A New Challenge

In the past 24 hours I have realized that I am having a challenge with playing! Yesterday, the boys put on their super hero costumes. I told them to go down stairs and play "super heroes". When I came down, they were on the wii...playing a super hero game! Turning off the wii, I told them that I meant to pretend play and they asked how, as they were both good guys. My brain was stumped! I tried a few suggestions, but it came down to Marcus having to give better tips!

This morning, Jacob, Ryn, and I were playing with the farm set and dinosaurs. It was easy for me to set up the farm and make-believe with Ryn. Then Jacob set up his army of dinos and started attacking the farm. This is nothing new, as this is usually what happens with the dinosaurs. The problem, Ryn was not thrilled with Jacob, which I could totally relate! How can the two of them play make-believe in their own ways, but with each other??? Luckily, Ryn's attention span cut her short and she was on to something else. So Jacob and I continued the battle, with his dinos defeating my crowd, as always.

Dino attacking Ryn

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Lovin' Fall

Here I am, almost a month later again on posting! We have been having a good October, enjoying the cool air, warm drinks, decorating, and smells.

The boys have been insistent on waking Ryn in the morning. Sometimes to the point of fighting over who enters her room first. One morning I couldn't resist taking a pic as they were all snuggled up together, lovin' on their sister. Thank you, Lord, for my sweet kiddos! May they stay this close, always!

Jackson loves doing crafts and decorating for holidays...he is his mother's son! We decided to make a garland of stuffed brown bag pumpkins. It was fairly easy and fun.

All the first graders at Jackson's school went to a pumpkin patch. Luckily, I was able to bring Jacob, as his preschool was going on a day he would not be there.

Here is JJ planting a few seeds from a squished pumpkin for next year's harvest!

What a great view!

Jackson fell in love with this kitten. I am half tempted to see if it is available since it was so calm with all the kid-handling it has been through!

We ate lunch at the "Dino Park". I was shocked to learn that I never knew this was close by, with dino- lover Jacob in our family.

And our most recent endevour...We took our house off the market and decided to remodel our basement bath. It was always been an eye-sore for us. Marcus and his friend, Josh, took saws and sledge hammers to it the next day. We decided it would be easier for a contractor to see what he has to work with plumbing wise, since the toilet and shower were on steps. Hopefully the "after" pictures won't be too far in the future!

Fall Fair and Soccer

The fair is not my favorite thing in the world, but we went...for a few hours!

Jackson loved the animals and rides, Jacob loved the food and rides, and Ryn was just happy!

The boys played itty bitty soccer for the past few weeks. Jacob has enjoy it from the start and JJ is warming up to it. It was a good start to organized sports. My opinion...love watching them, hate how it is another thing in our day! :o)

Chelsea's Wedding.

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Summer to Fall

Since I can't seem to keep caught up with this blog, I am going to wrap up the summer in a few pics and then we are on to fall! Our big end of summer to-do was our niece, Chelsea's, wedding. It was fun to spend time with ALL the family, in-between my contribution of taking the photos. It was funny, stressful, educational, and interesting! I tried to put a few of the photos here, but I think they are in the post above.

Hot Maggie.

The boys took part in a baseball afternoon learning different skills from Yakima's minor league players. Jacob loved it!

Jacob started preschool this year. Last spring I was a bit nervous as he still clung to me a bit when he had to go anywhere without Jackson. Not to fear! He loved it the first day and hasn't stopped. I love seeing this new brave side of Jacob.

Jackson started 1st grade, the first year that he is in school all day. The day before we made cupcakes with his buddy for their classmates.

My Big 1st Grader

Jacob looks sad that JJ is "leaving", but has been doing great.

His teacher, Miss Doornink