Happy New Year!

The boys spilled water on my computer 

 Destroyed it in one giggle and kick  

Then Fall happened   

Then the holidays   

 Now snow, rain, floods and 4 weeks home  

At least I didn't sell Riley on the corner to the highest bidder

The thought crossed my mind

More than once

Have you heard of the 9 year old attitude thing?

The he's-perfect-away-from-home-like-a-teenage-girl-when-he-comes-back thing?

Me neither

I googled it

It's a thing

Someone should've warned me

Ok, 6 months is a long time to catch you up on.  I made some videos and will keep things short.  

Did you just laugh out loud?

What are you sayin?

Oh ya. It's totally true. 

 Come hang out with me anyways.

*love

Summer was probably the funnest one we've ever had. 

We also went to Hope Valley to camp and fish
Didn't catch a thing but the kids loved every second of it.
 When they weren't puking

At least they felt great after?

We'll go with that

Dave also had his 20 year High School Reunion

Aces game and a night out with a few of his old friends

It's was really fun

THEN SCHOOL STARTED

For the record

I don't have 6 hours to myself

EVER

How the heck does that happen anyways?

Has something to do with being a grownup I suppose

Aaron started Kindergarten and LOVES school and his teacher

Emily started first grade and she loves her teacher also

Riley...not so much.  

Turns out being given the option to complete things or not complete things

(Because you should be responsible for your grade)

Thinking it's the best thing ever and choosing to do only half his work just because he can

Then failing because he only did half the work and being in trouble for said grade

Not so awesome

Riley needs to be told to reach for the stars and not be aloud to give up

Leaving him to his own means

He'll do as little as possible

Most of the time

It's been fun

He's actually doing much much better in school now

Thank the Lord

For realz  

Many prayers for wisdom have been sent!

SPORTS
Riley decided to try baseball
He loved it
So did Dave
*grin
Baseball is a minimum of 3 days a week
Sometimes it was 4
Aaron wanted to play soccer again
It's 2 times a week
Someone please tell me how to get home from school, have exactly 45 minutes to complete homework, change in to sports gear, pack up snacks and amusement for the other two, and prep for dinner?
Because I failed

Emily has decided to pause dancing and tried tennis.  At the same location as Aaron's soccer practices, there were a group of young girls practicing cheerleading.  She sat on the grass and watched them every.single.week

She really wants to cheerlead

Don't know how I feel about that

We took a break from school and sports over the first week of October

School here is out all week for "Fall Break"

And went on our first vacation

We went to Monterey, to the aquarium, and stayed right on the ocean

Aaron still looks at me sometimes and says,

"I wish we were at the ocean"

We had a couple birthdays to celebrate also

Emily turned 7

Riley 9

Emily invited her friends to our home and had a Cupcake Party

We bashed in a cupcake piñata

Pinned candles on the cupcakes

Played Freeze the Cupcake

And baked cupcakes

All the girls then sat and decorated their cupcakes

Eating them promptly after

Riley wanted his party at the batting cages

He and his friends hit balls and ate french fries and cake

It was perfect

Lastly, we celebrated a lot of holidays

And had tons of fun doing it!

I did all of the flipagrams right before Dave's birthday so it's not included

We can't have that!

Happy Birthday to the most amazing husband ever

We managed to find some time to celebrate

Even though a flood was coming in just 1 day

Threatening to take everything from the shop

And destroy our entire world

Ok, maybe not our entire world

But it would've taken months

And a small fortune

To get back up and running

So ya, basically

We stayed dry though

And some good came out of it 

Wouldn't have made it happen without both sides of parents

We're pretty lucky

And they're pretty awesome

Happy New Year!

*As always, you can find me on Instagram posting pictures of the kids and our crazy life