Trick-or-Treat

We had a dry Halloween!!!! It wasn't too cold either. The first year we lived here it was pouring on Halloween. I remember I took Brother Bear to a few houses on our street and we came home. One of our neighbors gave him their whole bowl of candy because barely anyone was out that year. The other years it has been cold!!!!!!!!!

Last night we went over to some friends house and had homemade soup and then the kids went trick-or-treating. This was the first year that Sister Bear went up to the door. She was so cute and so polite with her thank you's after she got candy

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Sounders Game

We recently went to the Seattle Sounders soccer game. Papa Bear knows someone who has a suite at the stadium and they invited us to the game with us. It was great! So close to the field. Brother Bear had a super time. He is really into soccer right now. Sister Bear and a fun time too! We even saw Drew Carey.

Pumpkin Patch

It was a nice Sunday so we decided to head out the the pumpkin patch. I think everyone else had the same idea because it was pretty crowded. We enjoyed a hayride, checked out the animals, had some kettle corn and fresh strawberry lemonade. Oh, and of course we picked out some pumpkins.

Summer Recap Part Five

So I am lazy with the updating. I'll finish the summer off with a slideshow of our camping trip with Granny, Grandpa and Aunt Carly.

Summer Recap Part Four - Grayland State Park

e end of July we headed out to the WA coast for a camping trip with some friends. We've lived here for four years and I had never been to the beach. Our neighbors told us about this campground. It books really quickly. We were lucky and managed to get a site because someone had cancelled. The weather was perfect. It was super hot at home-104 degrees the day we got home. So the weather at the beach was perfect. Our friends have kids the same age as us, so both brother and sister had someone to hang out with.

Summer Recap Part Three

Ok, so I didn't quite get recapped as quickly as I wanted to. I need to get it in gear because soon it will be Halloween, we've got soccer going on and so much more to write about.

In July my parents came to visit for a few days. Can't wait til they retire and move here from California. Plus, then we can have free babysitting! Woo hoo! While they were here we hit up the zoo, the Ballard Locks, and Papa Bear and I got to go to the movies. We saw The Hangover.

Summer Recap Part Two

Brother Bear spent the summer playing baseball. This was the first time that kids pitched. Usually it was machine pitch. He was pretty excited to get a chance to pitch. His team was made up of a majority of the kids from his Blue Jays team. We had six months of baseball between the regular season and summer ball. Sister Bear had a good time running around with two of her friends. They ate, colored, ran around and had a good time watching their brothers.

We had great weather for summer ball. It was nice to be out in shorts and not bundled up like we are for some of the regular season games.

Summer Recap Part One

Well, it seems like just the other day I was going to post about the last day of school. Obviously I never got around to it since I can now do a post about the first day of school which has come and gone.

The Bear Family enjoyed a nice summer at home. We didn't go out of town this year, just a few local campingtrips. The first camping trip was a last minute trip to Lake Easton. We had never been to this campground before. It was a nice campground, just a little close to the freeway.

Sister Bear did a great job camping. Way better than last year when she split her face from running into the truck and spent most of the weekend crabby. Brother Bear and Papa had some serious horse shoe games

going on. We enjoyed hot dogs and smores, yummy!

Zoey

Our sweet little Zoey was hit by a car almost 2 weeks ago. We have been keeping busy which helps, but when we are at home you think she should be laying by you or outside waiting to come in. One of the hardest things is seeing her sister who lives up the street. They were almost identical. She became one of our family quickly and we miss her. Zoey was cremated and her ashes were scattered up at Mt. Rainier. We planted a tree in the backyard in her honor. That way we can always remember her

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BLUE JAYS WIN!!!!!!

Well us Blue Jays moms can relax now....the boys won! We played the Reds this morning. During the season we never got a chance to play the Reds because our games always got rained out. Today we got to play down at the Elks field with an actual fence and a pitching mound(still machine pitch though). It was a good game, the Reds put up a fight. We had two things in our favor though, 1. if we were the home team so we could bat last and drive in some runs and 2. if we lost we got to play again because it was a double elimination tournament and we hadn't lost yet. The games are 6 inning games. Going into the bottom of the 6th the Reds had tied it up 15-15. Nail biting time. We get two kids on base. Up comes a kid who has gotten so much better this year! Last year I think he got two hits all season and this year he gets at least two hits a game. It would have been so cool for him to get the hit to bring in the run but he got out. Next up to bat is Brother Bear. He got a hit and they tried to throw it home to get the runner out but no such luck.

Blue Jays win 16-15!!!!!!