One Crazy Saturday

Well today started up with Jami getting up very early to go to POW WOW. She is become quite the Cub Scout Master. I think she looks very cute in her uniform. Anyways it was me and the kids together for the day. We started out the day with a delicious bowl of oatmeal as we ran out of the milk the previous night. Once I told the boys it would make them so much faster if they ate it, they decided to have a race to see who could eat it the fastest. We then got to watch one of the cheesiest chick flick soccer movies I have ever seen. The family had checked out some free movies from the library. As we were watching the movie the teacher whose dog had puppies, called and told us we could now go and pick our puppy. It is 8 weeks old and is very cute. We had gone to see the puppies a few weeks ago and had and idea of which one we wanted. So before Dallin's soccer game we headed to Walmart and Petco to get some basic stuff. I left Petco amazed at how expensive they had everything priced. A water dispenser thing at Petco cost $30 while the same exact brand at Walmart was only $15.

Dallin had one of his best soccer games ever. He scored 3 goals and played some great defense. It is fun to see him running so hard that he had to put his hands on his head to rest for a minute. I think he is starting to pick up the game. You can see some of the competitiveness that is present when he plays the Wii coming out on the soccer field.

If you are wondering why he is wearing a milk jug helmet on his head, I am cheap but very creative. He wanted a helmet so I looked around to see what we had. McKade and Dallin were using them to be robots. Dallin adapted his into a racing helmet. You can see the intensity in his face.

After the game we went and picked up the dog. His name is ?????? Jami likes the name Zeek, Dallin likes the name Chim Chim, but we would call him Chimmy, McKade likes the name Jazz, and Tyli likes Princess. It seems like we are leaning toward Chimmy even though Jami doesn't like it. It will be hard to convince Dallin of anything else. The puppy had a good car ride home and the kids were loving him to death. We took him for a short walk and you can see it wiped him out. The kids would play with him until he got tired and fell asleep then they would come in until he woke up again. The dog is a mix between a Chocolate Lab and a German Short haired Pointer. We'll see how well he sleeps tonight. I made him a bed from an old pillow and some towels and he walked right up to it, laid down, and went to sleep. I told the kids the dog would miss his family very much so they had to love him lots and lots so he knew he had a new family that would love him. From this picture it looks like he still misses his brothers and sisters. To end off I wanted to share some fun stories we forgot to mention about Tyli. When we got back from Christmas vacation Tyli kept putting her blanket on her head and walking around the house. It took us a while to figure out that she was saying baby Jesus. She had seen the Christmas eve program the Ruth Family puts on and she walked around like this for at least a week. She does a good job of playing the part of Mary. You may notice she is playing with Jami's old cabbage patch doll not with any of her new dolls. Tyli has also started to come out of her room after we put her to bed. This is how we found her in her room. The light was on and she was laying in the middle of her floor. on her pillow. She has been keeping us on our toes. This morning after oatmeal I also started making smoothies. I left the room to hear McKade yelling at Tyli to "stop that." I hurried back in to see Tyli with our scissors. She had taken them out of a drawer and was trying to cut open the bag of strawberries. Who knows what she will do next? Thank goodness Sundays are a day of rest, right?