The Shelton Family Blog: Soccer and Easter

We would have just stayed home Saturday after the rough night Friday, but Greyson had his Blast Ball pictures, a Blast Ball game, soccer team pictures, and a soccer game. We had to get to the Blast Ball pictures at 8:00, miss the Blast Ball game, and then rush over to the soccer field for pictures at 9:30 on the other side of town. Remind me again to NEVER sign up for 2 sports at the same time again. I have DEFINITELY learned my lesson, and while we are having a lot of fun, it is incredibly exhausting. This is going to be mainly a picture post as I have too much to post right now. Enjoy!

The Blast Ball pictures went GREAT, and Grandma accompanied me to the game to help out with Hannah. Greyson LOVES his friend Caden on the team, and they walked hand in hand out of the pictures down to the field. It was SUPER cute, and it is great that he has a friend on the team who REALLY loves to play soccer. I think is encourages him to try harder and work at it. This handholding did get Greyson into trouble during the game though.

I did some MAJOR bribing to get Greyson to actually kick the ball for the first time during the game. It was no surprise that food was the winning motivator for him. I promised him an ice cream sundae (which he has never had before) if he would just kick the ball during the game. He loves to kick the ball at practice, but he is always too shy to participate when the game actually starts. Look at him in action!

He took a little break with his biggest fan

Now...handholding is all fine and good EXCEPT during the game. Caden is a very avid player so when he took off while holding Greyson's hand, Greyson fell to the ground and was trampled by another kid's cleats.

This is where he stayed after that....he took over Jackson's (another teammate's) chair and was pretty sad about it.

Hannah was incredibly helpful and decided to reorganize the entire diaper bag....what a helper ;-).

She found a new favorite spot to sit under Daddy's desk...she was so proud of herself.

We spent the night Saturday night over at Grandma and Grandpa's....we inherited a wonderful DSLR camera from Pa-pa that I plan on using to take TONS of pictures of the kids. This is the first picture I took with the camera, and I LOVE it. He looks so big.

The kids in their Easter garb...

Greyson, Cody, and Hannah in their beach chairs

Hannah loves soccer and Blast Ball more than Greyson. She even says Blast Ball now, and she goes and gets Greyson's cleats and tries to put them on.

Enjoying his new bubble maker from Mommy and Daddy

I left Hannah in the care of Tammy and Grandma for a few minutes, and this is what happened during that time. Hannah had hijacked the stool and was looking at Grandpa's fish without their knowledge. She's pretty sneaky ;-).

We had to have a wardrobe change....just because. Hannah LOVES her new found freedom now that she is a good walker. She can play outside more independently, and she enjoys trying to keep up with the big boys.

The kids heading out for the hunt....we didn't think Hannah would really do anything, but she proved us all wrong. She got right out there with the big boys.

The hunt in progress

Greyson had to switch to a bigger basket so he left his soccer ball basket off to the side. Guess who decided she may just need two baskets?

Enjoying the treats :0). Hannah started saying CHEESE every time the camera came out for the rest of the day. It was ADORABLE.

Hannah and Mommy

Posing with some of the beautiful flowers in front of the house

The kids got some HUGE bubble makers from Aunt Kathy and Uncle Bruce. They had a blast playing with them, and Greyson decided that he should try to eat every single bubble. We tried to explain to him that this was not necessarily the best idea, but he didn't care.