Soccer

This past weekend was the start of Soccer season! Here are my two cute Soccer Girls:

The Big Al

We spent the weekend of September 11th with our friend Scott and his two boys Daniel and Dillon and my brother-in-law Stephen and our nephew Jordan. The girls were so excited for their friends and cousin to come up. We lived next to the Dubee's in Warner Robins and Daniel and Savannah used to play all the time together. I was curious to see how they'd act together since our move 3 years ago. They are such good buddies though, they seem to just get along no matter how much time has passed. Daniel showed us his jump roping skills and wowed us with his interest in politics - such a smart little guy. Dillon was cute to try to play with Porter. They sat by the rug and played with the train set and cars most of the afternoon. That evening we went to a pizza place near Richard's work to order the "Big Al" - a 30" pizza!

Spiers Kids 9.10

8.8.10

I just realized I never got Savannah's birthday pictures on our blog. She had a fabulous 9th birthday sleepover. We squeezed it in the Friday before school started and 2 days before her actual birthday. We had ice cream cake and made cute flip-flops. We danced - and yes, that is Richard in the mix. He couldn't believe Isabelle could beat him! When it came time to go to bed we told ghost stories and then they let me read them to sleep and . . . let me sleep upstairs with them! We love you Savannah! I hope your 9th year is as fabulous as you are!

Overseen

Actually, I was shown this, so I cannot be called a creeper. Entry in a journal type book belonging to one of our daughters:
Describe your Dad:______________________

Daughters entry: Nice, Strange, Hunky!
I agree. I know she listens to me so I will keep saying, "I hope my daughters marry someone just like their dad!"

Back in the saddle again

I feel like we were just attending end of school ceremonies last week and here I sit typing with a week of the new school year under our belt! It is a shorter break than I grew up having but, even so, this summer came and went and I feel like I just blinked.

My cute school girls!


Here is my new competition:

Soft Hearts or Sore Butts

For FHE this week we had a lesson on the story of the Liahona in the Book of Mormon. I chose it because the fighting/meanness has really picked up at our house. It seems the girls really have gotten good at making snide remarks to eachother and I have had it. I related that the Liahona would not work for Lehi and his family unless they were being righteous and that in our house we cannot have the spirit if everyone has hard hearts and trying to be mean or cause contentions. I told them that soft hearts want to talk nicely and forgive and be forgiven. Just last night, as we were pulling out of the pool one of the girls went to say something mean and the other one said "Soft Heart"! Without skipping a beat Richard said, "Or sore butts!" I think if I were to ever put up vinyl words in my house it would say just that!