{swimming}

I have done one thing terribly this summer...well one thing I will admit to.

That is swimming. Last year we went everyday this year twice. yes twice. well lets count the day at the hotel with Apo family and it is 3 times.

My boys will be mad when they start counting.

I have good excuses...well one great one. They didn't have the great sale for a pool pass this year.....by great I mean I paid 79 dollars for my family as opposed to the 260 it could of cost.

No big sale....No pool pass.

It costs us 12 dollars each time I pay for us to swim at that pool this year. And after Thursday when we figured out that the boys can't go down the slides until they pass the swim test I don't know if we will go back. (last year there was no swim test needed)

I know they should just pass the swim test, but my 2 have no interest in swimming the length of the "deep pool." Secretly I think E. would do it if K. wouldn't talk about how hard it is to do and I know E. could pass it.

So here are the horrible pictures I took at the pool this week.

they wanted me to take one of them "floating" so here it is....i humor them a lot with what I take pictures of.

Maybe I can get better and take them swimming a few more times before school starts (and that is in 3 weeks! yikes!!)

Thier First Game

Well Saturday afternoon some friends from the ward called and asked if we would like to go to the Las Vegas Bowl to watch BYU play Arizona State. They had extra tickets and the boys have never been to a game before so Chad decided to take them. I stayed behind since I had a baptism at church to attend for a Primary child...I wasn't so sad about it.

When Ethan was home I asked how it was and he said "well I won't do that again" He is such a homebody!

The end of the season...the soccer season....

Saturday late morning was the day appointed for Ethan's end of season Soccer party and since it is freezing cold here {it is under 60...go ahead and laugh...but we are freezing} we went with the team to Peter Piper Pizza.

And Ethan got to be with his teammates, eat pizza, play arcade games and get a trophy.

Here is a picture of him and his coach this year. He was Kaden's coach last year and we love his style of coaching and his great philosophy that you don't' make the kids hate the sport and force them into anything, or yell at them for mistakes or for not winning. He is all about the fun of the game. being a good sport, and the love of the game. We are so lucky to have found a great coach for these past two seasons.

And next year we will have a great coach next season...Chad plans on coaching.

BIg Day for Ethan

Ethan Scored His FIRST GOAL EVER TODAY

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He LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH!!

Number 5

This soccer season our Ethan is #5. Saturday was his first game on Team Shakers. They have grey shirts and they play 4 on 4 with no score keeping.

This year seems like the kids understand the sport a bit more as there is more kicking of the ball and less of a jumble of kids in one spot for most of the game.

Ethan is more aggressive and touched the ball more in this game than he did all last season.

He told me that he thinks he will play soccer "for-e-ver"