Homecoming

Every year we try to make it down to Waco for Baylor Homecoming.

It is such a fun tradition and I love all that it involves.

Our dear friends the Forrester's come every year

and it is so fun to see how our family's are multiplying and growing :)

We always have dinner at my parents house on friday night

(none of us went to the bonfire this year -

no one was quite up for it with the littles)

We then headed to the parade on Saturday morning.

 me and sweet B

 Alex's parents came too!

 Andrew & Megan

 Chi-O representing :)

 first time as a married couple :)

 our fam

 the marable fam

 love the following pics of duncan and B

 hudson (blake's nephew) & jayden

 jake & emily with their new baby hunter kate!!!

 the forrester sibs

 the sudan sibs

 love this little cutie

 sweet amy and i

 homecoming also happened to be on amy's 30th birthday

so after the game (which had a rain delay and we left early)

we went to blake's family's river house for dinner and hanging out

it is beautiful there and a great way to end a fun day!

 all the girls (minus alex)

 mom & ellen

sweet friends for life

Peter Pan & Crew

I am catching up on posts (again!)

So we don't really endorse "halloween" but we still let the

kids dress up in costumes and do something with friends -

just not "glorifying halloween or what it is about"

Duncan, our little make believe, always in character guy -

has been pretending to be Peter Pan for awhile

we realized a couple of weeks before halloween

that Alice had saved Jordan's peter pan costume from when he was little

Granny (jordan's grandmother) made it for him when he was probably 1 or 2 

(so the costume was a little small for duncan but we made it work)

I decided to go with the theme and Alice found Campbell a Tinkerbell costume

and Jayden was a pirate aka Capt. Hook

 Here is the cute crew

 For the past couple of years

we have gone over to the Diehl's neighborhood

to join with them in a "candy parade"

I like it because it is light outside and with a lot of our friends from church

and not quite as "halloweenish"

Here is Blake & Molly

 cutie pie tinkerbell

 the cutest bunny around

hallie jane

 i mean, this robot is the most adorable thing :)

 a cute little cat

 i put barron in a duck costume 

it was what jayden wore when he was his age 

 the cutest little olivia the pig

 jasper adorable

 oscar dog

 a family shot

we had a great time!

love my sweet kiddos and their fun personalities ;)

Jayden's Soccer

Jayden had his last game this week and his team went

UNDEFEATED!

they were such a good little team

and their coach was amazing!

 it seems this season jayden has really figured out the game

and is quite the hustler and scored a goal in over half of his games

 love his sweet smile (he is number 5)

 most of the time jayden was right where the ball was

 these two were so cute

playing together during the game

 stop it - holding hands:)

love this

this is jayden's coach -

anytime a player scored a goal

he would pick the player up and run them across the field

and celebrate the goal 

it was so fun to watch

the kids had so much delight and pride in their eyes

it was priceless!

 their coaches also made them thank the ref after every game

here the boys are running to the ref to thank him

 i loved how they instilled kingdom values of honor and respect

into playing soccer

 post game speech with the coach was always so encouraging

he would point out players by name and encourage them

 and then they would pray together -

love this

 what a great team to play on!

 what a great season!