Breathing a sigh of relief. . .

Friday, I went to Spencer's first grade parent teacher conference. Honestly, I was a little nervous. After all, Spencer is the only boy in our family and has A LOT of energy and has often come home from school unhappy because school was soooooooooooooo long. Therefore, I wondered how he was behaving and how he was doing academically. Guess what? Just like in kindergarten, he received rave reviews! He scored the best marks in all the behavioral categories and is performing well in all his academic pursuits. The teachers (the substitute he had for the first 2 1/2 months of school and his real teacher) had nothing but good things to say to me about him. Whew! What a relief! I'm very pleased with my little man.

Soccer Tournament

On Saturday, Rachel's soccer team began their final tournament of the season. It was a cold but sunny day and they played very well. They defeated Nazareth 3-0 and then played Moore Township and tied 1-1. I was hoping Rachel would score a goal in her final game of the season and she did! Her team continued in the tournament on Sunday (without Rachel--our family doesn't play on Sunday) and they placed 3rd. I thoroughly enjoyed spending the day on the field. Rachel's done a terrific job this season. She is a talented soccer player and we're proud of her and her accomplishments in the sport. But if you think Rachel's sporting days are over, think again! She started basketball practices on Monday. Here we go again!

Rachel and her friend, Nicole

The triumphant team walks off the field to a standing ovation from the parents

Rachel just kicked that ball (This was zoomed 48x) Sorry about the bluriness.

Running to get the ball!

Fall Fun

So these first three pictures are cell phone pictures (thus poor quality) but you can see how much fun my kids have playing in the leaves. In our township, everyone rakes their leaves to the street and then township employees come around with a giant vacuum thingy and suck them up. Then they make mulch out of it. The awesome thing is that the mulch is free to township residents!

A Different Sunday Dinner

On Sunday night, Courtney offered to help me make dinner. Normally, we have roast but we still had leftover roast from last week and no one seemed to want it so I was planning on making something like chicken and rice or baked potatoes but Courtney had other ideas. She went down to the storage room and brought up 4 cans of diced peaches and pears, 4 cans of chicken noodle soup and 3 cans of tuna and announced that we were having fruit, chicken noodle soup and tuna fish sandwiches with lots of celery because Rachel likes lots of celery. I was so impressed with her menu planning and utilization of our food storage that I went along with her and that is exactly what we had. Courtney even made all the tuna sandwiches herself. Not bad for a four year old!