Sports

Lately, our lives our seeming to revolve around three sports-cross country....

flag football...

and soccer. All the seasons run a little differently than in Ohio. Tomorrow is the last football and soccer game for the fall season and cross country goes for a few more weeks.

Happy Halloween!

Christine all ready to go.



Andrew decided the day before that he wanted to be a vampire too. Had the batman cape that doubled as a vampire cape. Had the white shirt. Went to Walmart to grab some black sweatpants. I thought all was ok. They only had black sweatpants as an "outfit", so had to buy a sweatshirt too. When we went to put them on we found out that someone had switched the pants and they were a larger size than the sweatshirt. So, we had to run next door and borrow a pair of black sweatpants-they were still a little big, but they worked!


Getting a little make-up on Maggie so she wouldn't feel left out!




The scary blonde vampire.

All the kids ready to go. Andrew got the medal at his flag football game that day and insisted on wearing it!

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The mummy (Brad), Robin (TJ), a blue-haired ninja (Trent) and the vampire.

Vampire girl (Taylor), cowgirl (Anna) and pirate girl (Mags).

Christine with Callie and Casey.


Steve Gokey with the non-human butler. I don't know if the smoke was from the fogger or the guys starting the fire!

Kim dressed up her bug for Halloween.

While the dads took the big kids to the haunted house, we took the little ones out cruising for a little bit.

Happy Halloween!

Flat Stanley in San Diego

In the car with Andrew on the way to San Diego.

Christine and Maggie at the entrance.

Andrew thought it would be cool for Stanley to get his picture taken with the giraffes.

Stanley hanging out with the kids at LaJolla shore.

Stanley was upset he couldn't get in the water with the kids.

The kids waiting for the waves.

Flat Stanley

Suzanne came to visit for a few days when we had Flat Stanley. Here we are hiking the SanTan Mountains by us with Stan.


Stanley posing by the cactus.


Stanley posing with me.



We couldn't get Stanley to walk, so he hitched a ride with Suzanne.




Stanley watching Andrew's flag football game.





With Maggie at the game.






Stanley hanging out with Andrew and the team after the game.

Our teenager!

Can't believe she's 13 today!

SNOW!

Only in Arizona can the temperature be close to 100 and get a "snowfall". Two big trucks full of ice, a bunch of workers, a big machine to crush it all into "snow"...and voila...a few hours of fun for the kids-and the adults!


Maggie with some hot chocolate, a tank top, standing in about an inch of snow....nothing wrong with this picture....

What Andrew will think of now when we mention snow.

The rule was not to go down head first...but as things were winding down Andrew realized that no one was paying any attention.

Kayaking

Last weekend, Steve and I went kayaking with a group of people from Seville. We took off from Saguaro Lake Ranch. We had a lot of fun. The Salt River is pretty high right now. Chris, the guy who set the whole thing up, said that he's never seen the water so high. It is only a "river" during the months when the farmers need water. The dam is opened for the farmers and none of the water makes it Tucson. It is all used for irrigation.

Our crew of kayakers. Steve and I before we took off.

Gorgeous views.

Because the river was high, we figured jumping from the rocks was relatively safe.

Jennia and I figured we were safer holding hands...