Soccer Slideshow

GOAL!!!!

Cody scored his first goal on Saturday in soccer. From where we were on the sidelines it was hard to figure out who scored until Cody ran back to Scott all excited and raising his fist in the air! There were so many kids around him that we weren't sure but Cody will tell you that a yellow person passed it to him and he kicked it in the goal! He's soo cute when he tells stories, especially when he's excited! Megan did great also at her game. She needs to be a little more aggressive and then she'll finally get her goal. She does great getting the ball to the net but then doesn't kick hard or if someone else is near her, she tends to back off. She has improved a ton since last year though and we know it's a matter of time.

We had an interesting time after the games though. Scott lost his car keys to the Windemuller Van. He has no idea where they went. Scott and I searched the whole house and Grandpa T. and Megan walked to school and back looking for the keys. We still have not found them but I'm going to look at school this morning to see if they dropped out there. The police officer down the street was nice enough to break into Scott's van so he could at least have the spare key. He left that in the car! Long weekend of looking for those keys when we had other things we could have been doing! Anyway, another busy week starting! I love it though and often wonder, what did we do before kids? It's honestly so hard to remember a time when we didn't have them. They are both great kids and I'm lucky to be their mom!
***Update: Found the keys!! I also added pictures.

School

School has now been going for 4 weeks now. I am getting used to Cody being gone every morning but I do live for the time that bus comes down our street. When he gets off the bus, he takes forever saying by to all his friends. When he sees me waiting, he gets the biggest smile on his face. Both of the kids are doing great in school. No big problems and they both seem to enjoy it! School pictures were yesterday and I am very nervous to see what Cody did. I'll try to take a picture of it, but he showed us a cheeseball smile and told me he smiled like that. Thank goodness we only ordered a class picture. I'm going to get pictures done somewhere else for them to save on money, so I'll be able to choose what picture to buy! It seems hard to believe summer vacation ended 4 weeks ago, time has flown since school started. We have been so busy with school, Awana, and soccer that we rarely slow down!

Anna Slide Show

Anna

Yesterday we were able to see Anna all day. It was a lot of fun to see how she's grown. I think that she's taller than me, I know that's not hard! We drove to Muskegon and picked her up. We then brought her back here and had a lot of fun. We took her to lunch and to the park. At night the Grandparents came over for dinner and to see her. All the kids love to play together, especially the girls! She left at bedtime and we were able to see her dad and brother. It was good to see all of them and I know the kids will miss her but we bought them paper and envelopes so they can write each other if they want. I think Cody's will be a lot of pictures for a while but that's OK! Enjoy the slide show! There's a lot of pictures but there was 3 cameras and I have a hard time deleting cute pics!

Soccer Slide shows

Here are the slideshows as promised! Stay tuned to the slide show of our visit with Anna! It was lots of fun!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

BUSY Saturday!

Today was a very busy day! We woke the kids up at 6:45am to begin our day! Megan had a soccer game at 8 am and we had to bring snack and be there by 7:45. I woke Cody up and he looked outside and told me it wasn't day yet because it was too dark!

Megan did really well with her game and she will get a goal soon. She had 3 or 4 that she shot and missed today and not by much! After the game, we went raspberry picking with Grandma and Grandpa T. at Delanges and picked 9 pounds of them! It was lots of fun. We went home to take care of them and then at lunch before leaving for Cody's game. Both Grandparents and Great-Grandma watched this game! He did his best but the team has a ways to go.

Megan then had a birthday party for Bryanna and we went to Grandma and Grandpa's to help clear out stuff. After that we picked up Megan and went to eat with Bryan, Jen and the kids at Texas Roadhouse! It was an exhausting but fun day. For those that don't know, I will be having my gallbladder out on October 9. I am not scared because I have been feeling sick for so long that I am relieved that they finally figured this out. I am having the surgery at Butterworth but it's outpatient so I'll be in and out in about 4 hours! Kind of funny to think 30 years ago when my mom had hers out, she stayed in the hospital for a week! How times have changed! I have been up for a very long time so the slideshow I'll finish tomorrow!

All About Cody

Today Cody had show and tell at school. He brought home the all about me bag that had a sheet we filled out and then he was able to bring 2-3 things in to show. He brought his lanyard of Disney pins and his fire hat his buddy(Grandpa T.) gave him for his birthday. The following is his answers:
Full Name: Cody Scott Van Eerden
I have 1 Sister and her name is Megan.
Favorite Color: Green(He really wanted to put pink and purple!)
Favorite food: Pizza
Favorite Sport: All(except Boxing)
Favorite thing to do: Play outside
Pet:Callie and Becca

I sent the camera to school so they could take pictures for me. His teacher is a lot like me because I ended up with 12 pictures! I was glad she took so many! Enjoy the pics! I also posted the only picture we have of our soccer players on the post below!
I tried 2 different slide shows and both failed so I resorted back to picasa so imagine this with cute graphics with it!!

The love of a father

I recieved this email this morning and thought I'd share it here. It really is a neat video to watch the love the father has for his son! Remember to turn off my music to listen to this.

A son asked his father, 'Dad, will you take part in a marathon with me?' The father who, despite having a heart condition, says 'Yes'. They went on to complete the marathon together. Father and son went on to join other marathons, the father always saying 'Yes' to his son's request of going through the race together.

One day, the son asked his father, 'Dad, let's join the Ironman together.' To which, his father said 'Yes' too.
For those who don't know, Ironman is the toughest triathlon ever. The race encompasses three endurance events of a 2.4 mile (3.86 kilometer) ocean swim, followed by a 112 mile (180.2 kilometer) bike ride, and ending with a 26.2 mile (42.195 kilometer) marathon along the coast of the Big Island . Father and son went on to complete the race together. Check out this race.

Check this video out:

WET!!!!

Today was the kid's first soccer games and boy was it wet! The fields were wet, the fans were wet and the players and coaches were drenched!! If it wasn't the first games of the season, I might have stayed home. Megan did really well and broke away from the pack quite a few times. She had a hard time following through and wouldn't try to kick it in the goal but overall she did great! Cody went to the game without even having one practice! They were cancelled for Labor Day and rain. He did ok once he was done being nervous. The first half of the game he wouldn't try to kick the ball. The second half he was a lot better and so cute! Cody got nailed in the head with the ball once and it really didn't even phase him. I was ready to go on the field though and make sure he was ok! When Cody's team was warming up, he kept calling my name and waving. I thought for sure he was going to continue that for the game but he didn't. He did however stop and look at me when I was cheering! They were so cute out there but we didn't bring our camera because of the rain. Look next week for pictures!

PlayList

I added some High School Musical Songs to my playlist for the kids thinking I could then delete them later. I cannot figure out how to delete them because they show on the blog but not my account on playlist.com. Anyone else ever have that? Should I make a new list? Let me know if you have any suggestions! Thanks! ******Update-Scott managed to somehow fix it. This is very funny for those who know him well and know that he flips out when some im's me and he's on the computer!!

Our Weekend

We had quite a busy but fun weekend. Friday night we went to the Jenison Caledonia football game in Caledonia. We took my brothers girls who go to Caledonia and had a good time. They sat on the Caledonia side, we sat on the Jenison side but Cody and I walked around a couple times the whole field so we saw the girls off and on. I don't think that we'll be going back to a game until next year. It cost $20 for the four of us and only 1 really enjoyed himself.

Saturday I was lucky enough to baby sit my niece Julia so that Kathy and her girls could watch my niece Jenny play soccer at Jenison's soccer field. She is so cute and reminds me of Megan when she was that age. She weighs a lot less then Megan but she looks a lot like her! It was a lot of fun having a baby in the house again. I love cuddling her and trying to get her to smile. Julia is almost 4 months old and so cute! I took about 15 pictures in a 5 minute span!

After Julia left, we went and bought Cody a high back booster! He was so excited to get a big boy seat and now he can buckle himself. He has to work on practicing buckling as James found out this weekend! It is hard to believe that after 8 years of buckling car seats, that I no longer have to!

We then dropped the kids off and had a night to ourselves. We went to the cheap movies at woodland mall where it cost more for popcorn and pop($8.25) than it did for 2 tickets($7). We saw Swing Voter and it was very good movie about the election coming down to 1 man's vote to decide who becomes president. It was very good and shows you that 1 vote does count. I would recommend it to rent on video when it comes out. After the movie we went to dinner at Carlos! That is my absolute favorite restuarant and I miss it now that we're on the other side of town.

Anyway, it was very busy but a very nice weekend! The kids start soccer tomorrow and Cody is so excited he wants to get dressed in his soccer clothes when he wakes up in the morning! Soccer practice doesn't even start until 5:30 at night! He is so excited he can hardly stand it. He keeps getting out of bed saying, I know it's not a game and I'm not going to win tomorrow but.... followed by a question about practice! He cracks me up! I'll leave you with a couple cute pictures of Julia! Scott doesn't like the one with the big smile but I love those! I included one of Megan at 2 months with a smile like Julia. This shows the difference of the size of the two girls!

Tag!

5 Things on my list to do today:

1. Take care of Julia during Jenny's Soccer game
2. Pack my kids to sleep over at Aunt Sara's
3. Visit my Aunt Nancy
4. Drop off Cody and Megan
5. Go on a date for our anniversary 4 months late!

5 Snacks I enjoy:

1. Stove popped popcorn
2. Chips and salsa
3. Lindt White Chocolate
4. Strawberries
5. ?

5 Things I would do if I was a sudden Billionaire:

1. I'm with Jess for giving lots to Chapel Pointe
2. Give to family members so we could share the fun!
3. Pay off our house and add on (especially a 2nd bathroom)
4. Go to Disney and stay in the Contemporary looking at the Castle!
5. Go on lots of vacations!

5 Bad Habits:

1. Spending too much time on the computer
2. Not picking up after myself all the time
3. Trying to do to many things at once and the ending up crabby
4. Not taking care of myself
5. Poor eating habits which I've had to change recently

5 Places I have lived:

1. Kentwood, Michigan
2. Grandville, Michigan
3. Wyoming, Michigan
4. Jenison, Michigan
5. ?

5 jobs I have had:

1. Paper Delivery
2. Sales Clerk
3. Hostess at Carlos O` Kelly's
4. Factory
5. Most importantly, Wife and Mother

5 things most people don't know about me:

1. Scott and I met in the bowling alley nursery when our mom's bowled in the same league!
2. I weighed less than 15 pounds when I was 1 year old.
3. I have epilepsy.
4. Scott wants me to add that I have naturally curly hair
5. I'm the youngest of 3 children!(I ran out of ideas at #3)


It's your turn to all those out there with their own blogs! Fill one out on yours so I can learn more about all of you!!

1st week done

Well we all made it through the first week of school in one piece and no real tears. Every time I start to get sad, I just find something to do or call someone. If you've gotten a call from me this week, chances are that I'm close to tears or just really sad and want to think about something different. Cody has been going at 120% this week and Megan has not been near as excited. I remember Megan's first week of Kindergarten being one with lots of tears and one very tired little girl. I should have known that Cody would be different. Not to say he hasn't been more crabby, just not the drama I remember with Megan. They both love their teachers and are having lots of fun at school. Cody comes home with new names each day of kids he made friends with. He has told me before he likes making friends everywhere so that he has lots of friends. Megan is the total opposite of that thinking which is fine, just hilarious to see the difference of the kids. Any guesses which kid takes after which parent? Not very hard! I hope all the moms with kids in school have had a good week and are getting used to routines again!

Update on Scott

Just a quick note before I go to bed. Scott saw a Dr. at the med center and they said everything is fine. He then had to go to Blodgett to get a drug test because they are now treating it as Workman's Comp. Thanks for you prayers! Have a good night.

Scott

Scott was at work today and got some metal in his eye. He is on his way to the med center to have it looked at. If you read this around 9 pm, please pray that this is no big deal and that the med center will be able to flush it out. Thanks!

1st Day slide shows

Yesterday I made slide shows showing both the kids together. I deleted those and then made them their own scrapbook to show. Enjoy! The first one is Megan's followed by Cody's.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

1st Bus Ride

Cody is able to ride the bus because he's in Kindergarten. Once he's in 1st they think he's old enough to walk home by himself! Scott rode his bike up and was able to get pictures of Cody getting on the bus then came home in time for pictures of him getting off the bus! He had soo much fun. When he got home, we had a little present waiting. I think Scott enjoyed the car more because Cody was organizing the pencils by animal. What have I done?!

1st Day of School! :(

There were many emotions going through our house this morning! I was sad and doing my best to stay busy so I didn't have to think about my baby going to school. Cody was bouncing off the walls with excitement for his first day. Megan was excited but started her morning by saying she got up on the wrong side of the bed. I don't know if she truly knows what that means or not! She was also very nervous. Megan doesn't like change(like her Dad!) so meeting new friends and a new teacher is hard for her!

Anyway, they are now both there and happy! I had to make myself leave from Cody's room before I either cried or stayed there all day! On the way to school I don't think he stopped talking for more than 30 seconds at a time. Cody is riding the bus at noon and it makes me very nervous but Scott is going to ride his bike up and take pictures of him getting on and then come back in time for Cody getting off! It's hard to believe the day is here that I won't have kids with me everyday all day.

Below are pictures of our morning. They show the kids backpack- Cody's Firetruck(thanks Alice!) and Megan's shiny Hannah Montana! Enjoy!!

Last Day of Summer

After reading Jessica Troeger's post about not wanting the kids to go back to school, it's nice to know I'm not the only one! I have been dreading tomorrow for a year now. I knew last year when Cody started preschool that it was the beginning of the end. No more Cody home with me all day. I have had such a great summer with the kids that I'd love to just keep them home. The last few weeks haven't been as smooth but I don't want my last baby to go to school. I know you're all thinking I'm crazy but like Jess, I'm starting to cry thinking about it! Thank goodness Scott is taking all day off tomorrow so I'll have some emotional support! More likely he'll look at me like I'm nuts but one can dream!

The last week before school starting has been filled with lots of fun things to do. Today we are laying low and going to bed early so the kids are well rested for tomorrow! On Saturday, we went boating with Scott's parents and Dave, Allison, and Betsy. It was a lot of fun. We went from Holland to Saugatuck on the boat. When we got there, we walked up over 200 steps to get to Mt. Baldy! I am still sore. I don't think it was the walk up that did it but the walk down because I went to fast on them. I can walk up the steps at home it's just going down that kills me!

On Sunday we went to a friends house for a cookout. It was a lot of fun for all of us. The kids played with their friends, I caught up with some people I don't see much and Scott played Volleyball and Football with the guys!

I hope you all have a nice relaxing Labor Day! I'll post tomorrow of the kids first day!