A Post To My Son

Dearest Son of Mine,

Some words of advice for you as you grow older and life starts to become a little more complicated for you. 

Friends have your best intentions in their heart. They won't ever treat you wrong and will say sorry if they ever do. They will defend you even when you are not around. They will like you for YOU and nothing else. 

Family is there to help. Listen to those you trust and know that they are there to help you navigate through this beautiful yet relentlessly cruel world.

You will fail and that is ok. Let your family and friends help but you must learn to pick yourself up from this. 

You are not the best at everything. Strive to be the best but be content with where you are when you are there. God put you here and gave you the skills he wants to see you use. You are precisely where you should be with the talents you should have. 

Remember, you are allowed to cry. You are allowed to feel the way that you feel and show it how you feel is right at that time. Anyone that says otherwise doesn't understand this statement. PERIOD. 

Be kind to all you see and come in contact with. Remember you never know when you might meet someone that might change your life forever or even better you never know when you might change someones life forever by your attitude or smile. 

Be smart. Make decisions about your life that keep you safe and make you proud of yourself. 

I am sure there are more but these were the most important right now. Lastly, keep your head up high. You have lots of people that love you that will help turn that frown upside down. We would not be the same family without you. I would not the mom I am without you. You keep us smiling and we are all so proud of you. 

Love 

Mom

No school Friday

It was a no school Friday around here today! As much as I love all my children, when my son is home on those random days off life tends to get a little hairy. He isn't used to our routine and really isn't interested in it in the first place. So today we did a more grown up craft to get our house ready for Halloween and we decorated sugar cookies!! It was a good day...minus the crying 2 year old that seems to cry at everything these days.

I love it when my table looks like this! Good eats come from messes like this!


See good eats!


See baby crying, it was our cookie making music today

Frosting cookies is always an adventure with 3 kids. Chase is old enough to really like to do this and does an excellent job at it. Ella is kind of getting the hang of it but her cookies are still only edible to her. Kyndall, well lets see the frosting never hits her cookie-just her mouth. It is quite a sight :)



Then we made canning jar jack o laterns. They turned out super cute and an easy enough craft that Ella could do it. I can't wait to see them all lit up tonight on our mantle.







And there was still lots of this:

because she had a hard time painting the Mod Podge on the jar and not her mouth.

Hope you all have a great weekend :)

One Proud Momma

Waking up at 6am on a Saturday morning is getting harder and harder to do as the football season rolls on.  Football fields and stands scream our name and they lure us in with the hope of a good game every time.


They did not disappoint us last weekend. This was our championship game.
The big one.
The winner takes home all the glory of having the title of League Champs- National League Champs that is.

Chase was nervous and losing his socks the morning of the game, didn't help much. Man, I just can't believe the game I saw when I arrived at the fields a little late. This was by far, the best football game I have ever seen. Our boys fight their way for every win they get. They always play like their defeated the first half and then come back from behind to win it. They make their mom and dad's have heart attacks as we watch helplessly from the stands as they keep the scores close. I was ready for a butt whoopin' this game. I wanted a nice relaxing game. The boys had other ideas in mind.

 I don't know all the details because I am not that type of girl and because really it doesn't matter unless you are there. But my son, my ever so talented, never works hard at any sport because he is such a natural, of a son, made 5 catches. 5. 3 of those catches were either in the endzone OR run in to the endzone. His last catch was nothing short of amazing. One of those Clips of the Week you see on ESPN. He was thrown the pass, he was being covered by 3 boys, he bobbled it, twice. Then caught it and ran for over 40+ yards. This catch made it to the endzone on the next play for our team to go ahead of this team with only :22 seconds left in the game. It was magic. Pure magic. And although I was crying when he caught that ball and ran, it was nothing like the tears that were coming down after the game.

My son was the team hero. He was high fived and patted on every part of his backside by every coach and every teammate. He was yelled at and told that he was awesome by everyone. He was mentioned for teh first time in our Coaches weekly email as a great play maker.

Chase has always been atheletic and never tries hard at any sport, which drives us all crazy. But there really hasn't been too many times that he is singled out as great for a play he has made. Today (Saturday) was his day. He earned this and worked so hard to have that attention. As I stood there and watched this happen to him, the tears were flowing. My cup runneth over for him as he stood in that moment, soaking it all in. I was so proud that now, everyone else can see how good he is. And so proud of him for his determination to get better at a sport that he loves. I did not have my camera that day as I had already taken so many pictures this season. What a shame. I am hoping someone else got some good ones. I wanted to share his story so that we have it in our history of the kids' lives here on the blog. There will be more to come from our weekend later this week.

Way to go my football player stud of a son, your momma is so proud of you!!

We are ready for some baseball and football!

Oh what a weekend we had this weekend. Chase played baseball on Saturday and then had the biggest game of this season on Sunday!

It was so nice to see our baseball family again. We miss them :). Chase missed his friends as well.
We had to borrow some pants and the coaches had a laugh trying to make Chase look "old school" because they were way too short.









The girls had a good time as well being out in the gorgeous weather!


Sunday we switched our bats for helmets and pads. Chase was so nervous for this game! This is our biggest rival and it will forever be that way throughout high school. Our boys played the hardest 40 minutes of their lives! It was one of the best games to watch. There is something about being a momma watching your child out on the field and winning a close game.








Love the fall background on this pic!!

We had a great time at both sports this weekend and feel very blessed to be able to watch our child play :). Happy Monday!!