seeing stripes

Soccer season has started and it's a coincidence that Kirk and Ben ended up with the exact same uniforms.  They joined the same recreational league, but they are in two different age groups.  The uniforms are all striped, but are also in every color.  I couldn't believe when they both ended up with yellow, and they are both the number 5.  They look so cute together in their soccer clothes.  This is Ben's first year playing soccer.  He has been waiting very patiently to start playing.  He was so excited.  I love watching the kids learn to play in their first year of soccer.  The little kindergartner's are so cute.  It's fun to watch them learn the rules and pick up on the game.  Ben's done and scored two goals in each of his first two games.  He's not afraid to jump right in and play hard.

Birthday Time!

Kate celebrated her 10th birthday on Tuesday.  She had a wonderful birthday and really enjoyed a lot of nice gifts.  She got some new Barbie things.  Grandma Mower gave her a Barbie cruise ship, the two Frozen princess dolls, and a new outfit.  Grandma Black got her a drawing art kit, and we got her a new outfit to wear to dance, and a Barbie golf cart that came with Skipper.  Kate has recently gotten into Barbie's little sisters big time.  She loves Barbies and will play with them for hours.  She's matured so much in the past year, but it's nice to see her still be a little girl at heart.  For dinner I made zuppa tuscano her favorite soup, and then we had a frozen cake.  This cake was suppose to look like the frozen castle that Elsa builds in the movie.  The frozen castle cake turned out pretty awesome!  I used chocolate melts that were already the blue color for the ice.  I melted them and shaped them in a shape if ice on wax paper and let cool in the freezer.  It went pretty fast, and was really easy, a lot easier than piping frosting on a cake.  We love you so much Kate.  You are growing into a beautiful girl inside and out!