And we've been quite busy since.... August? Ooops. I'll post pictures some day. Like, Halloween. Maybe.
Ares started and finished soccer. He's an awesome defender and even made a few goals this year. He's improved so much, that he's one of the best kids in the league! (He had a good team this year and they all made each other better, not to mention a good coach.)
Atlas had fun at practices too. He'd just run around with a ball. Sometimes I'd have to chase after him. Adam was working a long 1-10pm shift during this time, which wasn't fun for any of us, but it was fortunate that it was right before his big race in Vermont, so he got to train in the mornings when the kids were at school.
Soccer was 2-3 times a week, which was crazy hectic for me to make dinner, pick the boys up, feed them in the parking lot and watch soccer, but it's made me stronger, and we had BEAUTIFUL weather for pretty much the entire season. Plus, I got the best parking spot each day because we got there early to eat. #silverlining
Adam managed to finish his Spartan Ultra Beast race. This was 26 miles of mountainous terrain with 50 obstacles in a certain time frame. He did awesome, but called me saying he will NEVER do it again. He was miserable. I don't believe him one bit.
He's decided that he wants to get into welding. So last week and this week he's spent a ton of $$ to get safety gear and a welding kit thingy. HE's pretty excited about it, me? Well, I hope it's not another one of those 'hobbies' that he throws all this money into and does nothing at all with it. *cough* sand blaster *cough* I can *cough* about 7 other things, unfortunately.
I've been prepping for a vendor event this coming weekend, in which I'm hoping to sell some of my hobbies' fruitions. I made a countdown to Disney and countdown to Santa blocks. Adam signed me up for a 15k this weekend. I'm not excited at all about it, but I am curious if I can run/walk 9.3 miles. I hope the weather isn't too cold. It's calling for high 30's/mid 40's.
We've had some fantastic weather these past few weeks. We even put up our Christmas lights in 75* weather! In NOVEMBER! We had a week straight of 70's, surrounded by weeks of 60's. It's been pretty amazing, so we've gotten NOTHING done around the house (it's a messy disaster) because we've been taking advantage of this beautiful weather. The time change kinda stunk, because it's dark when we get home now, but at least the kids play outside at school and we've been spending all weekends outdoors.
The boys are absolutely amazing. They play SOO well together. SO WELL. Atlas likes to get piggy back rides from Ares, and then they fall, laugh hysterically, and do it again. Sometimes they fall hard, but they have learned how to get each other ice packs, so the tears are minimal. I am delighted at how well they get along. I never thought at 6 and 2 that theyd have the same interests. Apparently, dressing up in costumes, wrestling and legos are a boys dream. In fact, I've been purging our toys because the kids have only been playing with each other and a few select toys.
I want to have a huge purge for the house, but can't find time to do it. Adam's been working Saturday's (has monday's off) but I haven't given him honey-do lists, so I still try to get things done while watching the boys, (hah, yeah, that doesn't happen). I did take a half day off to purge the toy room and managed to clear out the linen closet when I was between jobs .
Right now, that's what I want to do all the time. Just begin to purge all the crap from my house. We have lots of stuff, and no where for it to go other than what seems like counter tops and closets (but there's no room in the closets anymore).
This winter isn't nearly as busy as most of our past years have been. We're still doing our Luau in January, hopefully going to Atlanta in February, probably the Song party in April again. But thus far, Nov/Dec are looking pretty nice.
OH! And Ares came home begging to join Cub Scouts. We're hoping he love it. Not excited about another activity at night, but excited about him getting involved. Hopefully this goes a long way.
