Sports

OR LACK THERE OF

Con has tried lots of sports

Soccer

Twice

Tennis

Swim

and currently Basketball

 Soccer was a waist of time

That's why we tried it twice

Just to make sure

The practices were OK

But the games

forget about it

He wanted to sit out

Volunteering to let someone else go in

He never got the ball

Then there are those kids

You know the one

The natural talents

The kid who ALWAYS has the ball

and always scores

That was NOT my kid

and I think it frustrated Con some

So we thought tennis might be better

more solo

less team

it was just a camp

no matches

and he was fairly good at it

for a kid who's never touched a racket

but the below picture

is how he spent most of his hour

for the whole week

and each day asking

"how many more minutes"

"how many more days"

Thought it might have been the time

tennis was at noonish

our normal quiet time

and soccer practice was evenings

our normal very quiet time

but the games were early

 so no excuses there

Connor is skipping swim this month

Colton is not

they will both be back in lessons in July

Neither one of them are natural fish

Again...the class always seems to have THAT kid

who jumps in and just starts swimming

like he was born in the freaking water

NOT MY KIDS

Connor wanted to try basketball

I thought OK

he's asking

and it's inside

and you practice 30 minutes before a game

so I'm not running around every single night

with  games and practices

Love how little the goal is

He got the ball first and made a basket

Then pretty much never touched the ball again

He told me

"This is definitely not my sport"

He just doesn't get in there

caught him yawning

it's hard to play these bedtime sports

And it too had THE kid

who excelled

I want him to play what ever he wants to play

whenever he wants to play it

but I think he is so young

On the one hand

if you don't sign them up to play things now

when they do start

they are behind

because everyone else started at 4

What sports are you involved in?

What age did it start?

And how much do you push it?

I made Connor read a book the other day 

while we waited for tennis to start

He was bothered because we had already read that day

I told him if he did not do sports

he had to be really good at reading

He decided he would make swim  his sport

Just another way to screw up my kids

push the sports now

or wait and he's behind

GO FIGURE

Catch-up

Been working on this BS nonsense post for a week

Guess it's about time finish it up

and move on

Ladies....

I'm gonna make you jealous

Mark helps with the laundry

and the dishes 

and all the cleaning really

well he doesn't scrub a toilet 

but he helps

which is good 

cause I HATE to clean

and I suck at it

However

that being said

here's what the sheets looked like when he was done

He washed a red blanket with the ivory sheets

luckily most of it belongs to the guest room

so when you come to visit me

you will sleep in pink

we haven't shown the boys their spiderman pillowcase though

I think I will toss it before it gets noticed

We had some visitors to OKC

Ben and Sophia spent a few days with us

Connor is having an identity crisis lately

Can't decide on who to be

So he is a bit of it all

Chris wants to do all the things the big boys do

One would think after chasing this busy bee

I would be a freaking size 0

Had our first OKC garage sale a few weeks ago

Quite different here than in TX

Didn't even make $200

But I did pick up this bike from the neighbors

And this little chair which is perfect in the playroom

Took Connor swimming at the neighbor's house

The one neighbor we have with a small child

He's 7, so Con thinks that's cool

And I like the mom

And they have a pool

SCORE

Love me some baby bum

Christian eats like a horse

Double fisting it here

Connor is really into the computer games lately

disney.com

nickjr.com

I wish they had their own computer though

Been looking for a cheap one online

That's it

We're boring

Staying inside lots

especially this week

over 100 every day

And this would be the week Connor has zoo camp

Hope your life is more interesting than mine friends

Can you believe month 1 of summer is almost complete?

It has flown by

I am hoping to slow things down though for July

It's All In The Name

I've mentioned recently I'm bored. Not bored for something to do, trust me my list is quite long. But bored with something, not sure what it is. I'm not necessarily fond of change either, so this is kind of a weird feeling for me.

I think I want to change my blog up. So I am looking for thoughts, ideas, opinions......

I would also like to change the name. I have a few ideas in mind but want to hear some more. Here are a few thoughts on that:
Big Mamma's House
The Jann Plan
abC's of Life


I am also debating about cutting my hair. It is at that awkward length. I have been letting it grow, but now it just hangs and I pull it back nearly every single day. I wish it were about 5 inches longer or 5 inches shorter!

Have you changed anything recently??

Road Trip....Continued

A week in the country, A week away from the routine, A week with family-it's good for the soul. However , it's not so good for the plants back home. Most of them did not survive, the ones that are not in reach of the sprinklers anyway. 

We started off our visit with watching my nieces dance recital. I haven't seen one in years. Now she is 16 and on the competitive team. I have no pictures of that to share, but take my word on it...she rocks! What a way to begin a family affair.

We spent most of the weekend in my sister's pool. It was just about too hot to do much of anything else. Connor is becoming quite the little fish. I had to make a Target run for some goggles. Colton held his own with the big boys (Connor and my 11 year old nephew). Christian preferred to be held or just quietly sit in the boat float. 

 Pops loves to fly his planes, in the yard and on the computer. This is always a hit with the boys. I hope they always remember doing this something special with their pops.

 Pops always gives the boys a remote, you know a "remote" that belongs to something else. He is flying the plane but they sure think they are! And have a great time doing it.

 Colton was doing flying the plane one evening out front with Pops and it crashed in the driveway. But Colton was watching a real airplane in the sky and was telling Pops "it's too high".

We also did lots of....

4 wheel riding

And snoozing

And lego building

 And visiting with Granny

And playing

And just in case the boys weren't obsessed with IPhone games

Thomas got them hooked on Angry Birds

And the sprinkler and water guns were a big hit

Christian didn't think so

 Such boys-nothing feels as good as water on the rear

And during our entire week here, we only saw this guy once. I joke about this to my sister because she is quite the QVC shopper, my mom too. So UPS makes delivery quite often. Soon, they will be setting him a dinner plate.

Overall the visit was fantastic. We did not see any deer, but pops did kill 2 snakes. And you're welcome for NOT posting those pictures.  The drive home was not quite as good as the ride there. Everyone was overly tired and extra cranky! But we did it, we survived. Now we are home, celebrating father's day with Daddy. We have swim lessons and tennis lessons this week, and I have a very dirty house to clean! Good times at Casa de Lenz!!


Happy Father's Day to all the daddy's out there!