candace's third soccer game

We were lucky to thave Grandpa Wayne and Grandma Gail come to Candace's soccer game. We have a blast watching the girls play. A funny story to illustrate how hilarious sports at this age can be: James is the assistant coach and he helps out during the games. He tries to give each of the girls equal playing time. At one point during this game all of the girls were so tired he was having trouble keeping them in the game. The other coach called over to James, "Coach, we need two more girls on the field!" James replied, "I know! I can't get any of them to go out there." It was pretty funny.

Grandpa and Levi

Candace is on the far right. I thought this was perfect. I got her doing her shoulder shrug that she does one hundred times a game.

Joshua is ready to play. We spend most of the games trying to keep him off the field.

Shannon has also been able to come to Candace's games. It's great to have her there. She is a huge help with a certain one-year-old.

Grandpa Wayne and Grandma Gail with our four-year-old soccer player.

our pirate

Joshua falls down and gets bhurt more than any kid I know. These are his battle wounds after only a couple hours awake.



Candace and Joshua love to empty the toys out of the hope chest and put pillows and blankets and play house.

art projects

These are pictures of some art projects we've been doing lately. The first is egg carton pumpkins. Candace painted them and we glued all the parts on. The second project was grating crayons to get crayon shavings and them melting them with an iron between paper. It turned out pretty well and the kids had a blast with these projects.

The final project - Egg Carton Pumpkins

Check out that kool-aid smile.

test for the grandparents

Get your pens or pencils ready. It's time for a test. Do you know your grandchildren? The next 11 pictures are either of Levi or Joshua. Get a piece of paper and a pencil and record your guesses. Then check the comments section to correct your test. No cheating, Grandpa Taylor. Good luck ...

This concludes the test.

Scroll down to see some pictures from today.

Do you think Levi's face shows just a little concern in this next picture?

the natural, look at that elbow

one left-handed batter and one right-handed batter

ribbit

Our sweet 19-month-old got stung by a bee yesterday. It was a sad sad day. but here he is mimicking another, less deadly animal. :)

our little soccer player