Can't we just stay home?

Seriously. I got the calendar out yesterday and I figured out that we have been out of town every other week since MAY! It has been crazy! Grandma's birthday party, Little Sahara Sand Dunes, Utah Summer Games, my weekend away with the girls and while I was gone, Allan took the boys to the beach in Cali, our trip to Idaho to go to St. Anthony's Sand Dunes and Yellowstone. We did all of that in less than 2 months. Needless to say, I'm not in any hurry to pack up the car and go anywhere else for a while!

HOWEVER!! I have really had the best time with Allan and the boys. I'm grateful that we are able to go on all these trips together, I love to spend time with them without having to worry about the everyday things. I love that I can just focus on having fun with them and all the rest can come later. It has been an great summer, I can't believe that school starts in 3 weeks! Summer went too fast this year.

In other news, I have been canning in between all this craziness! I have made apricot jam, canned apricots, and made salsa. I made 9 pints of salsa and I only have 4 left. Needless to say, I think I've finally found our salsa recipe! I have to be proud because there have been many failed attempts. Next comes the spaghetti sauce, lets hope I can get it right this year. I have either made awesome spaghetti sauce or it just sucks. No in between! So keep your fingers crossed for me. Most people think I'm crazy because I can my own stuff, but I truly enjoy doing it. Its relaxing for me. Weird, I know.

We have also discovered that Carson can swim! I had suspected that he could but it had been too cold to find out for sure. But he can touch in the shallow end now so we took off his life jacket and WHOO-HOO! The boy can swim! He is completely afraid of the deep end though. We'll see how long it takes for him to get over that fear. It didn't take Caleb very long...

Caleb is doing great. I really wish I could just take him to Never Never Land so he never has to get and older. I have really enjoyed age 9, I want to keep him this age forever! He bought himself a BB gun and he is so proud. He has been saving up for a few months and he finally earned enough money last week. The next thing on his agenda is a Ipod because I refuse to buy one for him. He is also playing indoor soccer this summer.

All in all, it has been a fun-filled, crazy at times, lots of driving, wonderful summer!

Finally! I can breathe...

We have just gone nonstop here at the Goeser house. There have been birthday parties (Grandma Henrie, Carson and me), a preschool graduation, several trips out of town, Utah Summer Games, a soccer party, combined with other daily activities that I won't bother to list because they are redundant!!

This is Carsons preschool graduation. Now I never took Carson for a shy kid but it seems he has stage fright....Notice the empty chair in the front. That's where Carson SHOULD be sitting.


Here he is, hiding out by the A/C unit. There was NO WAY he was going up there. Trust me, I tried bribing him with all sorts of stuff. He didn't even budge for a new game for his DS!
This is his graduation certificate. He wouldn't even go up and get it. So I did. Crazy kid! He just cracks me up!

This is Carsons 4th birthday party. We had a water party. We borrowed one of those huge water slides because there was no way I was watching ten 4 year olds in the pool.

These are my birthday cards and one of my presents. I had to have a picture of it before I opened it because Allan wrapped it up in some old mail and electrical tape. My husband cracks me up!

This is my other present. He wrapped it up in a blanket and handed it to me. I felt very loved on my birthday. My family made a big deal out of the whole day. Not that I'm getting any older or anything...

These are from the Utah Summer Games. Our boys had a heartbreaking loss of the bronze medal. They lost 3-4 in double overtime. But they played their hardest and we are so proud of them! I love our team, we have the best kids AND parents. All of the boys are friends and all of the parents are too.

This is the boys waiting to start the game. Caleb is #19 and he plays midfield. Caleb scored 2 goals which is so cool! We are so proud of him!
They boys trying to get a goal. They work really well as a team. Their coaches are training them to work as a team. Our boys can actually pass which is pretty unusual at this age. Most kids are still pretty individual players at this age but not our boys! They play like they are ready to play for Real Salt Lake! This is the coaches meeting with boys. Kasey Cottam(brown coat) is their coach and he is so great with the boys. He's not one of those coaches who screams and yells at the boys. He is a VERY patient coach and the boys respect him a ton.

This is Caleb marking up getting ready to steal the ball. It cracks me up that he is at least a head shorter than every kid! But I tell him the bigger they are, the harder they fall! Caleb is really good at stealing the ball away and getting it up field so they can score. He's not afraid to get in and take the ball!

Cooper. He is the official team mascot. Cooper loves to chase soccer balls and the Summer Games were like torture to him! He had to be on a leash and we wouldn't let him go get the soccer balls! We are just so mean...And yes, we gave him a green mohawk!

This was our first game we played in the Summer Games against Vernal. We won 4-1. The boys played like rockstars!

We also won our next game against Slash 4-1. Slash has always been the team to beat. We had never beaten them until Summer Games. Slash is in our Snow Canyon soccer club so we really do think they are awesome. But still, it felt good to beat them. Our next game was against Cedar and we lost by one. It was a bummer because we had just beat Cedar a few weeks before that. Our next game was against Real Azteca. These boys are just brutal. They play dirty and their parents encourage it. I honestly can't stand this team and hope our boys never have to play them again. They are big cheaters, they have been thrown out of a league for trying to play boys that are older than what the division allows. Needless to say, we lost against this team. But we have beat them before so I know our boys are better! They only win because they cheat and that's not how kids should be taught. Our last game we played was against Dixie Fire. This team is a really good team, we haven't beaten them yet! This was our medal game. We beat out 4 other teams to get there. Our boys played so great! But we had some tough breaks. We were leading by 2 points most of the game but we got a direct penalty kick in the goal box and so they scored. The other point happened because the ball bounced off one of our boys foot and went in the goal. The poor kid was so upset but hey, CRAP HAPPENS! So they got 2 lucky goals which sucks. But at the end of the day, our boys could hold their heads high because they played AWESOME. SC IVINS RULES!!

At the end of it all, I was exhausted! So were the boys. These are pictures of the boys taken right after all the craziness! Caleb is asleep on the family room floor. Cooper was asleep too but he woke up when I went for the camera. He didn't move though! Funny dog! He had found a warm body and he wasn't about to move!

Carson fell asleep at the dinner table. One minute he was throwing a fit that he didn't want to eat dinner, the next minute he was sound asleep! He is at my favorite age. I love 4.

It has been a pretty eventful and I prefer it this way! We have a bunch of other things planned for the summer too. We are taking a trip to St. Anthony Sand Dunes in Idaho. We will stay there for 3 days and then go to Yellowstone for 3 days. Caleb has summer camp next week. I have a Girls Trip planned. Then we have Allans birthday. Hopefully we will be helping my mom move back to Utah too, which thrills me to no end! My boys are sooo excited to have Grammy and Grandpa back! Keep your fingers crossed for us! It has been great summer so far!

Thanks Grammy! He LOVES it!

My mom made Carson a quilt for his upcoming birthday. It is sooo dang cute! He loves it. I can't even get him to share it with me. It's his and only he can use it! He told my mom that he wanted her to make him a quilt with dinosaurs and dots. I told her good luck with that but she managed to pull it off!

Gotta love him!

In primary yesterday, they asked all the visitors to stand up. Caleb stood up and the primary president said "Caleb, your not a visitor." And Caleb said to that "Its been so long since I've been here it feels like I am!"

Note to self: Either attend church more often or be ready for the consequences...

Real Salt Lake Game

Before the game. Caleb was sooo excited. Carson....not so much! Caleb in his new jersey. Yeah, we are suckers. I can't believe we shelled out $50 bucks for it!

Carson got a soccer ball. He loves that he has his own and that I won't let Caleb play with it

A better picture of Carson with the ball....

The big game....Salt Lake lost :(

Mothers Day presents! The very best part!

This is, for me anyway, the best part of Mothers Day! I love the homemade gifts that I get every year and I am grateful for the teachers who take the time to make them.

Carson gave me a photo album made out of paper bags. Inside the paper bags were little gifts. It was just too dang cute for words! And he was sooo proud to give me the present he made.

Caleb gave me a beautiful potted flower and a card that he had made. Inside the card it said "my mom cleans dog poop up outside. (I don't, I think he's just making a suggestion since this is his job!!) She cooks too! My mom rocks the house!" Love it!

I love my boys! They rock the house!

Biography Fair

Caleb's class did a biography fair at school. He did his report on Martin Luther King and I'm pretty impressed with the research he did. He kept telling me he needed a folder for his project and I told him that I had a ton of folders and we could just pick one out. So after much arguing and frustration on his part, I just told him to use what he had at school. OK, so he meant poster board. Whoops! I guess I could have come up with the $4 bucks for that! My bad. His project was still great and I'm so proud of all the hard work he put into it. Caleb, you rock!