Games, Games and More Games

What a busy but fun weekend. Between two flag football games and four soccer games, we pretty much spent our weekend at a field. Grandma and Grandpa Key came in town Friday night and will be staying the week to watch the boys while we head to work. Needless to say, we kept them busy. We started with flag football on Saturday morning. Not only were my parents there, but Melissa, Braden and Shawn also came to cheer Casen on. 

After watching a winning game, we headed to South Houston to watch Camden play with his old team in his first game of the Rise Tournament. He too had quite the cheering section as Melissa, Shawn, Braden and my parents were there as well.  His team won that game and we headed back to the fields later that evening for yet another game, which they also won.

Today we headed back out to the soccer fields for another game. They again won which advanced them to the championship game which was this evening. Unfortunately, due to Casen having another flag football game, he and Shane and my parents headed back to Cypress and did not get to go to the final game. Camden and I stayed near the fields and went and ate with Camden's best fiend Cole and his mom prior to the championship game. 

The final game the boys played was against a Rise girl's team. Prior to the game I reminded the boys that they did not need to take it easy on them just because they were girls. I tell you, it is kind of hard when you spend all your days teaching your children to respect girls and be kind and be a gentleman, only to turn around and tell them to treat the girls just like they would a boys team. Ha!! But I tell you, some of the girls on that team were giants!!!!! Unfortunately, we could not compete with the size of a few of them and lost the final game. One girl was taller than me, (I am 5' 9") and she could stick her leg out and stop any ball headed her way. Regardless, it was such a fun weekend of soccer and I loved getting to watch Camden play with the game he loves.

Such a great group of boys!!!

The tall blonde in the back was ~ 6ft tall.

We could not compete with their size. 

Soccer is Back

As things seem to be getting a little bit more normal, soccer season is back in full swing. This weekend Camden's team played in the Challenge soccer tournament. Although this year is going to be a bit different as far as his team goes, it was great to see him back on the field. In the past, Camden and several of his other team mates have played up and this year the organization wanted them to play on their own level, which means a lot of the boys Camden is used to be playing with will no longer be on his team. Luckily, he will still play up with them occasionally. It will be a growing year I am afraid, but we are hoping it will pay off in the future.

We did not have a very successful weekend, but are looking forward to next weekend when he gets to play in a tournament with his 'old' teammates.

Fall Flag Football

Last night started the beginning of Casen's fall flag football season. He is playing on the same team as last year with some of the same boys from last year. His coach has been having him practice both the quarterback position as well as center. He played awesome in both the game last night as well as today, making some awesome passes as well as great catches. 

All the boys were able to play today!

The boys started out great this weekend winning both their games. Woo Hoo!!! Casen has improved from last year and we can't wait to cheer he and his team on this season!

Time with Nana and Poppa

On our way home from Florida, we stopped in Lumberton and dropped off the boys for them to spend some time with their Nana and Poppa. Nana had the Christmas tree up to celebrate Christmas in July and even had wrapped gifts for the boys. We are quite the sneaky crew - the boys found these stuffed animals in Panama City Beach and really wanted them, however they picked out something else to buy so were sad they couldn't get the stuffed animals. We found the same stuffed animals on Amazon and had them shipped to Nana's house for her to give them. They were very shocked when they unwrapped the stuffed animals they had so sadly left behind in Florida.

The boys had a fun time swimming and playing games at Nana and Poppa's. They also went to Ira's several times and watched movies.

I know I say it every time, but I am grateful for the time and memories the boys spend with their grandparents. I have no doubt they will cherish all the memories they have and will continue to make.

Florida Fun

This year we had planned to go on a cruise for our summer vacation. We made an appointment in March for the boys to get their passports so we could sail off into the sunset in July. And then, COVID hit. We kept the appointment for the passports, and are looking forward to using them in the near future. We debated whether we should still go on a vacation and decided we could still socially distance while having fun at the beach. So this past week we headed off to the boys favorite vacation spot, Panama City Beach. They wanted to stay in the same place we stayed last year since it was nice and convenient to all our favorite spots. 

When we arrived in Florida on Monday it was cloudy and rainy. After checking in, we went and ate dinner and then went shopping for new body boards since the boys (namely Casen) out grew their body board from last year. 

When we woke up the next morning, it was cloudy and you could see the storms rolling in. It rained mid morning and finally cleared up enough before noon for us to head out to the beach so the boys could do what they had been waiting to do - body board!

The boys were able to do what they love for about an hour, and then there were black skies on the horizon. I am not a fan of the rain, but there is something quite captivating about watching a storm roll in at the beach. 

Since the rain cut our fun short, we all showered up and the went and had a good seafood dinner, did a little shopping and then the boys did a little night swimming in the pool. We didn't stay up too late so we could be good and rested for another day at the beach.

We pretty much spent the whole day Wednesday on the beach. Unfortunately, there weren't many good waves for the boys to body board on, so they instaed played in the sand, played frisbee in the water, and search for shells. 

This picture cracks me up - you have Casen
acting like he is swinging a bat and Camden
is being a photo bomber!

That evening we went out and ate and then headed out for a little putt putt golf. Despite playing in rain part of the time, we had a fun time!

On Thursday the boys got up with hopes of good waves for body boarding. It started out not looking very promising, but luckily as the day went on, more waves started forming and they were able to spend quite a bit of time riding the waves. 

I had fun playing with the camera. :)

Before we headed out to dinner, we of course had to take beach pics. I swear one year I am going to hire someone to take them . . . 

We woke up today to a beautiful day, unfortunately it was time to head back home. Even though we have some tired boys, we had a great time making more memories! Until next time Panama City Beach!