Let's Play Catch Up

What we've been up to over the past couple weeks . . .

Pop and Grammy came to town one weekend and helped out with lots of odd jobs around the house. Here's a picture of Jack "helping" Pop fix the leaking dishwasher.

Anna has started dance. She's in a movement class for 3-5 year olds (even though she's not going to be 3 for two more weeks) and she LOVES it!! This is what she does while she waits for her class to start . . .

Such a lady - wallowing all over the floor!

A good friend, who moved away back in March, came to town to visit. We had tons of fun hanging out with her family and with our "local" friends, as well!

Jack started soccer skills. This is a six week program that teaches kids the basics on a non-competitive level. He will be old enough for "real" soccer in the spring. He really seems to love it so far. Oh, and he does have soccer socks, but they mysteriously disappeared minutes before we left the house. It seems like Sam came along, picked them up, and put them in the baby stroller to push around the house. Not sure why we didn't think to look there while we were rushing to get out the door in time!

Marshall and I attended "Fall Coffee" for parents at the kids' school. All the preschool classes made snacks for the parents and we heard non-stop talk about the pumpkin bread the day before, so I had to snap a special picture of the famous bread. It was yummy!

Saturday morning we had some time to kill before heading to a friend's birthday party so we went downtown for a parade. It was a transportation parade (in honor of the new train museum opening this weekend) and there were lots of interesting things to see: horse & buggies, model T Fords, bicycles, motorcycles, police cars, fire engines, segways, and lots of things in between. As far as parades go, this one was pretty tame, but it was just perfect for us!

Anna enjoyed it, but didn't like the loud engines or horns blowing, so she sat like this the entire time!

And here's our latest house project. Marshall and Jack are rebuilding/refinishing our small deck. Jack is super thrilled to be outside helping his Daddy and he's so proud of his work!

Sanding

This was yesterday.

And here are my boys showing off the progress made today.

That about sums up our recent happenings.