Coach Divi's Soccer Training

Cait started training on Saturdays with Coach Divi, the Brazilian soccer coach from Wide World. Every Saturday has been the worst weather, the theme in Michigan lately is to beautiful during the week and horrible on the weekends. Cait is a talker just like me, but she never says a word during practice and only pays attention to Divi which is great! I think she will fall along in her brother's foot steps and fill my weekends with soccer games...who knows she could always be a ballerina or Hannah Montana :-) I love these pics of her, my little monkey is growing up!

Three weeks until summer...yahoo!

Whenever Cait gets excited, she says yahoo! I adopted that feeling today when we went to check on our new lake house. Builder Bill says three more weeks and we will be able to move in. It has been a long 6 months but really has been a lot of fun. Until this experience, I would have rated building a house right there with child birth on the pain factor. But this truly has went smooth and he is an awesome guy to work with. We are now at the point where I just can't wait, I want to decorate, clean, put up all of the pictures I have been taking, and lastly just sit back, relax and watch the boats go by...

Easter the new Christmas

Easter has started to become the new Christmas in my family. The kids woke up early and when I say early I mean like 6:30am, the Easter Bunny was sleeping still. Luckily, the kids went back to bed and we were able to get up and get things ready. The Easter bunny hid eggs all over the backyard and the kids had a blast running around grabbing each and everyone of them. Inside there was a basket from Mom and Dad full of things the kids love like books, Hannah Montana karaoke CD Cait and a Speed Beetle yoyo for Cam.

We then went to Uncle Brian and Aunt Liz's for another Easter Egg Hunt along with a room full of presents. We overdue holidays in the Colpaert family and we always have. Easter is full of new clothes from Grandma, water guns and cool toys for the summer. Harley and Kathy are always there and somehow Kathy always tops herself from the year prior getting the kids the coolest things, like kites and pinwheels. Grandma and Grandpa got Cait her own Princess fishing pole...yahoo!

We then top the evening off at the Bacarella's where I try to eat more after I just ate a full meal earlier in the day and the kids run outside for a great Easter Egg Hunt. I just want a Grandma Tina cannoli...which are the best in the world. The Easter eggs have money and candy which seemed to be the theme at all three egg hunts...we were never this lucky! It was great to see Conner our great nephew walking this year and all of his excitement. I don't like be called his Great Aunt Jen ( I am way to young to be called that), so I am Super Aunt Jen :-) In this family we do crazy things like my niece Alanna having a hard time always deciphering between her three aunts as our names are Jan, Jen, and Jeanne....so I let he re-name me last year to Aunt Marissa. I asked her where she thought of that name and she said it was because I looked like a Princess...sooooo Aunt Marissa it is, I always wanted to be a princess.

Happy 5th Birthday Cait

Well Cait celebrates her birthdays like I used to...for like two weeks! We started out this year's celebration with a birthday party at Uncle Brian and Aunt Liz's, where we celebrate three birthdays, Cait, Uncle Brian's and mine.

Next we went to Jungle Java with all of her friends, which was a blast, 22 kids, and three hours of pandomonium. The first and last of the big birthday parties, so we made sure to invite all of her friends from school.

We then took the 24th off and picked her up early from school. From there we went to Build a Bear and ate a yummy pretzel from Auntie Anne's. The pretzel place is Cait and I's secret vice...they are so good but so bad for you!!! Tony wasn't impressed. We picked Cam up from school and went to Red Robin...where we all sat at the bar, Cam swears it is quicker up there.

Lastly, on Easter we celebrated her birthday with her cousin Alanna with all of the Bacarella's.

My little one was so excited to be 5, and I was so sad to think that it has been 5 years since I held her for the first time. Time flies...but it speeds by when you have kids. She is so beautiful because her heart is soooo big just like her eyes. Having her brings so many things to us, but the ones that stick out in my mind are: how she stops to pick every flower she walks by only to give it to me, how she collects rocks on the playground and brings them home for the washing machine to clean, how she holds her baby doll and you can tell how great of a Mom she will be someday, hugs and kisses whenever you want them or least expect them, the expressions and faces she makes, and lastly without Cait I would have never got to enjoy or see how great of a big brother Cam is. The last 5 years have brought us countless memories of life with a little girl...

Have you ever swung on a pole?

Not sure if I'll get the pics from last night but I did hang with some of my greatest friends and boy did we have a blast. We will laugh about this when we are 80! Yes, your thoughts are right we took a class on how to pole dance. Some of us were better then others which makes you wonder how they spent their college nights.

No worries on quitting my day job, I have to give those strippers credit...working the pole is an art! So picture 9 of us with three poles and an instructor that couldn't have been over 5 foot and maybe weighed 85 pounds. I have pole burn on my right arm doing everything I could to hang on while I was wildly swinging my body around...not to mention bruises, where I shouldn't have bruises. Pole burn is a lot like rug burn...you get the idea! The best thing about last night I was with my friends and we were all laughing, cheering each other on and oooohing when someone would make a sexy face. My friends are so beautiful in their own way but it was so great to see everyone let their hair down (you need sexy long hair to be a good stripper) and just have a blast and not care what anyone thought. Those moments I will cherish as nothing sums up a day better when you offer to carry your best friend out of the gym because she pulled a butt muscle :-)

So this might become a monthly thing, so watch out the next time I have some liquid courage in me I might have to show you some of my skills...but be afraid if all of us are together!

Skating at the Cube

What better way to spend a Tuesday afternoon than skating at the Ice Cube. Cam's Boy Scout Troop met this afternoon since the boy's had only a half day of school. I haven't skated in 2 years and ohhhh how I love to skate. We were there for 60 minutes and I could have been there for 60 more but the kids were exhausted. Cait had a great little ice walker which helped her to keep her balance, Cam spent a lot of time getting up from the ice but there always was this big smile on his face :-) Gavin, Kyle and Cam I think spent more time pushing each other down then actually skating. To finish the day off Cait found a hockey puck and decided to make it her own souvenir...watch out if she is in your home she has become quite the klepto. It was 65 degrees out and 40 degrees in the rink...perfect March day!

Where have I been???

The last two weeks have been a blurrr literally. I love playing soccer on Friday night as Tony and I play in this 20 something co-ed league. You may be laughing now as I am definitely not 20 something. Well this 20 year old decided to kick a soccer ball as hard as he could into my head...and down I went. Pretty much down since February 26th, never went to the doctor but diagnosed myself with a concussion via Web MD :-) I am too old as I hit the big 36 on Wednesday to get brain damage as I definitely need my brain. So I played soccer again last night as I am a die hard athlete, and the last 30 seconds of the game I took a shot to the stomach...at least it wan't my head :-) The abs of steal kept me upright! Hoping to post soon!