Just a day at the river...

Well, we decided to drive up to O'Brien Park the other night and played around in the river and threw rocks too. The boys climbed all over these huge fallen logs and had a really good time exploring the whole area. It's gorgeous with huge pine trees and it is really sheltered on the river bank. You have to walk down the little hill to get to the river but then you are welcomed by all these beautiful rocks. It's weird to think how pretty the rocks are here. We typically have to pay for rocks this pretty. The boys, basically Max, got totally soaked, but didn't care one bit and had the best time splashing and throwing rocks. Growing up in a house full of women, throwing rocks or hanging out with nature would've appealed to me, but when you have boys, this is what you do.

No matter where we go, Max always has to have a stick. Usually it is used for a weapon but sometimes he just likes to throw them at things. (Usually a weapon). Mason was content throwing rocks, but then he starting getting too close to Max and we were convinced we were going to have an "incident" on our hands that requires another emergency room visit. Luckily, we were ok.

Our boy is 5!

We can hardly believe it! Mason turned 5! I can still remember going to the doctor for a check up and then discovering I had to go to the hospital because my blood pressure was up. I was so pissed because I had planned a FULL day of shopping. That put a wrench in my plans. LOL. At 8:46 pm our gorgeous baby boy was born. He weighed 8 lbs 3 1/2 ozs and was 21 inches long. He was perfect since he was a C-section and was ready for action! All of our wonderful friends and family were there to help us welcome our baby boy into this world.

Mason had a pretty good birthday, I think. Nothing too fancy. I think once he is in kindergarten we will invite his friends from school and have a little party or something, we typically just keep it low key with the family. He got some great stuff a Superman lunchbox for next year, a cool race track. We are so proud of our boy!

The Never Ending Soccer Tourney Part 2

So it's Saturday and we are in day two of soccer tourneys. Mason had 3 games back to back too, but Mason truly loved soccer. He really took a shine to soccer, must be the Mexican in him! Here is the team picture of Mason's team. We had some great kids on the team and met a really great family that fits our family. It also happened that both of their boys were on both of our boys' teams...so it worked out really well.

Whatare they supposed to do while they are waiting? Putting the cones on their heads just made sense! There is nothing better than team medals and popsicles. That's our friend Ryan from Gymniks and soccer. Mason scored 2 goals during the tournament and too many to count during the regular season! LOL. The kids really got into it towards the end of the season instead of just running up and down the field aimlessly. I am so proud of my boys!

The Never Ending Soccer Tourney

It was simple enough. We enroll our boys in soccer for fun and merriment...then comes the tournament. It lasted forever. However, Max's coach, Coach Mark, is the bomb and we will be stalking him next year to ensure that he is coaching the kids again. The boys had 3 games back to back on Friday night and please be advised....it is hard enough to get 3 and 4 years olds to engage in ONE game a night, but 3 in a row? With 10 minute breaks? Holy. But he perserveered! Max even scored a goal, so what if it was on his own net? It's still a goal. Max was super proud because he received two medals, one from coach and one from the organization. We had some hot dogs and veggies between games and all the parents brought something for the kids to snack on. It was true teamwork!

We met some really great people, like Cade standing behind Max being airplanes on the sidelines waiting for Coach Mark to call them in.

There is a picture of Max and his whole team. Soccer was truly a love/hate relationship for Max. He wanted to do it because his big brother played soccer, but when we got there, it was a struggle to get him to pay attention or even stay on the field. Mostly he would shoot out Spider Man webs at us and go the opposite way the rest of the team was heading. You gotta love him.

That's Coach Mark helping my Max along! Thank you Coach Mark for an amazing season! See you next year....are you ready????

I'm so obvious....

I know that technically it's been quite a while since I've been on my blog, but....ya know. Life happens. Soccer lasted a lifetime. When you have to take kids EVERY single day from Monday to Thursday, it can wear on you. You almost want your kid to be unreliable...almost. This Father's day we spent it on the quads in Sand Lake near Fairview. Aunt Kathy had a good friend from Australia, Mel, visiting so we took them out on the quads. I will not tell a lie and inform everyone now that I crashed the quad. Typical, I know. Predictable, yes. I crashed into a tree while trying to ride with my kid. Nice. Max refused to "get back on that thing with her", I believe were his exact words. I told him to save it for his therapist, I was off the clock. So then Michael had to have both boys on the quad. He asked Kathy to NOT take a picture since it was illegal but we had legal representation with us, so I think we were ok.

We had a lovely fire and roasted hotdogs and marshmellows, that is Max's fave part. They also really like it out there because it's like a great big ole sandbox. It's a blast for everyone.

Totally awesome dude!

Today the boys and I went out with my pal, Sandra and her little guy, Zackary up to a big city park that we have here. It's actually the same place where I ran my 10K, BTW. Anyway. The boys had fun playing in the sand and running around the equipment, but the REAL fun came later. We went for a little adventure walk up these big hills and over the reservoir. The boys loved watching the water crash down the waterfall and had a hoot throwing things into the water and seeing who's twig or pinecone would win. Sandra brought her camera and took tons of pics, so when she loads them up, I will put them on here.
The best part was when we were walking back to the main park pavillion because they have a skate/bike park. The teens hang out there and do a bunch of tricks. Mind you, this was during the school day, so there weren't very many kids there. The area was all concrete with dips and ramps and graffiti everywhere. Mason said, "Mom, this is AWESOME!" They had so much fun running in all the dips and ramps. They used teamwork to help each other up some steep hills when they couldn't do it for themselves. I asked these 2 boys to do some tricks for our boys and they obliged me with some wheelies, turns, flips, and cool tricks. Mason and Max thought it was just about the coolest thing they had ever seen. All for free!@ I love cheap entertainment and it's a total bonus when the kids think I'm the bomb for thinking of it. We applauded our performers when their tricks were done and then headed home for our evening filled with soccer.
Mason went yesterday with his daddy to get a haircut....and let's just say....he is ready to join the marines. I didn't even recognize my baby. He looks sooooo grown up. Michael told Max to say good bye to his curls because he was taking him to chop them off sometime this weekend. I love those curls. Mason scored a goal last night at soccer and thought he was hot stuff.
Tonight we are going to a "new" friend's house. Denis and Jen have two boys the almost exact same age as our boys who all happen to be on the exact same soccer teams. Therefore, we have been "forced" to be friends! We've already had one of the most successful playdates in the history of the world and now the parents and children have a our very own playdate tonight at their house! It will be great having new couple friends with kids the same age. I'll try and take pics tonight to put them up later! Oh, my pal, Jen is a HUGE scrapbooker....so I believe I will still get to "make my memories"! Yippee!

So....remember when I said I was losing my son?

Remember when I was complaining about potentionally losing my oldest son, Mason, to the neighbors because they had a Wii and we didn't. Well, when I took Max to the doctors the other day, there was this old Colombian woman there who heard me speaking Spanish to Max and started talking to me....she was telling me about her boy who was like 16 now, and he still would rather have been home with his family rather than go out because when he was a boy, he had wanted video games too. So, she got them to keep her boy at home. She got me thinking that I needed to do the exact same thing. PLUS, I was tired of Mason asking to go over to the neighbor's EVERY WAKING MOMENT OF THE DAY. I called around earlier in the week looking for the Wii and was told by 8 shops that they didn't have any in stock and "we don't know when we will be getting more in". so, I was kinda bummed thinking that I was going to have to wait a long time. Well...well...well....

I went into the same Blockbuster that I had called earlier in the week TODAY, and they had 3 in stock. I asked if I could hold it till my hubby could get home and approve the purchase, cuz it's kinda expensive...but they couldn't... so I left around noon and hoped for the best. Well, I called Michael about 100 times and then made the executive decision around 5 pm to make the BIG TICKET purchase and hope for the best! I was worried for nothing cuz Michael could've cared less when he got home. Not only that, Uncle Julius and Aunt Kathy came over to help us break it in. I guess I know where we will be for the next couple of weekends!

Max isn't too interested. He's only 3 mind you, but I have an idea of how to get him interested. I saw a TMNT Wii game and I think that will totally get him going. By the way, TMNT is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles....his ABSOLUTE favorite thing in the whole world. FYI.