se beautiful fall days, and I will enjoy the color while I can. I think our days of loving our maples is about to come to a screeching halt soon though. Rakes, white lightning, dump trailer, gloves, aching backs, and wet soggy piles of leaves will replace those romantic thoughts. But for today, the colors, textures, and sunshine is making me weak in the knees.
Grant plays Right Center Defender, and is used as the "sweeper" and he did a great job of keeping the Pirates from scoring. The final score was 2-0. We had another close goal but one of our players was offsides so it did not count. Not growing up with soccer I am still not sure of all the rules, and that one especially is baffling.
But here is a real goal!
Getting to the ball. As you can see Grant is #55. I love the barn in the back- this field is called 60 acres. It is a beautiful place and very close- so no traffic.
Speeding down the field. Whoops! I deleted the pictures of the fans (they are now on the side bar) some like to sit in chairs, and then there are the ones that stand and watch. I classify myself as a pacing-all-over fan. I do not know how to sit at a game, or stand still either. Since I can't be out on the field, I play my own game on the sides, knocking people over, tripping over the stuff they leave all over, running into umbrellas-it's harder to win than it sounds! 
We had a man down, the coach rushed onto the field as well as one dad who is a Doctor. We also have a chiropractor, nutritionist, yoga instructor, and a pediatric specialty nurse if we need one.
Great defensive move, and pass to Grant.
Victory Dance...this game was a big deal to these boys and they deserved the win.
Victory Tunnel!!
victims of the Mortgage crisis. Smile. We were a step ahead this time with our summer project. Try to keep up people!
Fear of falling comes to mind every time I am up there. The kids love it, but so do the spiders much to my kids dismay.
It was Danny's 1st birthday and it coincides with the day I started blogging a year ago. Danny is a very inspirational little guy. His birthday party was a bit overwhelming to a mere one year old at times (and to the infants, 2 year old's, 4 year old, pre-teens, 20's, 30's,40's, 50',s 60,'s year old's too I might add) but it was pretty fun to see Daniel dig into his cake and tune out the rest of the world.
Grant liked the ice cream, Uncle Gentry liked the coffee,
Uncle Brian and Baby Casper liked the hugs, Alex and Grandpa liked the quiet??? naptime! (Grandpa liked the frosting on the cake it sent him into a sugar coma. HA!)
Mircea liked the balloons,
Janell, liked the babies, especially from afar. I think the quote I remember was, "Oh, I am wearing dry-clean-ables, here is the baby back...."
Victoria contributed to the conversation,
Daddy liked the cake and did I mention that Grant liked the ice cream? Here we see him getting ready to jump up and take another helping. Hopefully Beth will post pictures of the party too since it was so much fun and Beth did a wonderful job on decorating and the cake.....beyond cute!
Grant and I are studying the Celts. Their artwork often involved magical creatures, and the weaving of patterns so I thought I would try my hand at this. Magical creatures must indeed include goats! The result? A Celt stylized male pygmy goat in full wool. When Grant gets done with his masterpiece I will try to show it also. The fun thing is that I am getting the goat face structure memorized and can now create a goat-like creature without looking at one. A feeling of accomplishment. Too bad it doesn't mean much in the whole scope of things!
