My sister and her family came to visit us!

It was a whirlwind couple of days with cousins visiting cousins and hanging out and celebrating birthdays and seeing lots of DC stuff.  We had a great time with them though and wish they lived closer so we could do more visits.

Cox Farms

Took the boys to Cox Farms with some friends on Sunday to enjoy the fall weather.  They slide down slides and went through the corn maze (which we all agreed the cool psycho bus was the neatest part of the day), we had BBQ and caramel apples.

Ian's 6th Grade Field Trip to the Monastery

I helped take the 6th graders to the Franciscan Monastery in DC yesterday.  It was a really neat trip and the brothers who were our tour guides really kept the kids interested in the history of the building and the shrines that were there.  The best part was the catacombs and we even got to see the incorrupt body of St Innocent that was 1900 years old.

Cub Scout Camporall

Oct 5th and 6th, we spent the weekend at Camp Synder in Haymarket VA to go to Camporall with Evan's Cub Scout Pack.  The theme was Last of the Cub Lords or something like that and they had a whole lot sword based activities.  They made and decorated swords and then they had a couple of people from the Renaissance Festival there to teach them proper techniques for sword fighting.

Evan also did the ropes course and was terrified the whole time!!  I thought for sure one of us was going to have to climb up and "save" him but he ended up making it!

Here are some pictures from the weekend.   I didn't take many because it was super hot and dusty and I just was too hot to lug around the camera all weekend.

I took a LOT of photos that first season of soccer.

I mean for one game I have like 100 photos.  So I'm trying to scrap them but not just put one per page or I'll have a whole book dedicated to one soccer game!!  Here are two layouts I did this morning/last night with some soccer photos.  At least I'm getting my money's worth out of that soccer ball Quickutz die!

Both these layouts were based on sketches.  The top one from STUCK?!, using their October 1st sketch.  The bottom one based on a sketch from Julie Bonner that a friend posted on Facebook.