My Soccer Players

Here is Green Lightning's #5, The Golden Girls #3, & The Crushers #27.

Samantha has several coaches for her team, but one in common to Sarah's Team. Coach Casey- has a great saying that he tells the girls after he has talked to them about what things they need to do different in their playing- He'll ask what was not working and asks them what they need to be doing- His last comment is "Make the adjustment". I liked that statement so much I thought I would share it.

School Midterms already- Quarter #1

It is time for Midterms and I haven't even posted the first day of school photos- So I will correct that now.

Jordan's First day of Preschool-

Jason's birthday

It was Jason's 6th birthday here is how we celebrated: Birthday Party a week before. We had a family party at home the day of. And we had his first Soccer Game the night of his birthday. I also took treats to his school class, but I didn't take photos of that.

The Adidas Cup Tournament

It was quite the weekend for our family. Samantha's Soccer Team participated in the Adidas Cup Tournament. The first game the girls had was on Thursday- Our team won by 1-0. The second game was Friday. The game tied 1-1.

The weather forcast for Saturday was for possible rain in the morning and nice weather in the afternoon. The truth was the there was definitely rain and definitely nice weather in the afternoon. Their first game was at 8 AM and the rain ebbed off for most of the game- till a lightning strike that was too close for comfort drove everyone undercover. The game was called, they lost. However, because they won and tied they were eligible for playing the final game. They played the same team from that morning and lost under blue skies.

Here are the photos of a group hug before the last game and the their metals for "runner-up".

The County Fair

I am so proud of the girls. 10 Blue Ribbons, 1 Red- and one of the blue was an OUTSTANDING blue ribbon! I was excited and they were excited to see their hard work pay off. I am already anticipating next year. I took pictures of the display I wanted to record their efforts.

July in 4H

We have had a crazy month of July. The girls have sewn aprons and I took them to the Fair grounds for judging today. It was pretty intense for a while with our sewing. We cut out the aprons, Attached the facings, sewed ties, sewed pockets, put it all together. There was rarely enough time during meetings, so the girls would stay later,come earlier , or come back sometime later that week.

It was a continual process, some days seemed never ending other times I was having more fun than the girls. I took pictures of each girl and their "masterpiece" and will add the images just as soon as I collage them together, so I don't have to post 11 individual photos. I hope they all win blue ribbons.

In the meantime for cooking- we have been following the book pretty closely. We have made Granola bars, Fruit Kabobs and dip, Brownies, and scrambled eggs (not in that order) Some of the girls wanted to wear the aprons right away, but I prevailed in making them wait for after the fair.

Our next sewing project is making some denim square bags. I will let you know how that goes. I just hope the girls complete them before school is back in session.

The 4H ladybugs

I organized a 4H group for my ward. I was planning on just a few girls from our neighborhood, but felt later to open it up to the girls that were old enough, in our ward. So we have a group of 11. Another mother in the ward offered to help and I asked her if she would teach the cooking lessons, and I would focus on the sewing. So far so good. We are learning as we go. The first meeting we had the girls decided what projects they wanted to do (an apron and a bag) and the group name (the Ladybugs)

The next meeting we learned about how the sewing machine works and sewed thread-less on paper. The assignment was to go home and finish sewing on the lines. We also had chosen our "jobs" assignments. President, Vice President, Secretary, etc. The cooking lesson was on sanitation- keeping our hand washed.

The lesson we just had was sewing on fabric and learning of seam allowances. We may have bitten off more than we could chew when I had them sew "chill ties" for their dads for father's day. The class went much later than I had planned, but everyone had the Chance to nearly finish their project. The cooking lesson was from the workbook "6 easy bites" and they made pizza pockets.

Next week we are planning a field trip to Walmart. I plan on teaching them about different fabrics and choosing fabrics for their projects. I am also going to talk to them about Warp and weft and why straight of grain is important. For the cooking segment she is going to talk about food labels and then the girls can look at various products and compare.

Wish us luck- I think we may need it.