Church picnic and other news

Our church had it's annual Fall Harvest Picnic. It was so much fun. We took a hayride, stickered pumpkins, ate cotton candy, face painted, ate lots of good food and had pony rides.

On other news.....Jack scored a goal in last Saturday's soccer game! Yay, Jackie! Adam was just as proud since he kicked the ball twice! This was worlds better than the week before when both boys cried on the sidelines. Our great neighbors, Bill and Marilyn, were able to come to the boys' soccer game, too.

As for Maya, well....I've decided to try to potty train her. I know she's ready. I'm the one dragging my feet. She was running around naked all day today and went pee pee only once. She was super excited to have her diaper on for nap time so she could "do her business". Sometimes I wonder how I ever trained twin boys!

Grandma Jenny and First day of school

So, I've realized that I forgot to post pictures of Grandma Jenny's visit. I also forgot to post about the boys' first day of school. My mom was able to visit us for Labor Day weekend. The best part was that she was there to see the boys off to their first day of preschool! So far the boys are liking school. Although, they really don't tell me too much. I usually know what they had for snack that day and if anyone in the class cried. They are such big boys. When we get to school, they just walk in their class and go about their business. I'm usually standing in the door way begging for a kiss good-bye. I do love my alone time with Maya while they're at school. Maya loves it, too. She asks where her brothers are about every 5 minutes!

Grandma Jenny's visit was great. We didn't do too much, but had fun just spending time together.

Soccer time!

The boys are on their first soccer team.

Last Saturday was their first game.

Overall, I think they did pretty well, considering they didn't even have any practices.

Jack was very competitive and got upset when he didn't get the ball.

Adam just had fun running up and down the field.

It's so nice having them in a sport that is outside.

Maya had fun running around, too.

Adam rides!

Adam rode his bike for the first time today!

He has been practicing gliding for a few weeks.

Today, we just ran along the side of him for about 10 minutes.

All the sudden, he got it!

We are going to celebrate by taking the kids to Chuck E. Cheese tomorrow!

Check out the video below:

Look who got bangs...

End of summer

This was our last visit to the pool.

I'm soooo over the summer and heat and soooo

ready for fall!

Boys start school this Wednesday.

Yay!

They met their teachers this week and are excited for their first day.

Great Wolf Lodge

We went to Great Wolf Lodge last weekend for some final summer fun!

Needless to say, it was a BLAST.

We left Saturday morning and came home Sunday afternoon.

It was the perfect amount of time for us.

Once we got there we went directly to the water park,

which is inside the hotel.

The boys loved going down all of the slides.

Maya liked the slides, but mostly she just splashed around.

Adam loved the smaller slides and probably went down 100 times!

Jack, naturally, was fearless.

Chad took him on a huge slide where they lifted out of the water

into the air.

Jack loved it.

We spent the day at the water park, then we back to our room to get ready for dinner.

After dinner, we explored the hotels shops and gorged on cotton candy...not the smartest parental decision...

At 8:00, the hotel has "story time" down at the tower clock.

The kids are encouraged to wear their pj's.

Once we got back to our room, we (Chad and I) thought it was time for bed.

Um, wrong.

The kids were so pumped up on sugar, it was crazy!

Our original plan was to have the boys in the bunk bed,

Maya in the single bed,

and Chad and I in the queen bed.

What really happened was...

Chad and Jack in the bunk bed,

Adam in the single and

Maya and I in the queen.

Maya had the hardest time going down.

She kept singing "Dora, Dora, Dora" and

"I'm a be" by Black Eyed Peas.

The next day we went to the arcade before we hit the park again.

We stayed for another couple of hours, then headed home.

We had a great time.

I'm thinking we need to do this every year right before school starts.

Water Park