Aunt Andrea's Thanksgiving visit

Aunt Andrea was able to fly up to spend Thanksgiving with us, and was able to arrive just in time for the first snow fall of the season. This is our back yard the day she flew in.

Andrea also started running, so she did a few miles with me (Tom) in temperatures ranging from 9 to 24 degrees Farenheit. This is Andrea and Candice going for a jog Friday morning in 9 degrees. She loved it!

We put up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. Lilly has found her new favorite place to hide. The last picture is Andrea with the kids before coming to church with us on Sunday.

Autumn Leaves

Michael in the tree

Rachel in the leaves

Megan doesn't like laying in the leaves

Mommy

This summer Minnesota had a low rain summer, which caused alot of the leaves to turn color and fall off really quickly. In fact, they started turning color right before Halloween, then it got really windy and rainy for about a week, which blew all of the leaves of in one week. Candice had to go to the neighbors house down the street to take some pictures of the kids in the leaves this year.

Halloween time

This is the kiddo's at the church's "trunk or treat" where everyone parks their cars in a circle at the church and the kids go from trunk to trunk to get their candy.

This year Michael is being a "Transformer" (minus mask obviously), Rachel is being a "Zombie bride" (for the 3rd time I believe), and Megan is being a "Princess Fairy" (which is pretty shocking as she just admitted to being a girl earlier this year), and Mommy dressed up as a "Bratz doll". Megan is really into Halloween, watching all the shows and Halloween specials. She walked up to me and said "Zombie's suck your brains and vampires only suck your blood Daddy". I was so proud....

Michael turns 7

18 Oct 2007 - Michael turned 7 and had his party at Grand Slam Sports (which also has laser tag) which is what he really wanted to do. His parties are smaller so they are a little easier to manage, but when you put a bunch of boys in a dark room with lasers and tell them to shoot each other they can get a little excited.... Daddy got to play with them also which was really fun.

Rachel turns 10

10 Oct 2007 - Rachel turned 10 so it's officially time to put her in "the box in the garage" so she stops growing. This was the age they aren't supposed to get to for a while. She had her favorite "party at Build-a-bear/Wacky bear" follow by a sleep over/stay-a-wake-over. I think they went to bed at around 4AM. This is the 5x7 we give out to the girls.

Fall 07 Soccer season over

Rachel with her first place trophy

Michael with his Fall season trophy

We had a nice chilly end to the Fall soccer season. Rachel played 3 games on Saturday starting at 8am (where it was 32 degrees), 9:30 and then 11:45am (in the 60's by then). They won all 3 games and won the tourney for their under 10 age group. It was also the first 3 wins of the year for them. Michael played his last game and ended up getting a goal from mid field with his left foot! It was a really fun season for them. Next year Michael plays on bigger fields, with specific positions, and Rachel goes to the full size field!

Fall Soccer

Well, fall soccer is over this week, and we must say it was warmer than last year. No snow so far this year, but alot of the leaves are already falling off, or have already fallen off. I am posting Rachel and Michael's pictures I made for them this year.

Enjoy