Orlando City Soccer!

We had an unexpected fun event when we were invited to go to the Orlando City Soccer game with the FH team in the suite.  We are blessed, and we try and be sure that the kids understand how unusual this is!  We had never been there before, so we didn't know what to expect.....but it was SUPER FUN!  The arena has a lot of  energy, as one side of the arena is standing the whole time and they have a drum corp over there that keeps beating a steady rhytym and the fans sing a song in Spanish the whole time, waving flags.  The athletes were amazing to watch as well, so it was a really fun time!

Outside of the FH Suite

The fun is about to begin!

At the one end of the stadium, there are NO SEATS - people just stand the whole time!  And there is a drum corp beating the drums the entire time with the crowd singing a song in Spanish about winning the game.  They are waving flags, jumping up and down, singing - it creates a lot of energy...and a lot of noise! :)

In Kaleb's words - that is a lot of ruckus! :)

Speaking of noise - lovely noise, the boys have started piano lessons! :)  It has been really fun to listen to them playing - and we're doing a "Simply Music" approach, which means that they are learning how to play songs right away without yet learning the notes (that comes later).  With the fact that they are playing songs vs practicing scales, it makes it much more fun for them and thus so far, so good!  Karis is even sitting down and learning along with them for fun!  We got a digital piano so that we have the luxury of turning the volume down low enough that we can practice without it bothering the rest of the family.

Zachary practicing his song

The kids finished the Adventurer year - the club had a hard time figuring out a time for investitures so combined it with the year-end pool party!  It worked out well, and the kids had fun with the picnic lunch.

with the end of the school year also came the end of football.  The boys were in a different league (same team, just switched leagues), which is a bigger league and they did not "crush" the competition this time - coming in third though is still pretty good!

Grandma's sitting on a lumpy chair! :)

Random pictures:

After gymnastics, Addison was having fun with the bubbles at Miss Jennifer's!

This picture reminds me of Karis - Addison reminds me the most of Karis out of our kids

Final video of Addison's last swimming lessons - she did pretty well!