Soccer.....and a bear

Eddie has his first soccer game yesterday! They practice for 45 minutes, and then have a 45 minute game. He loves to practice (everyone gets a ball) but the game was rough for him. He ran off the field several times crying that he never gets the ball. Hopefully the next game will be smoother for him!

During practice he got to make a couple goals! He did great.

Nicolas was EXHAUSTED since soccer time and nap time are the same. He wanted to run up this hill and run back down it a hundred times. Oh yeah, and he didn't want me to go with him!! Don't worry, with the exception of the picture, I was holding his hand the whole time.

Eddie taking a break during practice

During the game, getting some encouragement from Coach Daddy

Nicolas finally fell asleep!!!

He finally gave up on the game. So did one of his other teammates.

High-fives for everyone after the game

Today we went out for a walk after dinner, and after we made it about 5 minutes down the road a truck stopped us and let us know there was a big bear just around the bend where we were headed. We thanked him and turned around to head home, and hopefully not run into the bear. We hung out in the driveway for about 10 minutes thinking we might see him come our way, and then decided we would get our camera, hop in the car, and go bear "hunting". After about 2 minutes, we found him!!!! He was grazing on a lawn right next to the road about 15 feet- perfect for picture taking!! He didn't pay us any attention and only looked up at us a couple times. Eddie honked the horn and made some noises, but it didn't care. We watched and took pictures for about 5 minutes- until it started grazing closer.

This was when we first found it, and this picture is NOT zoomed

A closer shot of Mr. Bear. Or Mrs. I don't know.

Look at those muscles!!!!

Starting to get a little closer

Too close for our comfort, see you later!!

We drove around "hunting" for about 30 minutes, but didn't find any more so we decided to go back and see if we could find him again. And we did!! Just down the road, he was headed off into the woods.

Labor Day weekend and random others

Last weekend we let the kids have a drumset that was given to them. They loved it of course!!

Nicolas is so excited to play with the drums that Daddy is putting together!
Eddie is too!
All done, and ready to destroy- I mean, play.
They didn't really want to share
Nicolas is smaller, but he can still fight back!
Taking a break to have some milk- I had to take this since Nicolas NEVER drinks milk!!
Back to playing



Cool dude
Getting away from Nicolas to play and sing


We had a fun Labor Day weekend with lots of trips and activities!! On Saturday we went to a local ski resort that was hosting a Garlic Fest- yum! It was perfect weather and bought all sorts of garlic products. The kids weren't as excited as we were, but did pretty good over all.
Sunday we took a short train ride into New York City to walk around and see some sights. We had a delicious chinese lunch and then walked about 50 blocks roundtrip to Central Park. We had another fabulous weather day and again, the kids weren't thrilled since they couldn't walk very much since there were people everywhere. And we have decided that we will go back to the city, but without the kids!
Monday we had a little cooler day but still wonderful and went just down the road to a state park that I had heard good things about, to take a hike. It was so great!! There were several waterfalls and the kids were able to walk the whole time, although they did have to hold our hands because some areas were steep and rocky. We will be going back there often I think! The kids definitely enjoyed the hiking day a lot more than the rest of the weekend...

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