{1st game of the season}

Yesterday was E's first game for this fall. He is on a young team and they tied 3-3 so that was good. It was fun to watch and as he learns how to play a position he will do better. Right now they are all still chasing the ball everywhere even though the field is so much bigger than last year. He played a lot of defense so that was good once he figured out he didn't have to play the whole field!

He is #1 this year...

{Volcanoes}

E made a volcano at school this week as a part of their science lesson. They made them and exploded them. He is anxious to do it again at home....

{school fun}

Friday was our back to school barbeque. Luckily Chad was able to take the boys as I had to be at church for a primary activity.

They had a great time and there were games food and fun. Here are a few pictures of the fun they had.

{1st Place}

This week was K's rain gutter regatta. It was a great night for him. He got 1st Place!!

He designed his boat with his dad and ended up cutting the model boat in half. He was so happy and had a great night!

{Watch this}

{think what E would do}

After the program at school on Thursday night a parent of another 2nd grader came up to me and wanted to share a funny story. (E is in 2nd grade this year)

Her little 2nd grader has had some behavior problems at school this year and has been in trouble many times. And she was trying to give him ideas of what he could do to make better decisions.

She told him that he should think before he does anything at school and ask himself "would Jesus do this?: and if the answer was no then he wouldn't do it.

He told her he would not do this.

When she asked him why he had a different plan. Hear is what he said

"I will just do what E does. He never talks without raising his hand. He never talks when the teacher is talking and he always does the right thing. So I will just think what E would do."

It was so funny and so true. E is afraid to break ANY rule at school or home and will always do exactly what you ask him too. We hope this continues for a few more years!

{this is FANCY}

So all these years we have been parents we have just figured out we have been going about feeding our boys all wrong.

We are those parents that feel a home cooked meal is the best and a very important part of their day. We try to have a good breakfast, healthy lunch and a home cooked healthy dinner every night. We don't use hamburger helper, mac and cheese, ramen or any of those staples around here. I try to make as much or our food from scratch as I can. We thought we were all doing great with our food choices for the boys.

Then Saturday night came.

And C and I were going to a church meeting so we were having a babysitter come over. Usually he will make dinner for them or we will get pizza if we are running late. This night I remembered I had got two TV dinners I thought I would use for my work lunches. But I hardly ever have time for lunch so I have never taken them. So I told the boys what they were they each choose one and I heated them up.

Upon giving it to E he looks at it and I explain what a TV dinner is why it is called a TV dinner and any other questions he had. To which he tells me "this is pretty FANCY."

Yep...our boy would think TV dinners are fancy...not all those hot meals we made form scratch to avoid preservatives and all the other bad stuff.

We are re-evaluating our food preparations now.

{School Work}

Part of the Constitution Night celebration this year is that each class and each scholar have a piece of work displayed that night.

K did a picture of the flag and a very short essay....isn't his handwriting nice? this year he can only use cursive and that has slowed him down a lot which I think is good. And it is a lot nicer than his print.

E did a "tree map" one of the thinking maps we teach the children. It is hard to read from this picture but he did a great job!

This last picture is the display from my little class.

{Constitution Night}

Our school has a wonderful night on National Constitution Day. We have each class write their own class constitution and then sign them on the big night. It was a great night and the boys seemed to have a good time.

The scholars sang "God bless America" and recite the preamble of the Constitution.

Here are our two boys doing just that...can you find them?

Here they are signing their class' Constitutions.

And here are their classrooms.

{Tis the Season}

for SOCCER!

E has started practice again this fall....

He plays on the 7-9 year old team now and is the youngest on his team (and the smallest). It is his first year on the regular sized field and is worried about how big it is. We are lucky to get the great coach that K had his first year and that worked with Chad last year coaching.

He can't wait for his first game!!

{Circus Circus Fun}

Over the holiday weekend we got a short but sweet visit from our Apo family. Grandma and Grandpa flew in on Friday and Uncle Kris and Auntie Elisa came in Thursday. We played at the pool at Auntie Elisa's hotel for the afternoon after school before heading to the airport to see G&G Apo.

We got to visit a lot and spend some great times with everyone including a trip to the Strip to play the carnival games inside the Circus Circus. We hadn't been there in about 5 years so this was a great treat for the boys.

We watched the circus acts they had and then played games.

Chatting before the circus started....

We came home with a BAG FULL of stuffed animals!

{can't let the day go by without...}

We Never Forget....

{busy...busier...busiest}

Well to say that life is busy is not even necessary.

I think we should start rating our life on a scale of busy.

If we reach busiest I vote we close the doors and windows, turn off ALL phones, close the computer and watch a movie and breathe.

Our life is super busy right now. I find we are all exhausted and a bit on the overwhelmed part of busy. I felt that E was so tired that I even let him stay home with Chad on Thursday for a "mental health" day.

I am so tired the more I sleep the more sleep I need. Today I barely made it through lunch and back to bed.

I REALLY need one of you to figure out how to stop time so me and my family can enjoy some simple pleasures and not always be worrying about work, school, laundry, groceries, callings, and all of that and just breathe.

So we'll be back with some fun posts soon...but for now we are super busy and I can't find a spare moment to even pull the camera out for some extra fun shots to share.