5 GOALS

Thursday night was another soccer practice for Kolton. He loves, loves, loves it. Sterling started them out with some stretches. Too cute.
Then he taught them how to do jumping jacks. Hilarious.

Then they took turns dribbling through the cones and up to the goal and scoring, then coming back through the cones.



Then they played the monster game where they let the kids and the adults take turns being monsters and taking the ball from each other.

At the end of practice they all sat around Sterling and he had them yell "Go Team!" Kolton's super excited about it! :)

We went to Brady's work and brought them truffles on Friday. He only has one more full week at the branch he's working at and then the next week them spend going to a couple different branches and then the following week they'll finally be in their branch setting it up for the soft open the following week. Brady is really excited for his branch to open. While we were there everyone spoiled Kolton. His favorite treat was a balloon, blown up especially for him. Kolton, Brady and one of the workers at that branch went to the back to blow up the balloon. Kolton picked blue "because its his favorite color." He tells me that all the time. Then as they were blowing it up, I hear from outside, "Daddy, I love you." So sweet!

He's so stinking cute! Probably the most adorable little boy out there! :)


Saturday was Kolton's first soccer game! Sterling was out of town so Brady was the coach. Kolton, Cody, Olivia and Mirena were the first players on the field. They play 4 players from each team. There is supposed to be four-8 minute quarters but the ref said that the kids were having a hard time playing the full time so they reduced it to four-5 minute quarters. You are allowed to sub in at any time, though, so the kids were going in and out every few minutes to make sure everyone had plenty of time to play and were getting lots of breaks too.

They don't keep score, but I did. :) The final score was 13-2. Kolton scored 5 goals, Cody (the boy behind Kolton in the white jersey) scored 4, Olivia scored 3 and Hannah scored 1.


Kolton did awesome! He was having so much fun out there! He wasn't too aggressive, but aggressive enough.

Grandma and Grandpa Brammer and Madison came to watch him.



This is the only video I have from the game. Its definitely not a good one--Kolton barely taps it in the goal--so I'm going to have to make sure and do a better job next week at recording his goals. I love what he does after he scores, though. He's so excited but acts so shy that he just gets this cute little smile on his face, looks at me, and then walks back to the other side of the field playing with his mouth with his fingers.



After the game, Brady took one of his young men out for ice cream for their birthday and to get to know them a little better and talk about the Duty to God program with them. He then went straight from there to go truck shopping with his dad. Then he came home and I went and took pictures of one of my friend's kids and while I was gone Jeff and his kids came over and ate some dinner and watched the BYU game. When I got home my mom called to talk to Kolton about his soccer game. All he said to her was "I scored 5 goals. I love you. Bye." Haha. I worked on both my lessons for the next day (I was subbing in Primary and then was teaching in Relief Society) while all the boys played. Kolton was so good in church on Sunday. I didn't bring my church bag so Kolton didn't really have anything to play with. He had brought with him a couple cars in his scripture bag so he played with those for a little bit but he mostly just sat either next to us or on our laps. He even went and got a drink by himself from the drinking fountain, folding his arms and walking reverently the whole way. Church is getting so easy with him now. That night we were invited to the Smiths. They ended up going to the Jessen's so we went there instead. We spent the whole time sitting outside on the patio watching the kids play in the backyard. Kolton had such a fun time playing with their kids. Him and Brooklyn (their daughter that is in his primary class) are so cute together! They all got along really well and Brady and I had a good time chatting with all the adults.
I also got Proactiv this weekend. I'm really hoping it will help with all the zits I've been getting lately. I'm so over it. My forehead seriously hurts because of it. So frustrating. I'm 25! Why is this happening now!? Anyway, I've used it for the past 2 days, and I know this sounds crazy, but I really think it is already helping. We shall see! But my fingers are crossed!