Saturday

Yesterday was another typical Saturday for us. Matthew had a soccer game, Kevin mowed the grass, and I managed to mop the floor (we have way too much linoleum for that to be a pleasant job).

I did get some pretty good pictures at Matthew's game. Sometimes his competitiveness gets the best of him. Here he is knocking over a teammate so he can get the ball.


But then I see something like this and it makes me feel better. This is actually one of his best friends from church talking trash after he scored a goal on Matthew.

At one point, his shoe came off, but he went ahead and kicked the ball into the goal before running over to Daddy to get his shoe back on. I have no idea what's going on with the coach in the background.



That morning, when we were out in the yard puttering around, Kevin snapped a couple of pictures. He really likes the "macro" mode on the camera that lets you get up close to small subjects. This one is within the depths of our papaya tree. Apparently it is a great place for frogs to live. There must have been 4 of them crowded all together on one stem.


And here is the bird of paradise in our front yard. After a year and a half, it finally started growing and produced a bloom.