Thursday, October 6, 2011

September fly-by

I can't believe how quickly September went by!  The weather was great all month and we were busy with all our various activities: 
Jared: work, work and more work.  Lots of church stuff (he is the EQ pres) 
and helping taking care of kids, yard and dinners (most nights!)
Jersh: Room mom stuff for Conner's class, I'm Ashton's new Webelo leader, spoke in church on the 18th (yikes!), running kids all over the place, helping with homework, taking care of house. Oh yeah, I work too. 
Kels: busy with lots of homework, friends, babysitting jobs & YW.  
Emma: soccer on Wed & Sat, homework, friends and Activity days.  
Ashton: soccer, soccer, and oh, yeah - soccer. 
Plus we try to fit in play time with friends, homework and scouts.  
Conner: soccer on Mon and Thurs, math homework (which he loves), 
reading homework and play play play.  
Mal: dance class on Thurs mornings, Kindergarten every afternoon 
and lots of playing and being a "diva" (what Jared sometimes calls her).
Sophie: she's pretty busy being everyone's favorite.
The picture is bad, but one day our yard turned into neighborhood central.  Emma & 3 of her friends put up a lemonade stand (on the left side of the picture), that attracted some boys (they are cute girls, boys can't help themselves;]!), and a few of Ashton's friends showed up.....some cousins too.  They played some soccer, rode scooters & bikes, and made a mess.  I think there were about 20 kids over. 
Pretty self-explanatory.  SO cute.
This is Sophie's FAVORITE thing to do.  We'll say, "Want to jump?" and she goes straight to our back door.  The kids love playing with her there too.  Denise asked me if it was a giant playpen for Sophie. =]  Kind of.