Our fun filled Saturday!

We had a great day today! The day started with Steve going on a 10 mile run. He's going to run a marathon in June so he's being training for the past month and is doing so well. Once he got home we had to get all the kids ready because Maddie had a soccer game at 11am. Sydney didn't wake up until about 10.20am so we had to rush to get her ready, she's such a sleeper!

This was Madison's 2nd soccer game, they tied 2-2 in their first game which was good. Steve had told me that he didn't think they were going to be that great this time so I was expecting bad things but they did a good job. They did even better today, they ended up winning 2-1. Maddie is one of the best players, I'm sure I'm partly bias but I did hear one of the other parents saying that a girl, (meaning Maddie) was better than all the boys! She's so fun to watch, she gets all excited and into it and then she just stops so we all yell, keep going! She did good though and we all had fun watching her. Steve's Mom, Dad, 2 sisters and our niece and nephew all came to watch so it was fun all being there together. I made Steve's sister laugh at one point though. We were a little bit late so Maddie missed the first quarter, then the second quarter she wanted to be in goal and she didn't have to do much except stand there. Anyway after the first half she went in and played forward and did really well but then she wanted to be on defense but I told her no, they needed her up front. Then when she went on the field she told her coach she wanted to be a defender and I said no, you need to be forward! Trish laughed at me and then I laughed at myself because I realised how much of a soccer Mom I was being, it was funny! Anyway they did great and she's getting good and as long as she's having fun that's all I really care about even if I did get carried away for a minute!

After that we went to the zoo, it was the first time we've been this year so the kids were all super excited. Steve's Mom, sister Trish and her kids came with us which was really nice. It was fun to watch Spencer because even though he liked the zoo last year he didn't always pay attention but today he was so into it. He loved the monkeys and thought the snake was pretty cool too. I was teasing the girls, saying that maybe the snake would jump out like on Harry Potter, I don't think their cousin Tre was too impressed by that, he wouldn't even go near the glass, it was pretty funny. It was earth day today so they had lots of crafts at the zoo so the kids were able to do those while we went around, Maddie really loves doing all the crafts. They also had a big set up outside the zoo too for earth day which also had crafts and other things the kids could do so we went to some of those. We also saw smokey the bear so Maddie, Spencer and I got our picture taken with him, Syd was too busy eating her peanut butter she got from one of the booths.

After all that excitement we were pretty hungry so we decided to go to McDonald's, the kids choice of course. We stayed there for a while letting the kids play which they loved. Steve had to leave to go to priesthood leadership training, the rest of us went to Sams Club which was fun with 5 kids?! They were actually really good, they love going there because they get to try all the food samples, their Dad has taught them that. When we got done Steve's sister Steph had told the kids that they should all ask Grandma to get them ice cream and then give her a sad face so that's just what they did, it was funny and of course Grandma said yes. We all met at Grandma's to have ice cream and ended up staying there for the evening which was fun. It's so nice to have Steve's family live so close to us, the kids love it and so do I. Of course it would be nice to be by family too but that's not possible so it's nice to have Steve's family just round the corner.

Well it was a fun day but now we're all tired and I need to go to bed! Tomorrow we have Stake Conference so it'll be an earlier morning for us. We normally have church at 1pm but tomorrow it's at 10am so we'll have to make sure and wake Syd up bright and early otherwise we'll have to take her to church in her pj's!