Go Lil Boat, Go!

Rainwater Regatta time!
The boys both blew their small boats until Grant said he felt like his mouth was sore from puckering.

Batter Up

I think baseball uniforms are the cutest sport uniform.

The Ivory Keys

Carter and Madison played beautifully at their piano recital.

Carter- Ray

Carter's batting has been really great this year.

Roca- I wish I had some now!

Bishop Largey hanging out with his counselors.

Being friendly at the Spaghetti Dinner/Dessert Auction at church.

Bishop's Almond Roca did pretty good at the auction!

Derby Dude

Since Carter won 1st at his last Pinewood Derby he went to the district level and won 3rd.

Way to go Carter!

Watercolor Wonder

I taught a Monet inspired art project in Carter's classroom this month.

It reminded me that I love to paint.

Vrooooom!

Jeremy helped both the boys with their pinewood derby cars.

Carter's came in at first place and Grant's was 17th.

Grant still wants to know how that happened.

The boys also had fun doing a marble tournament this month.

Carter at 10

My grinning oldest son.

Kick it!

Carter and Grant are both playing on CK soccer teams this fall.

Moving on to Webelos

Carter earned his Bear badge for cub scouts.  GRRRRRREAT WORK CARTER!

Terrific at TEN

Carter has reached the double digits. 
Ten years old!!!

School days, School days...

Back to school!  Madison is in 8th, Carter is in 4th, & Grant is in 2nd.

Tractor Ridin'

After I take a bunch of pictures on a trip I like to go back and review them and weed out the duplicates. I almost deleted one of these photos while doing this because it looked so similar to the other, until I realized the tractor driver had changed. Uncle J gave each of the kids a turn with him mowing the lawn and of course the boys loved it. Anything with wheels and an engine seems to always be a guy-pleaser.

AR Champs

Carter and Grant both got gold medals for the 10-11 school year Accelereated Reader (AR) challenge- Hooray for my readers!!! Grant also got the highest number of reading points for all the 1st-3rd graders at his school (those Harry Potter books are worth alot of points).

Cardinal #7

Carter really honed in on a good batting stance this season and hit his first in-park home run. He liked being in kid pitch this year and getting to play against some of his friends teams. He said the biggest challenge was learning to wait for the good pitches. By the end of the season he was better at this and was nicknamed "Sonic Swing" by Coach Rich.

Gum or Cake?

Carter and Jeremy made this fun cake for a pack meeting this month. I think Carter chewed about 20 pieces of gum as he was helping to create the cake. At the pack meeting we also got to create a recyclable robot.