Landon 1 Year Pictures

*Consider yourself warned for a photo dump of my kid*

I received the CD of Landon's 1 year pictures yesterday and, I LOVE THEM!  Here are a few of my favs!

Shoe Tying

So am I the last person to hear about this...Nordstrom offers a Shoe Tying Class for kids for free every month!!  I took Zane today and he was probably one of the youngest ones there and its pretty obvious we'll be going back for a few more classes, but he really did well!  Zane gets an A for effort!  He tried really hard but as soon as I noticed him starting to get frustrated and withdrawn from trying, I decided to call it quits - I didn't want to ruin it for him!  Even though he wasn't able to conquer the entire process by himself, he did get a goodie bag had a lot of fun!  I think one of the coolest things that happened while we were there, was Zane and Landon were asked to join their Kids Fashion Show next month!  Josh and I haven't decided if we'll do it, but its definitely something we are thinking about - I think it would be fun!!!

Thursday Soccer

Zane had his 2nd soccer practice (of this go-round) this past Thursday and again did awesome!  I am still just so amazed at how different this program is from the one at Starfire and I love it!  The kids actually got to play a "real" game with goalies and all - they ran for at least 30 mins straight if not longer.  Some of the kids were asking if they could just sit down, they were so tired from running, kind of made me laugh!

Anyway, here are a couple of pictures from the night - I won't bore you with pictures from every Thursday, but I had to at least post a couple from their "game"!

Warming up with Coach Emma.

I love the big picture in the collage below!

Coach Chris taught the kids how to celebrate after a goal, it was so cute.  After each goal (you can see Zane assisting in one below) the team would run over and pound on the plexi-glass, then step back and do a little dance!!  I tried to capture it the best I could below.

Valentine Festivities!

We had a great Valentine's Day today...even if I was at work, Zane was at school, Landon was home with grandma and I never saw Josh!  Zane had a blast at his party today - enjoyed more than enough sweets and thankfully his blood sugar has been pretty spot on or easily corrected!  Landon enjoyed a lunch with grandma and papa at The Spaghetti Factory, I endured way too many sweets at work today and Josh is probably enjoying some sweets at his work tonight too!

Josh and I's adorable Valentines!  

Seriously, could they be any cuter?!

Zane's Valentine packages he put together for his

classmates!!

Zane's teacher's Valentines!

Our grease'fied dinner!!!

I had a great time with Valentine's Day this year and I am pretty sure my boys enjoyed it as well!
We all hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day!!

 

Valentine Cards

Zane has his first Valentine's Party today at school/daycare and needed some Valentine's to hand out so  I found one on Pinterest that I couldn't pass up! Then just made Landon's up on my own...ooh, I'm so creative :)

Here's a little peak of what the boys woke up to this morning :)

Good-bye Serna's

Our great friends Brian & Renee (and their three boys David, Ethan and Joshua) are on their way to Tennessee!  Brian is a helicopter pilot in the US Army and has been given orders to head for the south.  We have been friends with the Serna's since Josh's Bellingham days (I think he moved up there in 97 or 98) and they have been great friends.  I will miss our boys growing up together, but I know they are off to new adventures and thanks to social media we will never be far from stalking on each others families :)  And of course there is always the hope he will again have orders to come back to WA!  Brian just returned from his 2nd deployment and I am happy to report he is home safe!!  Brian, we are very proud of what you do for us and our country - please always stay safe and to both of you...stay in touch!!

There was a little going away party and belated 1st Birthday Party for Joshua this past weekend.  It was great to get together one last time...for now!

When we first arrived at the restaurant there were no highchairs available and I think there were 4 or 5 babies in our group.

Landon trying to escape daddy's arms!

Yay, finally two available...Vivienne and Landon fought hard for them too!

Joshua (& Brian) with his birthday cake!

Zane, David & Ethan

Most of our two families!

Thursday Night Soccer

Tonight was Zane's first Thursday night soccer, to be honest I was dreading it, work nights aren't the best nights to mess up our routine...but I have to say the night couldn't have been any better or gone any smoother!

As you might remember from an earlier post, we had originally signed up for a Saturday morning class, but due to some time changes in their schedule we had to change it up and do the Thursday night class instead. At first I was quite irritated with their mix up, but at the same time I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason (finding that "reason" can be tough sometimes though, I know) - well, after who we met tonight, I believe that little matra more than ever!  Zane has two coaches (coach Chris and coach Emma) not long after class started, I noticed something on coach Emma's waistline and realized very quickly that it was an insulin pump!!

Are you serious???  Did we really just fall into a soccer class that one of the coaches themselves deals with the same day to day stuff that Zane does??  I instantly just started beaming with excitement!  What are the odds?!  I know most of you will have no idea what this means to me, but trust me, it means a lot.  After class was over I walked up to her and said "I hope you don't mind me asking, but is that an insulin pump you are wearing" (not sure why, but that was one of the most awkward questions I've ever asked anyone - I think I was afraid I was totally wrong and she'd be like "what the heck are you talking about, its my cell phone", haha), she sort of lit up when I asked her the question and said "yeah!" and I told her that Zane was diagnosed a year ago and I could see the excitement in her eyes, she instantly said "oh my gosh, are you serious?  If you guys need anything, have any questions, want any 'non-doctor' answers, I've had it since I was 8 (she's 21 now) and I will answer any of your questions"!!  We talked a little more and it turns out she is a counselor at the camp we are planning on sending Zane to this summer (week long day camp for T1's), she is bringing us more information on the camp next week!  Ok, that was a long paragraph - that most you won't give a crap about, but I felt it was important to document, so there!

Now onto Zane - he did AWESOME tonight, those coaches ran those 4, 5, 6 year olds HARD!  I know that my little man will be sleeping good tonight!!!  Zane is gaining so much control over the ball and really starting to look like he knows what he is doing and I couldn't be more proud!

Little brother did great too!!