Soccer Endings

After 2 months of non stop soccer games and practices today was Hailey's last game.  It was an easy game for her. She was a defender today and hardly seen any action. Way to go Sharks!

While Hailey was playing a great game our little ones played too. Mason was playing soccer with a friend of his. ( You can kind of see him in this photo on the right.) 

(shh.. Lily's hiding)

 Cati is such a daddy's girl. I love it!

 

But she did make a friend while at the park. This little girl just walked up to Ducati and gave her a big hug. Cati gave a look of "Who are you? But OK- I like hugs" So they just hugged for like 2 minutes. It was so sweet!

But after the Sharks won ( 1-0) Hailey said her goodbyes to her coach and teammates. Which was a sad moment for her but at least they went out on a bang! After she changed we took her out for a special End-of-the-season-victory Dinner.

Where I found the new food pyramid. It's not F.D.A. approved but it's D.E.N.N.Y.'s approved. I think I'll start living my life around these meal plans.

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But a few funny moments while at our Denny's Dinner:

- Mason was really getting into the Bulls game that was on TV. I had no idea that he liked basketball but at least it's my hometown team. Go Bulls- You got a new fan!

- Cati enjoyed her root beer so much that she spilled it all down her shirt and smelt like root beer the whole drive home.

- Lily feel in love with her condiments that she kept saying " I need them"

- After eating her pancakes Lily started to get antsy waiting for everyone else to finish their meals that she grabbed her DULL butter knife and told Hailey " Hurry [or] I'll kill you". We couldn't help but laugh. But Mike decided to teach her something else...now our 2 year old will say to you "Give me all your money" while she waves a knife at you. Thanks Mike for teaching her yet another "Thug-ish"thing.

- We had the best waitress EVER! She offered to cut up Lily's food while we were cutting up 2 other plates, she asked 1st Mike and I if Lily could hold her own syrup or if we wanted to hold it instead, and she was super kind when Cati left her a big mess under the table to clean up. I know my husband tipped her well since our kids ate free AND our bill was still high. But it was worth it having that kind of customer service.

Thor Date

After receiving his Thor ticket and then losing it for yelling at me for an entire week ( I'm not liking this tween stage) Mason finally earned his ticket back to see Thor. And boy was he excited!

He's holding his homemade Thor tix. Darn you bright sun for making him squint his eyes.

 Us in the theater. This movie was so AWESOME!! I'm not a movie spoiler but don't walk-RUN to go see this movie!

After the movie we went and grabbed a bite at Burger King.

It was such a great M+M date. I really need to spend more 1-on-1 time with him. He's growing up so fast. And I only have a small amount of time left that he'll be seen with me in public. So to plan another M+M date.

Families are Forever

(the day we were sealed for all time and eternity)

This morning Mike woke me up to tell me about a tragic event that happened to his friend. His friends little girl passed away. I cried hearing the news and afterwards I did the only thing I could think of- I said a prayer. After praying  I was comforted knowing that our Heavenly Father will care for her. That Jesus Christ atoned for our sins so we can all returned back to our Father in heaven. I know that Mike and I will be together forever. Here on earth and in heaven. I know that ALL my children will be with us. Our 4 children that we can cuddle and raise on Earth and those that are in Heaven waiting for me. I know that we as a family will be together. So my heart, prays, and thoughts go out to this man, his wife, and his family.

New blog adress with a few new updates. The old address "thelassigfamily" wasn't working and Blogger was seriously slacking on trying to help me fix it so now we are the thankful6. It works for us. Now I can blog again without an interruptions or headaches. Yeah!

Take Two

I had this song stuck in my head for a few days...."It takes 2, takes 2,  me and you"...so I thought it would be a fun date to plan around this song. And from there the "TAKE 2" date was born. On Saturday my mom graciously tended out toddlers....boy she was taken back by how they act. But once she got to our house Mike and I ran out the door before she changed her mind.

1st scene- 2 actors (Mike and I) were to act like we're in love (like that's hard for us). The plan was for us to watch a movie in the park while enjoying lunch from Arby'. All the while laughing, smiling, and acting like we're enjoying ourselves. Seemed easy enough so we drove into our scene.

(I love this movie! "Why do you irritant me so?".....but of course I had to add alittle love note )

Mike enjoying his movie in the park.

Our love scene....

After enjoying this scene it was now time for 'TAKE TWO"

Mike did the little noise with his directors scene board.

For this next scene- the 2 love birds (us) went on a regular movie and dinner date night. The extras at  Kaysville theater played this scene played along well. When the movie commerical for not littering was playing everyone yelled "Ewww!"  when the kids shoes got stuck on the floor. We broke character for a second to laugh.

We saw the movie "The Kings Speech" This movie is rated R but this theater played a PG-13 version;  which I didn't even know existed. So that made it even more awesome.

Afterwards the 2 lovers headed to grab dinner at Pepperbellys'.  (The camera girl tried several times to try to get us and the sign in the photo but I...I mean she....kept messing up. So Mike grabbed her hand right when the flash shot and instead of smiling I started to laugh...but he got it. Great job camera man!)

But after this dinner scene we kissed goodnight and headed out separate ways. The male lead drove the sitter home. And the female lead fell asleep dreaming of her wonderful date night.

"A father can do no greater thing for his children than to let them feel that he loves their mother." ~ President David O. McKay


I agree and mission accomplished.

K12-5K

This morning we attended the 1st Annual "K12 5K" (trying saying that 5 times fast) at Millcreek Park in Taylorsville. Despite the shower sprinkles here and there it was a great morning. Teachers and students all met under a pavilion and shared in some delicious snacks and refreshments

Here's Ducati with bedhead and breakfast. She's ready for this 5K.

Actually we only joined this 5K so that Mike can practice his running. He's entered a 5K race that's being held in a few weeks so he wanted to knew what his time was like after all his training. So when the race started he was in the front of the race line with a bunch of teenage boys. The kids and I were in the very back with all the other stroller moms.

When the race spotter yelled, "Start",  Mike booked it! The kids and I were still in the back when we seen Mike crossing a bridge and from there he was out of sight. So the kids and just walked....

But then my kids seen this.....

and I lost them. Who puts a playground in the middle of a trail? Smart people! So I made a deal with them that we'll walk until we seen Dad running back to us since we weren't that far from the start/finish line ( we were at the 1/10th mile marker) That when we seen Dad we'll go back to the starting line and play at the park closer to the K12 pavilion. Everyone agreed and not a second later we seen this....

Mike had ran all the way back already. He ran this 5k in 19 minutes 28 seconds. Not his personal best but still WAY awesome! So when the kids seen Mike we all turned around from the 1/10th mile marker and ran back to the starting line. Yes-we cheated but it's not really cheating if we weren't competing so I'm OK with that. But it took the kids and I  38 minutes 49 seconds to walk 2/10 of a mile. WOW!! That's fast...hahaha!

 Actually Mike won the race and beat a bunch of kids, grabbed a water, changed his shirt, sat for a minute to catch his breathe then walked back to us. Our girls were running to him so we can finish as a family.

But of course right when we got back to the pavilion our kids went straight to the playground set.

They only played for a few minutes. There was a raffle, free school shirts for all the kids and since there was so much food left over the parents were open to take whatever they wanted. So while others went for bagels my kids and I went for the candy basket. Sweet!

It was such a great and wet morning. But I'm very glad that we had this pre-race practice drill. Mike thought of some things that could help improve his time and I thought of some things that could  help my kids be entertained on race day so I can watch my Mike win the race!