Friday, November 25, 2016

Thanksgiving 2016

The biggest news of Thanksgiving this year is that our dog Ali made a friend.

His name is Petey, and his owner is Pam's friend Ted's dog.



We left for Kansas City right after school on Tuesday afternoon. Lisa had already arrived in Kansas City. We were excited to see her!

Some of our Thanksgiving antics (in random order):

[Disclaimer: I forgot to bring makeup, so I'm wearing none.]

Played cards and Sorry.



Colored.


Took pictures. This is the best I could get Zach to take a picture with me.



A plank contest. Lisa won! Adam and Scott were the first ones out.


Played with fire.




More cards. With Aunt Hazel and her friend Williard.


Walked outside.


Ali off her leash! 😱


More pictures. #BraceFace x 2.




Took naps.


Saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (written by J.K. Rowling - a wizarding story that takes place before Harry Potter.) Someone suggested we go early because it would be crowded. Packed.


More hanging around.


We did eat. I just didn't take any photos of that. I did learn that the 13 year old didn't know how to fill ice trays.

Me: Zach, can you fill the ice trays?
Zach: *blank stare*
Me: Fill the trays? You know, we need more ice?
Zach: Fill the trays? *blank stare*
Me: You've never filled ice cube trays...
Zach: Trays...what?

And a lesson in the "back in the 1980s, we didn't have ice dispensers on our refrigerators so you had to fill trays and put them in the freezer to make ice." It's along the same lines as "back when I was a kid we didn't have 'On Demand' movies and we had to wait five days for our photos to develop unless we paid a lot of money for the one hour developing..."

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Outside

These two have been outside - being nice to each other - for more than five minutes...

#smallmiracles



Tuesday, October 18, 2016

Cross Country

Both boys ran cross country this year. Seventh graders run 1 mile and eighth graders run 1.5 miles. Meets were at Lake Afton, Valley Center, McPherson, Wellington, Andover and Mulvane.

Photo credit (except the first and last photos): Lisa Jaberg


Zach.


Adam.


Seventh graders - Zach is #20.


Adam.


Zach.


Saturday, October 15, 2016

Random Fall Soccer

Random pictures from Fall soccer.

These three are soccer players. Two are soccer referees. And one is a coach. There is plenty of soccer at our house.


Between games.


About time for new cleats.


Sunday, October 9, 2016

Thirteen

Paintball for Zach's 13th birthday. We had to do it 2 weeks after his birthday...it was our only free day in the fall! The boys spent 3 hours playing paintball...I think they had a blast.






And back to the house for cake and ice cream.