Has it really been since August?!

Wow!  Time is just flying by and I can't believe I am so far behind on this blog!  I don't even know where to start!  We have been having lots of fun and staying very busy.  We finished a great flag football season for both Max and Blake.  They LOVED being on the same team.  Next year will be Max's last year of flag and then he will have to decide if he wants to play tackle.



Are you ready for some FOOTBALLL??!!



Blake learned a lot this year and liked playing with Max most of the time.  On the first play of the season, the coach gave Max the ball and he took it all the way for the touchdown.  Blake got the ball the next time they were on offense and got his flag pulled.  He didn't like that so much and started crying.  There's no crying in football!!  After he pulled himself together, he ended up scoring 3 TD's that game.  Max was still in his cast so we didn't let him play too much that game.

Max was so happy when that cast came off and he could play!  He loved pulling flags and would come out of nowhere to catch the guy!  It is really fun to watch!  He is very quick and scored loads of TD's!




The Team!!



Blake, Max and their big bro, Dave

Dan and David both helped coach this year.  Dan was traveling in China for the last day of games so didn't make this picture.  We are so thankful that David is able and loves to help coach.  The head coach is a guy that I graduated from high school and college with.  It is a small world in Morton!
 


The Family!  Thanks everyone for coming!

 We had quite the cheering section for one of the games in September.  It was the weekend of Max's 7th birthday party so Austin, his girlfriend (Stephanie) and her daughter, Aurora, came from Ohio.  Grandma and Grandpa Shoemaker were here visiting from Nebraska for the week .  Kara, Pierce and Reuben came to stay for the weekend.  My parents and David were also around for the activities.  We had Max's birthday on Wed, a soccer game on Thursday night, Blake's program at school on Friday, football on Saturday morning and a roller skating party on Sat afternoon.  All of us went to church on Sunday and then on to Tanner's  It was a great weekend!  The only problem was that a boy in Max's class broke his leg at the party!  Not good!

After Blake's program.

The Kindergarten classes study the monarch butterflies and have a "Butterfly Parade" for the families. They sang a bunch of songs and recited poems.  He did great!  His teacher says that he carries the class!

Kara made these amazing cupcakes for the roller skating party!  I am always amazed by her baking/decorating talents.  Thanks, Kara!

Austin, Stephanie and Aurora picking apples at Tanner's.



We LOVE Tanner's!!

So that is a little bit about September.  I didn't have any good pictures of Max playing soccer.  He loves both football and soccer and can't decide which is his favorite at this point.  He is continuing with indoor soccer on a 9 and under team so most of the kids are quite a bit bigger than him, but he is just a fast as any of them.  He starts basketball tryouts next Saturday.  Blake is also playing indoor soccer and scored 5 goals in the first game.  He was very excited!

We always have plenty going on in our house!  More on October...hopefully very soon!!  There you go, Kelly!