Last weekend was kind of nuts. On Saturday, Brady and Logan had soccer and lacrosse respectively in different locations then Aiden and Logan had soccer games at the same time in WAY different places. Brian and I split up as we have many times this sports season. It was Brady’s last soccer game so Brian took the camera. That day (and Sunday) it rained and rained like crazy off-and-on. Most of our events, including family portraits, actually happened on Saturday (except for Logan’s game because the other team was a no-show in the rain). Logan had another soccer game Sunday morning while Brady, Aiden and I went on our 4th annual Walk for Juvenile Diabetes with the neighborhood crew in support of our friend Kate. Hopefully the rain will stay away this weekend and we can get pictures of Logan at lacrosse and the big boys playing for their soccer teams.

Brady was SO pleased to get his very first sports medal. He always tries to steal the ones his brothers get…now it’s his turn! :)

Brady is in the black hat with red flames

Look how little his hand is in his coach’s!

Go Salmons! (yes…Salmons)

Soccer is tiring for Brady…and daddy too I guess

This is a “mommy take my picture” picture of Aiden’s block stack. We use these blocks for math stuff…and building stuff  

Kona went to the groomer’s today…she does NOT like her bows. I took a quick picture with my phone before she went outside to roll around and get it OFF! She’s always so soft after the groomers…and they put some like puppy perfume on her too…so elegant. ha!

Speaking of Kona, she’s currently taking a puppy class on Monday nights. Last night, Logan wanted to come with me (and then repeatedly told me how bored he was while we were there). I gave him my phone…which he used to take a video of “play time”. He asked me repeatedly to put it on YouTube…so here it is! Brian and I love when he says, “Ok…and this is a puppy mess” when they crawled up on his lap.

For the fifth year in a row, we packed up the kids, the mini van (and the SUV) and headed over to our favorite camp site for the kick off of the Halloween season. This year, the kids were all expressing a desire to sort of be “their own thing” instead of doing a group costume so the moms came up with the concept of the US Olympics Team…year 2024 (which would be a summer games when our kids are between the ages of like 15-21). Most of the kids are in a sport currently so we thought they could still have a group costume, but personalize it in their own way. Brian and I spent some time learning how to prep a silk screen to make shirts. Jen from down the street and Auntie Denna (who came for a visit the week before we went camping), helped me put the ink on the shirts!

As always, a great time was had by all – roasting s’mores, dressing up, tie-dying pillow cases for trick-or-treating, the camp ground costume parade etc.

Here are pictures of our little (future) Olympians.

Logan was a lacrosse player (thinks that maybe this sport will go global by 2024 and be added to the olympics), Brady was the torch-bearer (took his job verrrrry seriously!) and Aiden was a tennis player (seen here before a serve)

  Little kids on stage…4-6 yr division (we lost in the most creative to a kid dressed as a construction worked and his friend dressed in a box as a building…totally fair)

The big kids on stage: 7-12 yr group. They lost to the two Indians on the left. The “vote” was by audience applause…we were chanting “USA – USA – USA”…we better ditch our standard back-row seats for front row seats and yell louder next year! No matter…we all got to go get loads of candy right after this and we got lots of compliments on the group effort :)

Fierce!

Sweet!

On Fire!