Happy Hallow-Teen!

Ella has been holding teen parties for over a year now. This was the Halloween party. There are friends from church, from math class, and even co-op that attend.  I arrived a little early to take a few pictures.  The favorite activity is Murder Mafia, but they play other games too.  For the Halloween party they were supposed to dress up as someone dead.  Talmage borrowed Sandra's Davy Crockett hat, Grant was a rooster and Sandra went as Belle.  I'm glad the kids have a chance to get together with friends and make new ones too!

15 years!

Talmage is 15!  It's crazy how fast everyone is growing up!  He had a short birthday list this year.... chocolate, a piggy bank, and an mp3 player.  I figured I would see how much he really wanted the chocolate, since most of his presents ended up being the chocolate :).  

Talmage is doing well this year as a 9th grader.  He is having a great time making friends at co-op and in his math class.  He likes to be around the adults and try to understand more adult things.  Pretty soon he will be driving and dating and off in the big world ... until then we will keep enjoying his fun personality and all of his teenage glory!

Present time!

From the cousins

His chocolate lasagna dessert.  It was super yummy!

The family presents... chocolate 

The long awaited piggy bank! 

All of the awesome presents!

Playoffs!

The boys soccer team haven't lost a game all season!  If they lost this game they would go to the loser bracket.  It was a close game, but they pulled it out in the shoot out at the end.  Talmage got to play defense some and he really did well.  It was fun to see him be more aggressive.  Grant got to shoot one of the goals at the end, but it wasn't fast enough to get around their goalie.  Next step, championship game!

Cute Kids!

While the boys were gone to soccer practice the younger kids and I fed the ducks and enjoyed the sunset.  It was fun to take a few pictures of the kids.  They are just too cute!

Fright Fest

Jeff and I went to Fright Fest at 6 Flags with Nathan and Tiffany.  It was fun last year and we still had passes to go again his year.  This time we did a blackout haunted house.  I think it was better than the zombie one from last year.  There seemed to be a lot of people dressed up so that was cool too.  The fog was pretty thick that it made it hard to walk along some of the paths.  I guess that makes everything seem more scary!

Happy Halloween!

Cute Dog

Clark is so cute.... it's hard to find him among all of the little animals :).  Where's Clark?

Go Team Sharks!

Talmage and Grant played soccer this fall on their same team from spring, the Sharks.  This time their team has been playing very well!  They are a good asset to the team, but they did get a few new players and I think that has made the most difference this season.

Talmage warming up with the team.   

Grant trying to score on Talmage

The boys.... ready to play