Cohen and Evan are finally on their first official soccer team!!! Yay!!! They are The Lions, and they love learning how to play, and especially playing real games against another team. Evan is crazy about it! He asks me every day how much longer until they get to 'verse' another team. And he's a quick little player too. I don't know, he just may end up being the soccer star in our family!!
So, I know I'm a little late. Sue me. But this was too cute to not post. And of course I've lost the cutest part. I know I didn't throw it away, so when I find it, I'll take a picture and insert it in the right place.
Cohen learned all about Leprechauns at school the day before St. Patty's Day (it was on a Saturday this year) because while they were out of their classroom, a sneaky little Leprechaun snuck into their classroom and tipped all of their chairs over!!! Mrs. Holbrook (the best kindergarten teacher ever) told them they could build a trap and try to catch one over night.
He built a little trap out of a #10 can, and a little ladder, and put all of his plastic gold money in the bottom to lure the Leprechaun inside. He figured that since the ladder was on the outside, once the little guy got in there, he wouldn't be able to get out.
What do you know?! That sneaky little Leprechaun took all of his gold and left him this note (just the shamrock part):
So, here's where I've failed. Cohen decided to write a note back to that sneaky fast leprechaun and see if he wanted to be his friend. The note was so cute, all in kindergarten handwriting and spelling, and I've completely lost it!! AAAHHHH!!! Anyhow, Cohens note said:
It was Cohens turn to be the VIP in class the next week, and he wanted to put his notes on the poster he got to decorate, thats why they are glued on to a poster!!
OK, so since my husband is such an amazing photographer, I know that I will NEVER pay for school pictures. Until now I was thinking that it would just save me a lot of money. . .never did I imagine the hideous nature of the picture that would be sent home. They have this ridiculous system that you have to pre-pay for the class photo (which I did), but you post-pay for the individual photos. . .I think it probably hurts them in the end, because honestly, who is going to pay for this crap after they see it? You can 'opt-out' of the individual photo beforehand, or if you don't they'll just send home the whole package to you and you return the pictures that you don't want to buy. Now, I was curious to see what their pictures would look like, so even though I knew I wouldn't be buying, I didn't opt-out either.
Boy am I ever glad I got to see these beauties!!! I have a million things I could say about it, and yet, I am speechless!! Here. . .take a look-see for yourself. . .
And they want $15 for the first sheet!!!!! You can get all 5 for a mere $35!!!!! What a deal!!!
Needless to say, I will allow my children to have their individual photos taken from now on for a few reasons. . .so I can be reminded of what an amazing photographer their dad is, and so I can be thankful I have boat-loads of actually beautiful photos of my children. . .and so we can all have a good laugh!!
So, we have a lot of those awesome spider-infested bushes in our backyard. Since we don't own our own garden (did I never tell that story, remind me to one day) we decided to rip out the hideous bushes and build a terraced-garden. I'm really excited for it, but since I have no energy lately, I really don't have the motivation to finish it. . .besides the fact that the wonderful neighbor who does own our garden has been really understanding about the 'mis-understanding', and has offered to let us use a portion of that garden this summer, which will be sufficient for my gardening needs. Needless to say, here is yet another project that we've started, but that we probably won't finish until next year!
Jared got curious about how to get rid of our spider-bushes, and read up on a few different methods online, one of which included just chopping them all down with your big trimmers, and then renting a root-grinder and grinding out all of the roots. Another suggestion sounded a lot more fun, and A LOT less time consuming, so we tried it and it was AWESOME!!! We had this whole section done in 1 hour!!! Here's the process. . .in case you ever want to get rid of your own spider-infested bushes. . .
