Isn't he cute...

For some reason my kids are going through this thing in the car when they see either a Police car, fire engine or an ambulance. They then try and find all three. Some days they do and some days they see just one. So we are in the car the other day with just Spence and Bella. While we are at a stop light Spence spots a fire engine and says, " Now that we have found a firefighter all we have to find is a police officer and an Alien." I asked if he meant ambulance and he said that he did. I was laughing about that one for a while.

Soccer!

My life right now is all soccer all the time or at least it seems like it. With Lexi and Spence both playing soccer and having two games a week (luckily it goes down to one game a week after next week) plus practices. It seems like all we is SOCCER!! So when I get a chance I will put some good pictures up of the kids playing soccer. As for life outside of soccer... this next month is going to be a busy one again for Jared and work, he will be traveling again and will be gone two weeks out of the month. I am not looking forward to that, but he has to do what he has to do. I guess that is it for now.

Photos and FHE

On this last Saturday, both Lexi and Spence had picture day for their soccer team. Then after Lexi's pictures she had a short practice game. I for some reason didn't get a picture of Lexi in her uniform except for in her game.Spence in his uniform

Spence and his cousin Billy they are on the same team

Lexi at her practice game

Lexi kicking the ball in

On Monday we decided to take advantage of the great weather we have been having lately and have the kids ride their bikes while we walked at a local bike trail. We discovered that we lived pretty close to this really nice bike trail and so that is why we went there. The kids loved it and we all had a great time.

Me with the Kids

Spence riding his bike

Lexi riding her bike as you see she only has one training wheel. We had tried to teach her to ride without her training wheels and when we did she immediately wanted them back on, but we told her no that she could only have one. Well at least that is what Jared told her. So she has been riding with just one training wheel so that hopefully soon we will be able to take off the other one too.

She did it!!

Before I even blog about what happened earlier in the week. I have to tell you all that Lexi made her first ever goal at her 1st official soccer game. She was so excited she was beaming and so were her parents too. We are so very proud of our little girl. The way that it happened was a the ball had been knocked out of bounds by the other team, so it was our throw in. The little girl, Callie that threw in the ball, threw it over the other kids head and right at Lexi. She took the ball and started down the field, where she quickly broke away and scored her goal. Everyone was congratulating her and telling her what a great job she did. She is also the first girl on her team to make a goal. Afterwards we stopped at the store and got some Dibs (ice cream) to celebrate her goal. I bet you are wondering where the great shot of her scoring this goal is. Well it would have been a great shot if I had remembered my camera, oh well. At least we will have the memory of it.

Lexi 1st Day of 2nd Grade

Lexi started second grade this last week and is having so much fun. She says that she has the nicest teacher and she really likes her. Above is her before school started.
Lexi and her 2nd Grade teacher Mrs. Kagan
Lexi getting ready for class

I wanted to add to this post what Jared was able to do on Saturday. He was able to go rafting. He had a great time from what he tells me though he was thrown from the raft at one point. But it seems to be fine, just a little sore and scraped knee.

Then on Sunday night Lexi was able to go spend the night at her Auntie Carolyn's house. She absolutely loves when she gets to do this and we figured we would let her do it one last time before school started. The whole reason behind her spending the night was to have an American Girl party and dress up. My niece's have American girl dolls and though they are older they still had fun and played dress up with her. They had so many clothes for the dolls (years of accumulation). So I guess they had a fashion show with the dolls on Monday and invited my other niece Ally over to play too. She also has some dolls. From what she told me she had great fun. Then when we came over to my sister's house to pick her up we had a BBQ with her family and my brother Trevor's family (Ally's parent). That was great doing a small gathering with them. Then we went home to get Lexi to bed for her big day of school. So I am all up to date! Hope you enjoyed catching up with us Cheney's

Trip to the Beach

On Thursday we were already at the coast, so we headed into seaside to spend most of the day. Lexi really wanted to rent one of these Surrey Bikes. We rode it a round for a while the kids had a great time in it. Jared and I were the ones that had to do all the work. Oh well it was worth it.

Us on the Surrey Bike

Bella on the bike, She kept turning around. I think she wanted to drive.

This is Lexi with her new smile. Earlier in the week she lost the first one and then while we were at lunch this day she lost the second while eating. I think she looks so cute.

After riding the bike we headed to the beach to play for a little while. We decided it would be fun to drive on to the beach and so that is what we did. The first time Bella went to the beach she was barely walking, so this time we let her go at it. And boy did she have fun. She loved the sand and the water. Every time a wave would come she would laugh. I think she liked how the sand moved under her feet when the wave came.

Lexi playing in the sand

Spence playing in the sand

Bella enjoying the sand

The kids walking out to the water. I absolutely love this picture.

Bella and I in the water, she loved it so much she was even sitting down in it. Granted the water was not too cold like it sometimes can be.

We then headed back to Jared's parents house for some good food. Later we took a picture of Jared's Parents with the kids. We then stayed another night at the coast and headed for home in the afternoon. We are so lucky to have family at the coast to visit.

Trip to the Zoo!

On Wednesday of the same week we went to the zoo. We weren't sure if the weather was going to hold off for us, but it did and I so glad we went. They had this exhibit going on I believe it was called "Walk with the Dinosaurs". That was really cool. I am glad we got to experience it. It was a bunch of Robot dinosaurs and made you feel like they were real. Above is one of the dinosaurs with the kids.
I thought this was a great shot of Spence with a Sea Lion.
Jared with the kids in front of the T-Rex dinosaur
The family at the Zoo

Later that day was Lexi and Spence's first soccer practice of the year. Lexi has played soccer before, but this is Spence's first year. This is a picture we took at his very first soccer practice. He is getting to be so big. Oh for those of you that don't know they are both playing soccer (on different teams). So we will be being pulled two different directions the next two months. Luckily not very many of there games will conflict. The kids are both looking forward to playing.

After the kids soccer practice we decided to head out to the coast until Friday. So we mad rushed got everything together and headed to the coast to visit with Jared's family and spend time at the beach.