Dillon's Final Soccer Game

Dillon played his final soccer game of the Winter
season last week! He is actually going to play again
in the Spring season so stay tuned!


Here he is ready to go!


Not sure what they are doing here...



Action shot...running!



Action shot...kick!




Almost scored a goal!



Hooray!!! Grandma Janet was able to come cheer him on!

Here's the group of spectators...Coach (Mike) was on the sideline

because he just had knee surgery the day before! (All is well, he had

some miniscus cleaned out and the recovery has been pretty easy.)

Refueling after the game.

Taya needed a drink as well.

We had so much fun watching Dillon play and learn and progress

we look forward to another great season!

Go Dillon!

Phoenix Zoo with Grandpa Randy!

Grandpa Randy spent the weekend with us! He had a conference
in Phoenix during the week and then spent the weekend with us!
(Yes, this is still old news, this was in Feb.) But still we had a great time!
Dillon has been begging to go to the Zoo for weeks so we thought this
would be a great time to go!


At the Petting Zoo:


Dillon is just like his mother...scared of animals. (I told Mike
that it's his job to make sure Dillon gets over this because, as
you can see, I am no where near the animals.) :)


Taya on the other hand isn't quite as nervous. She just gets
more nervous because she sees Dillon being scared.


I love this pic because it just shows how nervous he is.



He's branching out...

Taya found a brush so she is good.

Love this one! Here's my brave boy!

All was well unless the goat started to move!

Oh well, it's all fun!

Taya just wasn't sure!

Here we are with one of Dillon's and my favorite animal. (One

that isn't alive!)

Elephant!

Okay this pic is hilarious but the story is: I asked Taya what

her favorite animal is and she said "pink one". So I had to get

a pic with her and the flamingos. Yes, those are flamingos back by

the wall. :)

Dillon's favorite is always the Rhino.

Taya on the Carousel.

Dillon on the Carousel.

We had a great visit with Grandpa Randy. We also went out

to eat and played a bunch! Thanks for the great time! We love

you!

Mike's 30th Birthday!

Okay, okay so this is a little late news but better late than never!
Right?!

Mike turned 30 on January 25!


I decorated the house, then Jesse and Jaymie came over and
stayed with the kids while Mike and I went out to dinner.


When we came back from dinner it was time for presents.
Dillon got Mike this...it's a cardboard box car filled with
transformer stickers. Dillon was hoping that daddy would
share!



The best gift was one I ordered online but came a few days late.
It's a giant PEZ dispenser! Shaped like Yoda and yes it plays
Star Wars music!


So awesome! I was so excited to give it to him I could
hardly stand it! It was the perfect gift!



Such a cute pic of Dillon and his cousin Henslee.

Taya saying "cheese".

Here's the cake...bet you can't guess who decorated it?!

Happy Birthday Mike! I love you so much! You are such a great

dad and hubby! We don't know what we'd do without you!

Dillon Soccer Winter Season 2011

Alrighty...so it's been a little while since my last post. Dillon is now
one game away from the end of the winter season of Soccer. I have
footage from all the games so here is a recap of the last 6 games.

Game 2


Action shot...running!


Taya enjoying the halftime snack!


What a grin...this kid loves to be outside!

Game 3


Action shot...running!

Kick off!

And don't forget Taya was there too!

Game 4

Action shot...running!

Not sure...getting ready to jump?!

Not sure...playing a shooting game on the side?!

Yep...Taya!

Game 5

Action shot...running for the ball!

Kick off!

Great game Dillon!

Taya

Game 6

We took a team pic and some individual pics. I got

this one with my camera but you can see the professional

ones at williamhowardphoto.com

Dillon playing goalie...kinda boring.

yep...kinda boring!

And here is Taya 'foofing' a dandelion!

I don't have any footage from Game 7. It was super windy and cold.

We barely got through the game and it started to rain. Dust was blowing

everywhere so I didn't bust out the camera.

Here is just a few videos from the games and from warm ups right

before the games.

I accidentally put 2 of the same videos on here so just disregard

one of them below.

Soccer Game...

Dillon had his first soccer game on Saturday!
It was so much fun! His team is called The Scorpions
(yeah, very fitting for us in AZ, I know).


The uniforms are super cool looking!


All the kids got their first names on the back.



Here's an action shot of him running. He is really fast.
He did really well, the team only had one practice and it
got cut short because it started to hail! (yeah hail in AZ,
go figure!)



Oh, did I mention Mike is the coach!? Yep, he volunteered
to be the coach for the team. He's really excited about it and
I think he'll do awesome! Here's him in action, doing some
coaching.



Dillon got to do a throw-in. (The ball went out of
bounds so he got to throw it in.) Awesome action shot.
Taya and I had so much fun watching! He'll have practice
on Friday afternoons and a game on Saturday for the next 7 weeks.
I'm excited to see the progress he makes!
Go Dillon!