David's Birthday

Hahaha - this is from September. We celebrated David's birthday with lots of family. It's always fun to get to be with our family. :)

Soccer

David and Owen are almost finished their Fall season of soccer. It's been a lot of fun to watch them both play this year.

David has grown tremendously in learning how to play as a team and also in defense. He is amazing at defense and has also scored many goals this season. One thing that he stand out in is speed. He is very fast and he puts his whole heart into the games! Great job, David, on working hard and being a team player!

This year, Owen started playing soccer. It's been a rough season for his team as half the team doesn't even come out to play at all! And the other half get tired or bored or distracted very easily, but what can you expect from a group of 3 year olds?!? Owen has scored a couple of goals and last week he finally seemed to be getting it. He isn't aggressive AT ALL and needs to learn how to go after the ball better, but he has had lots of fun! He gets to play with Abby who is his best little buddy and they are ADORABLE out there. So cute.

Way to go Owen!!! Don't give up and keep trying. :)

Family photoshoot...some favorites

Here are some of our favorites from today...

Today we took some shots of the boys and of our family...Still working on getting a really good family shot, but we got some great ones of each one of the boys.

I love Owen's face in the picture above. Hahaha.

Liam - 18 months old. What a loving, happy, crazy, busy, feisty, strong, BOY!

David - 6 years old. What a creative, bright, happy, fun, silly, kind, loving, energetic, sports-loving, BOY!

Owen - 3 years old. What a loving, quiet, silly, sweet, "wants to be a big boy", fun-loving, happy, cute BOY.

A Fall Weekend

Last weekend David had off on Friday and Monday and we were able to do some fun fall activities with friends. On Friday, we went apple picking and did the fall festival at the orchard. It was so much fun! Even Liam picked some apples. :) Then at the festival, we painted pumpkins, went through a maze, went sliding on a GIANT slide, went swinging on tire swings, raced boats, road bikes in a hay race and had a ball. We were able to make apple pie, apple cake, and applesauce with our apples too! Yum.

Then on Sunday we went for a hayride and picked pumpkins with more friends! It was a beautiful day and we found a great pumpkin and had fun being outside.

Dave with our pumpkin!

Going on the wagon to pick our apples.

Me and my apple pickers. :)

Dance party on the wagon! :)

Dan's Race

Once again I am way behind on the blog! Last month we were able to see Dave's brother finish a half-ironman race. He did an awesome job and the boys were thrilled to be able to cheer their Uncle Dan on. Great job, Dan!