Gracie's fieldtrip to the St. Marks Wildlife Refuge

Last week I was able to chaperone Gracie's fieldtrip. It seems like tradition that every year the first graders get to visit the refuge when the butterflies are migrating south. The kids were split into two groups, while one group walked along a path and learned about the butterflies habits and migrations another group played a game and learned what obstacles the butterflies experience when migrating. After that it was time for lunch, so we drove down to Picnic Pond and enjoyed the nice fall weather.

The Starlight Invite

On Friday night we headed over to Gainesville to spend time with Jason, Betsy, Wil, and Elsie. Unfortunately I didn't taken any pictures. We filled up on tacos, talked, and watched Ghost Busters. The next morning Betsy and I went for a 3.5 miles jog! Around lunch on Saturday we traveled to Jacksonville for Gracie's 2nd competition. Gracie improved in three of the four events, we are so proud! Her beam score actually went down a little (despite not falling off this time), but from what we understand the judges were judging more along the lines of what we will see at the state competition. We are using this experience as a positive one, because now we know what needs to be worked on. The competition was a lot more stiff, but Gracie rose to the occasion bringing home 3rd place on the vault, 4th on the bars, 6th on her floor routine, and 6th all around. After the occasion we met up with a quite a few teammates at Steak-n-Shake (kids eat free on the weekend). Zac was able to hang out with Hunter and Fisher, I really don't think they watched the competition at all.

Wyatt turns 2!

On 10-10-10 Wyatt turned 2 years old! We already had our house decorated for Halloween so we decided to have a Halloween birthday party! We were blessed to have our family and the Cardoza family (mine as well be family) join us for the celebration. We had spider cake, mummy dogs, ghost cookies, monster munch, candied apples, and sandwiches for our mid-afternoon snack. It was great to catch up with family that we haven't seen in a while. Wyatt received clothes, books, and a few cool trucks to play with.

Gracie's first gymnastics competition!

We are so proud of Gracie! She won 1st place on the bars, 2nd place all around, 2nd place on the floor, 3rd place on the vault, and 4th on the beam. Had she not fallen off of the beam she would have won 1st place all around (.5 of a point automatically taken off at her level and age). We are very proud! She's awesome! Gracie's team won 2nd place. Aunt Stacy, Courtney, Alex, and Papa came to cheer her on. Afterwards Papa treated us to Sonny's, yum!

Zac's first tackle football jamboree

Saturday morning was a long morning at the Rec Park: 8:30 to weigh in, 9:30 a game, and 11:30 another game. Zac had a pretty good jamboree, his team won one and lost one. He played safety and offensive lineman. He seems to really enjoy it so far!

War Eagle Football

After Zac's practice we headed over to the high school for the first home game of the season. The War Eagles crushed East Gadsden 48 to 12! (something like that...:) )

Zac's 9th Birthday!

The celebration started the day before Zac's birthday when Pa-pa came over and brought us pizza. On Zac's birthday I took cupcakes for his class, but there was no celebration that night due to gymnastics and football practice. We decided to have a small party this year, so on Sunday afternoon we had the Cardozas, the Rentz family, and Aunt Stacy over for burgers and smores. The boys spent the night with us, and they were all well behaved.