Purple Thunder!!!!

Okay, we're gonna give it a try! Lily is playing on a real soccer team this year. After doing the little developmental program earlier in the year, she still wanted to play and asked if she could play "on a real team with uniforms and a name". So here we go. They had their first practice last Friday and she wasn't a total wreck...but more importantly she was having so much fun. She's such a different kind of kid than Connor, who has to be absolutely perfect at everything he does. She just goes out there and tries and laughs and has a great time, it's just awesome to watch her. The girls voted and named their team "Purple Thunder", you gotta love it. I'll keep you updated on her progress as they start playing games in a couple weeks.

Purple Thunder! Be very afraid!

Sassy little soccer player with her brand new yellow ball from Grandma and Grandpa. Yellow is her new favorite color and she was so excited to have a yellow ball.

The difference between boys and girls soccer?...the hairbow of course. Look at that adorable bow made by the team mom. They might really stink but they'll do it in style!

Botanical Gardens

Last week, Connor went to go spend a couple of days at Auntie Devyn's house with Logan while he's visiting. They spent their time doing a bunch of boy stuff. So Lily and I took the opportunity to have a girl day. We went with my friends Vanessa and Sara and their kids to the Quail Botanical Gardens in Encinitas. We had never been before and were really excited to check it out. We had a great time adventuring in bamboo forests, watching the "frog show" (that's what Ella called it anyways) in the little lily-pad pond, picnicing in the rain forest and exploring the secret garden. I know we didn't even see all the different areas and I was still blown away by how gorgeous it all was. I can't wait to go back.

Cousins are the best!

As I mentioned in the previous post, we had the great pleasure of going to Las Vegas to visit Grandma and Grandpa McPherson. The added bonus was Jen and Abby and Aubri were there as well. Lily was in heaven playing with her cousins, they like playing dog almost as much as her (although Abby often chose to be a cat instead). They played games, went swimming and just hung out with each other. Darrin, Jen and I caught a couple movies together and had such a great time! I had my camera with me...but didn't take it out of my bag until an hour before we left town (I'm a thinker!). So I only caught these two pictures...hopefully Grandma and Grandpa got more.

Lily and Abby checkin out the 3D tv at Forum shops.

Connor, Lily, Abby & Aubri in front of the Atlantis statues in the Forum shops. We had just watched the little show about the destruction of Atlantis, which is very loud and has lots of fire. Aubri was not very thrilled with it and really just wanted to go home...can you tell?

Connor & Lily 2010 pics

We went to Las Vegas to visit Grandma Ruth and Grandpa Darrel a couple weeks ago because Jen and the girls were also in town. We had so so much fun spending time with the McPherson family and Lily had a blast playing with her cousins. They live way too far away (frown) and need to move back out west immediately! While we were there, Chelsea kindly agreed to take some photos of my kids. I was on a time crunch because Connor was scheduled to have 4 teeth pulled as soon as we got home and I didn't want him to look like the toothless wonder for his photos. Of course, Lily had to smash her face jumping over the couch a few days before we left and popped one of her front teeth out!!! So she has that awesomely awkward toothless look going on right now. But Chelsea is brilliant and managed to take some awesome pictures and I love them!!! Here's just a few of them: