Starting where I left off

I am in the zone for this round 2 of Game On. I had a perfect first week and I am going for a perfect 2nd week. I was craving Chinese food on Thursday, so I took a meal off that night and went to Ming's Garden with my Mom after Visiting Teaching. It was so yummy and we had a nice, quiet dinner together. :-)

Emily went on a field trip with her class to Acadia National Park on Thursday. She was so excited to go on a field trip! Emily hasn't had nearly as many field trips as Zoe, so she has been a bit bitter about that. Fortunately, Emily's class has quite a few field trips planned for this year, so I think that will make up for the lack of field trips in the past.

It rained, rained, rained on Friday. Without thinking about the weather, I scheduled an appointment to have Noah's 2 year picture taken on Friday. I thought about canceling the appointment after I realized it was going to be a rainy, windy day, but I decided to forge ahead and get his picture taken anyway. I managed to keep Noah dry and looking good, so I'm glad I did it. He should have had his picture taken in July, but due to procrastination and then all of his injuries, it finally happened 3 months later. Yay for completing another year of pictures!

Matt and I watched "When In Rome" Friday night. I thought it was funny! There were a lot of fun characters in the movie and the story was different. The movie was very entertaining.

It was a bit rainy on Saturday morning, but not rainy enough to keep the kids off the field for the last day of rec soccer. The teams played three 15 minute games, so Matt went to watch 2 of the games, while I stayed home with the younger kids. Then Matt came home, so I could go watch the end of the final game and stay for the luncheon/award ceremony. This was Zoe's last year playing for the rec league, so she received a trophy (an annoying trophy because part of it spins and makes an annoying sound!). When Zoe started the rec league in 3rd grade, Penny was her coach and Penny has coached every year since then. This was Penny's last year coaching, so Emily and Eleanor will have a new coach next year. We know who the new coach will be and we are so excited that the girls are going to have another great coach! For some reason, I have the desire to be in charge of the concession stand next year, so I told Richard that I will do it next year. Nobody volunteered to do the concession stand this year, so they didn't have one and we missed it. Zoe is looking forward to helping me next season.

I had an interesting conversation with Kate the other day.
Kate: "What am I going to be when I grow up?"
Me: "What would you like to be?"
Kate: "I'd like to be a Mom."
Me: "That is a good plan."
Kate: "Because Mom's have big flip flops!"
O...K...

I overheard Zach and Eleanor talking about how busy Moms and Dads are. Then Zach comes up to me and states that he knows why Matt and I stay up after the kids go to bed..."because you need to get done all the things you need to." It was so cute how proud he was that he had figured out why we stay up later than the kids do. :-)

Kate and Noah are doing a great job staying in the chapel during Sacrament meeting. It is so nice!

Matt has been busy getting things done at work before he leaves on his pheasant hunting trip on Tuesday. He has a few more things to do at work and home, but he can see the light at the end of the tunnel and he is getting excited to see his family. It will hard here without him, but I'm glad he has this opportunity to be with his family. I'll have a temple trip to look forward to after he gets back. :-)