A Few Random Fall Photos

Took another break from blogging as the Christmas season kept us more than busy!  I'm hoping to catch up over the next few weeks, but here are a few random pictures from the fall.  First, to say we had some more leaves to handle this year was an understatement!  In our last house, we thought there were a lot.  The new house put the old one to shame . . . though at least we have some woods where we can blow the leaves into behind our house. Here are the boys enjoying the leaves:

Next are some photos from Evan's soccer team this fall.  Soccer is, by far, Evan's favorite sport.  And, as usual, he gave us trouble the very first game.  After that, he was so thrilled to be at every game and practice.  Here is the team after their last game:

Boys will be boys and had to pile on each other:

And since Brian was the coach, he got a free photo with Evan:

And one day I caught my girl looking beautiful in the sunshine of our living room.  She's getting old but still looks beautiful:

And another photo set from this fall.  After a game of freeze-tag gone wrong on a Sunday night, we sent Evan to school with this shiner on Monday morning.  The picture doesn't do it justice.  And then the very next Sunday, riding his scooter, he did a nose dive onto the street.  So there he was the very next Monday, in school, looking like someone skinned his face.  He still has a scar from that fall and it happened before Thanksgiving.

Lots more to catch up on, including NYC trip, Evan's first school concert, Christmas celebrations and more.  Let's hope the more quiet pace of the post-Christmas winter will give me more time to keep up with this blog!

Halloween 2015

Halloween was a beautiful day and the boys were very excited to be dressed in their costumes for trick-or-treating.  Evan loved being a spider and scaring his arachnophobic mother

And I absolutely love the giraffe costume on Eric:

Brothers:

This outtake was adorable - love Eric's pose:

Our neighbors got us invited to a neighborhood party, which was nice.  We met so many people that I can't really tell you anyone's name.  But it was at least nice to get to meet the folks who we live near.  Here is the group right before we parted ways for trick-or-treating:

And we are on our way to trick-or-treating:

And just one last Halloween themed photo is from our trip to the zoo the weekend before Halloween - this one is Eric amongst the giraffes.  It loos like the giraffe in the background is checking out the newest addition:

All in all, we had a great Halloween and am now ready to start thinking about the holidays.

School Halloween Parades

On October 30th, we took the afternoon off to attend the boys' Halloween parades at school.  Here was Evan when he saw us during his kindergarten parade:

Mrs. Winnick's PM class:

My spider:

Laughing:

My budding photographer (Evan) took this picture:

Brian & Evan waiting for Eric's parade to start:

Nana, Brian & Evan:

And now Eric's parade.  There were lots of kids and it moved very quickly, so this is the only picture I got:

It was so fun watching their parades and they were so happy to have Nana there to watch them too.  I have some really good ones from Halloween that I'll post next time.

Apple Picking Traditions Continue

A few weekends ago, we headed to Highland Orchards for our annual apple picking trip:

Evan getting some good apples:

Eric displaying his apple:

And then taking a bite:

Posing on some pumpkins, and actually smiling nicely:

Then laughing:

When did this boy become such a big kid??

 My blondie:

A rare photo that I'm actually in:

Fun with dad:

Kisses:

Goofballs:

On the playground afterwards:

And after apple picking, we headed to Pocopson Founders Day.  The boys enjoyed a donut eating contest, which Evan was more than thrilled to participate in:

It was a great day and the boys were exhausted by the time we got home.  While I'm not happy to say goodbye to summer weather, we are certainly enjoying the fall activities.

First Day of Kindergarten for Evan

Evan started his first day of Kindergarten at Pocopson Elementary on August 31st.  He was excited and nervous at the same time (as was I).  Here we are taking the first day of Kindergarten photo in front of our house:

Got a nice laugh out of him:

Eric wanted in on the action too and we didn't have a sign for him, so we pretended it was his first day of Kindergarten too:

And now with Brian before the big day:

Here we are ready to go into the school: 

And outside Mrs. Winnick's classroom:

Evan found his name on the class board:

And so far, Evan is doing well in his new school.  There were some rough mornings during the first few weeks during drop-off, but he seems to have settled in nicely now and is starting to make some friends.  The school is very, very  nice and we've already been to a few school events, including a kindergarten playground meet-and-greet and a movie night outside at the school.  At the movie night there was a dunk tank.  And you guessed it, Evan had one shot and he dunked Principal Beaver!  I didn't get to see it but Brian said only 3 kids dunked during the time he was watching and Evan was one of them.  We went to a new parent meet-and-greet this week too.  Here's to hoping things only get better as the year goes on!