A note from Soph

CALL ME. Max I need to hear from you more. I am starting basketball. I am blue. It's sweet!

Now of course when I'm allowed to take my earrings out, I'm done with soccer. And when I was doing soccer they were stuck in there. I haven't put the piercing ones back in since I could take them out. The first time Mom tried to take them out she pulled at them, they were really tight and she said they didn't want to come out so she stopped. I have six pairs of earrings. The reason I haven't been blogging is because Mom hasn't gotten me an account yet.

Today and tomorrow we don't have any school. Because of parent teacher conferences. FOUR DAYS OF WEEKEND! They made this new stupid grading thing for our report cards. (Mom says its just because they are new) I don't agree with her. There's like E's and M's instead of A's and B's...I wanted those real grades!

At Faith in God I made a journal. Well actually we just put paper on a composition notebook. Mine is orange and pink and yellow and red... and all those kind of colors. It is polka dot on the front and solid orange on the back.

That's all for now.
Soph

Countdown

I am so excited that in 2 weeks, I will be at the airport picking Max up! WOW. It has been a long time for this mom to miss her kid.

Tomorrow and Friday are conferences so the littles are off of school. Should be a nice relaxed couple of days. Jack and I are going to head to the library for some research materials for his Trek History Day project and Sophie needs to read a Nancy Drew book over the weekend, but that is about it.

I am catering a scrapbooking event with a friend on Saturday, so we will be making 150 lunches and dropping them off. We always do it for our own events so another consultant asked if she could hire us. Will have to see if it is worth it.

Very happy to have Grandpa Dick coming this next week. I had drawn his name for Christmas so my early gift to him was the frequent flyer ticket to come for a week and work on the Africa book that he wants to put together. Dad goes to Orlando next week so it will be nice to have my dad here.

Next week is Primary Program and Priesthood Preview for Luke. Seems like just yesterday that Max had his Priesthood preview. Speaking of Luke growing up - MAN, he is definitely the "stinkiest" pre-teen we have ever had. I practically have to peel his smelly UnderArmor off of him. Yuk. Fortunately he finds the entire subject pretty darn amusing.

I love you all. Be good, and remember who you are. Don't do any bad things. Does that about cover it?

Love-
Mom

All My Loving - The Beatles

80's Dancing

80's Dancing Car Ride :)

80's Dancing Shopping

Can't remember if i posted already Tia and I

Carson and I

Megan and I

Michael, Chase, Zack, Maximus, Mark

Melissa and I

Liz and I

Ward Dodgeball...men team
Ward Dodgeball whole ward

Mark and I

Guitar Hero II Wyatt and I

The Girls ask guys Preference Dance

Ben, Me, Brett, Tim, and Britton

L. Tom Perry is coming to speak to us tomorrow, so that should be very neat. I love you

max

Funny comparison

I think this is the picture that Ya Ya said the picture Max just posted, reminded her of.

Thought for the Day

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

-Marian Wright Edelman

Protazoa Spike

Mark and I decided to spike our hair, so we got his up and then "protazoa" spiked mine...it was pretty intense...it was nice to talk to you all tonight for prayer...i love you...-max

The Party is over

The tribe lost tonight big time - again... Very disappointing as I always hope this will be the season Cleveland gets a winner, but it was fun to be in the playoffs and exceed expectations.

It is really good to be home. The past few weeks have included a ton of travel and there is nothing like being in Lakewood with Lexi and the kids. I have been to San Antonio, Houston and Chicago in the past 10 days.

The weekend - had a great dinner with Mom on Friday night upon returning from Chicago. We ate at the Clifton diner down at the corner of Clifton and 117th. Saturday morning Luke and Sophie played soccer - Sophie had a goal and Luke was awesome. Luke didn't particularly like taking a solid ball kicked into his privates, but he got past it and went back into the game eventually. We then worked on the house and the yard all afternoon getting it ready for the Halloween parties, fall, etc. with pumpkins, cats, spiders, etc - Mom will have to put some pictures on the blog.

We saw Sam run in the district CC meet down at Edgewater. He had a great season, got his Varsity Letter and improved incredibly. I of course am hoping he trains in the off season because I know he can continue improving. It was really fun watching him this season. I'm sure he will get his license the next time around...

Jack is done with CC and had a really good season, running second on his team and is now ready for LHS next year. He played the trumpet in the marching band for the Middle School football game last week and both he and Luke sang the National Anthem with the Middle School choir to start the game. Unfortunately Garfield killed Harding, but it was a packed house - it is great to see Lakewood support the teams.

Mom is amazing - keeping the house running great, doing an awesome job as the stake YW Pres. and doing service several times a week for members of the ward. She is also my best friend - you boys will be so lucky to find a girl like mom someday!

I love you - Dad