Soccer Season 2010

Hannah and Halle both played soccer this year.  This was Hannah's second year playing and Halle's first.

 I was very impressed with Hannah at the beginning of soccer season because she had improved so much from the year before.  She continued to play well all during the season and really started to understand the different roles that come from playing all of the different positions on the field.  My aunt Ginger was Hannah's coach....she said that Ginger was a little bossy!  : )

Here is Hannah with Coach Ginger and some of her teammates:

Here is Hannah and cousin Eli passing the ball:

Hannah taking off and kicking the ball down the field:



Halle's coach was Beth, and bless her heart, she had two three year olds to deal with on her team!  Beth's little girl, Macie and our Halle did more playing ring-around-the-rosie than they did playing soccer....but I think that they had fun!

Beth with some of her team:

 

Halle running to come get a drink of water:

We had a very enjoyable and funny soccer season!  I can't wait to do it again next year!!

We got holes in our ears!

Halle has been begging for a while now to go get her ears pierced.  She wants to wear and show-off pretty earrings.  Halle would ask everyday for a while, and pretty soon, Hannah began asking as well.  So, one Saturday a couple of weeks ago, we head off to town to get our girls their piercings.

Hannah knew that there would be some pain involved, so she was a little apprehensive to sit down in the chair.  I thought she was going to back out at the last minute, but she stepped up (with some tears in her eyes) and let the ladies do their work (they pierce both ears at the same time).  She cried more before the piercing than she did after they got the earrings in.  She was very proud....as so was I!

Here is Hannah with her new earrings.  You can barely tell, but they are gold hearts with little crystals in the middle.

Now Halle...she jumped up in the chair, let the ladies put the "gun" on her ears, and was still smiling!  She had no idea that piercing her ears would actually involve putting a hole through her ears.  Not until the earrings went in did she fully grasp that this process wouldn't all be fun.  The look on her face almost made me cry, but as soon as the ladies showed her the earrings attached to her ears (in the mirror) she was all smiles!  I think they both look so cute!

And...here is Halle with her new earrings.  These are red hearts with a gold outline and backing.

I think that they are both happy, and I know that they can't wait to get these out and start trying on new pairs!

3 Girls and No Boys

Recently Chris and I had another ultrasound (our OBGYN does an ultrasound every visit) just to check on the baby.  Just for fun, we checked to see if we could tell if our baby was a boy/girl.  To the disappointment of my poor husband, it seems as if we are having another GIRL!  I know Chris was a little sad, or a lot sad, but we have already decided that we want 4 kids, so we'll just have to try again!  : ) 

Below is the ultrasound picture of our little girl.  I know it is fuzzy, but it was fairly obvious during the visit that we were having a girl.


 

We are having trouble picking out a name...we had a great boy name picked out, but we'll just save it for later! Both Hannah and Halle are happy that we are having a girl, and have given us many names that they approve of, but nothing has sounded right. I'm sure we'll come up with something!