Professional Pictures - Football

A friend of one of Ryan's teammates is a professional photographer and took hundreds of photos of one of Ryan's football games.  The player's parents were kind enough to share them with the team.  Here are a few that Ryan is in:

If you are interested in seeing all of the photos taken, you can view them here.  I am in awe of the clarity of the photos he took, given it was dark and raining the entire game!

Jewelry

I haven't had a lot of spare time to work on jewelry, but I did manage to squeeze in two quick orders in the last two weeks:

Instagram

Time for another Instagram dump:

Carter came home with his first all star slip the second week of school:

Carter and I back in our running routine in the mornings before school:

Ryan's football team - 3rd Grade Bengals:

Ryan: 0, Driveway: 1.  He wiped out on his bike and it took forever to heal because every time he put on his football pants, it would wear the scabs off and be an open wound again.  Poor kiddo!

We are recarpeting the main and upper levels of our house next week and trying to decide on a carpet style and color was stressful for me!!!

Ryan dunked his principal, Mr. Johnson, at school, after earning 2 dunk tickets for his walkathon earnings: 

Super proud of himself:

The boys and I went to a Wild Suite with Evan's coworkers.  The boys had a blast and managed to talk me into new Wild shirts for both of them!

Enjoying a lazy day, reading:

Wednesday night lights.  Our first mid-week game:

I was the first "guest reader" in Carter's classroom this fall and the kids surprised me with a bouquet of flowers, each flower made by a student in Carter's class.  :)

We had black skies, thunder, and finally lightening.  Ryan's game was called 10 minutes prior to the start!

So proud of my little All Star - this was his second all star slip in two days!

Proud of my co-captain, #14, Ryan Mackey! :)

It was a rainy, cold day - first at Ryan's football game and then at Kyle's soccer game:

A view from my morning run through the woods - gorgeous:

I made chicken for dinner, but Ryan wasn't interested in chicken when he could cook his dinner over the backyard bonfire!

My pond pump went out on Monday.  Thank goodness I had filled the tank last weekend and the winter home for my fish was ready.  They are 9 years old now!!!!

This made me laugh.  Ryan had to write a synonym for the word digest.  Check out what he answered! :)

The boys and I spent the day at Nickelodeon Universe at the Mall of America yesterday.  Carter and I spent most of our time waiting for Ryan on his ultimate thrill rides - the roller coasters!!!!  Love my time with my boys!!!! :)

School and Football Pictures

It's been ages since I've posted.  Sorry for the silence.  Life has been even crazier than normal around here!

Here are the boys' school pictures, 
Ryan, Grade 3: 

Carter, Grade 1:

and Ryan's football picture, Bengals #14:

Wild Game

The boys and I went to a Wild hockey game in the Bolander Suite.  There were several families there, which was nice, because that meant no pressure for my boys to sit quietly and watch the game, because if you know my boys, that isn't going to happen! :)  They managed to talk me into new Wild shirts for both of them - I wish I would have gotten a picture of them in their new gear.  Very cute!

Ryan's on the left, but you can barely see him!

Ryan chilling in the suite, drinking Sprite and watching the game:

Carter is front and center, watching the action:

Is anyone watching this kid???  :)

Instagram

Time for another Instagram dump:

Evan took the boys miniature golfing:

Ryan's football scrimmage:

The kids playing board games with the neighbors inside when the heat index was 105 outside!

Evan and Ryan at the Vikings game:

Our last trip to Bunker for the season - the boys made a tube fort:

Relaxing in the tubes:

We went to a rodeo on Labor Day weekend:

The rodeo clown climbed the fence behind us and sat down with us.  You should have seen the boys eyes!!!!

The boys both jumped in the arena for the calf chase and both were successful in pulling a ribbon from the calves' tail.  Amazing considering there were about 100 kids in both age groups and only 4 calves each!

Carter reading on the way home from Grandpa and Grandma's:

Ryan and I enjoying Yogurt Sundae after the first day of school while Evan and Carter had fun at WWE Wrestling!!!

Ryan and I before his first football game:

Ryan laying on the back of Charles and Beth's boat.  He said to Carter "now this is the life!"  :)

Enjoying Lake Minnetonka with great friends on a hot day!

Carter found a heart raspberry.  Fitting because this boy also holds my heart!!!! :)