Boys of Summer (Fall)

We stretched the weekend as far as it could go last night. We had Luke's friends over, Gavin and Xavier and their mom Chante,' for some backyard fun. They also played with our neighbors nextdoor, Andrew and William. They started with soccer and then played t ball, they had a blast playing outside. We had hotdogs and chips. We finally had to say goodnight to the boys at 7:30pm. Luke's first Picture day at Kindergarten is today. I have off from work this week so Matthew will stay home with me a couple of days to work on his potty skills. We still aren't that great with the potty, he has his moments but he prefers to go in his pants.

Weekend at home with the BOYS

Well, Delta dropped my reserve days so I got to spend my weekend home with the boys. Saturday we went to Luke's soccer game and he does enjoy playing and he is having fun but he is still learning which translates to he still isn't that great even though he does try very hard. The girls took the boys to school this week. The coach's daughter, Ally and another girl on the team Mckenzie were our top scorers of the game. Since I usually go to sleep early on my trips I turned in early on Saturday night while Mark put the boys to bed. Sunday morning on our drive to church we saw 2 gas stations that were open with gas. You can't imagine how weird it is to drive around and only see 2 stations out of the 20 you pass available to dispense gas. Mark and I tanks are both at 3/4 full so we pprobably won't have to hunt for gas til wednesday. We went to 8:30 am mass and then Luke went to his Jesus class (where he learns about fall and Jesus) at 9:45am. We have had gorgeous weather here despite the lack of rain. Getting the front of the house ready with the fall decorations and some Halloween stuff. Mark took care of cutting the lawn yesterday. Well check out pics from Copenhagen and that's all from Red Oak aka Wisteria.

He scored THREE

We had fun at soccer practice last night. The whole family went to Luke's soccer practice and Luke was so proud to have scored 3 goals. He is still a little timid to play defense and take the ball away but when he breaks away with the soccer ball he likes to score the goals. Matthew has gotten used to the fact that he is not able to play on the field yet. He played in the net with a little friend and he stays occupied. The practice lasts 45 minutes and Luke has begun to really enjoy the game. Hopefully, Luke will continue to enjoy soccer and this is just the beginning of his sports career whichever sport he pulls towards. I got rid of my reserve days so I get to spend the weekend with the boys. (the first weekend all month) We won't be going to far since here in GA we are hoarding our gas. Most of our gas stations are empty and the ones that have gas have lines and gas is $4.30. I have vacation next week but it will be what we call at Delta a Staycation because we won't be going anywhere.

Yea DANCING WITH THE STARS

With the awful economy. The ruthless presidential race I am so happy for mindless diversions like Dancing with the Stars. Yea for Cloris!!! She is hysterical. I do like Lacey and Lance. and Thank goodness for Maks and his A--.(His partner Misty May is doing a great job) Brooke Burke is doing a great job. I love watching the View, Whoopi and Joy are great! After the debates I plan on watching Fox News to hear their take on it. Watch the debates on Friday.

Wildfire lost but LUCKILY we weren't keeping score

Luke's under 6 soccer team played on Saturday and his team had a rough go of it. They were all daydreaming and watching butterflies because the other team was bending it like Becks and Pele. Last week Luke wanted to go home after the first 20 minutes so at least this Saturday he finished out the game without asking to go home. He did enjoy being out there more this Saturday, especially when he broke away from everyone and almost scored a goal. I left the boys in the afternoon to head to Copenhagen Denmark,a very beautiful city. They ride their bikes like we use our cars, I almost got run over a few times by people on bicycles. My crew was cool and it was a nice trip. I had visited Copenhagen before so after napping for a few hours a went walking for a couple of hours and I remembered my way around. The sun was out and the weather was 65 degrees perfect for walking. While I was away the boys had a good time with Chris O Neil. They all went to Chuck E Cheese. The boys had a fun time and then they went to Mc
Donalds and then they got batman toys. Sunday, Luke went to sunday school and out our church. Monday I got back from Copenhagen and picked the boys up from school. Today I picked up the boys from school and Olivia came over to play. We received a picture from cousin Marisa today. She started preschool recently in Bethlehem Pennsylvania.

LAST WEEKEND WENT LIKE THIS...

I picked up Luke's friends Gavin and Xavier and brought them home from school for a 2 hour play date. The kids played matching game and colored and made ninja turtle headbands and ate pizza. Matthew was the evil bad guy that they had to run away from. Luke played his first soccer game on Saturday. He did great his first 25 minutes the last 30 minutes he was mostly interested in leaving the field and playing with his friend Olivia. We had to stay and be good sportsman and say good game to the other team. Sunday, the boys went to an Ice Cream Social at our subdivision pool. The boys love swimming in the pool and Luke no longer uses his floatees. Matthew decided to jumped in without his floatees and Mark had to dive in and save him. Luke thought it was supercool. Gavin told Mark he wasn't supposed to dive into the pool like that. While the boys were home by themselves I was off on a 3 day trip, first night in Orlando and 2nd night in Baltimore. Four of us on the crew went out in Baltimore to a Irish bar/restaurant, Tir Na Nog. It's better scenery and greener to go out in Ireland but my burger and beer was cheaper here in the states. This trip helped me get ready for this week. The boys already have fall break and have the week off from cherokee county schools. It's a good thing I have off during the week, they have already had almost 10 days off. Matthew's naked cat picture with Puddy cat, she was put to sleep last weekend. She was 19 years old, Aunt Thalia is still very upset.

I do love O Reilly

No, this is not a post from my Republican husband. I know that me being an Obama fan you wouldn't think these words would be coming out of my mouth but I watched OReilly last night (he was interviewing Obama) and he called Elisabeth Hasselbeck a pinhead. I love the ladies on the view, Whoopi, Joy and Sherri but Elisabeth just drives me crazy. I love it when even a Republican conservative agrees that she is a pinhead.

Luke puked on Matthew

That's how our hectic weekend started. Luke picked up some bug and Friday morning he hopped into bed with me and Matthew noticed Luke was missing so he joined us and yuck!!! Luke puked all over the bed and Matthew. I kept the boys separated and kept them home from school. Of course by 10 am Luke stopped vomitting and asked to go to school and play with other kids. Needless to say my day was spent doing loads of laundry and getting the pukey smell out of everything. Matthew's teacher was going to a new job so we had to say goodbye to her. Mark came back from a sale in Kentucky. He had to fire one of his guys so in the height of his busy season he is interviewing. Luke got sick again Saturday morning so he missed his first soccer game. I went to Santiago Chile Saturday night. I had a cool flight crew, it was a real international group there was a russian girl, a hebrew speaker, aggressive guy, very nice flight leaders, Janet who I worked with before and Romie, dominique who looks latin and speaks spanish and jeff who doesnt look latin at all and speaks spanish both very cool guys. Trips like this help me recharge my batteries, I don't do much but I get to rest and watch movies. I watched In Bruges and Revolver which I do not recommend. And I watched Ratatouille and Becoming Jane Austen, these 2 were good. Time to get the boys and clean the bathrooms.

In with the Big Boy Bed

Bye Bye Thomas Train Bed that arrived in January of this year that Matthew never slept in. Matthew now sleeps in his Big Boy bed in his room as of last weekend. Yea!!! Because since January he has been in our bed. Mark brought home the bed Saturday and he came into our room around 2am. Every night after that Matthew and Luke have slept in his new big boy bed and he is so proud. (S0 are Mark and I) Luke had a visit from the tooth fairy Sunday night. Now all he wants for Christmas is his 2 front teeth, transformers, star wars clone wars, and dinosaurs. Luke had is first soccer practice yesterday. It was alot of fun. He had alot of stamina as he chased the ball up and down the field. I don't think he will be following in his Dad's footsteps as the goalee, it looks like he had too much fun on the field. His team was made up of boys and girls under 6.