pumpkin pumpkin pumpkins

we love the pumpkin patch near us

it has an amazing playground, bounce house, slide, corn maze and hay ride....

the kids are giddy as can be when we told them we are going.  

and it was great weather. perfect day to go....

we ran into some great friends the rowe family.  

Which makes it even more fun to play...

camiron, braden, joshua, zach

nowhere else to go

these are a few random shots that just needed to make the blog.  just because.

They have nowhere else to go.  

My two couch potatoes.  But really how cute are they.

she is my little helper while the kids are at school.

lets be honest.  she isn't much help

but she is stinkin cute

this cute little group of buddies.  I think this might have been the first day school.

cam sarah julia tim and braden.

we had to pull over and grab these shots of some cotton fields.

we love fall soccer

another great soccer season has come and gone.  

Braden had a new coach this round- coach sam who was amazing.

he taught them real soccer skills that he can use in the future.  I love that. 

He gets so excited about his sports and he loved having a winning team.  

Just ask him- he will tell you that they are the only undefeated team this season.

(which is true.... but they aren't supposed to keep score!  Pretty funny)

competition season is on

Competing always made me nervous- 

but camiron seems to love it.

She gets excited to get ready, so excited for her leotard, and loves doing her routines

She is so dang cute.  oh and she loves loves loves the medals.  

here are a few pics from her first 3 meets

cam and vivian

cam and sierra

with jillian and cloe

Sanford Gymnastics Academy

Camiron has been bumped up to team level 3 this year.

She loves it.  We love that she loves it.  It is exhausting for us. 

She loves that she is the youngest- and only 5 year old.  :)  It seems to be 

a badge of honor for her.  

she is at the gym 2-3 days a week for 3 1/2 hours each lesson. 

phew.  it is 3 1/2 hours that I spend trying to keep emory off the floor.  

if the gym wasn't 35 min away we could leave her- but it is just too far.  

good thing she loves it.  Did i mention she loves it?  

both classes of level 3's.

this little rugrat has the run of the house while the big kids are at school.

and she loves it.  sort of.  

she misses them and gets so excited to get them at the end of the day

but she loves a little extra attention at the end of the day.

first day of school

B's first day of 2nd grade went great.  he was stoked about his teacher

He jumped for joy when he found out Mrs. Freddricks was going to be his teacher.

I jumped for joy because she is amazing... and last years teacher of the year.  

She does a great job of challenging each student and keeping them on the move.

she loves to do projects in class so they have hands on learning, but not too much homework.

I love it.... he loves it.

cam had her "assessment" on the first day of school.

so she didn't get to go to school for the first 5 days while they decided on kindergarten placements.

she was super bumbed.... 

these are cam's first real day :)

she was placed with Ms. Bruner and loves kindergarten.

I walked her to class, she hugged me and said goodbye.  She jumped right into 

kindergarten like a pro and hasn't looked back.  We are so proud of her

and I had to giggle the other day when she came home and said she doesn't 

really need to go to kindergarten because she already knows everything they are teaching her.