Hartsock Soccer

Hartsock Cousins

Port and the Dudes

Haynes the soccer player

Our Great Fans

Port and Whitney

This week we had our second soccer game and we were a much improved team!  Braxton, Dax, and Thatcher all scored goals.  Anna and Jade are here for a few days so we tried to get Anna to play for a little bit with the boys.  (She later told me that she preferred dance to soccer, that's my Anna!)  Haynes has been wearing Port's shin guards around all week, so I bought him a pair to wear to the game.  He was definitely disappointed he didn't get to play...soon enough!  

We had a great group of fans and it was a great morning.  Our whole family came and showed their support.  Also some of our spiritual family showed up, we were definitely impressed that college students showed up to a 9 a.m. soccer game!

  We actually played Port's other cousin's team, Parker Gladhill.  After the game the whole Hartsock Clan took pictures with Mimi.  

Jamie is coming home!

Jamie Upchurch, one of my best friend's from high school, is coming home from Afghanistan!  Over the last year we talk about Jamie frequently in our house.  We pray for him every time we see a helicopter.  (At one point Jamie told us he was jumping out of helicopters and Port talks about it almost daily)  For Christmas this year Jamie sent the boys a toy helicopter, they were so excited.  Jamie also just sent a video of pictures showing all he's been doing over the last year.  The video was so great that I showed the boys this morning.  

We started talking about all the things we were thankful for since Jamie is coming home safely.  The boys prayers were super sweet, but the best part was our conversation about the bad guys.  In the video Jamie is carrying a gun most of the time, so we talked about how he is fighting the bad guys.  Discussing war with a 3 year old is a little difficult, but basically I told him that the bad guys don't know Jesus.  So when Port prayed he thanked God for Jamie's safety and asked that the bad guys would know Jesus!  I love his heart! 

We can't wait to see Jamie!  Thank you for serving our country!  We love you!

Sunday Walks

Sunday afternoon all the boys went for a walk to the river from Grandad and JuJu's house.  The boys had a great time.  Grandad even made them each a walking stick and a bridge to get over the water.  We can't wait for the warmer weather and we can do more outside things.  Thanks for a fun Sunday afternoon!

First Soccer Game

The boys had their first soccer game Saturday morning.  They were so excited!  We were actually really impressed at how much Port had improved from Fall Soccer.  Sutton was great in the first quarter, he never stopped!  Although I think we lost 10-2 (Kooper kept score for us) the boys had a great time.  Port scored a goal after the buzzer, and he was SO excited!  

After the game the kids were eating their snacks and the wall fell underneath them.  I just happened to be taking a picture, it was pretty funny!

Kooper had a game after ours and he did great too!  

Mom's Prayer

Every Friday morning we host "Mom's Prayer" at our house.  Our community comes together weekly to pray for the church of Norman.  We host the only prayer time that has childcare available, so usually it's just moms.  (We have had a few daddy's come...Mr. Mike and Mr. Matt)  We have two great college girls, Whitney and Chandler, that give an hour of their time to love on our kids.  The boys are always really excited for their friends to get here so they stand at our front window watching.  I walked by them doing it this week and realized that I always want to have a great front window.  It's really sweet to see the kids get so excited for whoever is coming to the door throughout the week.  Also, when it's time for people to go they go back to the window waving and knocking until everyone is gone.  

Haynes the Big Boy!

Haynes likes to do EVERYTHING that his big brother Port does.  Every night before bath time the boys go pee before getting in the bath...for obvious reasons.  Haynes usually just sits on the baby potty and then crawls in the bath.  Tonight he sat down on the big boy toilet and peed!  We were so excited!  He got a sucker for his treat!

Our next step was explaining to Port that he didn't get a treat when he used the bathroom.  After explaining that we are teaching Haynes just like we did Port, Port became a great encourager!  We actually aren't potty training yet, but if it happens...GREAT!

First Soccer Practice

Crew and Ella

Haynes would LOVE to be on the team!

First Practice

We had our first soccer practice last Wednesday night.  Our team consists of Braxton, Sutton, Dax, Port, and Thatcher Ridings.  We also have the Bennett boys and some other new friends.  We also have 3 coaches...Uncle Jake, Daddy, and Uncle Jade.  It's so much fun!  I'm not sure if Preslee and Haynes couldn't join the line up as well, they would LOVE to!  The kids decided their team name would be the "Animals."  We have about six weeks of games on Saturday mornings.  Please come out to see the Crazy Animals! :-)