Halloween pictures...Finally

We have been so busy lately that I haven't had the chance to post their Halloween pictures. Indianna was a monster bride, Collin you can see was Spider-man and Abbie was a witch. They had a great time "trunk or treating" then we want to some family member's houses and a few in the neighborhood. I didn't have a chance to get one of the three of them together because we rushed out the door to go and when it was all over Abbie was so exhausted. She would not even wake up to go across the street to our cute neighbor lady's house. Marshall took a cute picture of her out in her bed with her costume on. I haven't gotten it from him yet. I decided to post a picture that was taken down at my mom's house of the five grandkids that live around here. Alaina and Hunter's costumes turned out so cute.

GOAL!!!!!

Indianna scored her first goal of the season yesterday. She playes in an older league where they play 8 on the field at one time and they play positions, so it is a little tougher. Thank goodness for Jason bringing his camera so I have these shots. It was really funny when she scored, she had a little celebration that I didn't see until the pictures. I was to busy cheering. All that I saw was her walking around with this huge smile on her face and looking like she didn't know what just happened or what to do next. We were so proud of her. Rich was off so he was able to see it also. Just a little update on Abbie. She has been doing pretty well potty training. She stays dry all day and tells us when she has to go. Yeah!! I can't believe how fast it goes when they finally decide that they want to do it. She is so stubborn I never thought the day would come. Collin is doing very well in school. I have posted his preschool link. His teacher updates the blog quite often so you can see what he and Alaina are doing there. He cracks us up nearly every day. I have decided to get a notebook to put all of his funny sayings in, so if you remember any let me know so I can get it all in there. I thought it would be really fun to look back on those things when he gets older.

And so the juggling act begins...

Well, I made it through my first two days of school (Thursday and Friday). I have been working hard to set up my classroom. We were able to get into the school Aug. 6, but I had only been able to get down there for a few hours here and there. Then teachers had to be back on the 15th for meetings and other stuff. We are still trying to fit working on the basement into our schedule as well. I did manage to tile the bathroom, by myself I might add. Lyle helped me in the beginning by showing me how to run the tile saw and get the first few tiles laid down and then he turned me loose. Not to bad for my first try. It is definately not perfect though, and for those of you that know me well, those spots do bug me. Oh well, I'll get used to it I guess. Now we have a circus act going on with soccer starting. Collin and Indianna are both playing this year. They had their first game on Saturday. It worked out that their games were at the same location 30 minutes between them, so we started with Indianna's and went over to Collin's. Rich took a bit of time off so that helped. He was able to take Collin over to his field while I finished watching Indianna. There will be times when their game times will be a bit tricky. Their practices are at the same time, but different locations. Thank goodness Staci is off on Wednesdays. Hunter and Indianna are on the same team, Hunter was at Sam's so he wasn't at the game this week. Watching Collin's age group is so funny. I forgot how funny it is. They just mob around the field after the ball. When the other team would get the ball, Collin would run down to the goal and basically stand in it to block. He did score a goal Saturday! Indianna and Hunter are on a new team this year. They played against their old team Saturday. She did really well. She was playing defender and the ball was going toward the goal, she kicked it and it launched down the field. The other part that we have to deal with is keeping Abbie entertained and off the field. Indianna also starts Gymnastics again in September. Here we go! In the pictures Indianna is #10 and Collin is #7

It's Coming Along

I can't believe that we are going to have more livable space soon. It is ready to be painted and I am going to try to put primer on the walls tonight. Here are some pictures of the transformation this far. Everyone gets to see our "organized" storage in the beginning.