My so-called suburban life :)

Well, I am now just about as much of a suburban mom as I can think of. I drive a minivan (which I was NEVER going to do...), and I have even totally "mommed" my ride with an awesome dent on one side of the bumper and a scrape on the other from exiting my garage. (If you haven't seen this clip yet, it's pretty funny: click here)

I even helped out for the PTA a couple of weeks ago and collected items for and put together this awesome silent auction basket from Camden's class for the big pizza/bingo/fundraiser night at the school.


But why the post today? Well, this weekend I officially became a soccer mom as Camden played in his first soccer game. Now, luckily, there are so many kids around here, that he is playing in a league that practices and plays at the same field each week (and the field is literally 3 minutes from our house) So lest you think I would be driving said child around in said minivan to multiple soccer fields, well, I'm just not that dedicated yet ;)

Camden was quite a good little soccer player! He isn't really aggressive, instead hanging back a bit and trying to go where he thinks the ball is going to be, and then grabbing it as it pops out from the pack or stealing it from the other team as they advance. He'll make a good striker or defender as he gets older (if he wants to keep playing soccer.) The best part for him is that he gets to run fast, which is his favorite thing to do. His team was much better and more organized then the other team and they won 7-1 (although, really, there's no one keeping score :) He has a great coach-his youngest daughter is on the team and he has been coaching for years. He does a great job of keeping the kids spread out and really encouraging them. I'm really glad that Camden is on this team :)
Here are some fun pictures from Saturday as he played his first game as a Renegade:

Brothers and webkinz

For Christmas, both boys got Webkinz in their stockings. For those of you without school age children, these are little stuffed animals with web codes, that let them into Webkinz world. Online, they can feed and clothe their pet, build and decorate their rooms, play games and other fun stuff. Camden really enjoys going online to do this and therefore loves his little stuffed animal, who he considers part of the family (which is how he convinced us he should be allowed to be on Webkinz on Sunday) Parker loves anything that has anything to do with Camden. On Sunday mornings, Camden will being the laptop into Parkers room and show Parker how his webkinz is doing (Camden "takes care" of both of their animals online). This allows Paul and I some extra sleep as Parker is entertained in his room.

Here they are on webkinz on the couch after I got Parker out of bed:


What was so cute about this was that their webkinz were "fighting" Parker would take his tiger and kind of push the lion, and then Camden would growl and "fight" back. They were having so much fun playing together and it was so cute that I had to grab the camera! Camden is such an awesome big brother, I don't know what I would do without him!

Our bipolar almost Spring weather

The weather has been a little crazy out here! On Monday, school was cancelled due to a snow day-again!!!! Camden got to go sledding for the first time (Thank you Rebers for letting us borrow your sled!) We didn't get out till the afternoon and the snow was already starting to melt, but he got some fun runs in before he got too cold :) Parker even got in on the action. He and I went down a couple of times, although climbing up the hill holding him and the sled probably wasn't the safest thing I've done lately...



Then, on Thursday, the kids had an early release from school and Camden's class had a park playdate-the weather was really nice-in the mid 60's. They all had fun playing together, although I noticed a particular little girl was in almost all the pics I took of Camden...hmmm...



Yesterday, the high was 77 degrees and we were out in our shorts getting the garden ready, washing the car and just enjoying the welcome warmth. Cmaden had to go to school-because in year round school, you make up your days on Saturday. Poor kid :(
And today the high is 80 degrees!!! So we've gone from a low of 16 degrees to a high of 80 in less then a week. It's very hard to plan ahead when the weather is like this :) But I will take this beautiful weather any day!