Fall Y'all

It's finally starting to feel a little like fall around here.  It is still warm during the day but the evenings are cool (well cool for us anyway)!  Last weekend we headed out to a local farm/pumpkin patch with some friends.  The girls had a lot of fun.

They practiced their roping skills

They met some scarecrows

They picked some pumpkins

They posed for a picture with Dad

They went on a hay ride

They rode horses

After the pumpkin patch we went to visit Uncle Greg who was in town for the weekend.  We had a hard time getting a good picture of them  as they were being super silly uncooperative...

Playing Catch Up

As usual we have been keeping pretty busy ... below are some photos of what we have been up to.

Playing with our food

Wearing winter PJs even though it is still in the 90's

Riding Bikes

Celebrating Columbus Day

(Nina, Pinta & Santa Maria hat)

Play lots and lots and lots of soccer

Playing on the playground at sister's soccer games

Visiting with friends

As if that wasn't enough activity for one week, I flew to NJ for work last week too.  A nice bonus was the fact that I was able to have dinner with Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt D and Cousin R.  I wish D and the girls could have joined us!  This week looks like it is going to be just as busy!  Whew! 



Everyhing I need to Know I Learned in First Grade

To say that Chatty is learning a lot this year is an understatement.  First they learned about volcanoes, then rocks and now the body - bones and muscles.  She got to ride the bus home on Friday afternoon and when she got off she was wearing this:

Nice work.  She even had her brain detailed on a headband

In other exciting news this week, Chatty lost another tooth!  Someone joked she was going to need dentures soon.

Chatty's soccer team had the week off but she was asked to sub on our sister team with girls a year older than her.  She did awesome - she held her own and almost scored a goal!  She loves playing with the older girls.  It helps that she is as tall as most of them.

 She did a great job dribbling past the other team

Getting directions from Coach K (who is her regular coach too)

After the game we went the every one's favorite pizza place to cool off (it was over 100 degrees at game time)! 

It's Been A While

I am not sure why I haven't been updating this blog .. let's see maybe it's work or the kids or D ... it just seems like we are always on the go these days.  Chatty has soccer practice two days a week and Bia has swim lessons one day a week.  Between that, my longer commute to work and Chatty's homework each night we are going non-stop. 

Chatty is loving soccer and school.  She had an awesome week this past week.  She aced her spelling test and rock (igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic) test and rock presentation.  Yesterday she scored her team's only goal.  Let's hope the coming week is just as exciting.  Bia is testing us in every way.  The thing is she is so smart and really knows how to use her sweet smile to get what she wants! 

D and I are good just busy.  I think I need to get him to start updating the blog too so it will be updated more frequently ... hope y'all are well.  I know I say this all the time but I will try to get better about updating.  Lastly (since that's the real reason you even check the blog) below are some pics from Chatty's soccer game yesterday.

Bia's spot for the game

 This umbrella has come in super handy

 Hydrating in the desert heat

First Day of Sunday School

Today was the first day of Sunday School for the girls (during the summer they group all of the younger kids together).  I am co-teaching Chatty's class again and Bia is in the 3 year old class across the hall from us (she graduated from the nursery).  Since it was the first day we tried to get a few pics before church ...

I wanted one of the three of us - but Bia wasn't cooperating

So D zoomed in on Chatty and me!

Finally she sort of looked in the right direction!

Celebrations

This weekend we celebrated a couple things - first off - the start of Chatty's new soccer season. Her team had a scrimmage on Saturday night against a team with girls a year older than Chatty and her teammates. Chatty's team lost but they had fun and played hard. Chatty had the assist on the only goal scored by her team.

On Sunday she was asked to play up on another team from our league.  She held her own with the older girls!  D and I were very proud of her. 

Yesterday D and I celebrated our 12th wedding anniversary.  The girls spent the night at Nana and Poppa's house so we had a nice quiet afternoon, evening and morning to ourselves!

12 years ago ....

Today