We have two pots of flowers at the store that I work at,
right outside the main entrance. I
usually water them and pull the dead flowers off and try to keep them looking
nice.
Since we have had so much sun and HOT weather and very
little rain, the flowers were not looking very good. Actually, I think you could say that they
were all dead. Very dead.
Enter McKenzie. She
asked if she could help pick out some new flowers and plant them. So off to Home Depot we went and picked out
some pretty flowers. Then, back to the store
so plant them! They turned out so
pretty! Much prettier than the dead
ones. J
McKenzie is at a soccer camp this week at Western Washington
University. It goes from Tuesday –
Friday from 9:30-3:00. They work on
individual skills and speed & agility in the morning. Then off to lunch in the dining hall at
Western. (This would be McKenzie’s very
favorite part!!) After lunch, they watch
a short video (usually snipets of USA soccer games) and have a short
lecture. Then the rest of the afternoon,
they scrimmage.
McKenzie was a little nervous the first day. Her coach is Claire and she has 6 of her
teammates on her team. (it is just the 7
of them and another girl who plays goalie)
When I picked her up, I asked how it went. GREAT!! She said. She was named player of the day! Very excited!
AND she had 4 pieces of pizza for lunch!
Even better! J
She thinks her brand new cleats may have helped a
little. J
Alex had a super great weekend! She played so well. Her position is right defense and she was
very good at not letting the ball get past her.
The team they played on Friday night had some very tall players on
it. The girl that was supposed to get
the ball past Alex and into the net was getting very frustrated because Alex
almost always outmaneuvered her and got the ball away from her. J
On Saturday, they had an early (9:25am) game and then played
a late game (6:50pm). So what do you do
with such a large gap in between games?
You shop. If you are a teenager, you hit the nearest mall! We were going to go to the zoo, but it was
pretty hot and her coach didn’t want them in the sun. So we went inside to an air conditioned mall. (Bellevue Square Mall) The favorite part was riding the
escalators. (their coach did say to
conserve their energy!) I stopped by the
camera store and got a lens protector for my larger lens and an extra battery
(finally!!) We mostly just window
shopped and rode the escalators J
The boys rode in the wagon and Elizabeth rode in the
stroller. Aiden also brought his scooter
and rode that most of the way down there.
It took us a looonnnnggg time to get down the hill to 7-11! J
After getting a slurpee, we stopped over at the library to
look at some books. The boys loved doing
puppet show. We checked out the book
sale and found a Thomas DVD for Ryan and Spiderman beginner books for
Aiden. The best part about buying them
is they don’t have to return them! J The movie only cost me 50 cents and the books
were $1. Then we popped on over to the
playground and played for a bit before we headed home. Such a long fun night! I think we walked over 5 miles!!
Everybody slept really good that night!!!
Ryan loves animals.
All animals. Big ones, little
ones, slimy ones.
Ryan found a spider in my grass crawling away. So he very carefully watched it. Aiden came over to see it (Aiden doesn’t love
animals as much as Ryan) and was telling Ryan that he was going to squish
it. Ryan wouldn’t let him! He protected that spider until it disappeared. J
I will leave you with a cute little picture of Elizabeth in
a dress that her mommy and aunties wore! J
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