Hulk

Every year, the Saturday before Halloween they do a "Safe Kids Candy Walk" thing down town. It's where 1500 kids, all dressed up, along with 2000 other adults walk up and down main street collecting candy. It pretty much feels like you are part of a cattle drive. It is fun to see some of the cute kids in their costumes. JT was the Hulk and made a great one. Here's a pic to prove it!

JT had his last soccer game of the season today. He did great and we are so proud of him. Afterwards the coach took the whole team (13 6 -year olds) to Pizza Hut for lunch. What a brave man.

The Flu Shot

Today I got my flu shot.

Life get's busy

That pretty much says it all. Life gets busy. I don't know how people do it with more than one kid. Just having JT keeps me busy. And how do you make it work when they are involved in things? He's just in Soccer, but that takes up 2 nights a week, plus part of Saturday. Can you tell I'm fishin' for an excuse as to why I haven't posted anything for a long time?

Let me think what all has happened. I went on vacation the first week of October. It was incredible. I cried when I got to see all of my friends, I cried when I got to spend quality time with them, then I cried on the way home! But now I'm home, life is life, and it's all good.

Let me first appologize to those of you who are reading this, who live in Loveland. I'm sorry that I didn't have time to connect with all of you, I really would have loved to see EVERYONE, but my main focus on being there was to go on a ladies retreat with Ressurection Fellowship. I got to spend the weekend up in Estes Park. On our free time, my friend Staci and I drove up into Rocky Mountain National Park to look at the Aspen and see the Elk. Here's some pics. For some reason it's not letting me load the pic's of all the elk, so if I can figure that out, I will post them another time.

For those of you who love the warm weather, sandy beach, palm trees and the ocean...you can keep it! I will take the mountains on a cool, crisp day anytime!

JT met a new cousin. My cousin Marcy lives near Denver and she and her family came up for lunch with the rest of our family. Here's a cute pic with JT and his 2nd cousin, Wes.

Shoes

This weekend JT learned to tie his shoes. After the first try...and crying, he picked it up right away on the 2nd try. He spent quite a while practicing because he wanted to tie his own shoes for his soccer game. He was so proud that it's the first thing he told his coach, then proceeded to tell everyone else.

Sunflowers

Here is just one thing that makes Kansas beautiful...The Sunflowers. This field is just about 2 miles west of town. I took so many pic's the other night, here are some of my favorites.

Soccer

JT is playing outdoor soccer this fall. He's had 2 practices. He should have had 5 practices and one game already, but we have had so much rain that they had all been cancelled.

His first practice last week was hard for me. There was this kid out there, a 6 year old, and he was a true bully. He was so mean to JT, pushed him, called him stupid, tripped him. JT fought back too. He got a talking to for that, but I also went up to the other kid and asked if his mom or dad were there. He said (with his big eyes staring up at me with fright) "yes" and I said " would you like me to go talk to them?" he said no, so I just told him to knock it off.

I told JT to yell in his face "STOP IT" if he tried anything tonight. Right away, that kid pushed him and JT yelled "STOP IT" and walked away. I was so proud! Then the kid proceeded to call him stupid. But after that, the kid looked at me and I gave him the "mean mama" look. He stopped. Numerous times through out the evening he and I made eye contact. Let's just say, by the end of practice, those 2 boys bumped into each other, and the "bully" said "hey JT, you ok?" Then lent him a hand and helped him up.

Here's come cute pics. One is of JT stopping the ball when he was goalie. The other is of him being a "ladies man" He's always with the ladies!

Vacation

My Grandparent's were here from Colorado a couple weeks ago for a visit. Here's some cute pics.

My Gramps is soon to be 90 and my Grandma is soon to be 88. I think they look pretty snazzy for their age.

Not that I'm counting, but I'm on vacation in 15 days! Yipppy! Let's just say I'm going to my favorite place on earth. The Aspen will be golden, the elk will be bugling, and it will be chilly! Can you say...THE MOUNTAINS! 15 more days, 15 more days!