Lauralynn's shower

We helped with Lauralynn's star wars themed baby shower.

I made this R2D2 diaper cake.

And the two pictures on the table.

Everything turned out nice.

she got a ton of great gifts.

These cute cousins were so excited to meet their new cousin.  (who is now born and that will be a later post)

Flag Football

Hayden asked to play flag football this fall.

The first game was a monsoon.  But he had fun.

I was impressed with how well Hayden listened and always tried his best.  He is not super fast so he didn't get the ball too much.  He was mostly linebacker.

His team made the finals and go to play at the high school.  He was excited about that and made me put paint under his eyes.


 They lost but he was fine.  He pulled 5 flags that day which is a record for him.




I asked if he was going to play next year and he said no "its too much running".  then asked if he could play hockey !!!!

Hayden is in 1st grade

Hayden is now in first grade.  He was not very excited to go on the first day as you can see above.  His teacher is Mr. Henke and Hayden really likes him.  He is doing well so far.  He scores off the charts for math.  And pretty high for reading too.  

My cup team

I have two teams this fall.  Not only am I doing the high school team, I am doing a cup team as well.   u-13 girls.

We took them to a tournament in Columbus and they came in 2nd.

Hayden and Amelia were super excited that there were extra trophies.

My high school team

My poor high school team is struggling.  We are near the bottom of our section but could be one of the better teams.  We just can't score.  We have gone to overtime 6x this year!  We are the most unlucky team i have seen.

Amelia loves coming with me and being with the girls.  Here she is stretching with them in her dress.

A weekend away

Mike and I took a short trip by ourselves in August.  We revisited Rickett's Glen and a few other parks.

We first visited Adam's Falls.  It was a very cool little area.

Mike even jumped from the rocks into the water below.  I played 2 soccer games the night before and really hurt my back.  I wanted to jump but was scared it would make things worse.  I was already having problems even walking   :(

We finished the main hike in Rickett's Glen that we didn't do last time with the kids.  This side of the park/trail had way less people there.  So we had most of the waterfalls to ourselves.
Waterfall 1


Waterfall 2


waterfall 3


We enjoyed a nice dinner at our hotel.  There was only one other restaurant in the area!

The next day we visited Worlds End Park.

We stopped at the overlook

and checked out the rock garden.

We did a short but steep hike to a small waterall.

On our way home we stopped and saw a few more falls.

It was a nice little get away.