Elfy’s Baaaaack!

Date: Dec 1st

Guess who’s Back??!!

ELFY!!

And of course he brought gifts too!

Advent Calendars!

One for the bigs 

and one for the littles!

Let the countdown to Christmas begin!!

Sunday Snapshot

Date: Dec 1st

I just can’t resist a Sunday Best Snapshot!

On this Thanksgiving weekend

we’re grateful to be together!

And of course to be color coordinated for church!

(ok maybe only I’m grateful for that part! lol)

Monsoon Fun

Date: Sept 23rd

We just love a good Monsoon storm!

After a long HOT DRY summer

it's so nice to have the clouds roll in and dump rain on us.

Usually it comes in late afternoon/evening.

Today is was basically all day!

It was already raining when we were heading out to walk to school.

Of course that meant we had to enjoy the weather!

There's just something adorable about kids, umbrellas and rain boots!

After we walked the kids to school it really started raining.

Eastlie still wanted to play outside.

I figured why not.

She looked so dang cute splashing in the puddles and was having a blast!

And then we went in to get her new dry clothes and panties!

As hard as she tried to hold up her dress, she still soaked it! lol

Taylee's Birthday Cake

Date: Sept 22nd

It had been so busy that we hadn't had time

to eat Taylee's birthday cake!

So it became our Sunday night dessert!

Happy Birthday yet again Tay Tay!

Saturday Sports Day - Football, Swimming, Soccer, Date Night

Date: Sept 21st

Another Saturday that we're up SO much earlier

than a week day!

Yes Anden had to leave at 5am for his football game!
Maybe he's still wishing he was on the injured reserve! lol

Waiting for the football carpool to get him.

Yep he fell back asleep!

Their game was in far away Chandler.

So we met them there at 8am when the game started.

It was Anden's first game back!

He was SO anxious to get out and make some plays!

His coaches didn't put him in as much as he would have liked

but I appreciate that they're taking his recovery seriously

and didn't want him to get reinjured.

He's the #1 spec! ;)

Halftime

Far right wide receiver

Far left wide receiver

Right slot again

Cheering Anden while doing whatever it takes to keep the littles entertained!

Ok girls walk the straight line....

(hoping this is the only time they have to actually do that! lol)

We won!!

Welcome back to Football Anden!!

After Anden's football game,

he headed back home to relax and swim for a couple hours.

Daddy and his little duckies

 Really they're just waiting for their chance to shove him in!

Then the littles took a quick nap

so that we could get ready to head to Taylee's soccer game next!

They were still asleep when we needed to leave.

So we scooped them up and let them keep sleeping on the 40 min drive to Avondale.

This wee one was ready to hit the ground running once we arrived.

The other two...not so much!

Anden clearly can't hang after waiting up at 4:45am!!

This soccer park is close to Grammie's house.

So her and Uncle John met us to watch the game.

I didn't realize that Eastlie had taken my phone and was the photographer.

So here's your pictures of the game...

Eastlie and Mommy's feet

An accidental shot of the actual field and players

And Laiky and Grammie's feet! lol

The girls had a hard fought game and ended up catching up and tied at the very end!

Eastlie ran to join the high five line...so I grabbed my phone back to get a real soccer picture! lol

We said our good byes to the family

and made the trek back to Anthem.

We were exhausted from this looooooong day!

But Poppy had offered to come up tonight and hang with the kids

so we could sneak away for a rare date night.

As tired as we were, we knew we had to take advantage of a sitter!!

So we hurried and freshened up and tried to act awake!

Then left for a couple hours of adult peace with adult food!

We always have to document a date night.

We wish there was more of them.

But hey we still try to make it happen when we can!

And then we went home and counted the minutes until the kids went to bed

so that we could crash too!!