Pumpkin Patch

Kelly sent me these pictures of their annual visit to the pumpkin patch today. Harper is really studying that pumpkin!

Such cute kids!

Kelly said Harper just loved her pumpkin and kissed, hugged and wouldn't let go of it!

R.A. Long and Homecoming

The Rockets played in and won the R.A.Long Tournament today. Macee and Ava Charb and Kelly brought the kids up and watched the last two matches.

It was funny after they won the championship, normally the team would pose for pictures with the trophy but being that the Homecoming dance is tonight and by then it was about 4:00 p.m.-they all just high fived and ran off the court to head home to get ready! As we were driving up the freeway, both Macee and Tierney passed us. Kenzie Dahl, Tierney and Macee
Unfortunately, my picture of all four girls (including Maddie Seidl) didn't turn out. It is so nice that these four girls have such a close friendship, playing volleyball, basketball and softball together. They and their dates all met at Macee's and left for the dance at the high school together.

After we left the picture-taking session we went over to the Dolan's to watch Emmy's match against Alaska on their computer, since for some reason the live video won't play on ours. It was fun to see Emmy's team win and she played well with 6 kills.

Picking up Rielee

Ava and Harper got to ride along with Papa today to pick up Rielee at school. I went to watch Macee perform in the Homecoming LipSync contest, she did great (lip syncing to Abba's "Dancing Girl") as did Tierney and Ty, and the Junior class won it. Papa said the girls sat in the hall nicely while they waited for Rielee. Rielee was thrilled that they came along.

James and Alan came over to visit after school and good grief, James is now taller than me! Parker stopped by to see James, too. We had a good time talking and reminiscing, and decided we need to go to Kah-Nee-Ta again next summer. After they left, Rielee called and asked if she could stay with us during the football game, she also asked if I would take her to Walmart to look for a Halloween costume. I tried to say no, that I was tired and would take her tomorrow but she started bawling so I caved and said okay. Auna went with us. Rielee found a witch costume, hat and broom at Walmart, striped tights and some black and green hairspray at Target, so she is all set for Halloween.

1st Craft

This afternoon I thought I would try doing a craft with the girls. Harper was busy having a snack with Papa so I took Ava by herself and let her make a pumpkin. She wanted circle eyes, a triangle nose and a smile for hers and did really well with the glue stick. When it was Harper's turn it got a little chaotic, she thought the glue was a marker at first and was frustrated when everything was sticking to her. Then Ava tried to help Harper put the eyes on her pumpkin, which Harper didn't like, of course, so our craft session wrapped up pretty quickly. They were proud of their finished pictures though and excited when they got to put them on the fridge.
In the evening we went to watch the Rockets beat Kalama.

Look alikes

The twins seem to be looking more alike the past couple of weeks. I had them mixed up a couple of times today, of course Papa has them mixed up more often than not. It didn't help that they were both wearing pink shirts and jeans.Papa got their strollers out today to take them for a walk, before long they were out and pushing them and he had to bring out their babies for rides instead.

Halloween preview

A couple of weeks ago Charb ordered Supergirl and Batgirl costumes for the twins but initially they were both afraid of the Batgirl and would only try on the Supergirl one. Tonight Harper finally decided she was going to be Batgirl, making Daddy very happy.A Super-hero hug!

Tonight Rielee took home the biggest pumpkin out of the garden, she was so proud of it and couldn't believe she actually grew it in her garden!

Emmy at St. Martin's

We started our day at 10:30 with Rielee's soccer game then went to part of Auna's soccer game at noon. Parker had a football game at 4:00, we watched them win and then headed to Olympia to watch Emmy's CWU volleyball team play St. Martin's College at 7:00. Macee rode up with us.

Emmy is #6 at the net waiting for a serve. Central won in 3 sets and Emmy had 4 kills. It was a fun match to watch with several long rallies.

Getting some instruction during timeout.

Macee, Tierney, and Emmy-3 happy cousins!

Everyone stayed to visit with Emmy after the game and we took lots of pictures. Emmy had 22 family members and friends that came up to watch her play, including her former coach Tiffaney Golden and her summer-league Alumni Team coach Judy Frandsen, and Uncle Barry (it was his first volleyball game ever!).
Emmy's fans!