GOOOOOOOOAAALLLLL!!!

The boys drive down, swerving and dodging opponents, running and panting, just a little further...taking turns running and kicking...one player to beat...the goalie crouches waiting for their move, Myles shoots, the goalie streaches out for the ball...it's to hot for him, it sails right past and into the corner of the net! Gooooooooooaal!!! The rabid group of parents and toddlers scream with excitment! "What's the score?!" "Uh, dunno...this is pee wee soccer...they don't keep score" says a parent. "Oh", says the now not so interested teenage passer-by as she keeps walking.

Well the soccer season has come to a close for the year. It has been really fun to watch the boys develop, and learn these sports (Myles and Mason had t-ball this year too). They really enjoyed running around kicking, laughing, falling tackling - yes, sometimes they forget its not football and/or they remember it's their brother and they decide to tackle for fun or frustration. Either way they really had fun. Oh and they thought the shin guards and cleats were really cool. We're glad they both got to be on the same team, which was awesome for them to play together and it was nice to be able to just worry about one game and one practice each week.

Fire and Ice, Where's the BBQ sauce?

So what do you do when you get the earliest snow in recorded state history and it's 15 inches! Well if you are at our house you BBQ!
Saturday morning we woke up to 5 inches of snow and it was still coming. The weatherman had said it might snow, but it was a full on dumping at our house. So we finished the projects in the garage and made room for the cars. By the time we got the garage ready to move the autos back into their home, they had 12 inches on them! And yes, it was still snowing. Our wet rigs were happy to be in a dry place and we were ready to have some hot chocolate. An afternoon movie and hot dinner was just the ticket.
Later the power went out a number of times, but we didn't mind. It gave us an excuse to do shadow puppets and and tell stories. By 9 o'clock the lights were back on and we had another couple of inches. All in all it was about a foot and a half that fell...and it isn't even the middle of October!
So to help bring back the warm temps we decided to BBQ for Sunday dinner (ok, we Bar-B-Q whenever we can...all the time) but it might help! And although there was lots of snow everywhere , it was beautiful outside. So throw the burgers on the Bar-B!

Myles is 7!!!

Well it was a great time having friends and neighbors come over and help Myles celebrate his 7th birthday! He wanted to have a music party so we cranked up the tunes in the gym and all the kids got our the exercise balls, stretchy bands, and climbed and danced on all the equipment making all sorts of new games up as they went.

Roxa got the kitchen rockin' with individual pizzas as each of the children (and many of the adults) made their own rendition of their favorite pizzas. Watch out for Matt! He was hand tossing his dough!

As always Roxa pulled out her craftiness and made one of her signature creative cakes and what better than an Ipod cake at a music party!

Myles was sure thankful for all the great gifts his friends and family brought over, but mostly he sure enjoyed everyone there to share his special day!

Thanks for everyone that came and had a sweet time with us. It was a great time!