Good Fall Times

Time to blog mid-day ... what is this?!? 

It's Thanksgiving break!! Before we head to the woods of Broken Bow, I'm going to recap the last couple of weeks.

Another softball season ended. This was a tough one for the girls, playing up in a top bracket. They learned a lot and persevered. During one of the last games of the season, all of the lights in the park went out (we found out there was an electrical fire), so the teams took an in-the-dark picture together before heading out for the night. They had already played a couple of tough innings, so it was fun to see the girls just all have silly fun together.

Sara's football season ended. The football team lost in play-offs, but Sara LOVED football cheering. She got to do lots of tumbling and calling cheers. One of the football moms told me, "Wow - Sara was made for this!" Such a nice compliment after lots of hard work. She'll cheer for basketball this winter and then get ready to tryout for high school.

These girls love a Starbucks run.

A couple weeks ago we started a Christmas puzzle while listening to Christmas records. We still love Thanksgiving, too, so I couldn't completely get rid of the decor quite yet!

This past weekend was the best! Adam surprised Melissa with a birthday trip to Plano, and the girls had the best cousin time with Cal. He just turned three and is SO MUCH FUN! He loved watching Charlie Brown Thanksgiving with them.

On Saturday we went birthday bowling. I promise he loved it more than it looked like in this picture.

We never did get a group picture, but at least I got one with my sister on her birthday. It was so fun to celebrate together. We basically hopped from establishment to establishment (between the bowling, of course, and soccer tournament games). We managed to get to the mall and find a fun spot to watch the first US World Cup game, too.

In between it all, Emma had a very COLD soccer tournament. They went 5-0 and beat a really tough team to bring home gold!

And of course we had birthday cake: Cal - 3, Melissa - 38. So, so glad we got to celebrate with them.

Now we're packing up and will be headed to OK in the morning. Our Broken Bow tradition has become a family favorite and I know we'll enjoy every minute.