Just taking a little break from all the rambling to post a few pictures from the last week.
Emily gets serious about her turn on a pony on our visit to Apple Hill - an area about an hour from here which features 50 working farms/orchards all with a little tourist business on the side.
Giddy-up
First time on a horse but playing it cool.
These are the Turkey cupcakes we made for Cubbies club.
Yesterday we attended 3 soccer games followed by 3 end of season pizza parties.
Chase has waited for this moment for most of his young life. He finally got his own soccer trophy. 2 years ago he was so upset that the other kids got one and he didn't, I had to buy him one on ebay.
(Brendan-far left w/ red eyes -my good camera is in the shop)
At Brendan's soccer party, the pizza place handed out lumps of pizza dough for the kids to play with. 12 boys + siblings all had a great time for 30 minutes playing with it. Very brave of the restaurant - they will probably be finding dough ground into the carpet for the next week.
Brendan has had a banner year this year in sports. His baseball team finished second in the division in the spring. His soccer team finished undefeated, the top ranked of 54 teams in his age group.
They played 14 games, scored 53 goals and had only 13 scored against them. Brendan was first string goalie. Their scores would have gone even higher had not the coach arranged the players to keep the team from getting too far ahead of their opponent.
We put Emily in pigtails for the first time today. The rubber bands didn't happen to match. Can you tell she's a 4th child?
We did all of our Thanksgiving shopping on Friday to get in ahead of the rush. Friday night Chase was itching for some egg nog but I told him we had to wait for Thanksgiving as I didn't want to be going back for more before the big day.
Saturday morning the first thing he asked when he got up was, "Mom, is this the day we drink egg nog." Some call it Thanksgiving, others Turkey day, but around here, I guess its 'the day we drink egg nog'.
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