2 It's fire time! We took a Friday off of skating practice and just hung out at home, made a fire and ordered pizza with friends. It was wonderful!
3 Patricia brought over apples in a skillet with butter and brown sugar and cinnamon...I think!
4 Sam got to play Randy's guitar one practice because his string broke. Nice!
5 Typical day eating at Subway before going to hockey practice. This is our Tuesday carpool :)
6 Out on a run - the leaves are changing!
7 Hockey family! Very rowdy games of street hockey between Sam and Ben!
8 My friend, Misty, on the left, serving as one of our school photographers, taking pictures of Harvest Fair creations after the kids went to class.
9 Sam's ADM practice (skills) on a Friday.
10 Final sprints.
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12 All done!
13 Look who we found at a Warriors game a few minutes later! Jenn Olsen and crew!
14 Sam is loving the pizza :)
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16 Ben is loving the music and loud banging on bleachers!
17 Hockey boys watching the big guys!
18 Now we're at Sam's first hockey game. Ben is in the bleachers watching while I am getting trained on all the stuff behind the bench.
19 There they are! Go Warriors! It ended in a 3:3 tie!
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21 Fast game - Sam is on the left, working his way up the boards.
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25 Making hockey puck brownies now for bake sale the next day. This was a busy weekend!
26 They turned out ok!
27 Testing one that fell on the floor!
28 Ben decorating with a W!
29 Out at an intersection workin' it for our bake sale!
30 Leni made an awesome thermometer to indicate our earnings!
31 Taking shots on goal was a lot of fun. Some folks preferred that over brownies!
32 This guy took a few shots!
33 I think one got by!
34 Leni and Ben flagging people down!
35 Nice - caught Sam tapping his ball on his stick. His record is 21 times!
36 She was so cute: "I used to be pretty good at this!"
37 We could not believe meeting these folks by chance! They own a famous restaurant in Kailua, O'ahu, where we used to live! Mahalo nui loa for your donation!!!! Aloha!
38 Leni's thermometer! Hard work raising a dollar!
39 Sprints!
40 Video of hockey game.
41 Now we're out at our driveway trying to unload a bunch more. The kids really gave it their all!
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46 Late-night street hockey game - they played for 30 min really well together! I enjoyed watching and cheering very much.
47 A school project - very funny!
48 Dahlia finally bloomed from our garden!
49 Thank you for helping with name plates, Lisa!!!!
50 Ben showing how he is learning to skate.
51 See this nice, pastoral seting? Completely defiled by the sonic fart.
52 Sam pulled a very funny prank on me...he ran up (just prior to this video) and did a massive "sonic fart" right behind an older couple and blamed me - "Mom! Wow! Say excuse me!" I was laughing so hard I couldn't run.
53 Chicken girls all came up to see me on my way out for a jog.
54 Cute girls!
55 At lesson with Randy, learning tabs.
56 Sam, you're getting so big!
57 Dahlias hanging in there!
58 Even some new ones growing!
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60 Out for another jog with the boys.
61 Sam runs a 5K with good endurance. Ben is getting there.
62 Too much fun with a broken water fountain!
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64 Do you like belly snacks? (Salmon) I think it's gross but they LOVE them.
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66 New saddle for Emmy (and me)!! I am finally getting legit, not borrowing a saddle as I have been for a year.
67 It's mustache Monday! This was totally random.
68 Then...the power randomly went out with a big bang! So we were playing outside with neighbor boys when the fire dept went by to fix the power outage. So...we of course had to run down and watch. But I still had a mustache on.
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70 Now getting into Ian's house via a window since his garage door opener didn't have power.
71 Ben lost his first tooth!
72 Baking for a bake sale at T&C.
73 They made cookies and fudge and did a very nice job!
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75 This is over at Kim's house with her son Adam.
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80 The bake sale did really well!
81 Waiting to go on the ice.
82 Our refs didn't show up so thankfully the hockey director, who lives up the street, came down so the kids could play. Thank you, Jay!
83 It's Breast Cancer Awareness month, hence the pink uniform.
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86 The bake sale on Sunday!
87 Nice work, gang!
88 The kids learned how to talk to people and we met a lot of nice people.
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90 Right after the bake sale (busy weekend!) we went down to IslandWood for our annual service on the History Mystery Trail. Sara was the school teacher and I was the harried frontier mother with two naughty boys. These roles worked really well. By now you know what noise Sam is making.
91 Ben chopped wood to build a fire.
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93 Working on robots after school.
94 Ben convincing me to buy this guy! (This belongs in the Halloween folder but I'm a month behind on pictures...so enjoy this teaser here!)