A little hodge and a lotta podge.

Seems like it was about this same time last year that I found myself doing a makeup post of all the stuff I'd missed for the past couple of months. Guess there's just something about fall that snows me under. Sorry - I hear through the grapevine that makeup posts are lame, but not-lame is something I never claimed to be. :)

50th Day of School / 50's Day. Even Josephina dressed up. :) We were running late, so Jacob had to roll his jeans up in the car on the way to school. And you can't really tell in this picture, but his hair was slicked back, too. One benefit of buying dress up clothes at the thrift store....Kloe was able to wear the same outfit she wore last year. :) They looked so cute!



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Fall Festival

Cutie Queen Bee (see her tiara?) and Ninja.

(Personally, I prefer the homemade kind of costumes, but neither of these little munchkins would have ANY of that!)

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You can tell who this is, right? Haha. Don't you just love concert pictures? They always seem cool when you're taking them....


(Michael W. Smith, Toby Mac, and Mac Powell of Third Day)

The Mister and I had tickets for the Make a Difference Tour the weekend after I got back from the cruise, but he ended up having to go out of town for work, so my sweet friend Veronica went with me instead.



(TM and MWS - LOVE!)

In addition to Toby Mac, Third Day, and Michael W. Smith, can you tell who this is.....?

Max Lucado - so cool! Love his books. Such a fun night - it was like 3 concerts and a mini-seminar all in one! :)

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9/11 Memorial



One of our local banks honors the victims of 9/11 every year by sponsoring this 1,000-flag memorial for several days in September. It's really neat to drive by and see the field of flags. When they take them down, they sell them to raise scholarship money for a local nursing school.




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After we missed football sign-ups (because I forgot), Jacob decided he would play Upward soccer this year. Dad decided he would coach. It was so much fun for both of them. The Mister woke up on the Saturday after the last game and said, "I'm glad to get to sleep in this morning....and a little sad, too." :)

(Jacob is #2.)



(That's him showing off his fancy footwork, below.)


We only won one game all season, but it was a lot of fun. Jacob played 3 seasons a few years ago, and it was amazing to see the difference between then and now! He's come a long way, even with not playing for so long! I'm secretly hoping he'll want to play soccer again next fall instead of football. :)

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Kloe's field trip to the corn maze.



Learning about how they make the maze. Did you know they spray out the pattern by hand?!