Flocking

A few weeks ago Addi's preschool started a fund raiser. It is the coolest idea ever. I read about it a few years ago and always wondered how one could pull it off and I think a preschool is a great idea. You flock for money someone's yard. They are left with wonderfully decorated flamingo's for a night. Then you can pay to have them removed and placed somewhere else.
Addi really liked the idea of the flamingos so I decided to pay to have one of the families she goes to school with yard done as well as the neighbors so the kids could see the fun. Everyone loved it. They were so cute.



I think it was funny to see all the adults in their yards at 10pm on a Sunday also reading the sheets and wondering what had happended to them. Especially Bret who just loves his yard. I made note of it on the sheet so they spread them out everywhere.

This morning we woke up to our own flocking. The family Addi goes to school with flocked us back. The kids were so excited this morning. I felt bad they were rained on but they still looked great.

If you live in Raymore, you never know when the flocking may hit you!

Week 5 football

Saturday night lights!! Everyone was so excited to play under the lights. It was the first time in a couple of years.

Luke had an amazing game!! He did great blocking work. Started on defense and played most of the first half. He has that running issue down.

Then he got the only funble recovery of the game!! It was so awesome. I was shooting pictures and the play was over before Irealized it was even Luke. He loves to tell the story of how the other kid was hitting and yelling for him to let go of the ball but he held it tight. The other guy even used his shoulder pad into his arm but he did not let go.

I think Addi would like for there to be something to cheer for

If you have not made it to a game you so should get out there. The only down side is we are done playing in Ray-Pec and have to go to Blue Valley for the rest of the games but Iam sure they will all be good memories!

1st Pedicure

I had a conference last week and was on my feet for what seemed like an eternity. The bottoms of my feet hurt so bad it was not funny. There is only one thing to do in a time like this, get a pedicure. I decided it would be fun to take Addi. I really am not sure there is a more girly girl than here out there so I was hoping she would enjoy it. I was afraid she would freak out or not be patient for them to do it. She LOVED every single part of it. She about had a heart attack when she had to pick out her polish. There was so many to choose from. Then they wash her feet, of she loved that. They put a litle flower on each big toe for her so she was smiling from ear to ear.

Here is what she looked like the entire time

She told EVERYONE in there that she took dance. I told her we would come back closer to her recitle and do it again. This could get very expensive in my future!

Baseball 2010

Today marked the first day of baesball. Yes, you read that right. Baseball started today. It ofically started 30 minutes after the football game ended.
I can say for certian that if baseball was not his first love there is no way we would even be thinking about it right now. The fact is Luke loves baseball. Regardless of the time of year he has baseball on the brain. This year he is going to play with many of the kids from his team last year, which was a great team and most importanly the same coach. Coach Cronk is the pitching coach for Rockhurst University. He is so amazing when it comes to his ability to teach these kids and I do love his organization!!

Lucas was so excited about getting to baseball this afternoon and did wonderful. For the next month they are only going to focus on pitching. This will be his first year with kid pitch ball and there are a ton of rules about how many pitches each player can play in a game, how many innings and then the simple fact you want to make sure you have some good kids pitching in the first place or you are going to have one painful game on your hands.

Starting in November we will move to an indoor facility in Lee's Summit so that should make for some intersting evenings but when summer comes we are all so happy to have games to go to it will be worth it.

They will travel for competitive and tournament play so if we are in your neck of the woods we will give you a shout!!

Fun time

I'm a robot
I'm a robot
I'm a robot



A mighty cute one at that.

This is how Addi spent her morning, playing with Luke's Omegatron face mask with voice changer. It use to scare her but now she loves it. I just have to keep her from going down the stairs with it on.

Football 10-3-10

Today's game marked mid season for us. We knew it would be a tough game. We were playing the top ranked team in our division. No one in the prior three weeks had scored against them. We played our biggest interleague rivals the first week and the score was 24-12 so we were in second as we have not lost but we were playing a team so good that no one had even scored against them. Lucas lost his starting defense position before the game when he was caught walking out to warm up instead of run and then the coach was even more mad that he pulled Luke because he was freaked out about getting scored on early. Apparently after the game there was a promise made about never walking again and Luke going back to starting defense. I guess all is right in the universe again regarding that little fact.

So the game, play two of the game we ran the ball in for a touch down. Very nice start. All was great until the second quarter which was the looongest quarter of football I have ever seen. There was a flag thrown and aparently some serious issues with the refs because the game was stopped for no less than 15 minutes to figure out what to do.

It was tied 14-14 at half time. The second half went well, our defense did its job and our ofense looked polised.

In the end we wond 24-14.

Yep, he got that tackle

Here are the cutiest little people ever. They love to play with each other no matter where or how rough.

Here is Addi trying to get in on the cheering. She is trying to find the other girls and see what they are doing.

Week 3

Week 3 brought our first away game. We headed over to Blue Valley for a cool Sunday morning game. It was Luke's best game of the year, so far at least. The Tigers did great.
Lucas is doing very well playing linebacker!

The tigers won 40-0

We are 3-0 and hoping the streak continues!!!

Lawn mowing

Saturday afternoon Jeremy decided he would teach Luke to mow the yard. Lucas has been able to mow a couple of times at the farm and has been bugging us to mow at home. Mom did not think it was good idea and Dad, Dad saw his mowing career ending.

This guy, well he was ecstatic about getting to mow at home!
Here is stage one in the learning process.

There was a lot of talking and teaching and wanting to just start mowing by Lucas.

Then there was the patient waiting and waiting and watching. It was all part of the lesson but I think it did almost kill him to have to wait and watch.

Here is the big moment. Lucas is MOWING!!

I am guessing there is going to be a lot less of this and

a lot more of this from now on.

Lucas can only mow the front and not the sides because of the incline, so I guess mom did win a bit.

Ah, my brother can mow......Ah

Well here is to years of continued mowing. I am glad fall is here and it will not take many more mows before the season ends. I am just very nervous about this entire thing.

Festival in the Park 2010

Last weekend was Festival in the Park. Guiding Star, Addi's preschool and Luke's hang out spot before and after school had a float in the parade. Once I worked out the parade and football pictures timeline in the morning we decided to take part in the float.

This years theme was guiding the stars to the future. The kids all dressed like what they want to be in the future. Addi really wanted to be a pitcher but I applied a dose of reality and she settled on a ballerina.

Addi and her friend Brooks were very helpful during the parade and helped hold down the sign on the side of the float when the wind would blow it up.

This is where the kids were to wave hello. Good thing Rustalyn was paying attention.

Luke was being helpful in passing out the donuts to all the kids on the float. It really did help get the energy level up.

It was really early in the morning and Addi is just not a morning girl. Her excitement from the night before had not yet caught up with her.

The float won best of theme and Most original. Everyone was excited. The teachers drew out the background and colored in the days before and then the dads tied them together after building the float frame and loading it with hay bales. It was really awesome.

I walked with a group of parents along side the float and passed out candy. It was a long 2.5 mile walk but only the pace in the beginning and end were painful, otherwise it was a beautiful morning for a nice walk and was pretty cool to hand out candy along the way. I must say I may be taking a seat on the float next year next to the smart experienced moms!

Football week 2

Week 2 of football was a nice hot afternoon game at the Ray-Pec high school field. All the boys were excited about playing on the big time field. After all most of them had just watched the high school team stomp Liberty the night before. The Tigers won 42-0.

It was a wonderful game and awesome to be 2-0

Season opener

Saturday kicked off Football season. We opened up the season against our biggest rivals. We lost to them last year in the Superbowl and the kids have remembered ever since. This we had a new team and they had a new team. Every year certainly stands on its own.

This year we are the Tigers....

Here is the team

Lucas is #50

Look at this cute little face

Here are the Coaches

The kids got to play a little football on the sidelines while they waited.

Here is a little cheerleader

Final score 24-12 TIGERS WIN!!

We are looking forward to a wonderful season, the first big game is out of the way. 8 weeks left and we hope the victories keep coming!