Through Mom's Lens

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Day 34

Super Bowl XLVII is tonight.

The Baltimore Ravens are playing the San Francisco 49'ers.

I don't really care who wins.

Emma and I decided we would wear our Cowboys gear to the party instead!!!

Saturday, February 2, 2013

Day 33

We got home from the Great Wolf Lodge pretty early. The kids were ready to leave, and that's all we needed to hear.

So this afternoon, JC and I decided to start prepping the dining room to be painted.

I enlisted JC to help me sand over the edges of the stripes.

Friday, February 1, 2013

Today we picked all three up a little early and headed to the Great Wolf Lodge!

Emma decided a while back that she wanted to come to GWL instead of having a birthday party.

We spent about 5 hours in the water park, and currently, all 3 are spent!

It has been a great day though, and we are looking forward to a couple of hours of water play in the morning!

Thursday, January 31, 2013

Day 31

Not to be outdone by her older brother...

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Emma will start outdoor soccer this spring. She wore her own warm-up gear today!

Can't wait! Hope she doesn't make anyone cry!

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Day 30

From Soccer to Baseball Back to Soccer

If you read my other blog, you may have seen the September post linked above about Jackson deciding to play baseball last fall.

Here is an excerpt from that post...

"The group of boys that he has played soccer with the past few years are a year older than Jackson, and when it came time to try out for a more advanced soccer league (per age group), Jackson didn't make a team. He was very disappointed, but again, these leagues are based on age. He should have been trying out for the 10U at age 9, but he tried out for 11U at age 9. We honestly were not surprised that he did not make a team, but I think this made a huge impact on Jackson. So....he decided to play baseball instead."

Jackson liked baseball ok, but not nearly as much as soccer.

This winter, he was able to play indoor soccer for his old coach. This coach also coaches one of the teams Jackson tried out for last spring. Those teams stay together for the fall and spring of the next year. Well, the coach lost a player, and he asked Jackson to play up for him on this spring's team.

Today I picked up some of Jackson's team gear!

He could not wait to try it on!

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Day 29

My photography class started its own hashtag group in Instagram so that we can keep all of our photos together. Each week we will be assigned a new theme!

This week's theme is "Circles"...the interpretation has been left up to us.

My Instagram photo today:

I like how the tops of the individual dolls look like circles.

In keeping with today's photo, I also snapped a few photos of this Matryoshka doll with my Nikon. Here is the series...

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We brought home many of these "stacking dolls" or "Russian dolls", but this is one of my favorites.

{In hindsight, I should have lined up the tops and bottoms a little better! :) }