Halloween is the best and we were lucky enough to have a sunny weekend day to head out to the pumpkin patch and find our perfect pumpkins to carve.  This year we got a couple fun ones, tall skinny ones for the boys, a red pumpkin and a white pumpkin as well as the regular ones for us to carve.  They have a corn field that wasn’t a maze but the boys got to run around and pretend to get lost in it anyhow.  Nana and Papa came and picked out their favorites as well and we even squeezed in pictures and a tractor ride.  And just for the record, we don’t usually dress the boys the same, but on football Sundays they wear their Seahawks jerseys with pride (go Hawks!).

Every Saturday for the last few weeks (besides our camping weekend) we have been spending 1-3 hours at the soccer fields, rain or shine.  It’s great to see the boys start to understand the game and set goals for themselves.  They each want to score a goal, and I think most games they have had success.  I know Carlos has (he actually turned and scored on his own goal last game, and I think it was just to be sure he got one scored) and the last couple games Levi has scored twice.  Levi’s team is the nice, polite team.  That’s great for building great people but not so successful on the team level.  They play a lot of defense and if anyone looks like they are going toward the ball, they let them.  Trey’s age group really doesn’t have much of a clue what’s going on but when he’s focused (last game he was much more interested in playing “Star Wars” with his teammate than what was going on with the game) he does really well.

It’s fun to watch for sure, wish they weren’t all playing at the same time but it is what it is!

It was the ever popular Pancake Breakfast at our local firestation yesterday and, as always, the boys LOVED it.  We didn’t have a ton of time before the boy’s soccer games but knew it was a must do.  One of my favorite things of the year. We met Katy, Sophie, Grady, Steve and Mary and started out with the ride on the firetruck.  Living on a small island, the driver of our truck was my ex boyfriend from high school.  Like I said, small island.  The kids pretended they were rushing to save the day and put out a fire and when we got back from our round the block trip they were famished.  They all ate their huge pancakes and ham and we headed out to their soccer games.