Saturday, October 2, 2010

September

I like this posting once a month thing. It takes me all night, but I can handle one night a month. So far.

The boys started preschool right after Labor Day. They LOVE it! There's a lady nearby that does a preschool in her basement. It's the cutest place and she really has her act together. The first day they both said that their favorite thing was singing "the bean bag boogie." Connor said his next favorite thing was waiting for me because he missed me. Aww.


These pictures really illustrate their personalities. I was being "hurry up" mom, and didn't realize how cute these turned out until later.

Ready to go!

We've had some produce from our garden this year. This is the first year that we've had a garden. I planted kind of late so I wouldn't say we've had a bounteous harvest. The boys are usually a help and are more excited than they look in this picture.

The boys also started soccer this month. They had four friends on the first team we played against. That was the hardest part of the morning...realizing we weren't on their team! As you can see, we were still buddies and had a pile up afterward.

Connor getting in there.

Seth making a break for it. He has the cutest face after he makes a goal. He just beams this ear to ear grin at us. I know they both love that we are watching.

The best part of soccer is the snacks, of course.

These are the snacks they picked out.

Claire playing on the playground during practice.

We went to open gym at a local gymnastics place this month. Claire LOVES the pit!

Connor on the rings.

The boys in the pit.

We just went to a corn maze a couple days ago. It was really fun. They had a little pig shaped hay maze for little ones. Also an adult height hay maze and the actual corn maze. We only went into the corn maze for a little while. You could really get lost in there! The hay maze was a little smaller and easier to find your way out of. I didn't get good pictures inside the maze because no one would stand still long enough for me!

There was also an obstacle course that the kids enjoyed rough housing on.







Connor and Claire

All three.

Isn't she cute?

Lake Tahoe

At the end of August we drove to Lake Tahoe for my niece Heidi's wedding. It was fun to see them and a bunch of other family. You would think Tahoe would be perfect at the end of August, and it is, just not the three days we were there. It was 80 degrees the day after we left. Oh well. No beach time for us.

Here is Bill walking Heidi down the aisle.


Heidi and Scott happy after the ceremony. It was so cold. The poor wedding party was freezing. I kept my oh so lovely hoodie zipped up the whole time.

Bill giving a very touching Father of the Bride toast.

My brother-in-law Bill and my Dad.

Me, my sister Ronni, brother-in-law Logan and sister Jennie.

Heidi and Scott swapping cake. The reception tent was quite toasty. We completely forgot about the rain outside.

I didn't get any pictures of the other extended family members that we were staying with, but we did document a hike we went on with my family. We took a walk out to Emerald Bay that overlooks Lake Tahoe. It's so pretty there and reminds me a lot of Montana.

Here's Logan with the boys. They think he's a great mode of transportation.

Seth and Connor.

My Karate Kid.

Family pic: Logan, Jennie, Joe, Claire, Aimee, Connor, Seth, Elena

Group shot with mom and dad.

Grandpa and Seth

Family shot

Me and my dad.

No, she's not going to smile right now, thank you.

Connor and Grandpa.

Claire and Daddy.


On the drive back we stopped at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. We only got out long enough to look in a couple of old (and small) volcanoes. It was pretty cold and windy there too.

We had lots of fun on this trip. It was pretty busy and went by too fast. But we're glad we got to see and visit family. We missed you Sam!