Rain is good

The Purple Diva Girls enjoyed their first win of the season today...in the rain! It rained for only about an hour - the hour of her game. The pictures don't capture just how much rain was coming down and it really did come down. It was good luck, a lot of fun and Avery played an awesome game. Woo hoo!

School pictures

Just got the proofs of the kids school pictures today. They aren't smiling their natural smiles, but they still are darned cute. :-)

Justin - 5th grade

Avery - 2nd grade

Devin - kindergarten

Baseball Skills

Justin and his friend Hunter, started a baseball clinic last Saturday (along with resigning up for another round of hip hop) for 6 weeks. They will go over skills to prepare them for the coming season. He really enjoyed it on his first week and did great!

Our night out

A couple of weekends ago Kirk and I got away for an evening at the Hollywood Bowl to see Carrie Underwood. We had great box seats and had a great time! She was really good in concert and I just love the Hollywood Bowl. The traffic to get out of there leaves a lot to be desired (which we had completely forgotten about since it's been so many years since we were last there), but it still was a lot of fun!

Excuse the blurry pictures above. Oops!

No more swimming

Devin had his last swimming lesson last week. It had been getting increasingly more difficult to get him out the door each week. I think that since school started it was just too much. After coaxing him out the door each week and really kind of fighting with him to go, I gave in. Well, at least he can swim now. And I do plan on putting him back in around April or so just to brush up on his skills to make it a more safe and fun summer next year. You'd never know he was tired of it when looking at the picture above, would you? Silly boy. :-)

Kirk, Mark and Vegas

Well, I don't have any photos for this post because it's about Kirk...and he doesn't tend to take pictures. But last week he and his brother headed to Vegas for Mark's 50th birthday. As a gift to his brother, Kirk did some work on a friends house in return for some golf packages. Those golf packages included $200 worth of food at one of the courses! So, they left Sunday morning and stopped in Prim to golf and have lunch and then headed to Las Vegas where they stayed at the Venetian (Mark's wife's gift to him...thus to us too :-)). They golfed the next 2 days and had a nice time. Of course when I asked him how he did he wasn't too thrilled. He never is. He has high expectations of himself, but they did have a good time and I'm happy they were able to get away together. Kirk works very hard and deserves a get-away here and there.

Mini recital

Justin's 6 week hip hop class is coming to an end, so Friday night they showed us the little routine they had been practicing. So cute! Those kids had such a great time! Most the pictures turned out blurry, so I'm only posting one.

Just for Linda

Hey, look who is playing together! We did it. Are you proud of us? Tee hee. So, for those that don't understand the little inside joke, my cousin's son and his family live here in Temecula. They have 3 children, 2 of which are Avery's and Devin's ages, and live only about 10 minutes from us. 10 minutes must be pretty far because we never see each other unless we run into each other at Disneyland or get together with family in another state. It's become quite the joke. So, Tandy and I decided to request their Lexi and our Avery be on the same team this season for soccer because then we'd be sure to at least see each other during practices and games. So, today was a game and Braeden and Lexi finally came home with us for a few hours to play. The kids had a great time (except maybe for poor Braeden who had to listen to Devin get in trouble quite often for various things). Lexi and Avery weren't ready to separate when Tandy came to get them so, as I write this Avery is over there continuing their play time. We really need to do this more often!!!!