Sports ALL weekend long.

 

Austin signed up for Fallball.  This is a first time sport for our family.  Matthew did play in little league when he was only five years old but he was there to play and others were picking dandelions.  The boys have played tons of softball before but not much of modify ball.  Now we learn how to bunt and steal bases and hit fast balls!  Let the fun begin!

Practice went well!

I grabbed a fall drink and this yogurt at White Magnolia's food trailer and it was so amazing!

This week was the beginning of football season!  Mike and I have tickets for our football weekend away and we are looking so forwards to it!!!!  Love this season!

Ashlyn is giving high school sports a thumbs up and it playing great!  The JV team is good and so fun to watch!!!!

The girls had a tournament on Friday and made it to the playoffs.  This meant we were watching the first Chiefs game on bleachers in a gymnasium all the while cheering on Ashlyn and her team mates!!!!

They played well and made it to playoffs.  

Let's get it together Chiefs!

Then we spent all day Saturday at the park!!!  The Damian Foundation had a fundraiser and Adrian put this team together!  They played so well and finished in their bracket as first place!!!!!

Way to go Curveball Kings!

We came home so tired!  Austin and Matthew were playing on teams and Mike was an umpire!  I had Gunnar most of the day because Hadassah was with the Varsity volleyball team in a tournament.  He did great and we all had a fun day!

We decided to sleep in on Sunday morning and we ate breakfast on the chilly back porch while we watched church online.

The kids loved the French toast sticks and bacon!!!!

And when I say that we were playing sports ALL weekend, that's what I mean!  Austin had his very first baseball game playing for the Braves!  He was nervous.  He did great!  He had hits!  Stole a base!  Scored runs!  He said after the game that hitting was the best part of the game and that was what he was the most nervous about!  He's scared he's gonna get hit but he did great and had fun!

We sat on the sidelines cheering and enjoying the beautiful day at the park again!  The Braves won both games and playing with Adrian once again is always a highlight for Austin!

We would have love to come back home and watch some football but the Dienners were gathering and we didn't want to miss that event either!  The kids fished while the dads played Pickleball!  Uncle Alvin and Ruth are the best hosts and served us the best foods!

It's always good to see family once again!

Aunt Ruth is always so thoughtful!!!!  She had some of Mommy and Daudy D's favorite foods available for everyone to take along home!  Keith gave us a big bag of swedish candy.  Herby made Austin fresh cotton candy.  Ashlyn was sipping on mountain dew sloshies.  The kids broke open two piñatas.  The whole night surrounded by family was fun and we left sugared up.

 

This was an extra busy weekend but everyone had a ton of fun!!!!  We are blessed to have energy and strong bodies to allow us to do fun things like life in this fun life!!!!

It's beginning to feel like fall!

 My favorite month is here!!!!!  I love September weather with blue, blue skies!  Chill in the AM and warm in the afternoon!  The garden is still thriving with figs, raspberries and lettuce and radishes!  Dahlias are in bloom!  It is dry outside and we could use some rain but the farmers are beginning to cut down some corn.  Hot cider and pumpkin lattes are now available!  We are grabbing from layers as we head out the door for school!  It's just the best weather ever!!!!!

The fresh cut flowers that fill my kitchen are beginning to look like fall!!!!

I woke up to the most gorgeous sunrise and I'll say it again!

I love September!!!!!

Fresh radishes are wonderful!  And I would love to do all the things that my calendar is showing for this month!!!!!

Do you ever wonder how it must been like to cross the Red Sea?  On dry ground?  Was it as tall as the corn stalks are this year?  Was it as tall as the sky scrappers in the city?  It must have been wild!!!!!

And he's the star of the show at our house right now!!!!!!  Look how cute baby Gunnar is!!!!!  He's such a happy baby and is loving this new Johnny jump thing and he adores us!  We love baby dear!!!!!

September is going to be full of fun events!  Lots of hot cider!  Football begins and baseball continues!  Ashlyn is in high school sports this year and we have lots of games coming up to watch!  A football weekend and school sale to enjoy!  I can't wait!!!!!  Life is so sweet!

Labor Day Weekend.

 Labor Day weekend was spent at our favorite cabin in the woods once again!  Jeremiah was in a baseball tournament and was meeting us at the cabin later that weekend so Ashlyn and Austin rode up with Hadassah and Gunnar!  There was so much traffic but Mike and I were the only ones in the truck and we acted like young love again as we stopped for our first pumpkin lattes of the season and listened to oldies music as we drove up the seven mountains!  I love moments like these!!!!

Family is always welcome at the cabin but it didn't suit everyone this weekend.  Those of us who were there played a lot of bad mitten games!  We ate such good foods!  We sipped on hot cider as we sat around the campfire!  The boys set traps!  

Mike hauled up a tree stand and got it all ready for when hunting season comes along!  Austin can't wait!

My dad has the wood crew going through his land and cutting down tons of trees!  I mean tons!  The woods almost look bare compared to what it was like just a few weeks ago!  The boys loved playing on this ginormous pile of wood chips!

Mim was saying how she did the hero workout on Friday and I wanted to watch Matthew and Mike do this!  I knew they could!  It would not be easy but I just wanted to hear them finally say that they have sore muscles.  Every week when I workout, I'm sore.  Mike just doesn't get sore!  So they did it!!!!

So many pushups and squats and sit-ups.  I would have been crying from pain but they did it!!!!

I did help with the very last squats of 125!  My legs are still sore!!!!!

Hummingbirds everywhere up there!  So pretty!

Always good food at the cabin!

The men split wood and the boys helped fill the wood shed!

We love golf carts rides at the cabin!!!!!

And the little boys couldn't wait for their dads to take them fishing down by the river!  Young and old love this place!!!!!

Labor Day is the last of summer holidays and the beginning of fall!  We came home to September on our calendars and fall in the air!  I just love how it's cool in the mornings and evenings and warm in the afternoons!!!!!

Welcome fall time!