Kid Stuff!!

Ok to start off~Allen has been playing soccer this year and his coach is really great! He coaches them like they are playing football (haha).  They have won all their games by a good bit, usually like 8 or 9 to nothing!. So they were in first place and last night was the championship game and they won!!! Yay, first place! This is the second year in a row Allen has been on the First place soccer team!

Taylor and Emma played soccer also, Taylor's team won 2nd place and she did really good also. I posted pictures in another blog so I won't post anymore. Emma's team, well we are just happy she got to play every Saturday ;)

Taylor has been doing excellent in school. Mrs. Battaglia is an awesome teacher and has made Taylor love going to school! Today they had young authors awards (not really an award banquet because all the kids got one). Mrs. Battaglia brought Taylor up first and explained to the parents what a great writer Taylor is, she explained that Taylor is what they expect the 2nd and 3rd grader to be writing at. She said Taylor is definitely the exception not the rule! I am one proud momma! Taylor writes all the time, and reads all the time. I guess she got this from her dad! Here are a few from her class today.

This is Taylor and her friend Chip (on the left), he is the sweetest little boy. One  of the stories Mrs. Battaglie read out of his book was his favorite day was the day he accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior, made me want to cry it was so sweet. Taylor needs to definitely keep in touch with this sweet young man!

And now for miss Emma, she has graduated VPK and she was so proud of herself! She is still going to school everyday until we move though. Here are a few pictures of her walking and some of her VPK classes on stage, I forgot my good lens so the pics aren't that great.

weekend fun!

Ok, since we only have one more weekend left here we have been trying to make the most of every weekend and do things we can only do in Tampa, or close by. So last weekend we went to theSalvadore Dali museum, the kids weren't too excited but once we got there they were impressed with the crazy pictures he is famous for. The museum has a scavenger hunt the kids can do to look for the pictures to make it a tad more fun!

Taylor was not in a very good picture taking mood, so she missed out on a couple! 

After we left the museum we drove over the Sunshine Skyway bridge, it was really cool, and a little scary!
That evening we went to the Pirates of the Carribean at the Imax and watched it in 3D, i love watching movies with the kids!

That Sunday we went to a Tampa Rays game, it was kids day and they got a cape for the outfielder, Sam Fuld who is supposed to be really good.  At the end of the game they got to run the bases and of course get their pics made with the Rays mascot!

We loved going to the game, it was so fun! If you ever get a chance to come to Tampa you have to go to a ball game here!

Monday is Memorial Day and Mike is headed to New York later in the day so instead of us being with all of our family and cooking out we went and bought BBQ and had lunch at home. Mike is only home on the weekends now because he is working in New York on a consulting job with JP Morgan Chase, it is a really awesome opportunity for him and he gets to live in a really nice place while he is there. He does get to come home every weekend and we are planning a few trips up this summer!