We love the coach!

Last week Cameron held his second annual "adopt a player" with Emma's team and his varsity team. All of the little girls choose one of the varsity players to "adopt". Then together they puff paint a teeshirt. The next night all of the little girls come to the varsity game to cheer for their player. Emma was looking forward to this for weeks because last year she had such a great time. On the day they did the tee shirts one of Emma's teammates was sick so we decided to make her a shirt at home. The minute Aiden saw Emma puff painting the shirt he said, "I need to make my shirt like Sissy" (these days he has to do EVERY thing that Emma does). Then the next night when we were getting Emma ready for the game he wanted to look just like sissy...funny stuff! They look pretty darn cute and the game was super fun!

I wanted Emma to kneel in the picture and Aiden stand beside her, but he wanted to kneel just like sissy :)

We finally convinced him to stand

He sneezed right as I snapped the picture

He thought that was pretty funny

Nemesis

All of the little girls

The little girls with their big girls

The Patch

This is our 5th year going to this pumpkin patch and the second year to be joined by my family. We love this one because it is big enough to entertain the kids, but not so big that it attracts thousands of people. Aiden had so much fun this year and I just love to watch him get so excited as he discovers so many new (well not really new but he doesn't remember last year) things. The big girls had fun and really enjoyed that this is a "tradition". Bella was a total trooper in the baby bjorn and was happy the whole time just to be outside. We scored some great pumpkins and a great time was had by all.

My beautiful sis

You can't tell by the picture but Aiden thought it was so cool that he got to sit in the firetruck.

the pumpkin slingshot

watching it fly...

hay ride

A visit with best friends

A couple weeks ago my very best friend in the whole world came to town with her sweet husband and her wonderful Mom. In July we traveled down to Oklahoma for her little sister's wedding and although we had a great time she and I were disappointed that we didn't get a lot of time to catch up. So, I was so thrilled to find out that they were coming to town for a week. They did get the opportunity to see some of the NW, but most of our time together was spent just enjoying each others company. I am also so happy that my bestie got to spend some time getting to know my babies. It is so strange because I think Aiden understands how important Sasha is to me because he just loves her too...we still talk about her every night before he goes to sleep. Thank you so much for coming to visit Pound/Martinez family...we already miss you SO much!

Early morning at Grammy and Poppy's house

We went over to Grammy and Poppy's house the other morning in our PJ's. The babies were looking so cute that I had to snap a few pictures. I am so happy my children inherited my love for cozy mornings.

We're Back....

After a month long hiatus from blogging I am back. Once about two weeks had passed it seemed like such a big task to catch up so I just kept putting it off. We have had a super busy month and at the end of the day (when I normally blog) I have been exhausted. Tonight isn't much different, but I decided not to try to go back and blog everything I missed. Instead I will just pick it back up and occasionally I will post a "flashback" blog from the last month.

We did have a very busy month and have some new news from the kids. Katie is a now a sophmore and that is about all I can tell you about her since (like most teenagers) she is never around. Our sweet Emma girl started the 4th grade and her first season as a premier soccer player. Her team has won all 5 of their games so far and Emma scored 5 goals in her last game alone....she is so awesome!!! Aiden is now fully potty trained (little stud), binky free, and is funnier than ever. He absolutely amazes me with the things that come out of his mouth. He is a total rule follower and keeps the rest of us in line. He is still such a good big brother. A few cute things he has said to Bella recently, "it's okay Bells, you don't have to cry, you don't have an owee" and when Bella was pulling on him, "please let go Bells, I am not a toy". As for our baby Bella she is 8 months old now (unbelievable). She has a total of 6 teeth now and is mobile. She is a scooting machine and today she discovered the fun game of pulling the Mommy's books off the bookshelf...our world is getting crazier by the day :). She is still very petite and very loud. Her newest nickname is "Bella the Yella". Like her big brother her language skills are pretty amazing. She is a little chatter box and one of her favorite things to say these days is, "Uh Oh"...it is so adorable. Here are a few recent photos of Miss Bells and her 6 beautiful teeth and a few videos of Aiden and his latest dance moves. Enjoy, and I will post more soon!

So we were shopping yesterday and as usual Aiden was dancing his way through the whole experience. One of the things I love so much about him is that if there is music on he will dance. Just watching him makes me smile, but I also love to watch everyone else's reaction to him. People just can't help but smile when the watch him. He is also so friendly and he always waves and says hello to the people that pass. In the second video right as I started to record he stopped to wave to a little girl. He gets so happy when people wave back. Anyway....enjoy!!!