Spring Break in Newport Beach!

Our first stop this year on our spring break trip was Riverside, California. Not so great of a city but what a fabulous little gem "The Mission Inn" is. This place is definately worth checking out if you are ever in the area!

I must apologize for a few of these pictures! My family thought it would be so funny to flip me off in an unnoticeable way while I was happily taking pictures. So laugh out loud at their humor, while you look at these. As you can see in the picture above, it was hard for them to contain themselves from completely losing control! Jordan doesn't quite dare in this picture and thank heavens, Hudson doesn't have a clue as to what is going on!!!




We spent a day in Hollywood! Kenzie was happy to have her picture in front of Ringo Starr's house, being the Beatles fan that she is...
Jordan was equally excited to have her picture with the Mad Hatter!
The whole clan with Wolverine.
And last but not least, as my children called him "the fat Spiderman"! What uncanny skills he had lifting Hudson up for this picture... He truly was amazing!!!
We drove around with the "Movie Stars Map" and found Simon Cowell's house in Beverly Hills! It was one of the few that you could actually see from the street. Can't wait until the next trip to Southern California...

Kenzie's Jr. Prom 2010

Kenzie arrived home after their day date, covered from head to toe in whipped cream! After bowling, they went to the park for a picnic and then had a whipped cream fight. Looks like lots of fun!

All cleaned up and ready to go!

Trying to pin Konley's flower on.....

Finally Sean had to step in and get the job done!

Kenzie got asked by Konley Heaton and attended the Jr. Prom at his school (Desert Hills High)! She has known Konley since elementary and had such a great time. Don't they look fabulous :)

UnDeFeAtEd

Our neighborhood team was the Orange Dragons and they were AWESOME out on the soccer field. Here is our team with Coach Jake.

Here they are acting all silly - but let me tell you that they were totally serious on the soccer field. We went undefeated the whole season and only had 4 goals scored on us. These boys really listened and learned from their coach and displayed some awesome passing skills, played tough defense, and stayed in their positions quite well for 6 year old boys. It really helps having a coach that LOVES the game of soccer and LOVES coaching these kids.

Hudson was the high scorer for the season and averaged 5 - 6 goals per game. He lives for soccer and is determined to score and win when he steps on the field. We are so proud of him and look forward to next season.





Orange Dragons 2009
U7 Fall Champions

6 is Super!

I can not believe that Hudson is 6, the years have flown by so quickly!!! He has been such a blessing to our family and we have all enjoyed watching him grow into the crazy, confident kid that he is.

His Halloween birthday lasts about a week with all the parties that go on that week. He had his birthday celebration at school and then the Halloween party at school, and then handing out Halloween treats and being sung to at his soccer game and then the family party at Nana's.

Here he is at kindergarten with all his spooky friends.

Nana always does a birthday poster for the kids!

All the birthday gifts. Nana makes her homeade stew in a pumpkin for his birthday dinner and he gets to eat on the "special" plate and drink out of the "spooky" cup!

This picture is my very favorite... whenever I asked Hudson what he wanted for his birthday he would reply "a nutcracker!" So I found this pirate nutcracker that would match his room and he was sooo excited. I also love Sean's smile in this picture, he just cracks me up!

This is Halloween, Halloween, Halloween!!!

Happy Haunting!!!

Sean, Jordan and I feeling like total rockstars at the neighborhood fall festival.

The make-up was quite time consuming so at the last minute on Halloween (actually because we were running out of time) we decided to not do the whole KISS production.

Soooo, on Halloween...

Jake was a skater punk..... with his friends Daniel and Bradley!

Jordan was still the KISS drummer. So funny that all her friends are in little dresses and then KAPOW - here's Jordan all rocked out! She loves to be unique :)

Hudson was Nacho Libre and he looked awesome! I knew that watching that movie 12 times on our motor home trip would come in handy for something!!!

I dressed up as a witch to hand out candy and Sean threw his Joker mask on to take Hudson around the neighborhood. My mom stopped by real quick as a spider witch to say hi too!

Kenzie was at Sadie's that night for the Monster Mash, so pictures of her and her date and friends will come later -

FOOTBALL

Jake is loving football this year! He is on the same team as his best friends and getting lots of playing time. He has caught 2 two point conversions! I am happy that he jumped right back into football after taking 2 years off to play soccer. I am not a huge football fan due to all the injuries but he is having a good time and enjoying himself and that is what matters most!


These are the 3 best friends... Devin Rivers - Jake - Preston Allen. They are all so supportive of each other out on the field.

Preston is looking fiesty in this picture. He looks like he is going to tear someone up when he gets back out on the field.

A few action shots of our game against Snow Canyon. Yea - we won!

There is so much joy in watching your kids participate in what they love, no matter what it is. I truly live for the weekends (even if they are crazy busy). I know too soon that this will all be over and done and for now this is what truly matters the most;)

The Agony of Defeat!!!

REGION 9 CHAMPIONS!!!

Pine View Varsity soccer had such an amazing soccer season this year! We lost only 1 game all season and were the Region CHAMPIONS! What an awesome group of ladies! We are so very sad to say goodbye to our beautiful and talented 5 seniors! (bottom row)

Our first game in the State Playoffs was Timpanogos. Not the greatest draw for us but we were ready to play. Timpanogos was 5A last year and took 2nd place in state. We knew this was going to be a tough team and every girl played at 110%!

Our Varsity team was short handed. One of our Star Seniors broke her nose at the previous game and could not play. We did not sub the entire game and were exhausted.

We put up an awesome fight but in the end walked away defeated. Heartbreaking to say the least! Until next year.........