Soccer Saturday's

Many of you know that Jacob is not fond of change, ANY change. He likes the idea of doing something new, but once the day is here (or in the case of kindergarten, 3 weeks away) he decides he doesn't want to do it and starts worrying and fretting about it. Anyway, we decided that the only way to get him to get over this problem would be to "encourage" him to do more new things. What better time than right when he starts kindergarten?? With this in mind, we signed him up for soccer. Now, Curt and I know nothing about soccer, but it sounded good for Jacob. Well, we found out that Rod, Curt's cousin is partly in charge of the AYSO soccer league that we signed Jacob up with. He ever-so-gently asked Curt if he would coach. How do you say no?? Curt said yes and I am his back-up. Did I mention we know NOTHING about soccer. Anyway, we are now spending saturday's on the soccer field and Jacob is loving it.

This is Jacob getting ready to practice kicking the ball into the net. I love the look on his face. It is hysterical watching him. Sometimes he just stands there with his fingers in his mouth and sometimes he is just running around in circles.


This is during Jacob's first game. I was pleasantly surprised that he was actually participating in the game and trying to kick the ball. Go Jacob!!

First Day of Kindergarten!!

Sept. 5, 2007

Today was the day that Jacob has been waiting for all summer, the first day of kindergarten!!

Labor Day Weekend

Curt, the boys and I went up to Deaner Lake in Vestaburg with the rest of the Ford Family. This is something that we try to do every holiday weekend during the summer months, but this year we were only able to make it over Labor Day. It was good to see everybody. We went up on friday night and stayed until sunday afternoon. We had to leave early because there was a race on sunday night and we had to be home to watch it!! It's a good thing we did because Jimmie got his 5th win of the season. Yeah!!


This is Deaner Lake as it looks from our dock. It's not a very big lake so most of the time it's pretty quiet. We had fun playing with the boys in the water. They have both turned into little fish over the summer.

Curt and Gary took the boys fishing and turtle hunting on saturday. They had such a good time even though they only caught one fish that was too small to keep.

On Monday Curt and I took the boys to Binder Park Zoo for the afternoon. It was our last hoo-rah with the boys befores school starts. We started this tradition last year and will keep doing it until the boys outgrow the zoo and then we'll find something else to do.