Weekend

Today Strider's football team (the Packers) stunned everyone by advancing to the championship round of his league's playoffs! They had had a losing record this season, but during the single-elimination tournament today, they ended up winning 2 games in a row... and were so close to being the league's "Soar Bowl" champions. It was fun to watch these underdogs play so well. Strider scored as many points today as he has all season: 8 points as a running back today, and he also threw for a touchdown when he played quarterback. They lost the last game by just one touchdown -- it was very suspenseful!

Since his games went from 8:30 am until 2 pm, our day was pretty much sucked up by the tournament. So, my house continues to be uncleaned and my life continues to be unorganized.... but it was a relaxing day anyway. :) Dan, Amy, Kai and Addie came for part of the marathon tourney and the cousins got to play together for a bit.

Yesterday was nice as well. The whole family attended Classical Conversations since it was our turn to present during the opening assembly. Strider wrote an interesting story/skit about how a flower, a dragon, and a baby all learned that the King had created them all with special gifts and purposes -- with someone going to jail at one point, as must happen in all of his stories --and our family acted it out (costumes and everything!).

Then, we had an outing with some of the other CC families to a ceramics place where the kids got to paint some ornaments.

When we got home last evening, these were the scenes in our front and back yards...

What a beautiful weekend!! As Colsen says, "Thank you God for making these beautiful leaves for us!"