Soccer Season

Soccer started here last week.
They have 6 games in September and then the season takes a break and starts again in April.

They have already played 3 games. Tied (1-1) for the first, lost (3-0) the second, and tied (0-0) for the third.

She has a few players on her team that are in her class so that is helpful, and we are family friends with the coach. So it was an easy transition into soccer this year.

Things are a little different here than in Worland though. They have goalies, play on a normal sized field, and all players play at the same time......even if that means they play 14 on 14. It's crazy! As a result they do learn more about defense, mid-field, forward positions. They also play by pretty serious rules. Not what we were used to in Worland.
We find it kind of weird that they are so hard core with youth soccer when they don't even have a soccer program for the HS. Youth soccer goes to age 12 and then you are done. Kind of a bummer.

Here are a few pictures from the last 3 games. :)


GAME 1

I love how much she winds up to kick it. :)

grass angles

GAME 2

PRACTICE

GAME 3

This is just half the field.

 

 

She's having fun and is glad she is doing it again. We are glad she likes it too, we just need to work on her endurance! :)

 



Kylie turns SIX!

Totally slacking.....sorry.

Kylie turned SIX last month! I'm still not sure where the last 6 years have gone....but they are gone.
Sometimes I wonder where the like last 10 years have gone!? (Especially now that we are surrounded by college kids!!)

The night before Kylie helped make the treat for her class. She wanted to do the same thing we did last year and I was fine with that. After finally finding the little cups I used..... I also had a really hard time finding the right kind of cookie to go with the frosting. Who knew it would be close to impossible to find shortbread cookies in town! (and don't get me started on finding wrapping paper!)
Anyways...

Happy to be helping. :)

progress....I forgot to take a finished product pic....

Sadly, Mike was out on a fire, but he was able to give her a call that morning and talk to her for a little while before we headed to school.
She got to be the helper at school, and got to blow out candles on a fake cake at school too. I think she was excited too because she was the last one in her class to turn 6, so now she is like the rest of them! :)

Birthday girl before heading to school

(I really need to work on her fake smiles...)

:)

 

The helper gets to be the front of the line for the day.

All ready to lead her class in for school.

 

Kylie wanted a Frozen type of birthday, so I did my best. She requested a strawberry cake with white frosting and blue snowflakes. And chocolate cupcakes incase she didn't like the cake......and I totally obliged.

My cupcake making helper.

And a reminder as to why I don't use helpers.....

her shoe....seriously?!

 We opened massive amounts of gifts and after we went out for supper.

She can finally read her own cards! :)

Earrings!

Frozen books

Markers

a helpful little sister. :)

A color wonder blow pen kit.

Hugging a Frozen towel

scrapbook kit

hugging a ballet leotard and tights

a new laundry tote...frozen

a ballerina doll with matching outfit

And a cutie.

She requested to go to Donald's for supper. It's a little place in town that reminds me of a place back in Hibbing. They have fryer food and burgers and pizza and slushies and all kinds of flavors of icecream. It's pretty sweet.

After supper we came home and had some cake/cupcakes and icecream.

Getting sung to

Blowing out candles

 

And ended the night with some bubble gun action in the back yard.

 

 

It was a wonderful birthday.  And thank you to everyone who sent cards/gifts to her. She loves everything and totally owes you all thank you cards.....but I can't promise that will happen! :)

Hope you enjoyed the pictures! I used my camera to take video of everything so Mike can see it, but I haven't uploaded videos yet....and not sure if I will. Sorry! Maybe....I don't know.

Sidney's birthday is in 2 weeks, and I'm a little more prepared for hers. Most of Kylie's stuff came down to the last second, so hopefully I do better with Sidney's.

Not that I want her to turn 3 yet.....

Sigh.

First Day of First Grade

The first day of school here was on the 19th. Even after last year, I'm still not use to school starting in the middle of August. It is so weird!

The night before was a little rough in our house. Kylie was really nervous and scared about not knowing anyone and if she would make any friends. Poor thing! :(

We eventually convinced her it will be ok and got her to go to sleep. I don't think it helped either though that she knew Mike was leaving in the morning for a detail. :(

She got up early, obviously still excited about the concept of first grade, got dressed, did her hair, ate some breakfast.

She was very determined that her daddy was going to take a picture of her on the first day, so we took a couple quick shots inside the house before he had to leave for work.

A picture that Mike took for her.

And a group shot before daddy had to leave.

 

 

Once she finished breakfast, I took pictures out front.

Massive amounts of pictures. :)

 

Sidney was still inside and when she realized she couldn't find us she started bawling her eyes out thinking we had left. (despite being told that we'd be on the front steps) poor thing was so sad. :(

 

 

After pictures we headed to school. The kids play outside until the bell rings and then each class has a designated line outside one of the doors that is for their class to line up on. Then their teacher comes out and brings them inside. After school, their teacher brings them back out to that line. The kids aren't allowed to leave the line until their teacher has gone through the line to them and asked if they see their ride. The kids need to point out their ride and then they are allowed to leave. They are pretty serious about kids going with the right people.

This is the first school I've encountered too with a buzzer system. You have to buzz and explain what you are doing there before they let you in the school. Not used to it, but kinda nice.

 

Anywho....Pictures!

 

This is what she wore the night before to her meet and greet at school.

She got to go meet her teacher, drop off her supplies, find her desk and find her locker.

It was nice and I think that helped ease a couple of her fears.

 

 

Poor Sidney, she was trying to smile through her tears. :)

 

Waiting outside by the playground

Poor thing brought up the end of the line because we almost didn't

find her line. We didn't realize it would be on the back side of the school! :)

 

 

School has been going well so far. She seems to be liking it and has made a few friends. :)

They have already started homework and she has a few minutes of math homework every night. It is going well.

Every other Friday they have early release. I don't know why, but they do. So she gets out at 1:30 instead of 3:15. That is another weird thing here, but I guess we'll figure it out. :)

 

She starts soccer and ballet in September. Ballet is every week through the middle of May and soccer is just for September. It will start up again in the spring and they will play in April and May. 

So things should get much busier next month! Looking forward to things to keep us busy!

 



Kylie's Ears Got Pierced!

Kylie had been asking for awhile to get her ears pierced and she is the one who suggested that she gets them pierced when she turns 6. :)
So since school started on the 19th, I figured we should get it done before then since I wanted to go up to Rapid City to get it done.
So it was an early birthday present. She was pretty nervous! It didn't help that it took the technician quite a while to get the dots on her ears in the right spot. Her ears are just so tiny! :)
I let her bring her blanket in to hold and she sat on Grandma's lap too.

Here is the video of the poor thing crying her heart out. And some pictures of the process too! :)

 

She looks so scared!

getting her ears cleaned....

getting the holes marked out.....

the extreme sadness during the second hole. :(

She totally made mommy cry too.

BUT....Happy with the aftermath. :)

She picked out sparkly pink hearts. :)

 

 

She still loves them, and has already started quite the collection of earrings that she can wear once her six weeks are up. She even got an earring tree for her birthday to hold all of her new earrings. :)

 

She also does an excellent job making sure that they get cleaned 3 times a day. :)