The destructive stage!

Carter is at the stage where he crawls around and makes messes wherever he goes. I caught him today pulling down all the books and had to capture it. There are always book or movie piles I am cleaning up throughout the day. :)

He's been caught red handed!

He realizes he's been caught

Then he has to come see mom and convince her that he's too cute to get into trouble!

Fall sports

We are just beginning the fall sports in our family.  Carter's new sport is crawling everywhere and eating whatever he picks up.  Samantha is doing cheerleading for the YMCA flag football teams.  And Ryan is in his first year of soccer.  Our weeks have become a lot busier with practices and then games on saturdays.  Not to mention the fact that Aaron and I are coaching Ryan's soccer team.  And by the way, the game that I coached didn't go as bad as I expected.  The boys play three on three and at one point I only had two players on the field because one left to go to the bathroom and two more were crying because they didn't want to play.  So there I was, begging the crying boys to come out and play with the team.  I finally convinced one of them to play and the game turned out pretty good.   The last game we had, Aaron coached (well I coached one quarter because he was on call and had to be away for a little bit) and I really prefer to sit on the sidelines watching the game and cheering for the boys.

Oh Carter is so darn cute!

Going to watch Samantha cheer is not exactly action packed, but it's fun to see all those cute girls getting into the cheers they've learned.

I love this picture of Ryan because he is smiling while running and it just shows how much he loves being out there playing soccer.

This picture captured the pulling on the shirt move.  We see a lot of that in the under six crew!

Lemonade stand and TAGGED

Samantha and Ryan had been dying to have a lemonade stand for so long so I finally caved. We didn't have lemonade so we made the generic peach crystal lite (you must try if you haven't already). Well, believe it or not, they made just over ten dollars. I was pretty impressed. We got a lot of people who were out looking at garage sales and they stopped by (some paying as much as $1 per glass). The kids were excited and are saving up their money to buy another webkinz.

Wish me luck:

Aaron and I got a phone call saying that Ryan's AYSO soccer team couldn't play because they didn't have a coach. They had asked all the other parents and we were their last hope. So, of course, we are now coaching his team. As many of you know, Aaron played soccer his entire life and I have not played a game in my entire life. So he is the main coach. So guess who will be gone for the first game....yes, Aaron. So guess who has to coach AND ref the game....ME! I'm sure it won't be too bad because the kids are young, but I am a little nervous because I have no idea what I'm doing. So, as I said before, wish me luck!

TAGGED

I normally don't respond to tags, but this one seemed short and sweet

4 things I like about my husband

-there are so many!! I like how well rounded he is (he's really good at everything)

-He is very helpful and involved with the kids

-He makes me laugh

-He is very giving and serving toward others

4 movies I would watch more than once

-Anne of Green Gables

-Napoleon Dynamite

-Fried green tomatoes

-What about Bob

4 TV shows I watch (If I get a chance)

-The office

-Lost

-House hunters

-most TLC shows

4 places I've been

-Outer banks, NC

-New York City

-Hawaii

-Europe

4 places I'd like to go

-New York City with Aaron

-Europe with Aaron

-Italy

-Disney world

4 things I would like to eat

-rice crispy treats

-Ice cream

-cereal

-chocolate

(ok I have a sweet tooth)

4 things I am looking forward to in the coming year

-Aaron finishing residency

-going to Disney world

-Aaron finishing residency

-Aaron finishing residency

4 people I tag

-kelly

-des

-abby

-karina