Milestones for Jared

 Jared just finished up the fall season for soccer.  I am really proud of how hard he worked this season.  He was supposed to be on a team of 1st and 2nd graders, but for some reason, his team was mostly 2nd graders and even a couple 3rd graders (not sure how that snuck through).  So, he was playing with bigger kids on his team and it was hard for him to get up close to the ball.  However, he had a great attitude and loved playing goalie!  He also scored a goal during his very first game.

 Jared somehow heard about the school "Reflections" contest and decided he wanted to enter a picture.  He stayed indoors at recess and painted this picture:

 

It's not anything spectacular, and I honestly don't think he'll win any kind of award, but I was proud of him for wanting to enter in the contest.  This is what he wanted me to write about his picture on the order form:

This is a picture of a field of cows in Idaho, right across from Bear Lake.  I named it "Beauty" because it looks so beautiful.  This picture makes me think of people having beautiful dreams.  I also drew this picture because I hope people have dreams as beautiful as a picture.

Jared finally learned how to ride a two-wheeler a few weeks ago!  It was like pulling teeth to get him motivated to practice this summer, but he finally learned and has finally seen the vision of how fun riding a bike is!  Now that is all he wants to do!  (Just in time for chilly weather...)