Thursday, December 15, 2016

Noni's Visit/December Fun!

What a wonderful two weeks with Noni here!  We finished up the fall season soccer games, hosted soccer parties, and celebrated the Christmas season!

Bundled up for the kids soccer games in the cold!
It was freezing!
Ben's team
Nate's team playing another Gunners team.

For Ben's soccer party I got all the boys mustaches and sunglasses similar to what their coach always wears to surprise the coach - it was adorable!

Ben's soccer pizza party - Nate's was at the same place the night after but we forgot to take pictures.


Nate is in math club this year and participated in his first math competition-results don't come back until January.  In other news, since we moved back to the district Nate took the highly capable testing and qualified to switch schools to join one of two 5th grade gifted classrooms in the district.  He is going to stay at his current school and participate in the gifted programming there. It was a huge honor and we are proud of him!

snow!

Putting lights on the dock w/ my Benny.



My awesome new favorite tool - had to get those windows clean before the soccer party at our house!


Riley's team party at our house - it was loud and crazy and fun!

Riley's team - love these awesome girls!

It was pretty awesome the Sounders game happened to coincide with the party and that the Sounders won the championship! What a memorable night!

Where's Mesh? He went to Rochester for the weekend to visit his new niece Mina, niece Jessa, Raji and Badamma! 
Riley Isabel

Lady Bruno!

Early Christmas celebration with Noni!




Sunday, November 27, 2016

November Moments

The months fly by as the kids are getting older and our family is busy with soccer, school and friends. This is the "sweet time" of our family where the kids all enjoy the same activities and still think it's cool to hang out with mom and dad.  We are so thankful.

Nate at a birthday party at Great Wolf Lodge



Harry Potter fans
Up late watching the election results...Bruno's face says it all. 



Riley's team - undefeated league champs!

Mom and Ben on the first grade field trip to a play

Ri presenting her coding project

Nate presenting his coding project


Hot tub time!

And although it's still November, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!  We decorated our tree the day after Thanksgiving and then today we saw Santa and went ice skating between Riley and Nate's indoor soccer games.







Belf the elf is back!

Thursday, November 24, 2016

Thanksgiving

We stayed home for Thanksgiving and celebrated with family and friends. The kids loved hosting and were a big help!

I asked the kids to dress nicely for dinner and Ben came up in his Hawaiian shirt. Love it!




kids table


adult table


Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Toothless grin!

Little Ben does everything in a big way! He lost his first tooth on 11/10, second tooth on 11/16 and third tooth on 11/22.  The tooth fairy has earned a lot of frequent flier miles visiting our home.







Saturday, November 5, 2016