Saturday football

Lucas had an amazing game on Saturday afternoon. The weather was great for a wonderful crowd of supporters he had come to watch him. Thank you everyone for coming out to watch him.



the huddle
getting lined up

getting set the tackle

wondering why he is not playing defense

well next week is the big game where we play the same team we defeated in the super bowl last year. We will have a lot of practices this week to get ready for the big game.

Nastics

Addi had gymnastics on Friday and I ran up to see her and to get some more pictures. After all I must keep the blogger audience happy :)

Addi loves her "nastics" so much. I am pretty sure she would love any activity that got to be hers and only hers but I think this is even more special to her since she gets to do it with other kids she knows.

At the beginning of every class they have to listen to what they are going to do for the day and then practice in the small room before they go into the big gym.

Who would of thought tumbling over in a straight line would be so hard to do. It seems to be very easy to do on a level surface but to do it on a wedge mat, well as you can see that is harder.

Pumpkin Carving

Thursday night we carved our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch. It was so much fun. Lucas picked a bat design. Mom picked a Mickey Mouse design and Dad followed suit with Goofy after his initial template fro a duck head did not work out. Addie opted for coloring her pumpkins, remember she had several from the pumpkin patch. Lucas was able to talk her into jeweling one of hers, he ended up having to do much of the work for her as it was a bit hard for her to push them into the pumpkin. I am pretty sure that Lucas favorite part was poking the jewels into the pumpkin and then cutting out the back for the light

I love to see their faces every year when they have to clean out the inside of their pumpkins.

Lucas helping Addie get her jewels in

pumpkin brains

. Our finished products. Lucas scrapped the outside of his pumpkin to make it look scarier.

Happy Halloween!! Don't forget to come trick or treat at our place!

Pumpkin Patch

This afternoon we headed out to Johnson's Farm for our annual pumpkin patch trip. It turned out to be a pretty nice day so we were able to take our time around the entire farm. The kids loved every second of it.
It was a good time for all and now all we have left is the carving.

Before we headed out to get our pumpkins the kids spent some time playing around.

and climbing on top of fire trucks

and running around




the annual pumpkin measurement chart.


Some lazy pigs when they are not racin for their oreo's

going through the mazes. First the hay bale maze

milking a fake cow. Addie was less them impressed with the process. She wanted to wash her hands right away!


Lucas thought it was a bit cooler to try and milk the cow. Watch out Grandma Jan this one could be on the wish list.

back to running around fun and sliding.

another maze Addie needed some big brother help to get around and get out

Addie not wanting anymore big brother help getting around and out

taking a break checking out the hay
going through the hay barn with dad. The biggest pumpkin patch enemy to mom, hay!

Once we made it out the patch the kids loved it. It took a while to find some great pumpkins and all of a sudden Addie started kicking them. She would find one she liked and would kick it as some sort of final test.

Lucas thought it was funny so he gave it a try and what do you know, the first one he tried his foot went right though. The entire side of it was rotten. Yep, that is pumpkin yuck on his shoe.

We took a little time for a science lesson. A lesson on how pumpkins grow and what they look like during the various stages. Addie is sure they are gross and wanted nothing to do with it. Lucas, well it went over better with him. He actually had questions that you could almost hear over Addie professing how ugly they looked.

Getting a little help from Dad.

Obsessed, absolutely obsessed over finding the cutie st little pumpkins she could find. I think she ended up with four in total.

This is how Lucas spent much of his time. running around looking for the perfect biggest pumpkin he could find. In the end he left very happy.

The loot

See all those little pumpkins in there. That is the proud owner!! Lucas pumpkin is the one standing up nice and tall.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Football game 10-17-09

Another cold Saturday means another football game around here. Really the weather was 100% better then it was last week. They played at one of the Blue Valley High School fields so the boys were very very excited. They even looked a little exhausted after they ran in their touchdowns. They continue the winning streak with a 19-6 finish.

Right in the middle of everything

Checking things out from the stands.

This poor kid never had a chance. Good thing the ball never made it to him.

Ready to block

Talking it over

Yeah, that is my dad yelling at me again. I will get em again just like last time, yeah yeah dad, just like last time