Fall break.

So this school thing is exhausting but they give you breaks and earlier this month I had a four day weekend.  Hip hip hooray!  It meant lots of time to do the things I wanted to do...even though I love school. 
So one thing I got to do was go fishing with Papa.  We went catfishing with Rusty and Paul.  I learned all about catfishing and fishing in a real fishing boat.  It was really fun even though I smelled a little fishy for a few days.  (The smell might have been too much for pregnant mommy.  She washed my clothes four times.)

 

Papa is great!  Because even spending all day on Friday with him and driving in his fast car, he decided to include the girls (Nana and Hady) on a little something too and we went to see the Cat in the Hat at the local theater.  As Hady would say, "The cat is so so so funny."

 

Oh, don't worry fall break was far from over.  We carved pumpkins with daddy and mommy after a long bike ride.  Hady still scoots but she is getting closer to keeping up with me.  I think our pumpkins might even make it to Halloween even though we did a super early carving this year.  And like always, we carve 'old school' pumpkins. 

 

On the last day of fall break, we hit Brown County.  The leaves are changing and we were full of energy so we did a little tree climbing, a little hiking, some horseback riding (on ponies) and some eating.  It was a fun day.

Yep, super high.  Hady hung around while I climbed the fire tower...then I did a little tree climbing too.

 We found this old playground and had a blast on this teeter tooter from the past.

 Hiking with some breaks.

 Probably one of the last pictures of us being mommy's only two children.  Baby brother still in the belly but still without a name.

 Pony rides all around.

 Hady daydreaming about when she can ride a big horse.  I can next year...hello being six!

 

So that was my fall break.  Up this week...Halloween and meeting my baby brother.  Can't get much better than that.



Fall is in the air.

With pumpkins and soccer and anticipating our baby brother's arrival, fall is definitely here. This week we celebrated mommy's birthday. We took a walk with Nana and mommy to the pumpkin patch right by Nana's house. It felt like fall.

We have been playing fall soccer too.  I play games this year, although mommy's pictures are from practice.  And Hady get to practice too...no games for her little league.  The cool fall nights are definitely here on the soccer field.  I scored my first goal last night!  Definite improvement has been made since the the start of the season just a few weeks ago.

Our shirts glow in the dark (just kidding).

 Girls!  Hady lining up the balls before practice.

Everyone has to do some stretching.

 Watch out.

 Right after I scored!  Don't worry.  I am on drink break so I can touch it with my hand.

Lots of lake weekends coming to an end.

We enjoyed lots of long weekends at the lake in August and September.  The world seems to slow a bit when at the lake.  Lots of family time and memories being made.  Although it is October now, we will still enjoy some boat rides and camp fires but the water sports and swimming have probably come to an end. 

This summer I learned to ski without the bar.  Look I can even do it one handed.

 Hady enjoyed the slow lake life with lots of boat rides.

 She also enjoyed the fast lake life with some tubing, even tubing by herself.  She is showing off with the no hands tubing appoach.

 I get to go along sometimes.

 Hady learned to go all the way down the slide.  She can swim without her life jacket for short distances.  Next summer she will be able to swim like me probably.

 I love fishing and Hady has caught on a little.  There is a little bitty minnow in her hands.

 Ready to conquer the lake.

 And like I said, lots of memories being made.

Catching up!

Life has been busy since starting kindergarten.  I have been at school everyday for the last forty plus days so forgive me but I am in need of catching up on life on this thing.  I love kindergarten, my friends and my teacher but it has taken some time to get used to.  Mommy takes me and picks me up from school which is great.  We often get to stay and play at the playground with some of my school friends and Hady which makes the afternoons fly by.  I sometimes have homework but I also just like to show off my reading and writing skills at home just because it is so cool to learn to read and write.

Well here is the other stuff I have been up to...
Uncle Jason and Aunt Jaime visited from Colorado for Labor Day.  I had a few days off school and we got to hang at the lake.  The weather has just now cooled down so there have been many lake weekends since then too.

 Reagan looking older.

Hady just watching everything and everybody.

 Finally got to sail with Dave.

 A little friendly challenge (I was the scorekeeper).

 Dave's bday celebration.  96 years young and 3 years young.

 Dave needed some help.

 Some late evening wakeboarding from daddy and Uncle Jason.

Hady and I are playing fall soccer.  I play games and Hady just learns skills.  We have both improved a lot since the beginning.  Hady is working on not using her hands (tough skill) and I am working on learning how to play the game.  Go after the ball and dribble it towards the ball (also tough because kicking it as far as you can is much more fun.)



I went on my first field trip with my kindergarten class.  Mommy got to come and walk around with us.  And I got to ride the bus to Peden Farm which was almost as exciting as the actual field trip.

Hayride.

 Petting the mule.

 Plenty of things to hold.

 Lots of new things to try.

 And cute little squishy animals to hold close.

Fall has come and we are starting some of our favorite fall traditions.  So far we have hit the pumpkin patch and got to paint some of the pumpkins we picked out.

Last but not least, we participated in Hoosiers Outrun Cancer again this year.  We did the one mile family walk and I ran with daddy while Hady and mommy ran together.  I stopped once because my heart was beating so fast but I beat daddy by a mile and had so much fun.  Hady even finished the whole one mile.  I saw her sprint across the finish line like it was nothing.  It was a beautiful day to support a great cause.