New Sport

Like we needed to add another sport into our family's schedule, but Haylee is giving volleyball a try. She has the height and fairly good natural timing, so we signed her up for a local club team and so far, she is enjoying it. Here are some pics from her first tournament, and considering that the rest of her teammates have been playing for at least a year, Haylee did great. Once she gets some confidence, she could follow in her Auntie's sneakers. 

 

We could only get some action shots during warm ups between games, but look at that girl bump! Are her eyes closed?

 

Auntie, Kennedy and Jolee cheering Haylee on. 

Miss Personality

Most of you who have the pleasure of spending much time with our Jolee know that she has quite the different personality. She can be very sweet and loving...when she wants to. I don't know if it's the 5th child syndrome, or the fact that she didn't start walking until around 16 months which left her a literal sitting target for other kids to do whatever they wanted to with her, but she now knows exactly what, who and when she wants something. She is known to give the best hugs and kisses, but some pretty wicked claw marks across the face too. Jolee also has a pretty big shy streak in her. The other day, I was standing in line at the grocery store, and a nice lady was trying to flirt with her a little. Jolee was not in the most playful mood and she proceeded to give this nice lady the evil eye...many of you have seen this one from Jolee.  I have yet been able to capture it on film. Bless the lady's heart, she still kept trying to be Jolee's friend, but Jolee, while maintaining the evil eye, just dipped her head lower and lower until it finally came to rest on her hands across the shopping cart handle. 

I got some cute shots of Jolee at the hockey game last week that show just what I am talking about. She is having a ball with her brother... 

...when her sweet cousin, Abbi, decides she wants to give JoJo a big hug. 

 Awww, how sweet so far. Jolee is up for a little cuddle with Abbi.

 Abbi just adores all of her cousins, and decides a little hug just isn't enough, but Jolee was done. I just love Abbi's face here. Jolee begins to run away, but you'll notice in the next shot that Abbi is too quick for her and holds her put with a good grip on Jo's hood.

 

What is Jolee trying to say here? I am just glad there was no clawing of the face. Long story short, don't mess with JoJo!

Long Time Comin'!!

This weekend was high school hockey region championships. Most of you know that Aaron has coached Soldotna High School's hockey team for 5 years. What you may not know is that when he started with the program, he had 19 kids total, only a handful of whom could stand up on skates. The last few years have been painful, but a rewarding experience for Aaron and the players who have come to admire and respect him as a coach and an example. Many of his players come home from college and drop in for a visit. Soldotna's hockey program has been in existence for 27 years, but has only won a regional title 4 times (most back in the mid 90's). 

After a very successful season of 9-1-1, Sohi took home the Region III title on Saturday night with an overtime win against Palmer High. It was a total nail-bitter of a game, all that a region championship game should be. There were times my mom couldn't even watch the game (mostly when the puck was in our zone). I thought Haylee was going to get us kicked out of the rink with all of her screaming at the refs! You should have heard that crazy girl. Despite some horendous reffing, and our goalie getting wiped out twice, Sohi took it home with an amazing OT goal scored by Brad Dewey. Apparently one of the parents got it on video and said it was brilliant. He ended up getting crashed into the goal, with the goalie checking him and as he was flying mid air, he somehow managed to poke the rebound in for the big win. What a night for Sohi and I am thrilled for my very happy husband. Go Stars!!

Here is Aaron, taking his usual game stance behind his players.

 

Aaron giving his exhausted players the game plan as they head into OT.

 

Celebrating the big win. Aaron is in the middle of that pile somewhere.

The final score. I hope the team doesn't have to wait too long for their banner.

I am SUPERMOM!!

I don't normally make a point of bragging, especially about myself, my kids and hubby...yes, but not about myself. But after the day I had today, I have to toot my motherly horn. I took the kids into the local health clinic today to get caught up on their vaccinations. Our school district has passed a new policy that all students 6th grade to kindergarten must have the chicken pox vaccine starting next year. Since none of my kids have had the chicken pox, I decided it was time to take them all in (that's 5 shots). Little did I know that Jaron, Chloee, and Jolee all needed a flu booster (that's 3 shots). I decided to get Chloee's kindergarten shots out of the way since she will be going next year (3 more) and Jolee need her 2 year shots (3 more). If you are keeping track, that's 14!!! What was I thinking?? All in all, it went as well as it could. They all tried to be brave, except Jaron who is deathly afraid of needles. So far, we have no fevers, but very sore, little legs.

    

Here are the crazy, band-aid clad kids. I think my expression says it all.

  Here is my poor little Jolee. Every time she looked at her band-aids, she would relive the trauma.

 

 

The back story with Chloee is that the last time she needed a shot, she did so awesome and was so brave! Well, that was only one shot. This time, she went in with a smile, and came out crying. She tried so hard to be brave, but that darn DTP shot burns like crazy! Notice from the previous post how Chloee has modified her bangs! I still can't talk about it.

New Do

   
So Chloee has been bugging me to cut her hair for the last few months, and I decided since she is turning five soon, she needed a big girl haircut to match her big girl attitude. We took her to the beauty parlor and she had so much fun sitting in the big haircut chair and looking at all her hair fall to the floor. The hairdresser did a great job, and Chloee made sure she got the perfect style before we left.  We did a mini photo shoot a few days later, and she did her thing for the camera. Sadly, Chloee is an aspiring beautician because she has now cut her own hair 3 times! Yes, I say sadly, because last night, Chloee modified her do and trimmed her perfectly cut bangs. They are MUCH shorter now...to be shown later when I get the nerve to take some pictures. I really need to lock up all the scissors.