Spring Remnants

Here are few remnants from our springtime activities that kept us busy:

The girls' springtime portraits

Homemade orange scones---my homage to the royal wedding.  I'm not really into that kind of thing, but if it gives you an excuse to make a yummy treat than I am all for it!

Breakfast with Books---a yearly tradition at our elementary school

While Mim was here, we made delicious strawberry cupcakes. 

I showed her how to make homemade buttercream frosting. 

She did the beautiful strawberry garnish.

And finally, Spring soccer.  Both the girls played again this year and had pretty good seasons.  Again, I didn't get any pictures of Ashley.  Her games move too fast and I always forget my camera.  We did however, have a good laugh over Ashley's "killer instinct" or lack thereof.  First off, her coach is always telling her to stop apologizing.  During one game, she was playing defender and tripped another player who was going to the goal.  Ashley was called for the foul and the other team got a penalty kick.  Ashley was crying she felt so bad---even though the other team missed the PK.  Also after the game, when a friend on the other team said, "good game, you beat us."  Ashley replied, "I know, I'm so sorry."  Seriously, Dave and I had to give her a talk about being tougher!

This year the season was a bit hectic.  First, almost all of the April games were rained out and had to made-up in May.  Between the two girls, there was one weekend we had 5 games!  Secondly, I agreed to be an assistant for Paige's team.  It doesn't really require much, just that I go to all the games and practices, but just this little bit extra was at times a challenge.  For the whole spring, between all the girls' activities and my commitments, we had something going on every night of the week.  I also found myself driving Ashley to school early on many a morning for choir, student council, and a bunch of other stuff.  I'm very grateful that it is all over and that Dave was often around to help.  We now have some days to just stay home--no early dinners, jumping in the car to drop someone off or pick them up, rushed homework, etc.