Who's your goalie?

Well, fall is in the air....

School has begun...

and it's time for soccer!!!!!

This has got to be one of my favorite times of the year! And it is so fun to have my daughter playing soccer at Marymoor Park, where I grew up playing soccer.

Let the games begin!

Rise and Shout

The cougars are out!

And we went to see them play when they came up to UW (University of Washington). It was a great game with many exciting moments, coming down to the last 3 minutes. There were a lot of BYU fans present, which made it fun (the UW fans didn't like it so much). And Shawn was a little conflicted since he attended both schools but in the end BYU came out victorious, 28-27!

It was so loud and exciting that it wore Ethan out...
Fun times! Go Cougs!

1st Day of School

Kailey started 2nd grade at Rachel Carson Elementary, a brand new school. This is her 4th elementary school in 3 years and she has been a good sport about it! Brayden started his first year of preschool going 2 days at Little Gems. He wasn't so excited about it...
Jada is going to Sammamish Hills Lutheran Preschool. We decided to do a third year of preschool, rather than enroll her in Kindergarten, to give her a little extra time to master some concepts. She was just excited to wear her new dress!
So. we have three different schools, three different start/pick-up times and one tired mom!

Lake Chelan

Over Labor Day weekend we went with my family to Lake Chelan for a week. The weather was great and we enjoyed lots of fun activities, here are just a few pics from our time out there! Poor uncle Talmage had a broken arm and was unable to wakeboard, swim, or golf...

Just monkeying around
Put Put goes a lot faster when you just put the ball in the hole, who knew?

Uncle Mckay, showing some humble pie;>
We really had fun playing in the water and playing games late into the night. It was such a nice ending to the summer! I miss the sun already!

Visitors

This summer we had several people come up to Seattle to play...and my kids love play dates! It was wonderful to see Rachel and her kids...it is so nice that my kids have Audrey and Jonny as cousins;) We also got to meet Megan, Nelson's girlfriend and of course Kristian!!!!

Mission Imbloggible

My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to post one blog a day until I catch up. Will I triumph over the forces of evil? Stay tuned...

10 years!

You think I would learn! It was my turn to plan our anniversary and I planned a romantic gateway to Lopez Island located in the San Juan Islands. Sounds great, no? But for those of you that know me, you know I don't do so well on boats (or planes, trains or automobiles for that matter). So after missing the first ferry at 10:15 am we had to wait until the next ferry at 3:30 pm and once we got there I was sufficiently sick. However, those of you who know me also know that a little nausea doesn't slow me down. I just make sure I know at all times where the nearest tree, bathroom, garbage can etc. is. So we went swimming, had dinner, went for a nice romantic walk and I just kept excusing myself to take care of business. And just for icing on the cake, the batteries in our camera went dead but don't worry I had grabbed an extra one...nice thinking Jacqueline! However, I had grabbed the dead one waiting to be recycled! And despite all these setbacks we still had a wonderful time, just no pictures to share of our memories! I can tell you that we were car number 98 in line while waiting for our ferry (we had alot of time to count) and they only were going to let on 100 cars...

Happy anniversary Shawn! I love you and am so happy that we have such a wonderful little family as a result of our union!