Monday, May 24, 2010

A GOOD DAY...



This past Saturday was just that...it started out at 8am with Caleb's last soccer game of the season. His team played great and won, which is always nice for the last game. Caleb had an awesome goal that went right over the goalie's head, so that was exciting. At the end of the game Kevin and my brother Nate passed out medals and a soccer goodie bag to each of the boys on the team. It was another fun year of soccer for all of us. This fall Caleb will be playing again, with Kevin as the assistant coach. And Ethan will start this fall as well, with Kevin as his coach and Nate as the assistant coach. We will be busy with practices and games, but we are definitely looking forward to both boys playing!

So our day continued and we went and watched our nieces Emma, Lauren, and Claire play their soccer game. Then we got some lunch and headed to Grand Haven for the Kite Festival. It was a beautiful day, however it wasn't so windy out. Kevin and the boys tried flying Caleb's pirate ship kite, but couldn't keep it up for very long. But the boys had a great time playing in the sand, water...yes in freezing, cold Lake Michigan!! We also walked the pier...Levi loved seeing the boats, guys fishing, kids jumping off, etc. But he sure made me weak in the knees so many times...gets too close to the edge and of course doesn't want you to hold him or his hand, ugh. We were there all afternoon and three outfits later we headed for home.

After supper we went to work on the garden...planting some more seeds. Our garden is almost full, we just have room left for tomatoes and maybe a pepper plant or two. Most of our garden is strawberries and we already can see lots of strawberries growing, so that's exciting! Half of our strawberry plants we can eat this year, but the other half we need to wait a year. We also can see little asparagus coming up as well. We are having fun with our garden so far, hopefully everything continues to grow well.

To end the night Kevin made a campfire, so we had to have SMORES! Poor Levi, he missed out on the garden planting and smores because he fell asleep on the ride home from Grand Haven...however just before Caleb and Ethan were going to go to bed, he woke up of course! :)

So this was our GOOD DAY...nothing too major, just being together and doing the things we enjoy. We are really looking forward to more family, fun days this summer...going to the beach, working on the garden, campfires, and so much more!

2 comments:

Kim K said...

sooo good to have those memory making days. Hope you get a bunch of strawberries in that garden :) Nothing like home grown. As Tyler says, "the ones from the garden are the juicy all over your shirt ones" mmmmmm... Aunt Kim

Kevin and Betsey said...

Thanks again Kim for the strawberry plants last year...they are doing great, lots of berries!! The boys are looking forward to eating them! :)