12/3 - September

Playing along with my dear friend Barb at Praying for Grace for the September installment of the monthly photo diary.  September went by too fast maybe because school started and then volleyball-fever took over our home.  The girl's team is undefeated so tomorrow they will be playing the championship game against another undefeated team.  We're nervously excited, we want to win of course! I promise not to post too many volleyball pictures ;-)  I'll post the October album sometime this weekend but in the meantime when you are done over here check out the rest at Praying for Grace.

getting ready to hit the ice at a friend's skating birthday party

Happy birthday Moira and Henry!

husband playing football with the fourth child who turned six in September

the oldest turned twelve, he's always wanted a Lego airplane (the expensive one!) so I told him in the meantime to build it from scratch which he did really well but he still wants the expensive one lol

an early day at the gym to support their volleyball playing sister

the girl serving

a special sign from the oldest to welcome the girl home after her first game - my kids rock!

busy with their schoolwork

rollerblading at the park while waiting for homeschool friends to arrive

first day of Autumn

mapping out the geocache at the creek

teaching the youngest to skip rocks

into the creek

the water was lovely

husband is the master rock skipper

crayfishing

husband teaching the girl what signs to look for when fishing

the baby loves creeking

husband showing baby the crayfish

birthday cupcake on fire! lol this was taken with a cellphone so the resolution isn't great

annual fishing trip to lake Erie with their dad

middle child got seasick

 my husband's oldest sister Katie and her husband renewing their marriage vows on their 25th wedding anniversary

hubby and I dreaming of our own 25th vows on the pew

at their anniversary party we watched their youngest play volleyball on TV

leave it to my husband to text me a picture of beer LOL  can you tell he's a Monty Python fan?

i live with jokers - while sweeping our driveway the oldest left me a note in chalk, if you can't read it it says "you missed a spot!" which is exactly what my husband would have done

I think that covers all of September, we seemed to have played more than we actually schooled!  Oh well, there's always November :-)