Joe...

   Joe has been taking swim lessons the last two weeks.  We hoped he could master enough to be able to swim on the team this summer.
   While he isn't quite ready to swim on the team, he did improve a lot.  Enjoy watching a little peek of his efforts.

   Here are a couple videos of Joe playing soccer. The video we took a couple weeks ago was too long to upload...but this allows you to see his aggressive play as his little legs work!
   This first video shows him at goalie at the end of the game.  It was his first time to get to play goalie. And the team we were playing against had a good player that just kept scoring (as you'll see).  But Joe wasn't afraid to go toward him to stop the ball.

Joe says, "Finally!"

 The boys and I headed to TN for a trip to the bumper cars. Joe is finally tall enough and was super excited to receive his "bumper cars" hat from Grandpa...and RIDE!

At the playground after a long bike ride

Joe rode the roller coaster by himself

Jake tries out the "glass playing" after we watched the group from Poland perform several songs this way.

And, of course, we spent a good chunk of time at the squirt guns...!

in action

Josh's birthday

The boys had fun making coupons for dad's birthday present.  Football, wrestling/tackle, baseball, tennis, cuddle, etc were all part of the package!
They wrapped the gifts themselves and made little tags for the gifts!  Neat stuff!

This weeks soccer game...

   The boys both had great playing during their games this week.  Jake scored 2 goals in his game (with a winning score of 3-0) and Joe dribbled 2-3 times down the field from his own goalie with great shots on the goal that barely missed.  Joe especially showed that things "clicked" in his mind as to what he should do.  Because he got aggressive and played well starting suddenly in the 2nd quarter! :)

Finding Dad on the sideline after his first goal!!!!!

Joe's happiest moment after the game...snack time!

Go fly a kite

 Fortunately (or unfortunately...whichever way you look at it) it was a windy week...which allowed for a lot of kite flying!  We had fun each day taking the kite out for a bit and taking on the challenge of the often swirling wind...trying to figure out which direction to quickly go before it changed again!

My Happy Spot

We've been working on the wrap around porch this week. 

Jake and Joe helped a lot with drilling holes and screwing in screws.

So that was a big help!

 First lunch time on the porch...doubling as a lunch break, of course!

 A week later...the finished decking.

Now...onward to the rest of the deck and (hopefully) some landscaping! :)