Halloween and prep

 This years Halloween was a little more hectic than usual.  Most everything was done the last weekend.  We found a place that does $1 pumpkins so all the kids got two this year.  They were really excited to have two designs.  Kayda and Dillon did all theirs, the only thing I did was draw the outline on one of Dillon's.  Carson still needs help with certain parts of the carving.  The boys aren't especially disgusted with the "guts" anymore.  Kayda still takes great pride in her enjoyment of those guts.

 We went to Maris farms again, third year in a row.  We had to go after school one day in order to make it so Daddy wasn't able to come.  We did everything but the corn maze because I was alone with them and only Kayda wanted to do it.  They still had a great time, it's definitely the best pumpkin patch in our area.

 They absolutely love this thing.  Really all their doing is crawling through a big box but they get a kick out of it.  Kayda's getting tall enough now that it's a little trickier than it used to be.

 Dillon laid down for Carson to bury him, next thing he knew there were two random kids pouring cupfuls on him.  The little girl kept getting it on his face but he had no problem with it, just took it in stride.

Walkathon

The kids' school does a Halloween "parade" each year. This year, the kids got to earn money for the school again. Dillon and Carson both jogged the entire time.  I went over to be with them but ended up just watching them run.  Kayda decided she wanted to walk all but the last 2 laid.  So I got to have some good time with her.  It's always fun to be with them, fun music, costumes and walking!

Carson soccer extras

I forgot we got videos of Carson playing this year so I'm making a separate post.  I talked to Daddy, apparently he kept track.  Carson made 33 goals this year in 8 games.

Carson's soccer and banquet

Soccer season is always a favorite for me.  I absolutely love watching my kids play.  This year Carson didn't get to do the rec league, they didn't have enough players.  He ended up playing in their "micro-academy".  There were a lot of really frustrating things about it but Carson had fun so that's what matters most.  They had a couple training days with all the kids together before assigning them teams.  Apparently his coaches were really excited to get Carson.  From the beginning of the season to the end of the season he was considered the G.O.A.T. (greatest of all time).  Honestly this kid kicked some serious butt.  He had one game, the first game, that he didn't score the majority of the goals, (that was the day he was coming down sick and we didn't realize).  After no goals the first game, he ended up with 33 goals the remaining 7 games.  He has an endless amount of energy and can out run and out last every other kid.  His coach, Savannah, would put him back as defense fairly regularly and the other team had a hard time getting past him.  Next year we're planning to play him up a year so he can start playing with goalies.  Pretty sure he'll end up a mid-fielder. 

The last games for all the teams were at the same time, at the football stadium.  They called all the kids' names and they got to run out onto the field before the games started.

Carson made some good friends last year playing soccer.  He ended up NOT being on a team with a single one of them.  We got them all together after the final game though.  Left to right is Madi, Carson (of course), Joey and Ty.

Here he is with his coaches, I honestly have no idea what the guy's name is, he was never really there.  Savannah was really the one that did all the work with him.  She was one of the only coaches in the whole "academy" that actually tried to teach the kids so he was pretty fortunate.