Tucker's Spring 2011 Soccer Season

We put together a fun team with kids in our new neighborhood, all Tucker's age, for soccer this Spring. (Maddie, Jack W., Jack B., Tristan, Winston and Joshua)  I wasn't able to go to most of the games, because the first one was the Saturday after I had Graydon, and it stayed so cold for so long this spring, that I couldn't bring Graydon to the games.  So Daniel had to take him.  I'm very proud of how well Daniel handled his frustration with Tucker this year, but we couldn't figure out why Tucker wasn't playing harder, since he had a good season last spring and scored goals at pretty much every game.

Finally, the last game of the season, it was warm enough for me to come. I decided to have a talk with Tucker before hand to try and motivate him to play harder.  Earlier that week, he got a cap gun from a friend who couldn't make it to his party, and he had used up all the caps.  So I told him if he would play really hard and aggressive this game, he didn't even have to score, just show us he was trying had, we would go buy him some caps after the game.

Look how red in the face...he played soooo hard!!

Finally! A Goal!!

So happy and proud of you Tucker! Off to buy some caps for your gun!

Tucker's 5th Birthday Major Award!!

Here is Tucker's reaction to his new motorcycle!

This is him riding the next day.  He did way better than we thought, just because Daniel was so excited for Tucker to have a motorcycle, we thought he'd end up being too nervous to ride, but we were wrong! He loves it and wants to ride it all the time!

Tucker's 5th Birthday! (Part 2)

For Tucker's friends party the theme was DC (as in Dyrdek Company by Rob Dyrdek, the skater) We just had a party here at the house, but we rented a blow up slide. Eight 5 year olds was a little more out of control than I anticipated..so there aren't a lot of pictures. I am particularly proud of pulling off the DC cake that Tucker had requested, thanks to my Cricut that Daniel got me for Christmas. :)

Tucker's 5th Birthday!

For Tucker's 5th Birthday, we celebrated as a family on Friday, and then he had a friends party on Saturday. Here's pictures of him opening some of his presents:



















The major award this year was a Yamaha 50cc motorcycle. Dad has been so excited to give this to Tucker since he bought it last September! Here is his Fox motorcycling outfit...which he loves!! And I only have video of the motorcycle...so i'll post those from my computer later.

5 year old birthdays can be pretty boring...so while we were out watching Tucker ride his motorcycle, Grandma and Grandpa were inside using their phones...to play Nerts and Angry Birds.

Then we took him to dinner at the Mayan. The kids loved the entertainment! It was a lot of fun!

My little Man!

Tucker's growing up so much! This is very helpful, especially since Graydon has arrived.

The other day he showered all by himself for me, before preschool. I came upstairs to check on him and heard him singing at the top of his lungs...I thought it was so funny, so I ran and got my phone to video tape him:

Here Tucker got dressed all by himself. Now, he does dress himself most of the time, but this time he picked it all out. So two things I've started fighting with him on this year, 1)wearing an undershirt under his t-shirts, just to make it look nicer and 2)wearing collared shirts. So today, when he could wear whatever he wants...this is what he comes up with:

Silly day @ preschool

Tucker's idea was no pants, no underwear, just a shirt and cowboy boots. As silly as that would have been...we went with this option.

Happy Mother's Day

I had an awesome Mother's Day today! Daniel, Tucker and Nora Jane brought me yummy breakfast in bed.

Then I decided to curl Nora Jane's hair, and she picked which dress she wanted to wear. This is the dress that my nieces wore for our wedding almost 9 years ago! My sister gave it to me when I had Nora Jane and now she fits in it!











I feel very blessed to be a mother to my kids, and to have a husband who helps so much. So thank you to my little family...which doesn't seem so little anymore. Days like today make it all worth it!

Graydon's Blessing Day

Graydon Johs Pace was blessed on Sunday May 1st, by his father. It was a beautiful, perfect day! So nice to have lots of family there for the occasion.














4 generations (Lorin, Graydon, Daniel, and Mark)

Happy Easter

Nora Jane is 3!

For Nora Jane's birthday this year, we first went to Red Robin for lunch




Then we came back to our house for presents and cake.




















She got a dress-up Barbie Doctor's Coat (to go with her Doctor Kit)...





...a dress-up Belle dress...





...a new tiara, earrings, dress-up shoes...





(Tucker tried on the earrings too)





...some new sunglasses...








...and a Disney Princess scooter...





Also not pictured, this Barbie (from Grandma and Mark Pace):





and this super cute swim suit (from Grandma and Grandpa Olson):




We then went to see HOP...but that's all I have to say about that, cause it was no good!

Happy Birthday Nora Jane! You're a crazy wild woman...but we love you lots!! Looking forward to this next year as you get potty-trained, start preschool and dance lessons!