4-H Festival

Collin playing with a mountain lion! The 4-H festival we went to had a hay ride, pumpkin patch, and a small nature walk. They had all these stuffed animals along the walk, including a porcupine, geese and this mountain lion.
Getting ready for the hayride!
We were at the festival for the boys, so they could play some fiddle tunes. It was a lot of fun!

Carrying the Flag

Getting ready to get the flag!

The Colorado Rapids played Toronto FC this past weekend and we had an opportunity to carry the US flag onto the field for the pre-game festivities. What a fun experience that was, making sure the flag did not touch the ground and waving it the entire time it was out on the field. Aidan also got his hat taken away by one of the mascots, who than paraded around with it on his head. The eagle did eventually give it back and Aidan thought it was the funniest thing. We also saw ourselves on the scoreboard. The boys got so excited to see themselves up on the big board! And to top it all off the Rapids won on a Conor Casey goal.

Look Who's 6! And a little soccer!

Collin loves playing soccer and is one fast little dude! I mean he is really fast, much faster than he has a right to be with the parents he has! We can also tell he plays soccer with his brother a lot, he is very good at stealing the ball from the other kids :)

Opening his birthday presents on his birthday! I can't believe he is 6 already. We went to dinner at Hacienda Colorado (Collin's choice) with Grandma, Papa, Beth and Chris. Collin loves being the center of attention! And certainly does not mind when we all sang happy birthday to him! His favorite present was the money he got!!!

Port Aransas

The boys playing in the surf. They loved playing in the ocean! They thought the waves were awesome and the salt water did not bother them a bit. I even taught Aidan to body surf, the waves were big enough. It was a really hot and humid day, but we all had a lot of fun!

Skinny child! Looking out at the ocean. We had a great time at the beach with friends!

Collin's 1st Day!

Collin and his fist day of Kindergarten. He looks so handsome in his uniform and he is loving his class, teacher and friends. He has homework every night, gets to go to music class once a week, art once a week and even the library!

Manchester

This is our new puppy Manchester AKA Chester. He is a very sweet Greater Swiss Mountain Dog mix. He is in the middle of puppy Kindergarten, so he is learning sit, stay and how to walk nicely on a leash. Now if we could get him to stop chasing the cat and jumping up on people!

First Swim Meet

Backstroke Boy!!!

Aidan and I had our first swim meet today. Aidan swam really great, although he aged up this year to 9&10 and had to swim 50s instead of the easy 25s that the 8&unders get to swim. Those 50s were pretty hard for him, but he will get much better each week! He also had a full meet, two relays, 50 breast, 50 free and 50 back. His favorite is the breast and back, he does not like the free that much, too much time with your head in the water I think:)

I had a fun meet also, if a little stressful. It was my first meet back as a coach in a few years and that was a lot of fun. I have a great coaching staff, so having over a 100 kids on the team is a lot more manageable, but still hard to organize them all into relays, making sure they are where they need to be, and making sure we are cheering for each and everyone of them. After a long day, Aidan and I are exhausted, but we wrapped up the day by watching some great football, er soccer games!
A little bit of Breaststroke