Soccer season is ending....

Fall soccer is coming to an end. This week is my outdoor soccer tournament. We play on Monday, then we keep playing the week out until we lose 2 games or we go all the way and win the whole thing. I'm hoping to win the whole thing. Last season we made it to the championship game and, because of refs that DID NOT know what they were doing, we lost by one point. We took the throw in and the ball didn't make it on the field before touching the ground. The right call would have been to let us throw again, but since the ref didn't know the rules, he let the other team throw-in. And, because we were all standing there arguing with him to let us have the ball again, like the rules state, they scored a goal from that throw-in. It upset quite a few of us on the team. The husbands were even in on it, too. I don't know whether that ref was fired or he quit, but he never came back the next season. It's very frustrating to have refs, who don't know the game, calling the shots. I'm sure they are told to stick by their call, even though they realize afterwards they were wrong. Very frustrating!

Anyway, we are going to kick some butt this week and win it all!

Here are some pictures of me playing last year....



Duane didn't get too many pictures. Here's one of me at least touching the ball. I'll have Duane take more pictures this week so there's evidence that I do touch the ball. :)

conversation with Kaman...

I had a cute conversation with Kaman, who is 2, this morning. Every Wednesday, I take Kaman over to my Dad's house so he can watch him while I go to the gym. And my Dad, so kindly, takes him the rest of the day just because he wants to. Well, this morning, as I was on the freeway, I missed the exit I was supposed to take to get to my dad's house. And this is how the conversation went...

Kaman: (somehow he noticed we didn't turn where we were supposed to and asks)
"Where's papa?"

Me: "Oh, I missed the exit we were supposed to get off."

Kaman: (In a very annoyed, loud voice) "WHAT!?!?"

Me: "We'll just get off this next exit instead."

As I'm pulling into the exit lane and getting off the freeway, Kaman says:

Kaman: "Yes, Good Job, Mommy."

That made me laugh. My little boy is only 2 and he's just starting to understand us and put his sentences together. Every day he amazes me. He is a smart little boy.

Raising my boy...

I've mentioned before the joys of raising a boy and how it makes me smile to see all the differences. These are just a couple of things that make me LOVE raising my boy.

1. His life revolves around any kind of car.
2. He loves to shove as much food in his mouth as he can get.
3. He races around the house on his big wheel as fast as he can and then crashes into things going full speed.
4. He'll announce every tractor we pass by on the road.
5. He'll announce every bus we pass by on the road.
6. He'll announce every garbage truck we pass by on the road.
7. He'll announce every train we pass by on the road.
8. He loves to tourment the cat.
9. He is very passionate about getting what he wants. (He gets that from his dad.)
10. He is fascinated with anything his dad is doing: fixing things, mowing the lawn, computers, power tools, etc.
11. He's a daredevil. He'll go down the tallest slide, climb on tables, jump off of things.
12. Every monday he can hear the garbage truck from anywhere in the house. He'll then run out side to watch it collect garbage on our street.
13. His favorite saying, "Oh, man!"

I love my boy. He is an absolute joy to raise.


Kaman loves watching the garbage truck every Monday!

This is right before Kaman splashed the cat with the water.

Duane says this is what Kaman is going to look like at age 16. With his spikey green colored hair and that look that says, "Whatever, Mom."

The "Fiery Cross" book

A couple days ago, I FINALLY finished the 5th book in the "Outlander" series called "The Fiery Cross". It is about 1400 pages and it took me almost 3 months to finish. Most of her books are around 850 pages but this one was the longest and, I'm sorry to say, the most uninteresting. It was 1400 pages of nothing. I don't even think I could tell you what it was about. The main story line for all the books is one day, while picking flowers, Claire steps into a circle of stones in Scotland and finds herself transported to another time. She finally discovers she's in the year 1743 where she, at first, is reluctantly entwined with James Fraser, a young Scots warrior, who marries her to save her life. But, she's also left her husband back in 1945 who has no idea what happened to her.

I absolutely LOVED the books 1 - 4. She's a wonderful writer and does a great job at bringing the characters to life. I actually wanted to visit Scotland, after reading the first book, just to see if I could find Claire & Jamie. I will have to finish the last book and see if it was all worth it. I will recommend the series, but to those over 21. It did have some very passionate parts in it.

Twilight trailer

I found the new Twilight trailer. I loved the books and am SO excited for the movie..... to check it out click here
I don't know if I'll be able to get my husband to go with me. So, maybe we'll have to do a girls night out. Who's with me?

Uinta mountain drive

We took a drive up to the Uintas a couple weeks ago and here is one of the pictures we took that I love.

American Fork canyon.

This Sunday was supposed to be our lounge around day, since conference was on. But, Kaman had other plans. He wanted to go for a drive. So, we packed the kids in the car and drove to Silver Lake up American Fork Canyon. Then we drove around some camp sites(Granite Flats and some others I can't remember) to see where we'd like to camp next summer. We weren't thinking before we left so we forgot the camera. Good thing for cell phones. Anyway, here's the best pictures we could do with what we had. Not as good as you'd get with those high tech cameras.