The Best Christmas Present Ever!!!!!!!!!!!

Geddy created and wrapped two presents all on his own for Scott and me. The first contained this lovely Christmas tree picture. He spent a great deal of time drawing individual snowflakes. And in case you are wondering, that is a house next to it.

 The second package was the best. They speak for themselves for the most part. I will caption those that need a little clarification. He does spell better than this when he takes time to think about it - meaning at school.

Notice, I have more exclamation points? I wonder if that means anything?

"Your the best parents ever. in the whole universe and history and beyond".

I think the crumpled bit of paper I found a few weeks ago in his room was the beginning of this poem. How sweet can you get, "I do. forever and ever".

I wish he took advice...he told me it was the only thing he could think of that rhymed with nice.

My personal favorite: "(P.S.) You might not know any peaple that are blind". Again, he was struggling to rhyme with kind. I love it!

He said he didn't have any money or a way to go to the store by himself so he couldn't buy us a present so he just had to make something. (By the way we did help him buy presents for each other - he just wanted something totally of his own). But this was absolutely the best present he could give us!

Geddy turned 7, in July!

Pin the light saber on Yoda.

My pathetic attempt at a Death Star water balloon target. Yes, I know it is supposed to be more round, but I didn't have enough foam-core to do it.

Pool Noodle Light Sabers ready and waiting.

The handsome and happy birthday boy!

Battling while waiting for all guests to arrive.

The Death Star was destroyed in record time. Love how it took me over an hour to fill up a million - okay not really that many, but I lost count - water balloons only have them launched and destroyed within five minutes.

I was terrible at getting pictures of him opening his presents this year.

A Star Wars book from Kristen and Tori.

Star Wars Legos from Matthew. He got another set (Sarlacc) from Kendel and Keaton.

All attacking Scott while waiting for parents to pick them up.

Some felt the force a little bit more than others while giving Yoda his light saber.

The pathetic Death Star looks even more pathetic.

 It was a fun party though quite chaotic. I always think I plan enough games, but they happen so fast or kids don't want to do them. There was a cake with Luke and Darth Vader on it. Unfortunately Scott was busy with something else so I had a hard time carrying the cake and taking pictures at the same time. All in all it turned out great.He is already planning next year on a Sports themed party. That should be easy and fun. We will see if he changes his mind before then.

Oops.

I realize I have been quite a blog-slacker lately. Life gets kind of busy, you know. I can't say we have done anything exciting though, definitely not blog-worthy.

Geddy's school has a week where they focus on talking about being drug-free and bully-free. Each day there is a different theme for them to dress up as. This is the only day I took a picture, Western Day. Such a cute little cowboy.

Halloween

 So for the past year Geddy said he wanted to be Hawkeye for Halloween. The original version not the black leather movie version.

 This would require a home-made costume because it isn't a popular enough character for anyone else to have made it commercially. I was willing and I hope able, to do this for him. I waited until a month or so ahead of time for a couple of reasons:1) cost of supplies, 2) in case he grew a lot (which he grew over an inch between May and October) and 3) in case he changed his mind.

 The day I was ready to go buy everything and get started he told me, "Mom, no offense or anything, but I don't want to be Hawkeye anymore. I want to be Wolverine." This wasn't too surprising as he had mentioned Wolverine as a backup if I couldn't make the Hawkeye costume.  I was a little sad not to get the chance to test my creativity, but a little glad not to have to spend the money.

 Then came the task of finding a Wolverine costume. Every other year we have seen plenty of such costumes in stores but he was not interested at that time. However, this year, when we actually wanted one, there were none to be found. We looked in every store and they weren't sold out, he just wasn't in the popular mix this year. Possibly due to his movie being more for adults this last year. Thank goodness for Amazon.com!

 I walked down to Payson Market with him the day before Halloween for their annual Trunk or Treat. It was quite cold, but kind of fun. He loves to see the other kids costumes and show off his own.

 I think he was going for the moody look here.

 Silly boy with his treat bag. Sometimes it was a little hard to pick up those candies with the claws on but he managed just fine.

 Halloween afternoon we took him to our traditional Downtown Provo Trick-or-Treat street to all the businesses. Here we are taking a little break for dinner.

My silly boys!

Trying to copy dad's silly face.

 This picture is just random and has nothing to do with Halloween. It was just too cute not to include somewhere. I actually just took this a couple of nights ago. When I went to tuck him in he was like this with his Sphinxy. When I showed it to him he said he must have fallen asleep right in the middle of his goodnight kiss.

Soccer 2013

Most of his team. I think there were two missing.

He was excited to be able to hold his very own ball in the pictures this year. He loves that ball that Uncle Ken and Aunt Liliana gave him for Christmas last year! It has been well used this past year.

Ready for action. His coach had a hard time deciding whether to keep him on offense - he was one of the only kids to score a goal all season - or put him on defense, because he was really really good on defense and didn't goof around like the other kids.

So proud of him this year for getting more in the thick of things.

 

Though he has this little habit of picking his fingernails while waiting for the ball to come into his zone. I think it was an anxiety thing. At least it was better than the other kids who rolled round in the grass while playing defense instead of watching the ball. Ged kept his eyes on the ball in anticipation of it coming to him.

Many games were under rainy skies and passing thunder storms. He thought it was cool this night to play under a rainbow.

Geddy and his buddy Mason - the two combined for all the season's goals except one.

Click to make it large and see his concentration - tongue hanging out.

Cocky little guy. He ended up scoring five goals on the season. Three of which were game winners.

Can't remember if this one actually went in or not, but he looks cool in action. Lucky #13!

This was right after scoring a goal. I think he was pretty pleased with himself. He also thought it cool to play under the lights a lot of nights. He thought that felt more professional.

Trying to act casual after a goal when his friends Dan (#5) and Christ were congratulating him.

We are all kind of sad soccer ended. Except now it is too cold to sit out there and watch, but I would. He loves soccer almost more than anything. When we came home after the last game while I was helping him take off his cleats and shinguards, he started to cry. When I asked him why he just said he wished he could play soccer every night all year around. He cheered up when I told him he only has a few months until he gets to play basketball on a team for the first time. Now at school he divides him time between playing basketball and soccer at every recess. He says that is the best thing about the big kid playground at school - there are real hoops and real soccer nets. I always tell him I knew he was going to be a soccer player even before he was born. I always joked with Scott that he was practicing soccer in my tummy and boy did he have a hard kick - still does!

Soccer post coming soon!

Salt Lake Comic Con Insanity

Riding the Frontrunner train from Provo to Salt Lake City. Geddy didn't know about this part of the trip until we got to the station. He loved it!

Geddy didn't even know about the Comic Con until that morning, but he got into the spirit of things by wearing his Flash costume. Though despite having pre-paid for our tickets weeks in advance and having a supposed "quick pass", we ended up waiting in line for almost two hours before we even got in the door. Thank goodness it wasn't raining yet and it wasn't one of the hottest days we've had this summer.

There wasn't much room to move around. This apparently was the biggest convention in Utah history. I guess it was also the largest inaugural comic con in the US according to this article in the Deseret News.

 

Geddy thought it was cool that someone had dressed up as Deadpool, one of Marvel's lesser known characters. Thought the real character is in better shape than this guy.

There was a very cool Lord of the Rings display.

Geddy found the Emperor, who he insists was the real thing who had traveled from Coruscant just for the Comic Con.

Lots of people! And this is actually later in the day when it was less crowded.

 

Later at a local bookstore after we got caught in the rainstorm.

It was fun, but there were a lot of problems with their organization. Not sure if we will go next year or not. There were a lot of celebrities there, but you had to pay a lot of money to get their photos or autographs. Others like Stan Lee and William Shatner were behind curtains so you couldn't even see them unless you paid money. Though we did get a glimpse of Shatner in a golf cart as they took him to a room where he was speaking. Others there were Adam West and Burt Ward - Ged had a hard time believing those old men were the same guys from the show that he loves. Lou Ferigno looked like a nice guy, but his line was quite long. Dean Cain and Kevin Sorbo were there along with lots of others that we didn't really care about. I am glad for the sake of the city and the state that it was a success. It just could have been better.