We Were Featured!!

I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Etsy.com - but that is who Laurie and I have our website through. If you are not familiar with the site it is kind of like a giant craft fair online. I love it because you can always find really unique gifts. On Etsy's home page they have various items and sellers that they feature throughout the day. Yesterday our little ghost was featured!!! We were so excited! It brought a lot of traffic through the site. We are having so much fun with this and are really enjoying coming up with new creations each day. I just had to share our excitement and some of our favorite creations.

http://www.poshprincesscouture.etsy.com/

Yellow Card

So I don't have a picture to go with this post, but felt I should share. Keaton's birthday is on Friday. I e-mailed his teacher to find out how many kids are in the class and to find out what treat would be best to send. She e-mailed me back letting me know that she was very aware that his birthday was this Friday. "He is so EXCITED!!!!! So excited that he can't stop talking about it and had to turn his card to yellow today" she informed me. Oops - what would you expect from Keaton. To top it off - he didn't even tell us about it - we had to pry it out of him. He had no problem telling Tanner as soon as he finished football practice. "Hey Tanner - I turned my card today" All proud - like it was a right of passage. Man - what are we going to do with this kid???!!!

Typical Keaton!!

So the real reason that I started posting this morning was because Keaton inspired me to do so. When he got up this morning he had a bowl of cereal and finished off the box. After he was finished eating he asked me if he could make a "project" with the box. I asked him what kind of project?? He said " I want to make a Star Wars ship out of the box." I told him that was fine. He disappeared into the kitchen to make his ship. I continued on with my morning chores. About a half hour later I found him on the couch watching T.V. in a hat and his underwear. I didn't think much of it - he is always doing random things like putting on a beanie and ski gloves in the middle of summer - "Cause he likes it" so I continued on with my morning. I called him in the laundry room to pick up his clean laundry and he was no longer wearing the hat. I said come here - a little closer - closer.... what happened to your hair???? "Oh I think it is from the haircut place yesterday" (he got a haircut yesterday) I said let me see that -- I was ready to call the lady - then he informed me that he decided to just cut it a little while he was doing his project earlier this morning. It was so hard not to laugh - I had to turn my back. Now the decision at hand is to shave the whole thing - or just let the spot grow back - We will have to wait for Dad to get home from work for the final decision.

Football Carnival

Tanner had football carnival yesterday. This is where the Clovis elementary schools get together and scrimmage each other. The teams play 12 minute scrimmages. Tanner loved every minute of it. He was so excited yesterday morning. While we were driving to Buchanan he said "Mom- I've got butterflies in my stomach. This is going to be so cool. I mean- we are going to play in the BIG stadium!! I can't wait!" We had a great time cheering him on. It was weird to be the parent in the stands cheering. It really makes you feel your age. Plus when I looked down the row from me, in the bleachers, who did I see.... Mr. Jeff LaBlue. His two girls were cheering. We discussed how it was really weird to be here how many years later - now cheering on our own kids. Man time flies.

Soccer Star

Keaton started soccer this week. He is loving it. He knew he was going to have practice on Thursday - so all week all we heard was "How many more days is it 'til Thursday??" This is his second year playing U-6's and there are some differences in his competitiveness, but some things never change.

Football Update

So Tanner had his first scrimmage Friday. He really enjoyed it. They didn't keep score and he liked that. He told me " Mom, it's just so we know what to do when we have a real game"

They have another scrimmage this Friday and then the real games will start the following week. He has sustained no injuries to date, a few bruises along the way but

that's about it. When I asked him how he was liking football he responded with " It's really cool - it's the only place where I am allowed to push people down!" We are all feeling like this is really good for him. As long as he is enjoying it we will continue to encourage it. Another added bonus is that he is on the "B" team - which is a really good thing - the guys on the "A" team look huge =)

First Day Of School

Well it has happened - both of my boys started school yesterday. Next year I will be done paying for daycare for good. Hooray!! Tanner was up and ready 30 minutes early. Keaton, on the other hand, took his own sweet time. He refused to eat breakfast - HE WASN'T HUNGRY! He made sure I knew. I tried to tell him he wasn't going to get to eat until snack, but he didn't seem to care. He ate breakfast this morning though- no argument - maybe he actually got hungry yesterday =) He gets to stay for afternoon campus club today - so he opted to have hot lunch - he was so excited for that. Tanner HAD to have hot lunch - he left his lunchbox at school - hopefully he finds it today. Tanner really likes his teacher, who is also the football coach. I asked how football practice went yesterday - he said "tiring". I said was it fun?? He repeated "tiring". We will see how it goes. He was up and ready again today, eager to take all of his gear to school. I will post more about football later when I get the pictures from the camcorder.

Keaton loves all of it. He told me about all of his new friends. Except none of them have names yet AND he let me know that Mrs. Smith said NO LOVE at school. He told me that this is a good thing because Skyler is in his class and she is from preschool and she wanted to marry him. SOOO he said that Mrs. Smith told the whole class NO LOVE so then it was okay to play with Skyler at recess because of the rule - they could just be friends =)














They both found their friends at school. Keaton's best buddy, Nick, is in 1st grade this year and he was soooo excited to see him at school. It was the best picture that I got of him all morning.






Tanner found his buds as well, all of them are playing football, except one of them. They were all in the same kindergarten class - it has been fun to watch them all grow throughout the years. Funny thing- all of their moms are teachers.