Soccer Season is over

Dallin is so competitive and is a good sport even when they lose.  He really tries his best at every game.

Leah has really improved this year.  She was one of the stars of team!

These kids make me happy!

Joshua did great this year too!  He scored many goals and is a great team player!

They serve pizza and have bounce houses after the game.

Michael enjoys coaching but I think he is ready for a break.  It will be nice to have a few extra days of the week. 

Toughest Mudder

Michael did the Toughest Mudder with his brother this year.  They seemed to have had a great time!

They were really sore on Saturday night.

Michael does it with people from work as well.

Maybe one year I will join too.  This year I coached the kids soccer games while he was racing.  

Halloween

We had a great Halloween!  Leah was Belle, Dallin was a solider, and Joshua was Kylo Ren

Michael dressed as Steve from Minecraft.  Evan was a dinosaur and Aaron was a skeleton.

We carved pumpkins at the Cruz house.  They were great hosts and served us a yummy dinner!

Here is how our pumpkins turned out!  Dallin did Kylo and Joshua did the F18.  

I loved this picture of Evan at the Arboretum.  He is so darn cute.  

I just had to try and get one of the two of them.  Evan, Rylan, and Thiago weren't all about getting pictures.  ha ha

Aaron's first Halloween, and he is over it.  ha ha

Air Shows

My kids went to the Fort Worth Alliance Air show a couple of weeks ago.  Michael took everyone but the baby.  The baby and I stayed home.  The kids loved the air show.

Evan didn't want to get out of the stoller much

It was a little windy so not all of the tricks could be performed.

Joshua and Dallin are still very much into planes.  

Joshua just did a report on the inventor of the jet plane.

Yesterday we went to the Wings Over Dallas Pearl Harbor Reeaactment

They had a WWII camp set up.  You can look in the tents and medic tent.  It was really neat.

They had jeeps and a tank to look at as well.

We ran into Uncle David and his family there.  It was fun!

The air show was so neat.  They had to WWII vets actually there to tell the story themselves.

They had fake bombs and everything.

Now that we are home Joshua is back to watching WWII documentaries.  ha ha

We had a great time and it was neat experience.

Blessing Day

Aaron was blessed last week.  It was a wonderful day.  Jessica took our family picture afterwards.  I really appreciate her talent!  

All the men who helped bless the baby.  I appreciate all of our family!

Aaron is doing pretty well.  He goes down at night between 7-9 and sleeps until around 2 or 3 am.  He is then up again around 5 am.  My older kids are up at 6, so I have spent lots of mornings up by 5.  He still won't nurse so we are exclusively pumping.  It is a learning curve and time suck for sure.  He is worth though.  ;)  He is starting to smile and coo at us.  

Joshua is doing really well in school.  We are working on him being a bit more organized.  We have had some weekends where he tells us he thinks a project is due and we haven't even heard about it. Joshua's ELA teacher says she has him explain things to the kids when they don't get stuff.  He also has always had terrible handwriting, so she is making him type everything.  He likes it that way as well. He loves math and a science.  He made the honor roll.  Joshua also joined honor choir.  He is loving it.

Leah is growing up so fast.  She is so helpful and loving.  She is doing well in school and tested well on her first MAPs test.  The kindergarten teacher says she is a great example to all of the kids.  Leah loves to draw.  She draws or colors things constantly.  It must be the influence of the Clark family or Michael.  ;)  Leah was Top Cat for the first six weeks.  

Evan is learning his letters.  He loves doing workbook time with me.  He is weaning off his afternoon nap.  He loves Aaron, almost too much.  It drives me crazy when he wants to play with the baby but the baby is sleeping and he decides to yell "Wake up baby!"  He is loves to help me in the kitchen watching me cook or getting things from the pantry.  

Dallin is doing great in school as well.  He made the honor roll as well. He is very organized in school and keeps an agenda.  He works hard on all of his homework.  He is always willing to lend a helping hand without being asked.  

We are blessed with some great kids!

This weeks happenings

More soccer.  The boys team lost this week.

The weather is a little cooler which was so nice!

Leah has really improved this year.  She scored three goals.  She hangs in there with the best.

Aaron is one month old.  He is growing great.

I completely forgot about women's conference so this is how I watched it.  ha ha.  

Aaron looking all cute for church.

Sleeping babies are so sweet.

We also had fun at my nephew's birthday party.  Potato sack races are great!

Fall Soccer

Soccer has begun again.  The boys did great in their game.  Dallin scored a goal and the whistle blew right before Joshua got his in.

Yesterday was so hot.  I can't wait until Fall temps come.

Leah scored two goals.  She has improved quite a bit.  She is really starting to enjoy it.

This baby is growing!  Around three weeks I usually start getting my groove back.  We have been a little slower this time.  I have had to deal with mastitis and this baby's tongue tie has made him not want to nurse.  I have been pumping and bottle feeding, which feels like twice the work.  ha ha He is super sweet and usually not very fussy.  The kids love him.