SemiState Volleyball

What a great season we had this year.  After graduating 8 seniors last year, this should have been a rebuilding year, but the JV coach knows what he is doing and they were quite comfortable moving up to Varsity and being competitive.  :)  Wapahani was kind enough to take out Burris University this year, so the only thing standing in our way .... was them.  We faced off with them in the final game of the Semi State.  It took them 5 games, but Wapahani won out in the end.  It was a very exciting and exhausting game!  While the game itself is way fun to watch, watching the coaches is also very entertaining!  I call these...."Scouting Coaches", "Pensive Coaches"," Celebrating Coaches", "Happy Coaches", "Jumping Coaches", and "Tough coaches".  :)  The kids did a great job on the long day, too.  (I have more pictures on my camera to come - these are from the [Cooper's] Super camera.)  The last two I call "Tired Cooper" and "One Good Pass!".  :)

Grandparents are Great!

We stopped by the bowling ally with all the grandparents last week to show off our cuteness.  Love them!

Grandma picking up the spare.... and Nick thought the crayons were hilarious!

Trick or Treat!

The brightest crayons in the box!

Cooper:  "Um...The giraffe is crawling away."

Scary!

Wild Kratt Time!

For Dad

We took a couple pictures to send to Tim this week during school.  Cooper likes to pose too.... hee, hee!  Also we never made it to the pumpkin patch but bought some from the grocery store.  Hoping to carve them this this weekend!

The Birthday Boy

Nicholas is 1!  We enjoyed monkeying around with him and Grandpa and Stacey at their birthday party.  :)  Everybody loves a cookout at the farm, watching a one year old eat their birthday cookie, and playing a little football with Great Grandpa!  Good times!

Morning Fun

Cooper and I came home one morning during preschool time (I must have forgotten something important.... like the cell phone or shopping list.  Ugh.)  So, we made the best of it and made banana muffins!  He was a great stirrer!  And, celebrating the letter F with Football Fun!  :)

Tournament Time!

Sectional Squeenkies and coloring.... Regional Crafting with our friend Hannah (Or Cooper using the craft tool as a spitting - gun thing?).... Back to Semi State we go!!!  Go VolleyKnights!

The fun we have

The kids L O V E to swing.  Cooper finally figured out how to pump this year and they spend every minute they can outside on the swings.  We also are keeping up with the letter each week at Grace's preschool and had fish shaped sandwiches, fish crackers, and fruit for lunch last week.  Also, they love to take pictures and video - that is what our garage looks like (when we have it clean enough to park in there!).  :)

Super Kids!

Joseph the Football Guy

We were able to catch Joseph in one of his 7th grade football games this year.  Cooper went straight to work drawing what he saw (silly face encouraged by Joe), and Grace took her camera to capture pictures of the fun on the field and in the stands!  Good job Joseph!