Random Fun - June

Views of our new house. We are absolutely loving our new home and neighborhood! 

Daddy and Nolan found a nice place to read in the backyard. Nolan has been going through his Dragon Masters series really quickly. It's really incredible how well this boy reads. I hope he and his brother always have a love for books.

Happy Birthday Justin! We love you SO much and are so glad you're ours!

Daddy got out some of his old toys and the boys loved them!

Slumber party in mom and dad's room!

B wanted to put on his tie :)

Notice Branson being held and admired by several young women in our new ward haha. Watch out ladies!

Our new neighbors have a son between Branson and Nolan's age and they have two ride on cars so of course the boys made fast friends with them.

We had our friends, the Bakers, over for dinner. It was so fun to have them!

Nolan and his friend Alice were adorable on their little dinner date :)

Family History Dept Summer Party at Murray Park

They of course loved all of the bouncy houses and didn't want to leave when the night ended!

 

 

Nolan was so excited to get his face painted (although was a little disappointed that they wouldn't bend the rules this year and paint him like Darth Maul). I was happy with how well Branson did with it though! N asked for a snake, B asked for Batman :)

  

Nolan requested one last picture before getting in the bath :) 

Nolan Finished His First Season of Soccer

From the moment I told Nolan I'd signed him up for soccer he was NOT happy about it. We had a few weeks to try to get him excited, but really I think he just didn't know what to expect so he just didn't want anything to do with it. Finally a night or two before the first game we took him to get some cleats and found some red ones! He got a little excited about his new "spikes" and a bit more excited to find some black "armor" (shin guards). We threw in some red socks and hoped it would be enough to at least get him to show up to the field. Still, this was his face on the way to the first game 😊

By the way, it was NOT easy for his father to buy so many red things. It must be love.

Game time! 

The league we signed up for (mostly because we didn't realize we were behind signing him up and it was one of the few leagues that hadn't started yet haha) has a 1/2 hour practice, then 1/2 hour game format, which I think is perfect for this age.

Here's Nolan and dad practicing the first day. I think he did great!

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Running around the field. 

One funny story from this season -- It usually took some bribing to get him to get in there and kick the ball, but he'd been doing pretty well for a few weeks so I thought he was getting to like it a bit more. Then one day he'd had a sleepover at Gm and Gp Bailey's house the night before then went to his soccer game. After the game in the car he announced that, "this is the best day ever! We got to go to Gm and Gp's house, we had french toast for breakfast, I got a new toy, I got to play a Transformer game..." Then Justin interjected, "and you got to play soccer?!" At which Nolan wagged his finger and said, "no, no, no, no. That wasn't part of the fun." 🤣 Is this kid even MINE?!!

Gm and Gp Bailey came to every game AND brought extra treats for Nolan. Every week they brought his favorite, apple juice (really the only juice he drinks). After one game he announced, "If I could have apple juice every day I would do anything to get it!" 😂

He wasn't a big fan of stretching (must be the Mathews in him) and doesn't really know how to do jumping jacks yet. We'll have to work on that. 

  

Overall I think it was a great season! He learned a bit, got to run around, got lots of treats, and hopefully had some fun too. I was surprised that a few days after the last game he asked me when his next game was and acted disappointed when I told him the season was over. I'm not sure if he misses soccer or is sad he won't get treats anymore, either way, I signed him up for another season :)