Our Kids Will Never Play Soccer

"Our kids will never play soccer" was something Mark and I said numerous times. We never played it growing up and I hate driving by the soccer fields by our house and seeing it full of people at 1pm on Saturday afternoon when it's 100 degrees outside or 9am on a Sunday morning when we should be in church. But there are a lot of things we said we'd never do as parents and here we are now letting our kids watch Frozen so we can get a few minutes to ourselves, quieting them with a 2nd sucker so we can finish the grocery shopping, giving in to the never-ending request to play on the iPad….and playing soccer!

Elliott played in a small 6 week league at our church and I’ll just start out by admitting that it was a long 6 weeks. Elliott was terrible at soccer. He cried when he didn’t score goals and the other kids did. He whined when he had to do drills. He’d run off the field at random times to get a drink of his Gatorade for the 15^th time in just 4 minutes. I’m not even going to lie on this one and say it was fun. Better luck next year! 

Kellen's Birthday/Family Photos

We made a weekend trip to Minneapolis to celebrate Kellen’s 1^st birthday. It’s hard to believe he’s already one. I still remember the night that Steve and Chelsey told us they were expecting. We were discussing what parenting would be like when Claire threw up and I caught it in my hands (Claire had terrible reflux so I learned to catch on to the warnings that a big one was coming). I remember Chelsey kind of laughed disgustingly and said something like "wow, that was impressive.” Now she’s a mom herself, catching spitup in her hands and all. 

They hired a photographer to capture favorite moments of the day and we were lucky enough to grab him for a few photos of our family. Thank you Steve and Chelsey!