Cub Mobile Racing

Spencer has been part of a local Cub Scout Troop for just over a year.  On September 14th they had a Cub Mobile Racing Day.  They Scouts competed, but in between real runs, they let other kids take rides.  (That way Zack could participate as well since our church troop isn't as well funded or put together.)  It was a very fun day.

Spence and Jon waiting to ride...

 A close up of my boy...

 Go!

 Zack getting a turn after his soccer game...

 Awards at the end.  Spencer wasn't in the top three for his age group.  His light weight may have been a factor.

There was a car show going on across the street that day, so James and the boys wandered over to take look at these oldies but goodies.

Soccer

Zack opted to try soccer this year instead of year round swimming.  I think he was mostly interested in being with friends.  So, we decided he could give it a try.  [What's one more activity and place to be, Right?]  Luckily he got on a team with four of his friends from church and other friends from school.  And practices fell on decent days for us.  Their team is the Green Hurricanes.  The first game was on Sept. 7th.

Johnny on the left, Zack on the right

 Zack is number 15 on the far right

 We wore white for "away" games.

 On the bench with Spencer Wood waiting for his turn to get into the game.

 Gary and Zack

 Team picture day September 28, 2013

 Other game shots from the Fall Season...

 Overall Zacky had a good time.  The team wasn't the best, but they got a few wins.  Now we wait for Spring to resume the fun.

My little dancer

This Fall a girl in our ward offered a simple dance class in her home.  I've wanted Sid to have something and this was a good first experience.  She enjoys her 30 lesson each week.

Black Widow

We came home on a Friday night to the kids telling us that when the neighbor dropped off his daughter for a sleep over they saw many cockroaches on our mailbox when their headlights was level with it.  Now lest some of you freak out, we are in the SOUTH.  Even if you are clean and spray, you can't keep all the critters away.  We had no idea they had taken up a home in the cracks between the brick and the seems down the outside of the mailbox.  It was dark, but we went out with bug spray.  While we were killing those nasty creepy crawlers, I moved the flashlight down to the base of the brick mailbox unit and found a black widow on a web.  James quickly sprayed that as well. 

 From the top side...

Flipped over to see the underside...

Must have been young to have red markings on both sides.  Someone suggested that I should have simply moved it to a safer place, but with young children, I didn't want to take chances.

Apple Pie Filling

We finally got enough apples from our trees to do something with.  Yay for miracles!  Most of them came from the bigger tree. 

This is it after we picked most of the apples...

 Our pile of apples...

It has been a while since we've had a reason to use this Apple-Peeler-Corer-Slicer, but the boys thought it was the best invention ever.  They had so much fun "helping."

 Apples all ready to go into the jars...

 12 quarts of pie filling...

 In the box and ready to be used.  YUM!

Silly girl

Silly Sidnie -she was doing this on the bus to make other kids laugh.

Happy 15th!

Our Bug-a-boo turned 15 in September. We celebrated as a family.  Jordan is a tremendous joy to have in our family.  She loves to try making new recipes in the kitchen, she is dedicated, diligent and hard working, she is intelligent and kind.  How we love our Bug!

 

Apple Dumplings...