The day has finally arrived…Ashley is driving! She’s super excited and is doing a great job. She got her permit and grabs the keys and asks to drive all the time! Jeff has her drive to seminary every morning. She tried to drive the Honda, but the manual transmission scares her a little bit. I remember trying to drive a stick-I was terrified! But hey, you have to learn sometime, right?!
Aylexie danced in The Nutcracker this year with Northwest Classical Ballet. Her parts were Mathilde (Claire’s Sister)-she’s wearing a blue dress, snow-wearing a white costume, waltz of the flowers-wearing a peach costume with a green top and dresden-wearing a maroon tutu. She decided this would be her last year. She wants to focus on golf and volleyball in high school. She was very committed and learned a lot. She was dancing Mondays and Wednesdays for 3 hours each day and all day on Saturday with a few rehearsals on Friday evenings. Needless to say, she is enjoying spending a lot more time with our family!
Ashley made it to districts, swimming the 500 freestyle and the 100 breast stroke. Her finish time in the 500 was 7:40:02. She improved her time over the swim season and was able to take off 30 seconds! Way to go Ashley!!!
Here she is with her coach, Ron Heidenreich.
Aylexie wanted to dress up as a zombie ballerina this year for a Halloween party she got invited to. Ashley did her makeup and she looked very scary!
Thomas’ team need some oomph! Coach Andy’s wife, Ellen came up with the idea to spray their hair green and it worked! I love the concentrated look on his face when he plays!
Jeff got to be an assistant coach this year!
We decided to go to the pumpkin patch instead of good ol’ Fred Meyer for our pumpkins this year…we had fun but found a lot of “interesting” people at the farm!
Corn pit…
Thomas got to ride a pony
Ashley won a prize for launching her pumpkin in the bucket!
Looking for the perfect pumpkin…
Thomas LOVES driving!
Girls…
Boys…
