Making the rounds

We spent a couple of our November Saturdays making the rounds to see all of the nephews play. 

If I was a better aunt I would have been going to more games all along, but I cannot tolerate the heat, so September and October were out for me.  My goal was to see each of my nephews play at least once.

Watching Rowan reminded me of Darrel playing soccer when he was little.  I love that he has his tongue hanging out when he plays.  

Also, at Rowan's games I get to hang out with these cute girls:
Miss Addy, is as sassy as ever, and Miss Ruby is cute as can be.

Brian, Joseph and I caught James' last game of the season.  He played flag football this year.  It was fun to watch him play.  I wish I had gone to more of his games.  It was really entertaining.

Sheri gave us a heads up on which game of Alex's would be best.  They were playing the most competitive team (man did they play dirty!)  Each team had beaten the other team once.  And for each team it was their only loss.  It was a good game, although the ref. wasn't calling ANYTHING against the other team until the end.  It ended in a tie.  I got tired just watching them.  
I caught the end of Ben's game.  His team is fantastic.  I don't think they've lost once this year.
Although we haven't got to see Max play yet, I did get to hang with him at Ben's game.  Man, I miss hanging out with him.  Why did he have to start school?
Evan was pure entertainment.  Maybe it was because I gave him a ton of m&m's.  He is too young to play yet, but that doesn't stop him from training:

And, of course, I have to add a picture of this kid:

Even though he isn't playing, he makes the rounds with me and he sure is fun to hang out with.

Next week we get to see Max and also, I get to see Addy cheer.  I can't wait for that!

My Town, my street.......

Ok, so working backwards from Halloween - we spent part of October break in San Diego, our home away from home.  Seriously, pulling up to Mission Beach feels like home.

We spent a day with our toes in the sand.  Of course I had to take pictures of my Joe.  What an awesome kid.  These photos reflect why I love hanging out with him so much.  He has so much personality and always makes me laugh.  In case you don't know it.  He is fun to hang with.  

Basking in the sun:

This one is my favorite:

We went for a long walk on the beach and collected tons of sand dollars.  Then we had a big discussion about whether or not sand dollars were alive, and if we were killing them by taking them out of the ocean.  We didn't want to risk it, so we put them all back.

Of course we stayed until sunset.
A friend of Brian's graciously let us stay in his condo.  The balcony overlooked the baseball stadium.  Brian loved that.
We HAD to stop at Seaport Village.  We love the shops.  Also not to be missed, the art.  This is fish art, or as I like to call it:  fart. 
I'm not sure if you are supposed to play on the art, but it didn't stop Joe and Brian.

Brian's friend also lent them the keys to the porsche.  They took it out for a spin.  
Sadly, this is where my camera battery died so I didn't get ANY pictures of Sea World.  Oh well.  We'll just have to go again soon.

And that's it for San Diego.

P.S.  JOE HAS UPDATED HIS BLOG AGAIN.  PLEASE STOP BY AND READ!!!

Peace out!

Halloween

Well, October flew by and I didn't post once.  It seems that I am less motivated to post when I'm not doing the "photo-a-day" thing.  I may go back to it, who knows.  No promises.  Anyway, October was action packed and instead of trying to fit it all into one post, I will split it up into a few.  Starting with Halloween and working backwards. 

So, Here is our Halloween in pictures:

Instead of doing the spook alley in the basement, the boys just decorated Grandma's front yard and walkway instead.

Addy liked "Leroy".  That's what we named the skeleton.  Josh liked him too.  He kept taking pieces of him and carrying him around.  

Of course we had to carve pumpkins.  Joe and I worked on both of them together.  He did most of the scarecrow and I did most of the other one, but we helped each other out.  
After much debating, Joe decided to be a Green Goblin.  We already had the mask, so it was easy.
Spidey vs. Green Goblin at mom's trunk or treat.  Of course Spidey won (Green Goblin was a good sport).  Spidey tried to unmask him to see who he really was, but of course he was the REAL Green Goblin, so he couldn't take off his mask.  We did hear him say as he left: "See ya dead guy."
Halloween night we went trick or treating with the Trezise family.  Green Goblin was a little too scary for Evan, that's why he's not pictured here.

Joe scared a few children (not on purpose, of course) along the way.  He even made one baby cry.  

One highlight of the evening is when we saw Slash pull up to someone's house on his motorcycle.  Joe payed his homage by bowing down to the rock god.  

We ended the evening at Great Grandmothers eating brownie bites and rice krispy treats.  Yum!

Hope you all had a Happy Halloween.

P.S. Joe has a new post also!  Check it out, and as always on Joe's blog - comments are expected!