Thursday, October 3, 2013

September 2013

NATHAN
Nathan on his first day of Pre-school level 2.
We love his sweet smile.
Nathan started soccer.  Jared is the assistant coach for his team.  Nathan loves it.
Nathan learning how to swing.

ABIGAIL
I decided to take some pictures of Abby since we got her all dressed for picture day at Homelink and then it was rescheduled due to a bad storm.  We love her sweet smile.
Abby decided she needed a prop if she was going to pose for a picture.
Pretty darn cute.
Abby playing soccer.  I'm afraid I put her shin guards on the outside of her socks since I've never been a soccer mom before and I didn't know what I was doing.
Abby on the first day of Homelink.
Abby after she accidently opened the wrong side of the parmesan cheese and poured half the jar on her pasta.

MADELINE

Maddy on her first day of Kindergarten.
Maddy was probably the most excited about riding on the school bus.
Maddy was sad one day when she came home from Kindergarten because she didn't know how to swing herself.  Abby went with her to the back yard and gave Maddy swinging lessons.  Ten minutes later she came in screaming with excitement because she learned how.  Yeah, for big sisters.
Maddy was really shy at first, but now she loves playing on her soccer team.

OUR NEW CLOSET

Jared has been awesome and built all these shelves in our master closet to create more storage space.
Look at all that shelf space!
Hooks for jackets.
The girls got really excited about the shoe shelf and started trying on all my high heeled shoes.
Jared rebuilt the drywall box (that covers the stairwell below) to include this awesome long drawer that is great for storing wrapping paper.

PARTY
The kids had fun jumping in the bouncy house at the Homelink family social.
One day the kids had fun dressing up and having a fancy tea party.
On the 29th I made a cake and we celebrated Thomas' first birthday.  We sure miss our sweet little guy.  For Thomas' birthday, Jared did one last blog post about him:  http://changedforgood3x21.blogspot.com/2013/09/not-post-i-wanted-to-write.html?spref=fb

The Strawberry girls.

5 comments:

Ruth said...

Oh, how adorable! I love all the pictures. Can we steal Jared for a month to come down and make us a gazillion built-ins? Good job!

Astromom said...

The closet looks amazing, the pictures darling. I'm sorry about soccer, soccer for three kids is crazy busy (we know) you are at that point in life Divide and conquer. One piece of advise, picnics at the soccer park are a great way to get dinner in as a family. Sounds busy and fun, what a wonderful family, very sweet about Thomas's birthday.

Mary said...

Sarah--The kids actually do a program called Family Friendly Soccer which is great. It is only $10 and they all meet in the same place on Sat. morning from 9:30-10:00. They have practice for the first half and play they second half.

Astromom said...

That is good to hear, what a great way to do family friendly soccer, they need that here.

Craig said...

I cannot believe how big all of the kids have gotten. They all look so grown up! I love all the pictures and the updates. Jared, your closets look awesome! We can't wait to see you in a couple of weeks for Thanksgiving!