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Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween!

Another Halloween has come and gone!  This year we did our Halloween portraits a few days before Trick or Treat.  It made for a much more relaxed Trick or Treat!  It was cold but at least it wasn't raining like last year!  We made our rounds and then came home to relax and eat some candy!

Soul Taker

Soul Taker without the hood!

Peter Quill aka StarLord from Guardians of the Galaxy

Without the mask!

My little Minion!

We don't celebrate Halloween at the boys school but we reached a fundraising goal so to thank the kids we celebrated with a Pajama Day and passed out popcorn to all the students.

Shaun's Halloween Pajamas

Evan chose the Olaf ones!

The boys came home from school and couldn't wait to get their costumes on for Trick or Treat.  We all got ready (including me - I was Jem!) and waited for Dad to get home from work.  I filled up my candy bucket for my neighbors to pass out for us until we got back and we headed out!  I ended up changing my costume a little after the picture because it was so cold.  My toes were still numb by the end of the night but at least the Under Armour long sleeved running shirt kept my body warm!  And it was pink so it matched my dress!

The boys are ready for candy!

All of us dressed up!

Racing to the first house!

Ready to see the loot!

 I think they made out OK!

Happy Halloween!  Hope everyone had as much fun as we did! 

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Shaun made pumpkin pie for his class harvest party tomorrow!  Evan helped too!

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...He scores!

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The annual Halloween portraits!  We had some free time this afternoon so it was nice to cross this off the list and now I don't have to worry about it on Friday when we're just running around trying to get ready for Trick or Treating!

David is a Soul Taker, Shaun is Peter Quill (aka StarLord) from Guardians of the Galaxy) and Evan is a Minion!

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Diving in the big pool!  David is loving his new swimming lessons location!

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I spy a little boy!

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Picture perfect day!

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Celebrating a wonderful teacher today!

Some Fall Fun

Hard to believe Fall is coming to an end in a couple weeks.  We were crazy busy with all 3 boys playing soccer this year.  So we missed out on some of the Fall Bucket list items I was hoping to do, but I was very happy that we at least got to squeeze in some apple picking!

The boys really enjoyed their soccer games.  Shaun was more into it this year and while he still tends to goof off, he was definitely more focused!  His favorite part was playing in the mock World Cup.  I think his team was Germany.

Look at his focus this year!

This year, Evan was old enough to play and he was so excited to be part of a team.  He was extremely focused and always giving me the thumbs up!  He keeps asking when he gets to play again.

Ready to play!

Go Evan, Go!

David's soccer this year was a little more intense!  He had more games and they were against other school teams.  He had great coaching and learned a lot about soccer he never really knew before.  His team was mostly made up of 4th graders but he held his own and improved so much from the first practice until the last game.  His team went undefeated on the regular season and they won the Jamboree championship game!

Running hard!

He also had the opportunity to play in a Fall Baseball clinic.  It was really great for him to get the opportunity to work on his baseball skills with small groups and then play scrimmages.

Batting practice!

And no fall is complete until you've gone apple picking.  We may have missed out on the Fair this year, but I needed to make sure we got to the orchard!  We headed to one of my favorite places, Applecrest and we even ran into our friends!  It was a perfect fall day!

The boys with Pattie!

Evan and Liam

Friends!

And of course another fun fall bucket list item, playing in the big pile of leaves!

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These guys have been really good sports about having to hang out at the school all day long so the Mom's could do some projects!  Also, technology rules!

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Cuteness Factor = 10 at the school pizza night!

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Son can you play me a memory...I'm not really sure how it goes...

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My heart and my soul.

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Attack of the leaf blower!

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Fall soccer has come to an end!  Evan had so much fun playing like his big brothers!  He told me he couldn't wait until next year.  Now it's onto Basketball.

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Hanging out, eating popcorn and watching Monster's Inc. at the school movie night!

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David's school hosted their annual Harvest Festival tonight!  The boys had fun playing the games and decorating their cookies.

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Lunch Bunch!  The Littles love eating lunch at school like the Bigs!

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Lunch with Grammy at Red Robin...Yummmmm!

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Birthday Boys!  Yesterday we celebrated these two brothers turning 9 and 7!

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It is Race Day!! We had another gorgeous day this year and the boys got their high fives from Daddy as he was about to cross the 13th mile (since we cannot wait at the actual finish line here).  I was able to have the results sent via text again this year so we know his official times.  We'll find out later what he placed overall.  He is usually in the top 100.  While he didn't race his fastest time ever (from his covered Bridges race back in June), he did finish this race faster than last year by almost a minute!

2014 Boston 1/2 Marathon Race Results:
5 mile: 30:36
10 mile: 1:01:29
Finish: 1:20:55