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We had a nice end to last week.  Julia finished her Horsemanship 4H class, which she LOVED!  She made a great friend who is also on swim team with her twice a week.   (She is older than Julia-ha!)

On Friday night Julia, Tucker and Charlie went to Parent's Night Out at the gymnastics place.  They have always asked to go and this time we finally let them.  They had a blast doing obstacle courses and trampolines and the foam pit!   We were the first ones there.  :)

We celebrated the feast of All Saints Tuesday.  We colored pictures, read this book and guessed the saints-

I also read them the last story from Once Upon a time, Saints (one of my favorite saint series).    It was about Saint Adauctus, a saint about whom we know very little.  All we know is that as the Christians were being paraded into the arena by Diocletian that this saint from the crowd said, "May I walk with you?  I too am a Christian but nobody knows it."    The priest in the line said, "Of course, my unknown friend, we shall go home together."  And they did.    If we want to know how to live lives that honor God we can follow the Godly men and women who have gone before us.

Basketball practice has started back.  Marc is playing again with the same crew he's played with since 3rd grade.  We had to get him new basketball shoes and he is wearing a size 11! 

Also- the Alabama Symphony Orchestra is having a Christmas concert and were looking for a boy to sing a solo.  We heard about it, and Marky asked to try out.  We were shocked as he's never sung a solo ever.  Well- even more shocking- he won the part!  He will be singing "Walking in the Air" by himself on stage with the symphony!  Here's the haunting song- I will say that he sounds exactly like this video!



A few Sunday pics-

Pumpkins and Football games

We had a tough week around here.  We received some terrible news on Monday and so we decided to let the children carve pumpkins to cheer them up. 

Here's our pumpkin carving song-


Pumpkins are Julia's, Tucker,'s, Marc's and Charlie's.  Everyone designed their own. 

As we were finishing our pumpkins somebody knocked on our door and ran away leaving these awesome light-up goody buckets.  They were full of toys and candy- what a fun surprise!

We discovered that we had been "booed" and that we needed to boo other people.  We did it and it was great fun!

A couple nights later we took treats to other houses-

At gymnastics on Wednesday the boys received their first ribbons for completing the circuit of events. 

On Sunday afternoon our homeschool group had their All Saints party.  Everyone dresses up like saints.  We were going as Jonah and the whale, but Jonah started crying and saying he wouldn't do it. 

So we went in plain clothes and still had a wonderful time. 

Marc, Marky and Tucker missed the party because they were in Atlanta for the Falcons/Packers game!  It was the boys' first NFL game.  One of Marc's clients set it up so that they could go out on the field before the game and then sit in the skybox!   What a treat!!!!!  Marc's college roommate, Marky's Godfather and friend came along too.   They gave everyone free t-shirts. 

Tucker made a sign for the game- "Go Atlanta Falcons!"

Drumline contest at half time-

The Falcons won the game at the last second by one point.  Apparently the stadium was going wild- such a wonderful night for my big boys!