Picture Day (Soccer)

***UPDATE: Google changed its blogging platform and I notice that last week's blog did not properly show videos in mobile format. I have fixed that now so if you checked the blog last week and noticed there were missing videos, those are now available***

I figured out how to make a time lapse of star trails

Henry thinks he is a big kid

On our walk last Sunday Henry got behing this fence and thought it was so funny

Trying to learn at home (hopefully this week they will change to 5 days a week in school like the CDA school district just approved)

I love this lighting and I love this little monkey

Mason started pre-school this week

He is doing it with his best friend (who he also occasionally refers to as "my girl," which is so adorable)

They made some cool name bracelets

And worked on writing their names

Henry had to show them how it is done

I like this costume he came up with

On Friday night Nixon had a friend over for a boys movie night

Lyza and I went to the church to practice volleyball (not pictured because we were having too much fun) and Kim went through metamorphosis 

On Kim's Saturday morning run there was lots of fog/mist over the river (you can kind of see it here)

Saturday morning was really nice because instead of the kids waking up and stuffing their faces with food, Lyza read to Mason for a long time

Mason had another soccer practice yesterday and his form was on point

He is really cute out there in uniform

He also had team pictures, which we forgot about (although we knew Nixon had them later so luckily we had the portrait lens packed with us

Be careful if you ask him to look at the camera and smile

Here he is with his team (at least one person is missing)

Pictures took forever (because one of the two cameras wasn't working) so Mason's game ended out being only a few minutes (lame)

He still enjoyed himself. He was constantly giving me the thumbs up

Here he is chasing the pack

Nixon also had pictures and we were prepared (matching clothes that fit and combed hair)

He looks like a model!

Here is his team (I think they were all actually there)

Nixon's hands were in his pocket more than I liked

He is eying that ball the other team is about to kick in

Michael Jordan was well known for sticking out his tongue when he was concentrating (photo source)

Nixon had a little bit of the same going on

After he ate a whole granola bar during his rest he went back on the field and had a cramp he had to deal with. At that same time he got the ball and had a good chance to score but missed by just a little bit. He played well (especially defensively) and had a good game.

Nixon also got to channel his inner Karate Kid and break a board with his foot

Henry was really silly last night before bed

We hope you have a great week!