Tis the Season for Flag Football

I hate to brag, but I'm gunna. So if you don't want to hear it don't read this post.
Football is always 10 times better with one of your best friends (Ben).

For those of you who KNOW Dylan you know he is quite an athlete. We could see it in him even at age 1. Had he not been our first child we would have realized how extraordinary he really was. I also assumed he might grow out of being ahead of others his age, but he hasn't. This kid can do ANYTHING. Right now he is really enjoying flag football. I ALMOST feel bad, but he has scored 95% of his teams points this season. There was only one game he didn't score. Most of his points are running down the entire field. He also does a great job in defense- he can catch just about anyone. His teammates beg that he not be put on the sideline.
I have to say it- I am pretty darn proud to be his mamma on the sideline! I also would like to think that I taught him all he knows or that his athleticism is from my side of the family. But I can't really. He's all natural!He's really enjoying watching football with Connor, he begs us to stay up late to watch and also turns down the neighbor boys when a good game is on. Connor is in heaven! They even have their own touchdown "cheer." It goes a little like this... Utes score, Connor turns to Dylan and puts his hands on Dylan's chest and gives him a bunch of little shakes while they booth hoot.
When we realized how athletic Dylan was I also assumed he would be more average on the intellectual side. However, he proved me wrong there too.
This kid is unbelievably smart. He was excelling at school last year so we put him in a private school this year for second grade. He is doing all third grade work and it still comes easily to him. He has straight A's in all his classes (yes, he changes classes for each subject.)

Can you tell I'm proud of his hard work? I love you buddy!

Visitors

Almost a month ago we were lucky enough to get not just one visitor but many. Connor's parents came to see us after they saw Connor's sister in Ohio. My brother, Nate, and his family of 6 also came. We had so much fun throwing our regular routine out the window and playing!

We really enjoyed have Nini and Poger all to ourselves (instead of sharing them with 45 other people.) Poger read to all the kids (Ashlyn didn't make it out awake)...Nini and Kamryn played dolls...
Corbin enjoyed sitting and listening to Nini play the piano (for a really long time!)...
We played a round of miniature golf. We had the course to ourselves. Corbin thought it was a race track...We took both of our guests on our new trail. On this particular day we caught all sorts of bugs ( I don't know if any of them made it out alive)...
We went to the Science museum in Durham (one of our favorite places)...
We saw all the bugs, all the dinosaurs, steered the remote control sailboats...
Dug for any sort of treasure at all (which I found later in my dryer)...
We watched all the snakes get fed mice (or gold fish- not the cracker kind!) We then pet a baby alligator...
We had to take them to experience "the farm." They especially loved the corn pit...

And the slide...The hayride wasfun too...

Thanks to Nate's engineering we no longer have any balls in our entry way chandelier (it was quite the exciting moment)! Hurray! I thought they were going to melt there before they would be rescued.

Thank you for taking the time to come see us!