Fall

Man, have these last few months flown by! The kids have adapted so well to their new school and are both loving it, and their Leyden Ranch neighborhood.  Corey and I feel so blessed to have such fun, outgoing, kind, fun (and really fun, too) neighbors! If it's not a block party with face painting, or a chili cook-off and pumpkin carving contest, or a Halloween party, then it's happy hour.

In not-so-fun news, I had my second labrum repair surgery completed in September.

No easy task, and while recovery has felt slow, partially due to some frustrating set-backs, I am grateful to my family, neighbors, husband, kids, and Daisy (Duke looked at me, I guess) for helping me, feeding my family, and making me feel loved, and I hope to start jogging in January. 

Both kids have had incredible seasons playing soccer, Porter for the first time in a competitive league, where he continues to improve, and Emma Rose, who ended her season, again, as the high-scoring team member of the Diamond Dogs.

These are pictures from a tournament where Porter's team took 1st place:

And, for the last game of his fall season, Porter ended his with a hat-trick, scoring the final goal of the game, and putting his team back in the lead!

All the while, Emma Rose has been busy losing teeth!

And Halloween was a fun time for all.

Here's a picture of the gang that the kids went trick-or-treating with this year:

Looking forward to some snowy days, reading by the fire...