Tether Ball

On Saturday we had to arrive about twenty minutes early for the boy's soccer game so they could warm up.  Laron and Steven noticed there was tether ball on the school playground and of course that called for a brother on brother tether ball match to the death!

Steven totally got pegged in the nose

 

I'm not really sure who ended up winning, there were several games.  It's always fun to see grown men acting like thirteen year old girls.

Dentists Are Super Annoying Especially When They Procreate

Steven and I left work early today to take Xander to the dentist to get his three cavities filled.  The plan was that after picking up the kids from the other Ross household Steven would take Paizley home and I would take Xander to his appointment.  As expected I was running about ten minutes late, I swear I've finally subscribed to Ross standard time.  We arrived at the office and all the lights were off and the door was locked.  I was like seriously I know I'm a couple of minutes late but what is going on. 

When I got home I checked Steven's phone to see if they had left a message, of course they had.  Apparently the dentist's wife had a baby today and they needed to reschedule.  This would be fine, but begs the question, why in the bleepity bleep didn't they call my bleeping work phone like they bleeping did on Monday to confirm the bleeping appointment!

Now I feel a little better I guess I'll take advantage of being home and clean a bathroom or something.

First Game

Saturday we had Xander's first game of the season.  He was super excited to play and his whole team tried really hard, but of course we got trounced.  It was something ridiculous like 10-0. 

 

With his team mates before the game started

The boys sat on this blanket when they were subbed out

Xander playing defensive

Blocking a shot (Steven's knees were in the way, ticked!)

Steven and Paizley

The coach at half time.  His name is Sebastian and he's from Sweden which is cool.

Various game shots

Xander is the one on the ground. He kept sliding into the ball

I swear the game was played on the surface of the sun, it was so hot.  Xander's face was very red and sweaty by the time it was over.  He said he was very tired but had plenty of fun playing.  We are going to work on being a little more aggressive for next time.

Start Of Soccer Season

Hurray for soccer starting again.  Xander is very excited to be playing this year.  He took a year off because frankly he has a flake for a mom and I kept missing the deadline to sign him up.  We opted for a different league this year.  You pay for two seasons up front, fall and spring, and the team stays together.  I think that will be much better for their team work.  Plus we received almost a full uniform, jersey, shorts, socks and a new soccer ball.

Xander and Tommy are on the sames team, Laura is super woman and is assistant coaching.  Hopefully we will get in some good wins this year.

Lagoon

We went to Lagoon on Monday for one last hurrah before school started up again.  Nate was able to get some pretty sweet discount tickets through Walgreen's for only $23.99 a ticket.  We were excited because Paizley has finally hit 36 inches (with her shoes on) so she could ride rattlesnake rapids and some of the bigger rides.

It's Lish tradition that the first thing we ride whenever we go to Lagoon is the white roller coaster.  Paizley is still too small (and I hate it) so my dad, pregnant Emily and I took Paizley on the carousal while we waited.

The first couple of times we rode the carousal Paizley didn't want to actually ride on an animal, we sat in a sleigh that rocked back and forth.  It worked out well so that Emily could sit by us.

 

Everyone else decided to take a turn when they finished riding the roller coaster.

Waiting in line

My parents have a picture of me riding this same cat when I was about Xander's age

Emily and Creep-a-thon

Heidi and a rare Nate smiling photo

Hailey and Zach

I couldn't get Xander or Paizley to look at me

Lunch

 

After lunch my parents took Paizley to ride the little people rides and the rest of us went to ride some more thrilling things.  I forgot my camera in the stroller so I didn't get any pictures of the interim.

This is the new ride for this year.  It's called the Autoplane or something I don't really remember.  Heidi, Ryan, Zach and I rode it

Nate and Emily had no desire

 

So this is where it starts to go bad.  After riding the airplane ride, I went on the jumping dragon with Paizley, then the airplane ride again and then the samurai.  I am entirely too old to be going on that many upside down circle rides in a row. It just about killed me.

Sick after the jumping dragon

Sicker after the airplane

About to vom after the samurai

Samurai

I'm on the furthest end by the middle of the ride.  What made it totally worse was after the restraint came down the stupid ride operator came by and shoved it into my stomach so I couldn't breathe.

Ticked, mangy Paizley

We left shortly after the samurai debacle, after all Xander started school the next day.

New Outfit

My parents went yard sailing and bought Paizley some new clothes.  She has been dying to wear everything, but most of it has long sleeves and it's still too hot for that.  This shirt was the one thing I thought she could get aways with.  I think she looks all sorts of grown up.

First Day Of Second Grade

Xander started his second grade year at Saratoga Shores Elementary yesterday.  He was very excited to be a shark again and to ride the bus with his cousins.  He was hoping that he would be in the same class as Tommy but that didn't happen.  He'll just have to make do with playing with him at recess.

 

Xander in his "first day shirt"

Ammie and Paizley wishing they were old enough to go

The obligatory boarding the bus photo