Catch up!

Rigby got to play soccer this year & I got to be his coach! I'm not sure he learned a whole lot but he did have fun! We had 6 very young boys on our team & we got smashed every game. We're talking 13-0 in a 20 minute game! Finally in the second to last game we scored our first goal! Hooray for Dawson! Then our last game we scored 2! Both by Coben, the other team secured our first & only victory by scoring 2 more goals for us! We'll be playing in the spring as well.

Rigby's team: Front row Bodie, Jace, Rigby; back row Dawson, Bowdrie & Coben.

Lainee played again this year - Olivia opted out because it made her tired to play soccer! Lainee's team is the Purple Pirates! Front row: Delilah, Carissa, Jessica, Lainee. Back row: Aaliyah, Abbie, Monica, Kia, & Kenya. And coach Jessica & her husband (I don't know his name but he basically took over & coached.)








Once again, Lainee proved to be a great asset to the team! She was a high scorer for the team! In the picture she is holding up 2 fingers for 2 goals - not for peace! She continues to be a good athlete & enjoys sports!

This tree is what I see going out my front door! Unfortunately its not in my yard! But isn't it beautiful? It belongs to the church that I live across the street from.

So speaking of my house, I wanted to show some updates! This is the before picture, kind of plain & dead grass.



After! I made & installed the shutters myself! Didn't it just dress up the house?! And notice the grass! Back to green! We (ok Trent) reseeded the grass & its growing in nicely! Oh I also painted the house numbers to stand out.





This picture is far away but its to show the before picture of the side window that partly behind the bush.



And after. Again, kind of hard to see behind the bush but you can see the shutters! (I still need to trim that bush!)




This week at school Lainee gets to be the "King of the Jungle" spotlight. She made a poster of some of the places she's been to & got to answer questions from her class.

Good job Lanes!

In my last post I showed Olivia with the front tooth that she lost. This is how she looked for a week & a half! Notice the tooth is going gray! I called her my little jack-o-lantern with those crazy teeth!

Trent had told her to get the tooth out or he would pull it out for her! Every night for that week Trent would "operate" on her. They had a system where he would wiggle the tooth around & she would hold up fingers based on pain, 1 finger ok, 2 & 3 progressively hurting more, 4 fingers meant stop. Here she is at a 2 with minor pain (again the 2 fingers not meaning peace!).

These pictures really were on different nights! She just really likes that nightgown & wears it a lot! Finally it was down to the last strand & I distracted her while Trent pulled it out with out her even feeling it or knowing that he did! Perfect timing for a little Christmas tune - you know which one! "All I want for Christmas is my two front teeth!"

The Last Few Weeks

(I can't get the pictures to work right - they won't align, so the captioning does not line up with the right pictures! Sorry!)

The girls had CrAzY hAiR day at school & this is what we came up with. Excuse the 6 year old throwing the fit! As for Rigby, how could I not take a picture of that cutie!

Then came the deer hunt... it was my first rifle hunt & I NEVER got to use my gun!

We did get a flat tire though! Good thing we had 3 guys to change it!

We did see a lot of does. If you look closely you can see a line of deer making their way up the hill, just none with antlers!

Next was the kids Halloween parade at school. Well since I can't get the pictures in order, next is Olivia after school showing me that she lost one of her front teeth! We've been working on the one that's still in & she got knocked at school & it made the tooth that fell out really loose so when she ate a french fry at school her tooth fell out! Then she lost the tooth at school but the tooth fairy still gave her 6 quarters - one for every year old!

Ok now its the school parade! Lainee was Cleopatra! And of course I managed to take her picture with the sun glaring behind her! Olivia was a gothic ballerina! We decided later that she was a zombie ballerina & her teeth looked more zombie-ish!

Then it was Saturday night, time for some trick or treating! Lainee was Cleopatra, Rigby made a comeback as a bat again, & Olivia was a wizard - she was embarassed to wear it to school so she just wore it trick or treating.

These are our jack-o-lanterns we did this year. The "pirate flag" or skull & cross bones was Rigby's pick, trick or treat with faces was Lainee's, & the wildcat was Olivia's pumpkin. Fun times! Oh we also had a neighborhood Hallowienie roast before the kids went out, byo hot dogs & a dish to share & they had homemade rootbeer & fixings.

Now only 3 weeks until the Christmas tree goes up! hehehe!