Happy Birthday Ash!

The two teams

The perfect present! A soccer pillow for all to sign- it is even the right color!

LIFE IS GOOD!

Ashley's friends

Our two refs with their special shirts made just for them.

It was not just a friendly game of soocer.

Husband and wife rivalry.

Our little cutie!

Cool seeing ABEL on the back of our shirts.

GOAL!

So we officailly started school in September. We let Labor Day go by, had some good friends, The Tomlinsons, in town, and my dad too. So, thought it best to get started after the company. Our first unit study was on Bridges. We live in the best city for that! We have 7 bridges going over the St. Johns River to downtown. The Main street bridge is pictured above- a beautiful Truss Bridge. We really could have spent longer than two weeks on bridges. We also looked a little at tunnels, canals, dams, and locks. We look forward to going on a hike we when get up north in November to see the old locks. Just learned that Summit County is named for being the highest point in the canal system ( that is where I am from) hmmm.... Last week we began our next unit on the human body. We will be here for awhile. 8 weeks! The kids have traced their bodies on parchment paper and as we study we will be adding lots of parts. We are even going to see Slim Goodbody! I know someone out there remembers him, he was on PBS. The guy that wore the spandex suit with the internal organs on it. HA! I can't wait. We will also be writing our own adventure book, about getting lost in the body.

Besides school we are busy with all kinds of things. Ashley celebrated her 10th birthday!!! Man, I tell you, turning 35 was not hard for me but Ashley turning 10 sure was!!! She is so grown up. We had the best party ever, all thought up by Ash herself. She wanted to invite her friends and their families to the park where we could have a big soccer game, eat pizza and cake. We had a blast! Everyone was so great that came- all the adults played, it was very cool. Ashley wanted everyone to have a team shirt, so we made our own jerseys, and two shirts for our specail refs. Birthday girl had a little extra on her shirt and was the only double digit, #10. It was the green team vs. the blue team and the green team kicked some booty! As it should be because that was Ash's team. We all had so much fun we may make it a monthly event!

Kids are still playing their instruments. Zach and Ash continue to do weel with guitar. Ashley even lead us in worship one night the Tomlinsons were here, with all our other friends too. Dan and I were so proud of her. She sang and played beautifully. I got it on tape but it was way to long, couldn't get it to upload to the blog, so I will tape a shoter version and put it up. Syd has been at the piano for a coulple months now and doing very well. She is so fun to watch- you can tell she enjoys it. They are all playing soccer. Dan and I are coaching, and having fun being a soccer fam.

Ash and her beautiful guitar about to lead us in worship!

Syd after playing a game at our P.E. day