Our Saturday started super early and lasted all day long, and this post doesn't even include all of it. I am going to have to do one more post just to get it all in.
Anyways Tanner left for his first Boy Scout Pow-Wow at 7:30 in the morning. Doesn't he look handsome in his scouting attire. They will have the Pow-Wow for the next few weeks and his troop is working on the Life Skills and Chess merit badges during them. His first thing on the list is to teach Mom, someone who doesn't know how to play Chess, how to play it.
Next on the list Chloe's last soccer game, there is actually one more this season but we will be out of town next weekend so this was officially her last. The team did so good. They won 10-1, but the best part is that we were able to set up plays and stuff so that every girl on the team, except for one scored a goal. It was a great feeling and great accomplishment. Chloe scored probably 6 goals but she also helped to make sure the others got a turn. In fact a few of the goals she scored were on accident because she was trying to make a pass but she just kicked it so hard that it accidentally went in instead, I guess you just can't help it if your good a something-LOL. I was seriously so proud of the whole team though they have all come a long ways :)
Next was Tanner's Baseball Game. They were having a tournament this weekend. They played two games on both Friday and Saturday. They lost the first two. The played really good teams in those ones. One of the teams was from California and the other was from Vegas. They also lost the third game but it was pretty close. Then they won the last one. So they went 1-3. The last game was good one. Everyone was hitting, stopping, and catching the balls. Tanner had a good catch and out, a few good hits, a couple good stops, some excellent base running including stealing home at one point, a great pickle play-which ended in an out, and he got to pitch the last inning. He had one strike-out and good backing up from his team for the other two outs. They ended up winning that game 14-8.
Here is the other part of Saturday that I was talking about in my other post-the Fall Carnival. In between Chloe's soccer game and Tanner's second baseball game I took Chloe and two of her friends, Brydee and Kyler, to the GWA Annual Fall Carnival. The kids had a blast they did every ride and game they could have. While enjoying pizza, root-beer, cotton candy, and cookies. I on the other hand am not sure. I stood in line for almost the entire time we were there 2-1/2 hours so the kids could do this...
The last few days have been busy and fun. On Wednesday we had a pumpkin carving party with a few of our neighbors. I almost think that the adults did more of the carving while the kids drank hot chocolate and ran around and played. No-they actually did help some but I think they had more fun with the other stuff-lol.
Friday was the big school parade and they also had class Halloween parties. I was working all day and so I didn't get over to get any pictures of Tanner and his class. I did manage to snap a few of Chloe's since I work with a kid in her class, which is a nice thing most of the time. They both had fun though and were glad for a Fun Day of School.
Over the weekend Landon and Tanner went deer hunting. The left early Friday morning so that they could get up the mountain and set up camp before dark. That afternoon after they had set up camp Tanner went exploring a little bit, he came back to camp and told Landon he had seen a deer Landon asked him how big it's antlers were and he said "we'll I'm not sure I didn't have a tape measure with me"-LOL. Then he called me that night and told me about it. I also asked him how big it was and he said "oh, about three-fourths the size of the horse"- :) He is such a literal mathematical thinking child.
The next morning they got lucky and had a three-point down by about 10:00 needless to say with the antics of the horses and of Clem, the mule, it took them until about 4:00 to get back down the mountain. Landon said when he shot the deer that Tanner said "so Dad are you going to keep that one?"-yeah obvioulsy he goes fishing more than he goes hunting!
On Friday my mom came over and asked the kids if they wanted her to paint the windows for Halloween-they both quickly agreed and began planing what they wanted painted. Chloe wanted a cat and a pumpkin. Tanner wanted a "real" werewolf. So we had a window painting party. My mom and Landon, with Dave's help, painted the windows. They had an audience of kids watching. While they painted myself and the rest of the neighbors got ready for the yard sale we were going to be having on Saturday. The finished product looks great and now the kids are excited to get their windows painted for every holiday. I remember when I was little my mom would paint our windows for every Holiday and it was always fun for us. Can you guess who did which window?
Landon did the werewolf and my mom did the cat. Happy Halloween!
