Our Weekend in Winston-Salem, NC

This weekend the entire Hatcher clan headed to Winston-Salem to cheer on Sonny and the rest of the Cherokee Impact in their regional soccer tournament.

Saturday morning was a hot and hazy one when we got up to head to Aunt Kristen's aunt's place to meet up with Uncle Bubba, Aunt Kristen and the kids.

Makenzie road with Jase to the soccer field.

Drinking a nice icy beverage while he watches his cousin's team dominate the game.

Sharing his Pretzel M&Ms with Grandma Betty.

After a Cherokee Impact victory, we all headed back to the hotel to watch the USA World Cup game, eat pizza and go swimming.

Jase and Rob cooling off in the water.

Playing soccer in the pool.

Then we all headed to Chili's for dinner.

The grand kids outside the restaurant while we were waiting for our table.

Playing with Uncle Bubba in the restaurant.

The whole family outside of Chili's for a photo before we called it a night.

Makenzie came back to the hotel with us so she could spend the night with Jase. How sweet are these two sleepy heads?

Sunday morning was game 2 of the tournament.

Jase back on the sidelines cheering on his favorite soccer player.

We headed home after this game. Unfortunately they lost this game, but they ended up coming in second for the whole tournament. And we had a great time visiting with everyone!

Jase's 1st Movie

Today we took Jase to see his first movie in a theater. Me, Rob, Jacob, Joy and Allyson all went with him to see Toy Story 3. And it just so happened it was a 3-D movie, hence the big silly glasses. He was really enjoying the movie at first, but the scenes started getting dark. The toys were in a dark dump about to be grounded up and the big friendly looking bear that that they made out to be a good toy through all the pre-movie hype turned out to be a bad guy. So, Jase started getting a little scared. He hollerd out in the middle of the theater, "I don't want to watch anymore!" and buried his head in my chest. Once those scenes were over, he went right back into watching and enjoying the show.

Joy's 5th Grade Promotion Ceremony

Today we went to Joy's elementary school for her promotion ceremony into middle school.

Jase was so excited to be going to her school.

Jase was taking pictures of Joy with his "hand camera"

Congratulating Joy on her special day!

A Couple Days in the Kiddy Pool

After a couple 100 degree days, we decided to get get a kiddy pool for Jase. He picked out this whale pool, which is one of the smallest kiddy pools I have ever seen! But it he still manged to have big fun. Check out the pics from the last couple days.

At Sara's Candy Land Birthday

Jase's cousin, Sara, celebrated her 3rd birthday Candy Land style.

There were sweets everywhere to eat.

Jase was eating his cupcake and drinking his juice with a licorice straw.

And Candy Land squares to walk along.

Fireman Jase and His Rescue Dog Henny

Driving down the road today, I passed this firetruck outside of a thrift store. So, I immediately U-turned around and got it for a steal! It is supposed to be a toddler bed, but it makes a perfect lawn toy for a little boy. Jase wanted to help me wash it, insisting we use the car washing soap and bucket because it is, after all, his truck. And as he proceeded to scrub it down, both inside and out, he kept saying he was Fireman Jase and Henny was his rescue dog.

PIcking Leaves for Jozi

Jase knows he's not allowed to pick Mommy's flowers, so he picked Jozi and leaf instead. Is he not the sweetest!

Taking in a Ball Game

Taking in a baseball game with his friend Abigail.

Jase and His Daddy

There's nothing I enjoy more than watching these two play!

On your marks....

Get set....

GOOOOO!!!!

Jase took off leaving Rob behind, desperately diving to catch up and eating grass instead!

They decided to fight instead, and Jase still took him to his knees!

After taking daddy out twice he started walking with a little swagger!

LOL

Learning to Swim

We took Jase over to the neighbor's pool today and he is trying hard to learn how to swim. As long as you are close to him, he will paddle himself around with nothing but floaties on.

Boy Dress-Up

Poor Jase, always playing with little girls.

He gets so upset when they get to play dress up and he can't. Although I do have a number of pictures of him in my heels, jewelry and princess crowns, he won't put on the princess dress...thank God! Today, he asked me if I would play dress-up with him. I was very puzzled at first as to where his imagination was going to go with this. I asked him what we were going to dress up as. He says in his sad, pathetic voice, "Mommy I can only pretend dress-up because they don't have dress-up for boys." That's when the light bulb went off and I remembered his buddy gave him some Halloween costumes. So...we spent the afternoon playing "Boy Dress-Up!"