Dancing, soccer and parties!!

A few weeks ago Young Single Adults had their Multi Stake Conference, and with us being their advisers we went. Ryan and Emma had a good time. Friday night they got together and played some get to know you games and then they played capture the flag. Ryan thought this was awesome!! They like the fact that they were letting them join in the festivities. Saturday night as the last thing that they did they had a dance instructor come and he taught them a couple of ballroom type dances, one was the East Coast Swing and I can't remember the other one. We were trying to get the boys to dance with Emma but no go, one of the YSA's didn't have a partner so he came and asked her to dance. She thought that was the bomb, she had a blast. I tried to upload a movie from my phone but so far I have not been able to, this isn't the greatest picture but I had forgotten my camera.

We have another soccer player in the family, or we spend way too much time at the soccer field. Andrew loves loves to walk around the house and kick his ball. Now he even backs up and tries to get a running start to kick it. He is such a funny kid.

As of last week we have another goalie in the family. This time it's Clark, the only thing is, he hates being goalie. His Coach put him in the end of the game last week for the last five minutes, he did great he stopped the ball and wasn't scored on. Way to go Clark!!!!! Clark's team is doing very well this year. They are 6-1 with one game left. He has had two great weeks in a row. Last week he scored one and had three assists. This week he scored one and had one assist. He is being more assertive on offense and now the older kids want him to play with them. His team is doing AWESOME they go into the last game of the fall season tied for first, and the winner of this game gets to have their coach, coach the All-Stars. Also, last week was the start of basketball tryouts at the Jr. High and so far Clark has made the first cut. They try out again Tuesday, and he is hoping he can make the team. I think it would be great for him if he did make it. He loves to play basketball. Even if he doesn't make it he can still play at the YMCA this winter. GOOD LUCK Clark and do your BEST!!!

Ryan is doing a great job this season. Up until this past Saturday he had only two goals scored on him. Unfortunately he had three scored on him Saturday. :( He tells us it was lack of defense! LOL Still five goals in 7 games isn't too shabby! And two were penalty kicks (and the pro's don't always get them). He is really enjoying it this season, I think. He was asking me the other day if you had to have a college degree to play professional soccer. So maybe we have a professional in the works. Like I have stated in earlier entries the coach has pulled him out of the goal this time. I think he likes that too. Ryan's team is also doing AWESOME this season, they are 5-2 which I believe is first place. YEA!!!

Thumbs up!!!! Emma is so funny!! An update on her team they finally scored last week. They lead most of the game but there at the end the other team just ran down the field and scored (three more times). Talk about a sad loss. She has had a couple of breakaways that were awesome, she even came within inches of scoring the teams first goal two weeks ago, the other goalie was just too fast. But she is improving so much this season, it is so fun to watch her. And dad says she is the cutest girl on the field!!

Halloween is just around the corner.

Last spring Ryan had asked if he could have a birthday party this year because Clark and Emma had had one. Well the only problem is we were out of town over his birthday. So a couple of weeks ago he reminded me that I had said that we would do one when we got back home. We decided that we would do a Halloween themed one. We had Mummy Dogs, Dead Skin Flakes, Witches Fingers and Dirt and Worms with Candy Corn Cupcakes for desert. Then they watched "The Watcher in the Woods" (one of my favorites) and played a little Xbox to end the night. He was so excited to finally have his party. I had told him that we weren't going to call it an actual birthday party but he did have a few of his friends bring a gift. I am glad that we finally were able to have his party and that it is over and I don't have to do another one for a while. While I like to do parties they are just so much work!

Earlier last week I was supposed to have book club at my house, but with the unexpected death of a wonderful member of our ward that afternoon, we ended up cancelling it. While I was cleaning and getting ready for book club I had taken a much needed break and of course I was browsing blogs, I came across the craft in the above picture and I decided I needed it. I took time off and still had a clean house for what I thought was going to be book club. It looked like they would be so fun and cute. I got them from the blog ourbestbites.com. Clark sent it to me thinking it had some fun recipes and ideas little did he know I have had a lot of fun looking at the ideas there, check it out. They were simple to make all they are are mason jars (all sizes) with tissue paper decopased (I don't know if I spelled it right) onto it and I used black tissue paper and decopased it on for the faces. I had some lit up the other night with a tea light in them and they were so cute. Just an idea for a fun and cheep decoration, and if you are like me you have jars everywhere.