Tristen's Last Football Game

Tristen played his last football game on Wednesday. Grandpa (Jason's dad) and Jeannean (Jason's stepmom) came to watch Tristen play in his final 7th grade game. I can't believe the school year is flying by so fast. Tristen did amazingly well his first year playing football. Jason and I were both very proud of him leading the team as quarterback, but also being the punter.

Basketball tryouts started yesterday and go through Monday. Unfortunately, there will be a cut made. There are just too many kids who want to play and not enough teams. There will be 3 teams and Tristen hopes he makes one of them, but he also said that he won't be disappointed if he doesn't. If he doesn't make a basketball team, he'll continue to do off-season football and then will compete in Track in the Spring.

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Updates from my lack of blogging...

I'm pretty sure I forgot to update on the boys' first report cards of the year. Both boys made the A/B Honor Roll. We are already 4 weeks into the 2nd 6 weeks, and they both had all A's and B's on their progress report, which is FABULOUS! They are both doing great in school and we couldn't be more proud of them and their hard work.

Jason's dad was recently diagnosed with Kidney Cancer. The good news is that is Stage 1 and is contained to one of his kidney's only. At this point, they do not believe it has spread. There are 2 spots on his lung that they will continue to watch with monthly scans, but right now they are too small to even biopsy. We will know later this afternoon when his surgery will be scheduled to remove the kidney and surrounding lymph nodes. Last Wednesday and Thursday were scary, emotional, and every other emotion you feel with the big "C" word affects someone close to you. Fortunately, Jason's dad is local so we are able to see him often and visit him in the hospital.

Tristen's 13th birthday is rapidly approaching. Oh my oh my! Can't believe he'll be 13. He is having a sleepover and boy am I in for it!!!

The holidays are coming up and I cannot wait. This is my favorite time of year. I told Jason last night that he might as well get the Christmas decorations down when he puts the Halloween deocrations in the attic. The tree will for sure be up and the lights on the house before we have Thanksgiving at our house.

We are doing family pictures on Sunday and while I'm excited about them, I still have no idea what we are all wearing. We haven't had family pictures done since our engagement pictures 3 years ago. I'm hoping we get some good pictures! :)

Halloween 2009

Halloween this year was pretty uneventful. Tristen's friend was hosting a Halloween party so he went to that. Colby didn't want a costume but had his mind set on a baseball mask that ge saw last year. We couldn't find it this year (I'm sure it didn't help that we shopped 3 days before Halloween), so he opted for paint and hair color. Here is the result of his baseball face. Looks kinda like a zombie. Jason decided to dress up as a greasy farmer (chainsaw, wheelbarrow and all were in the front yard) with some random stuff he found around the house. The overalls were from a drama class project for Tristen. Lol!

Colby went trick or treating around our neighborhood with some of his friends, while Jason and I sat in the front yard and passed out candy. After the trick or treaters died down, we enjoyed the fire pit in the backyard. The boys love it and I'm sure it will get plenty of use.

Oh the house was decorated, but I failed to take pictures before we took down all of the decorations yesterday. Oh well! We had spiderwebs on all the windows, Frankenstein in the yard, and ghosts and spiders hanging from the tree. We forgot to do our pumpkins this year! OOps! :)

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Fire Pit

Jason recently built a fire pit in the backyard and we love it. This past weekend he bought a truck bed full of firewood, so we are set. Here are some pictures of my handy dandy husband's work! So glad I have a do-it-yourself type hubby! :-) We love hanging out in our backyard after our covered patio was finished and this will make the fall evenings and some winter evenings enjoyable.

Jason preppeed the area by mowing a circle

Mr. Perfectionist had to get technical and measure to find the radius and make a perfect circle.

Jason meticulously sorting and laying the stones

Finished Fire Pit

Setup waiting for a fire

View from end of backyard

Lovely fire!!!!

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