Fall Clearance

Now that December has officially arrived, I thought it best to clean out the fall photos in time to clear the shelves for all of the holiday and Christmas material soon to be arriving! The big items like Halloween, Thanksgiving and birthdays have been covered, now all that is left are some of the smaller more day to day activites that we've been participating in the past month or two.

One word that could be used to define fall around here is Soccer. All four of the kids were on teams this season, which meant at least three games of soccer every saturday, as well as two practices per kid a week. It's been busy, to say the least. No one was more happy than me to see the end of daylight savings time and the shortening of available daylight hours for practices to be held.

Henry and Jed were on the same U8 team, which was coached by Peter, our bishop and another guy in our ward, and on the team 6 out of the 12 boys were from our ward. They had a fun season, at this age there are no goalies and only 5 boys per team, and they are still learning the basics.

Jack hadn't played in a few years and lucked onto a good team with a solid coach and a friend from his class on it. They started out strong but sort of fell apart at the end of the season and didn't even make play offs. Jack however wasn't too caught up in the competition and had a fun time regardless.

Harriet was and is still part of an AYSO plus team for Lake Forest - she had a fun season with this team and with traveling around to other cities in South Orange County to play against their plus teams. Her team performed quite well, and came in second place overall. Couldn't quite catch Ladera Ranch.

Harriet is #3, which means this year there is actually

someone smaller than her to be #2~

(not much smaller, but just enough)

on the bench

At the beginning of the game,

and then again at the end of half time,

Harriet's team performs their special "Wildthings" cheer to

kick start their fighting spirit and to intimidate the other team.

Take a look, it's worked quite well this season.

Go Wildthings!

(and a big shout out to our most

loyal fans Grandpa and Grandma

who managed to make it to at

least two games every Saturday!)

Harriet also got the chance to ride the sweetest horse ever,

a gelding named Ranger who lives in the stables near

our house and belongs to the Activity Day's leader in

our ward who took the girls riding one afternoon.

Harriet and Ranger are very fond of each other

starting to get chilly in the afternoon

"What's this?" you may be asking yourself,

Telly Tubbies? Power Rangers? A stoplight impression?

No, just my kids dressed up to participate in

school Spirit Day wearing their grade level's assigned colors

Field Trip with Henry's class to see Peter Pan

performed by the Trabuco Hills High School Drama Club

Wendy, John, Peter, Michael

The cast members came into the audience after

the show to greet the kids - Henry was fascinated

by Captain Hook but didn't want to actually speak to him

He did pose with the girls and Tinkerbell however

Pack Meeting November:

Troup 768 Pinewood Derby 2009!

(Henry earns his Scouting for Food patch)

Henry is really enjoying being a Cub Scout -

one of the activities this month was

Scouting for Food. He passed out bags

for people to fill with food, then gathered them

up and dropped them off for

Second Harvest Food Bank.

He also designed and helped build his

first Pinewood Derby car for

competition as a Cub Scout

Henry's car is the sleek gold one far right

Henry came in First Place!!!

congratulations Henry!

Showing our support for "Team Edward"

at our group New Moon movie viewing activity

Getting a visit from our friends

and brand new parents

Eddie & Angela

with the adorable baby Naia!

everyone wants an extended chance to hold her

have you ever seen a better lookin' kid

holding a cuter baby?

Henry was the one that got to feed her.

Come back and visit soon Naia!!