I can't remember if I posted pictures of our Battle Ball Soccer last month. It was quite the workout. Who needs P90X after an hour of that. I was so stinking sore the next day I could hardly life my shirt over my arms when I was getting dressed for the day. It was hard to breathe in there and I personally had to take several breaks because of how much energy it consumes. I don't think any of us lasted past 45 minutes before we gave in to our age and our lack of energy. It was a tie game. At the beginning our team was getting demolished before we realized it was basically all the boys and Tristan against the rest of us. We switched more evenly. There were only two goals scored during the game. The first was Tristan and the last was yours truly. I don't want to brag or anything, but it's hard to be humble sometimes.
I know I talked about school starting, but I didn't post first day of school pictures. Trav and Natty's pictures turned out marvelous. Macie Jo and Ben's was pretty classic too I must say. This year Travis is in 1st grade and Natty is in Preschool. Both are loving it.
Early in the month Travis already missed his first day of school. He had a cavity filled and I was a little worried how he would do so we opted for conscious sedation. He came home a little on the loopy side. He sat down on the couch and started staring at it and said, "I didn't know the couch could change colors. How does it do that?" Then Later he would not sit down and there was a missing ketchup crisis and he "knew" where it was and jumped up from his chair and took off running to go get it and smacked straight on into the chair in front of him and fell to the ground. It was like a scene right out of a movie. It was so funny, but I couldn't laugh because he was so upset over it. When dad woke up from his nap he took Travis downstairs to play his new Lego Movie video game. He was pretty excited about that.
Travis has grown so much so fast. He is such a good boy with a gentle heart. He is such a good brother and watches out for his sisters all the time and helps out around the house really well too. His biggest hero that he looks up to is his daddy. Travis tries to be just like him. Whenever Ben is wearing a hat Travis is too. He likes to follow Ben around and go to town with Ben when he's getting things for the house. We bought him some work gloves and some ear muffs and they get used frequently at our house.
This little monster is growing up fast too. She is such a pretty girl. Her and I have our battle some days, but she is a sweet little thing. She just had a doctors appointment this week and she grew a couple inches and gained 6 pounds since last year. That was nice to hear because she's so skinny and small. Her body is starting to catch up with her attitude. She is our little mother hen. She is always making sure everything is equal and fair and if it's not she knows how to take care of it. She is an outdoors girl for sure. She could spend all day outside if you let her. We spent an hour and a half on the swing just yesterday. I could not convince her to get off. Just as soon as I talked her off the swing she turned around and got on another swing. I finally talked her inside for a drink.
This little gremlin graduated earlier in the month from her crib to her toddler bed. She got her leg caught in the rail of her crib and I had to use lotion to get it unstuck. We had similar problems with Natty when she was her age so we decided not to mess with it and just switch her over. She does pretty good in her bed. With both Travis and Natty we had problems with them getting up and falling asleep in front of the door. Macie Jo may get up and play, but when she starts getting tired she always gets back into her bed. She covers herself up with blankets and everything. She is starting to become quite the climber too. Those diaper boxes you see had to be taken out of her room because she unstacked them and pushed them up against the twin bed in her room and climbed up on the twin bed and then climbed up on the headboard and was standing up there and didn't know how to get down so she was just standing and crying. It's a good thing I checked on her too because if I hadn't she would have taken quite the tumble. She is a mischief maker!
Rulan had a birthday last weekend. Kathy threw him a surprise party. She was quite delighted when he was so surprised about his party. We all met at Stockman's for the big surprise. James flew down for it and had Cali on face time for the big surprise. After the restaurant we went back to their house for presents where I gave Rulan my fun box of gifts. It was quite fun to put together. It had some homemade Viagra, Milk of Mag, hemorrhoid cream, an adult diaper, and some other fun stuff. After all the presents were over he read his book all about him to the family. The next day after an intense wrestling match between Aubrey and I we went fishing. Travis stuck with grandpa the whole time. He had a lot of fun. There was a picture of Macie eating Grandpa's Hershey's bar, but I couldn't find it. It must have been taken on another camera. Apparently it was a replica of when Ben was her age. He had stolen a Hershey's bar from Rulan on another birthday.
That's all I got for this month. In other news we are really looking forward to the General Conference weekend. Ben has the entire weekend off and it has probably been the first time he has since we first got married. He is usually working all or part of it.
