On Saturday. we celebrated Ashton's 9th birthday at his favorite pizza/arcade, Pungo Pizza.  We celebrated with family and friends, pizza, games, presents and cake.

Ashton spent most of his time playing the Mortal Kombat game... which is the reason that Pungo Pizza if his favorite place.  The kids went through $70 in quarters in about an hour.  It was crazy.   But Ashton LOVED IT.

Ashton requested a big chocolate chip cookie cake, so I that is exactly what I made him.  Then I made icing in different shades of green, so that I could decorate the cake like his favorite thing right now - Minecraft.  He was so funny, he must have thanked me like thirty times for "taking so much time with his cake" - it was awesome that he loved it.

He got a lot of great gifts, gift cards to GameStop and Best Buy, PS3 Games, DVD's, Nerf stuff, etc., but the best was when my brother started recycling the gift bags and putting objects on the table in them.  Ashton got all excited about a gift and pulled out a napkin dispenser.  It was pretty funny seeing the look on his face.  He knew right away that it was his Uncle Billy that did it.

It was a great birthday party.  We all had a good time and I was happy to see my little (big) boo-boo head having a good time!  Happy 9th Birthday to Ashton!!!

Lazy good for nothing Cleatus is too pitiful to even fix his own ear.  Dang dog drives me absolutely batshit crazy and yet... we kind of like him.  Such a jerk.

Ashton ran with his school this past weekend in the Shamrock Final Mile.  Once again, he ran with the running club after school to prepare and log miles for race day.

He did a great job once again.  I'm proud of him for wanting to do this on his own this year.

We had another long weekend of soccer.  Our third tournament for the Spring 2013 season.  This one was the Beach FC Spring Classic which was hosted by Beach FC at the Hampton Roads Soccer Complex.  The girls had four teams in their bracket. 

Their first game they won against CSL Storm FC, 5-3.  Second game they tied the Deleware Kirkwood Jaguars.  Third game they won against the NC Capital Area Soccer Lightning, 2-0. Their last game they tied the Beach FC Red Independence, 2-2.

Kaiden played extremely well on Saturday and played well Sunday morning.  She seemed like she checked out by game 2 on Sunday.  She was not bad, but was not "on fire" like she was on Saturday.  I am sure by game four she was completely exhausted.  All the girls were upset that they took 2nd place, especially since they were in 1st place up until the very last 20 seconds of the last game.  Had they held on 20 more seconds, they would have taken the bracket!  Maybe next time!

Kaiden's team played in the Rush Cup this weekend.  They played "okay" - they could have ALL played WAY HARDER, but they managed to make it to the semifinals.  After two games on Saturday and a game Sunday morning, we played a team from the Outer Banks.  IT WAS AN AWESOME and very stressful game.  The girls kept the game tied until the end, then went through two rounds of overtime.  Unfortunately the other team scored at the very end of the second overtime round and took it.

Above is what a very worn out, disappointed soccer player looks like.  We have another tournament next weekend... hope it ends with a MUCH happier photo!