Soccer...Scouts... And Life!

Yesterday was Mads last soccer game for city league, her team made it to the play offs and took 3rd over all. Mads improved each game, it was so fun watching her. She played with a really great group of kids, all her team mates have played since they were young and we're really good! They were all so good to include her and help her learn the game. :) 

Friday she played her 1st game with her comp team, they lost but played a good game! She is gearing up to try out for the high school team, try outs start Nov. 3rd.

We haven't really done much other than soccer and running around! 

Kobe & James went on an awesome over nighter for Scouts on Friday. It was in Belmont, AZ towards Flagstaff. It's starting to cool off here, so they got a lil chilly, but over all had a good time,

I've been freezing here lately! Sad thing is, is its like 75/80*. I wonder how I made it in Utah all these years.... I definitely won't miss the Utah coldness!

Saturday October 25th James as officially been in AZ for one year! Time has went by so fast! We really miss our family, friends, camping, Atwoods Ranch, turkey steaks, Farm bread and Mads misses the fall weather.... Other than that we can't complain, over all things get better each day and we have and are being so blessed! 

Mads is counting down the days til we go to Utah! 60 days and we can't wait! 

Peace & Love 

Beautiful AZ....

The sunset! :) 

Soup with the Sisters....

Tonight we got to feed the Sîsters... We love having them! 

We kinda had a busy day... The kids left at 10:30 this morning to go to the Vegas Temple to do baptisms, James and I went on a lil date on the bike... Then I had to go to the church for primary program practice. So I was trying to think of something easy to make for dinner, so we made enchilada soup and it was the BOMB! 

Fall Break...

Last weekend was the kids fall break so we went on a lil trip to Phoenix. We went to the Phoenix Temple open house, then to the movies.... Meet the Mormans, it was dang good! 

Then Sunday we went to an NFL game.... Cardinals vs REDSKINS! I'm not really into football, but I must say its was pretty cool! The boys thought it was great! 

We did a lil shopping and got to eat at Čafe Rio! Yum! 

It was an awesome weekend with our lil family! 

Nucor Safety Posters

I totally forgot to blog about this...

Back in August Nucor had a lil safety poster contest. The kids had to come up with a safety slogan and then draw it. 

P's is the top one and Mads is the bottom.

They had a lil ice cream party last month (Sept. 6th) and announced the winners. Every kid that entered got a $15 Walmart gift card, so they both got that. But Maddi also took 2nd in her age group and got $50.00 cash. 

I was pretty proud of them, they both did a super good job. :)

Traditions...

Beings how we are on a new lil journey..... I figured we probably should start making some new traditions, since we aren't able to join our families back in Utah for every special event or holiday. So here's to the 1st new tradition. 

Cinnamon Rolls on Conference Weekend 

Mmmmmmm.....  GOOD!

This was my 1st time ever making them. The kids both helped, P and I made the dough and I rolled it out. Then he buttered them, added the cinnamon & sugar. We did some plain, some with chocolate chips, butterscotch chips and then good ole raisins. Maddi helped place them on the pan and butter the tops and then she made some killer cream cheese frosting.

Over all I think they turned out pretty good for my 1st time... Nothing compared to Gm. Kent's but James said we did an outstanding job! I needed to spread them out a lil better cause they were a lil doughy.

Then we also thought it would be fun to have Papa Murphy's pizza, so we had that for dinner after the boys got home from the Priesthood session.

So these we'll be our new Conference traditions....

Other than that here is a lil about what we've been up to.

Mads soccer team is killin it! They have only lost 2 games and we thinking they are going to make it to the finals. She did super awesome this morning at her game. She improves every week! I'm so proud of her. She has also been practicing with a comp team and has her 1st game with them on the 24th. Then she has also be staying after school 4 days a week doing an awesome workout that her PE teacher teaches... I'm a lil jealous, her workouts sound intense. I told her maybe I should join her. LoL She still has some tough days, but I think things are coming around. :)

P and James went on a over nighter for scouts (Sept. 26 to 27) and they got soaked! It rained super hard the whole time, they did come home a lil earlier than planned Saturday. P thought it was great! He has found a new lil hobby Rubix Cubes he is totally obsessed! I took him to Walmart and he bought himself one and is totally hooked. We just ordered a 4x4 on Amazon, he can't wait for it to get here. (A 4x4 is just a different style of cube)

That's about all for now...