babies last night!

On the ride home...  tired and plugged in!

And no day is complete without some excitement...  On the drive home from Portland a friend of ours had a flat tire on the freeway and we just happened to be almost to where she was stopped on the side of the freeway.  We stopped to make sure she was fine (a police officer changed the tire for her), and then we wanted to caravan home to make sure she made it.  Jim was driving quite slow on the freeway to let her catch up and he got pulled over by the same police officer that had helped her change her tire!  Thankfully he was the one that had helped her, so he understood what we were doing.  Off we went again to fall very tiredly into our beds!

Soccer Time Again...

 We are back at soccer!  Carsten joined a team that was missing a few players, so today was his first game.  

 Funny face...

 Carsten ended up making the only goal for their little team, the Falcons!

 Today was Reese's second game this season.  Ended up the games were at the same time!  Had to split the parents up to watch (glad Papa came to watch too!)

The exciting news for Reese is that at last week's game he scored his first two goals--ever!  He was so excited.  Jim and I were talking or something and we missed the first one--Reese had to run over to tell us that he had made a goal...

Bubbles!

 We've been busy with Science Fair Projects and Carsten's was about bubbles...

Here are some fun pictures we did after we were done 'experimenting'!

Carsten's Second Lost Tooth

 Carsten lost his second tooth last week and now he is working on 4 more!!! 

Every. Single. Meal. he asks us Every. Single. Bite. if another one is missing...  Oh, boy.

Sailboats

 We had the cousins over and so we made little sailboats.  Of course they needed testing out, so into the tub they went (the boats, not the kids--although Clayton started to undress down to skivvies before I understood what he thought was happening!)

One Good Snow

 We usually get one good snow a year, and this year that happened on March 21st.  Today is March 22nd and the sun is out and it is melting, so the boys are out getting the most out of it!

 This is our dog cat that thinks the snow is quite alright.  This morning with the snow crunchy on top and soft under it was funny to watch him walk--step, slip, step, step, slip...

 Oh, and the greatest sled?  The pan from under the washing machine!  Hey, it works.