Busy Saturday, Relaxing Sunday

Yesterday was such a busy day. It seems our sports season starts a bit later than most places, probably due to the weather. This week the weather has been fantastic. It's been in the 90s and then this weekend it's been overcast and in the low 80s (yes, Kayla, I finally got my first overcast day in AZ). I truly feel like a new woman with the lower temps.

Anyway, Carter started his season of Kickball yesterday. Yes, Kickball. He has been begging to play in a soccer league since he was 2 years old. In CT, the league starts at 3 but we moved before the season started. In Seattle, it starts at 4 but we moved before he could get going in that league. Guess when the leagues start here? Yup, you guessed it, at 5. Poor kid is dying to play sports but he always misses the age cutoff. So.. long story short, we did sign him up for a kickball team. It is totally low key and is supposed to just teach the kids about sportmanship and playing as a team. He had fun and is getting a little bit of exercise every week. Here's a picture of him in his uniform. His first game is next Saturday.

This picture is for Aunt Laurie - please pay specific attention to the shoe choice :)

While I was at the practice, Al attended the mandatory parents meeting. He had to pretty much sign away his life with the parents rules of conduct. Basically saying he would support the coaches and refs during sports and not get physically violent. Cracks me up. They must have had problems with it in the past. We rushed from practice to the church for Primary program practice. Carter was late but got in the last hour of the practice. We also spent hours at Home Depot finalizing paint decisions and getting stuff to get going on the kids' rooms. After digging out all of our painting supplies leftover from our days in CT, we decided that everything needed to be replaced. So we spent at least an extra $100 buying new brushes, rollers, paint trays, etc. I would love to have my house professionally painted but there are SO many other things I would rather spend the money on at this point (we still need lots of furniture and Al has his eye on a new BIG TV). So we will slave away and paint ourselves. Finally, we attended a fun ward party late into the night last night. I'm pretty sure I didn't sit down once all day until the party.

Today was the Primary sacrament meeting program. Despite the fact that we worked tirelessly on the Primary songs at home, Carter didn't really sing any of them. It was kind of frustrating for us as parents but in the end we decided you can't do anything but laugh it off. It seems to have been typical for most of the Sunbeams but we know that he knew the words to all the songs. We think he had a little bit of stage fright or something. After church we had a nice relaxing nap, took a long walk, played a bit at the park and on the trampoline, grilled for dinner and read lots of books. After such a busy Saturday, it was so nice to enjoy some down time together today. The windows are open and the fresh air feels heavenly after such a long, hot summer.