The Week in Pictures

hasn't this been the prettiest fall?  It's been so warm and lovely, I'm just so happy every day lately! 

We started our week with a big fat Birthday For Me!  I took a 4.1 mile run at lunch for my 41 years.  I really wanted to run down Willson Street, even though the leaves are a bit past their prime it was still amazing. 

Monday Josh had a football game, and then after that we went to dinner.  Josh is wearing his Peru shirt in honor our friend and ex-babysitter, Nelson, who left on his mission to Peru Tuesday morning. 

The boys had an epic nerf gun fight on Tuesday.  They couldn't talk to daddy on the phone because they were too busy battling (and looking for their socks?). 

Wednesday night we had back to back Cub Scouts.  Luke's age got to shoot bb guns at the fairgrounds first.  His group is the youngest, and I think they're so stinking cute in their tiny shirts and neckerchiefs. 

This is one of Luke's targets.  He did really well!

This is Josh's target. He's a great little shooter -- especially when he covers his left eye. Plus he looks kind of like a pirate, which makes everything better. 

Thursday night we all slept in my bed. I stayed up late and came to bed to find This.  I blasted them apart and slept right in the middle of this cuddly warmness.  Blissful.  I only got one elbow in the head and one kick to the gut, mom victory for sure. 

This is outside Luke's classroom. A room of scary spiders  

A close up of Luke's scary face  His crossed eyes are perfect. 

Friday we had special visitors! Gramma and Grampa Wright came from Kalispell to visit!  Fridays are so fun because we have Luke for an hour and 20 minutes before Josh gets dismissed from school.  We took him to The Secret Park near school. 

Gramma and Grampa brought these amazing donuts.  

Josh gave me a tiny portable printer for my birthday, and on Friday we were testing it out.  He's displaying the print job here.  

Friday night we started our Football Watching In The Cold weekend.  Hawks vs CMR. It was a fun game, the boys were so hyper and having so much fun.  

The last games of the flag football season were on Saturday. Luke got to play quarterback for a few plays.  this picture is to illustrate how slow and low the center "snaps" aka slides the ball back to QB.  It's very very cautious. 

Here is Luke on the QB sneak, heading up field. 

Josh's team had a great season.  Actually, both boys' teams were undefeated! Josh was on the Packers, and Cash's family are cheese heads in real life, so they had props for the team photo. :) 

Goofy face team photo.

Some incredible parent brought personalized football shaped cookies.  Wow. 

We loved being on the same team as Kyler.  

Saturday we went to see Goosebumps. I asked the boys for a scary face. 

This is photographic evidence that my parents were in town. The boys are squishing garden gnomes...of course they are. 

Sunday morning I had some company on a morning run.  I told him I was running 3-4 miles and he said "I'm in!" so off we went. He did a great job. 

this is our path. Josh thought it was so cool that my app made a map of our route, and wanted to save it for next Sunday.  We ran exactly 3.1 miles, so I see why he'd want it to say. It's not exactly a logical route though, so who knows where we'll end up next time. :)

The Ball Trap and The Safety Swing.

Josh came into the house from playing with Luke outside, and he told me that the Vortex ball was stuck in the "wedge" of our roof.  We started throwing other balls at it to try to knock it down, and before we knew it we had lost all the balls. 

We tried footballs, basketballs, and even the lightweight red ball.

We finally had to break down and get out the ladder. Josh wanted the honors of reducing the ball, and so we let him throw other balls at the vortex.

We lost all the balls and ended up fishing them loose with a big stick. 

These are the balls we lost and rescued from the roof, and the stick that finally freed them. 

We had a nice lazy weekend, complete with a bike ride to the Junior High.  Josh was racing across the parking lot...super intense.

Luke was happier on the swings.

Check me out!

Josh found "The Safety Swing" and took a few wild underdog rides on it. 

He said it was relaxing but also like a roller coaster.  

Recap

Check out our little cub scout!  Don't worry, I got him a smaller shirt...

Fridays are Luke and Mommy time because Josh gets out at 3:30 and Luke gets out at 2:10. This Friday I had some PAC stuff to do, but I could take it with me so we decided to go to a park. He worked on his American Ninja Warrior moves while I processed Fun Run pledges.  And he rocked his new Jimmy Graham jersey, which was a straight up bribe for better behavior in the mornings.  I'm only human. 

Saturday morning the boys had games at the same time, so we watched the first half of Luke's while he was running back. He had two carries and two touchdowns in the first half.  Mike brought his big camera, so I have way too many pictures and I can't help but share them. 

I love his eyebrows.

And the tight fist. 

He was breaking away here...

The sideways arm and tight fist are decidedly not good running form, but it's cute. 

Walking back to the team, proud moment for sure. 

Check this fake! 

His second run was good too. 

And he's off!

Josh played O-line, which is a little less glamorous but still important.  Here's a bunch of kids' butts. 

And some boys all wrapped up in blocking. Kyle's guy is getting pretty intense. 

Josh lost his tooth Saturday morning. He woke up way too early for a Saturday, I told him to go back to bed for "one more sleep" and he replied "its the perfect spot for a straw" -- so we were definitely on the same page. ha ha

Later, he got to prove his point.  It IS a great spot for a straw. We tailgated with our friends, and Josh got to go to that tailgate for 1/2 the time, then over to Aden's family's tailgate and game.  Lucky little toothless boy.

While Josh was at the Cats game, we took Luke to the SUB to go bowling.  It was way too far for him to walk, so a shoulder ride was in order.