To Go

I dropped something off at a neighbor's house today and she reminded me that Ethan has a double-header tonight for soccer. I FORGOT!! So I ran home to see what I had planned for dinner. Now, this wouldn't be a problem usually because his first game is at 6:30 p.m. but he has a "contact check" eye doctor appointment at 4:30 and they are never quick appointments. Plus, Courtney's new lenses just came in so they have to put the new lenses in her old frames then adjust them.

I don't want Ethan to eat something heavy and then have to run for 2 hours, so I decided to make dinner, put it in a "To Go" bag and have them eat dinner on the way to the eye doctor's office. Then Ethan would have time after we got home to do his homework before the game and we, hopefully, won't be rushed. See what a few extra minutes of quick cooking can do?!?!

Now I hope they eat the food I packed. I tried to make it like a Happy Meal. It's a hamburger, baked potato chips and some M&Ms left over from Easter. ;)

The Easter Bunny came!

The Easter Bunny came to our house and left the kids some new church clothes and some snorkeling gear. They were pretty excited!!

Sleepy Easter Bunny

Bryan and I went on a date Saturday night and when we got home and checked on Courtney this is what we found:She just wanted to be ready for the Easter Bunny. ;)

Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt

It is that time of year again....the Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt!! We took 12 eggs (per child) over to the woman's house who organized the hunt and then on Saturday we all showed up at the church with donuts/juice. The parents stood around talking/visiting while the kids ate a TON of donuts (although no one ate from the box we brought so we had to throw them away).

They let the little kids go first and then they let everyone else go. The kids loved it!! They each get to gather 12 eggs so they ended up with a fair amount of candy.

Waiting for the hunt to begin (Courtney is in pink in the center and Ethan is in the blue just left of center):
Ethan searching for eggs:
Courtney running for eggs:

Contacts

Ethan has always told us that he didn't every want to get contacts because "the girls like the glasses." Well, I guess the girls changed their minds because at his yearly eye doctor appointment last week, he asked if he could get contacts. The doctor asked if he was responsible enough and I said he was responsible. So now he has contacts.

He sometimes has a rough time getting the left one in but he gets it eventually and loves the freedom of contacts. We got tonight for the 1 week check to see how he is doing. He wants to ask for smaller contact because they are "huge." hahaha!

Competition

A few weeks ago (yes, I am a bit behind in blogging) Courtney had a dance competition. We got her ready, drove to Dixie High, and they competed. They did their jazz routine from all the half-time shows, their lyrical and then Courtney was in the lil' all-star routine. They did a great job and had a lot of fun.

With her trophy:
With her big All-Star, Kassi:
Waiting for competition to begin:

The Black Widows and Pink Panthers

It's time for another soccer season! Ethan and Courtney are both signed up for Ivins League Soccer. They both have good friends on their teams, which makes it much more fun to play.

Ethan has games on Wednesday night and Courtney has games on Thursday night. Both Ethan's league and Courtney's league play with goalies this year, which is new to Courtney. Ethan played goalie before in another league with another team and he was chosen to be the goalie on this team too. So he was excited!!

Ethan had a great game and his team tied. He played goalie for the first half and then center for the second half. His heel was hurting him with all the running but he kept telling us it was fine. He was sore by the end of the game but did a great job!

The next night we were back at the park for Courtney's game. She made 2 goals and her team won 7-0 (she says, they don't keep score so I don't know if this is accurate). She is a great soccer player too!