Soccer

Ethan started playing soccer today!

He is super excited and you can see it in his eyes

He practiced last night with Mike

(Emma tried to practice too)

He got to play the goalie at the game and did a great job.
He even dived to save the ball from going....out of bounds, I think!

I'm excited to see how much he'll loves it!

2

My Emma turned 2 last Saturday!

She loves Minnie Mouse and got this shirt to wear on her special day!

Opening the present from Ethan!
(What a GREAT big brother!)
Mike and I got her a kitchen and I think she likes it

Emma shares her birthday with her Great-Grandma LeDuc so we celebrated their birthdays together

Both birthday girls blowing out their candles

Emma loves cake and icing too

Emma got a good haul of clothes

And a shopping cart

THIS is a new favorite of hers!

I tried my best to make a Minnie Mouse cake

At Grandma and Grandpa Lott's to celebrate the day after her birthday, she blew out the candles before we were done sining Happy Birthday!

I think this a new favorite too

Earrings, a bracelet, and a necklace with Cinderella on them. The necklace even says, "Hello, I'm Cinderella!"

Oh how she loves it!

The rabbit died!

Summer, summer , summertime!!

Yeah for summer!

We enjoyed the warm-HOT-weather and pulled out the slip and slide!

Ethan and Emma couldn't keep their excitement in...

Too much fun
Emma LOVED it

During a break (to warm up) Ethan showed off his goggles

Emma took advantage of the break to warm up in her towel

She kept shivering and shivering but kept going back to the water for more!

Happy SUMMER!!

...and they're back

that's right, jammie parties with just me, Ethan, and Emma are back. No, I 'm not complaining just commenting that I get them back...I really like them.

Mike was called into the bishopric last Sunday and will now have meetings a couple of nights a week and so the kids and I get to jammie party it up while he's gone!

Reading

A couple of weeks ago while Mike was preparing for his home teaching lesson and doing this...

Emma was doing this...

Mini-sot-ahh

Last week we ventured off to the land of 10,000 lakes for Mike's sister's wedding!

There was so much to see and lots and lots of time planned with family.

The day after we arrived, we headed to the Mall of America to see Legoland and Nickelodeon Universe, formerly Camp Snoopy.

All those legoes were pretty cool.

We had to get lunch and the food court is about 3 or 4 times as big as the ones at the malls here-REALLY!

Emma and Ethan got McDonalds and Mike and I got Panda Express....mmmmmmm!

Emma really liked her juice

We ate right in front of one of the lego dudes at Legoland-a big Transformer. Anyone who knows Ethan knows what a huge Transformer fan he is so I just had to get a picture of him in front of it.
After lunch we went to ride some rides at Nickelodeon Universe. It's an amusement park in the mall-so cool.
Here's Ethan on his favorite ride, Swiper's Sweeper

He also liked the bumper cars

he had to ride with Mike because he's not tall enought-yet, maybe next year!

He really liked the Wonder Pet's Flyboat too.

I went on it with him the first time, but the second time, we only had one ticket left so he got to go with other kids.

(it's similar to the Big Shot in Las Vegas, only not as high and not on top of a building)

That night we went on a double date with Mike's sister and her hubby, we'd never met him before then and wanted to get to know him.

We found mustaches in the car, there is a story but I won't get into that here, so Mike tried the Mario one on.

Fitting don't you think? Matches his eyebrows!

I love how much Mike makes me laugh!