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Hello. So I have been busy, like everyone else and despite my great plans to blog our family's adventures, life has just gotten in the way again. I did post a couple of things already but thought I'd better do a longer, more detailed, update. First off, soccer has ended. Derek was very excited to receive his first trophy ever! This was a very big deal to him, see previous soccer post. Chloe enjoyed soccer as well but not like the boys. She was more concerned with having "cute soccer hair" than helping out her team. She loved wearing the uniform and was a lot less concerned with actually playing the game. She was excited to add a trophy to her ever growing trophy collection though. Preston's team did very well and ended up in the Championship Playoffs for his division. In the playoffs he had to play 4 games and the results were tallied into the system as points. Each team got points for goals scored, winning, etc. At the end of the games the points were added and ranked for 1st through 4th place. We were unsure if his team would even place so trophies were ordered for his team. Preston's last game was against one of his very best friends....Ryan B. He was really excited to FINALLY play Ryan's team. We found out at the beginning of the game that if Preston's team won they'd be placed 2nd and if they lost they would be ranked 3rd. I was really excited for him the whole game. At half time the score was 2-1 in our favor. However, they ended up tying us shortly after and in the final 2 minutes of the game scored again to win it. Ryan's team ended up placing 1st and Preston's team placed 3rd. Preston was a super good sport about it and was so thrilled to receive 2 trophies for soccer! Preston is VERY proud of himself. Shauna is VERY happy that soccer is over. Haha. Soccer was fun but the break between sports is much needed right now.

In November, Preston and Chloe had their Reflections Awards Ceremony for their school. Both of them competed in the Photography Category and Chloe also competed in the Visual Arts Category.The picture above is Chloe and Manuel with their teacher Mrs. Brown. These were the only two from kindergarten that participated. The kinders were in the same judging category as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders so we didn't think they would even place. However, Manuel won first place in the Photography category and Chloe won 2nd place! Then Chloe won 3rd place in the Visual Arts category for her painting of the school garden.Preston competed against Chloe in the photography category. He had an interesting picture entitled "Death". The theme for the contest was "Wow!" Preston took pictures of a dead fish at the lake and wrote "Death is wow cause just one second you are playing and full of life and the next second it could be all gone." Well, that's a little deep and morbid for a 2nd grader but hey, he was excited about it. Preston won 3rd place and couldn't be happier.
About a week ago I told the kids to please go play outside. They had been bugging each other in the house and needed to go out to play! After scooting them out the door as fast as I could I went to relax for a few minutes. That's when I heard "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MOM MOM HELP HELP MOM!!" Oh, joy, I thought. This had better be good. Well, Douglas actually beat me out the door and this is what he found:
Apparently out trampoline had grown a beehive. Anyone want some honey? So I immediately say, "ahhh, spray them!" And Doug says, "No way. Bees are so good. Blah Blah Blah." After calling the beekeeper in an attempt to safely remove the bees and finding out the cost would be $300, we will be getting the spray!

Remember at the beginning of the year I bugged all of you guys about my kids fundraiser?? Well, yesterday all the begging paid off. My kids got to play at the Xtreme Bash Party! This event took place during school and all who sold 15 items were invited to play for 2 hours! So cool!