i9 fall sports - with a fancy camera!

I borrowed the Conleys' fancy camera for Ryan's birthday weekend.  

Practicing with the fancy camera on Maya :)

my beautiful girls - this picture got framed!
probably my all-time favorite picture of these cuties

Saturday, September 30th  - all the family was around for Ryan's birthday, woohoo!

cousin Emily came to cheer them on!!

Mari, Chloe, Claire

Claire, Chlo, Mari, Alice, Couper
love these kiddos!  

*Claire asked her Mommy for "pigtails like Chloe always wear!"

*Kelsi, Briana, and I may or may not have picked soccer for our kids so they could stay friends.  The preschool bffs are all at different schools this year.

*If you're Chlo-Chlo, I'm pretty sure soccer is more social then anything else :)

Abby's warmups

Chloe and Mari

Our three play on all the same teams as the Esterling three this fall.  

It's a fun Saturday with our friends!

Henry!  Ryan loves boy cousins

Abby, white #10

*I love that she always runs back to Coach Daddy for a high five.

*She scored three goals this day!

*This girl is a fearless competitor - she's right in there every play

I hadn't planned to bring the camera to sports, so glad I grabbed it at the last minute!

Jackson, Abs, Sawyer, Cooper

Great friends and great soccer players!  This combo won the game 10-0.  

All ten goals between these four! 

there's a short break in between soccer and flag football. 
The Luksiks joined us for our weekly picnic!

Ryan, #16

pass...

  the awesome QB Ryan to WR Cooper reception! 

...catch!  and a great run

Kenley joins us! 
Abby loves having baby cousins :)

Ryan and Cooper, best buds

Ryan's 10th birthday! - family and weekend fun

After Friday night's party, there was lots of family around on Saturday to watch sports and celebrate Ryan!

lots of lovely ladies, we missed you Sarah and Nichole!!

hooray for cousins! 
We missed seeing the Zering crew though!

yay for a whole bunch of us!

the Chase representatives

the Crouse/ Hayter side

the birthday boy loves brownies!
ten candles, goodness!

Henry had a blast with this bird

two handfuls!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!
Ryan and Daddy headed out the Falcons game!🏈
Sunday, October 1st 

the new Mercedes- Benz stadium!

the handsomest ten year old ever!

fun at Wills Park with the Luksiks during the game

the long, fun weekend caught up to her!  

She napped for almost two hours!

Ryan's 10th birthday!! - party and friends

It's fun letting the kids help out with party planning and invitation making as they get older :)

Ryan's birthday crew!  

Aaron, Ryan, Ryan G, Lucas, AJ, Cooper

six cool kids!

hey, great idea!! :)

they worked up an appetite, dinner at Culver's!

crazy kids!

back at the house for s'mores

"AJ!" 
[in the most sing-songey five year voice].

Thanks to Grandpa and Grandma for hanging out with the girls while we skated
[they joined us at Culver's for dinner]

September of 2017

This girl starts parkour today!

 Upper body is where my little monkey excels, she can make it all the way across the ropes

Thursday parkour - we did a five class groupon

Happy Fall[ish!] Friday!!

Fall picture day :)

These two are taking piano lessons with Ms Sarah Allen.  

They're doing great!  Ryan's always practicing, love it.

Cutest Webelo in the pack!

This makes my heart happy!!

"I love you so much Love Abby.  

You're the best sister ever Love Abby."

Abby does stuff like this all the time :)

HURRICANE IRMA

The kiddos had Monday[9.11] and Tuesday[9.12] off from school thanks to the hurricane.

Monday night Monopoly, and then since Daddy was at a conference, we girls had a sleepover in my room

[Ryan thought he'd sleep better in his own bed, probably true!]

To prevent cabin fever, we went out to Mellow Mushroom on Tuesday with the Conleys.  We had to turn twice for road closures.  Ryan went home with them and we girlies ventured out for a walk.  

It wasn't bad at all where we live. 

first day of work - newest MES lunch lady, eekk

Sooo excited about the dress-up clothes we bought from Ms. Jenn

sneak peek - Abby's going to be Laura Ingalls Wilder for Halloween, one costume down!

We Gage-sat for two weeks followed immediately by Hank for another week.

FALL BREAK 2017 

we discovered the skate park at the new Veteran's Park and went three days in a row! 

parkour monkey at the playground

These two played so well together

 

Chloe rockin' the training wheels!

**The first day we went, Monday, Chloe's friend Miller from school also happened to be there, and they were inseperable.  He's a cutie, I think Chloe might be the boy-crazy one in the family, eekk!

**The first two days weren't crowded at all, Wednesday was more so.  But I have to say, I was so happily surprised by how nice everyone was to my little guys.  They were all checking on everyone if someone fell, and someone helped Chloe up when her bike fell.

9.19.17 - Braves game! 
Daddy and Ryan - Mr. Dan, Gracie, and Hannah

small group GNO to Las Palmas
me, Brittany, Katie, Sarah, Carlynn

We got our house painted!  To say it was a mess would be an understatement!!  

Thankful for a wonderful dinner and football watching evening away at the Houlihans' house.  

We have the best neighbors!!

Hat day.  Love that she still loves
and wears her Great-Grandma's hat

Mari, Mommy, Chloe, Grandma

Hat day also happened to be kindergarten Johnny Appleseed day

Centers fun in Mrs. Mikes's class

and Grandma got to come too!  They were in town for Ryan's bday.