Football

Saturday was the annual Proctor vs. Holderness football game and the boys had so much fun cheering on the team, playing with friends and taking in all of the excitement.  Camden also had fun going on hikes in the woods with Nan and Pop and Scott and I were actually able to watch some of the game (this is a rare occurance when you have kids to chase around).  Proctor won 47-0!!!  Yahoo!  Here are some pictures from our day...

 The "Keeper of the Spirit" watching the game (PA has all sorts of traditions surrounding this game)...

 Camden and Pop emerge from the woods...

 Cope is in love with Micah...

 That night the boys wanted to wear matching jammies and I just couldn't get over how cute they were.  Every night (and often during the days too) Camden wants to know what Micah is wearing and then asks to wear the same thing (or as similar as possible).  It's pretty precious!

 Brotherly love...

 Micah hasn't mastered the art of pretending to be asleep yet...

 Love these boys!

A Little Catch Up

A little random update from the last week and a half...
We had a wonderful surprise visit from our good friends Scott and Barb.  They are Basketball Couple #1 from Gordon, followed by Hayes and Kara...and we are #3.  :)  Yes, that's right, Barb played with me and Scott was on Scott's team and there was lots of basketball romance going on.  Anyways...Scott and Barb live in CT with their adorable little girls and got hit really hard by the October snow storm!  They lost power for over a week and headed up to NH to stay with Barb's brother in the Upper Valley.  We love having this NH connection because we often try to squeeze in a quick visit when they are in NH visiting family since a 45 minute drive is much easier with two kids than 3.5 hour drive!  They came down to see our new house and hang out and I got to meet their sweet little Karis for the first time!  It was a wonderful, spontaneous surprise and I hope they lose power more often so we can see them again soon!  (Just kidding, B...I know that was miserable for you guys!)

 Barb and Brooke...

 Sweet little Karis...

Scott's soccer season just came to a close and we're going to miss hanging out on the sidelines with friends!  Of course, we'll be running around the gym with friends as Scott starts basketball season on Monday, but we will miss the crisp fall air and snotty noses of little rosy cheeked toddlers.
Here is one of our new friends whose parents just started working at PA this year!

 Oh Camden...

 Micah and his new buddy, William...

 Kisses...

 Playing with leftover snow...

 LOVE this handmade sweater...

We gave Micah his first haircut last week.  Just a teeny-tiny trim in the back.  He kind of looked like he had a mullet and we felt like it was time.  Here is a before/after photo...Can you see the difference?

And here is Camden "shaving" in the tubby.  Don't worry, there isn't an actual razor blade attached to this razor!

Always an adventure trying to capture of picture of both boys together.  These two were both wearing their Franklin Goose shirts (thank you Uncle Jeff and Aunt Ashley!) and I could not for the life of me capture a good shot.  Oh well.  I'll survive.

And what would we do without Skype?  We have been missing Auntie and Cousin Clara (I'm just now realizing that it's kind of funny how we often refer to Clara as "Cousin Clara" seeing as she is the only cousin and the only Clara in our boys' lives!) and Uncle Dave so much since their move to North Carolina in August.  During this skype session, Auntie read the boys a book...they were enthralled and it made me miss her so much!  :(

Bam - how's that for a random update from the last week and a half???

200

You know what I really want to be doing right now?

Watching this:

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But I can't, because this is how we feel about TV in our house:

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I could always watch it on abc.com tomorrow when they post it on their site, but it just isn't quite as exciting after the fact.  Oh well.  Such is life.

Guess what?  This is my 200th blog post!  Yahoo!  Shouldn't I do something fun to celebrate?  If I were a real blogger I would host a giveaway or something super spectacular like that, but I'm not a real blogger so for those poor few souls that read Just the Four of Us, you're just going to have to give yourself a pat on the back and pretend I'm giving you a hug saying thanks for being my friend and following what our little family is up to.  

Seriously, I think only about 10 people read my blog (thank you Scott, Mere, Amy, Mom, Mom A, Caren, Lisa, Shannon, Cerissa, Jess...), but some other people out there are reading because I just added my blog counter a little over a year ago and there are 19,791 hits (and now even more than that since apparently YOU are reading this right now)!  Granted Scott and I do our best to pad the stats checking the blog daily (I'm kidding, we aren't doing it to pad the stats, just to check our friends' blogs!), but there must be other people reading too!  In fact, my stats page tells me that there are pageviews from not just the US, but Germany, Canada, Ukraine, South Korea, Japan, Cameroon (Simone?!?!), England, Netherlands and Morocco.  For real!?!?!  Will someone please explain to me how this is possible and if blogger is just messing with me?  Anyways, I enjoy having this space to write down random thoughts, record pictures and funny quotes from my boys and record this crazy life of ours that is flying by too fast.  If you want to peek into my life, welcome and enjoy, and if not, that's OK too.  I don't need to be a famous blogger - just a good mommy and wife and daughter and friend.  (But maybe you should leave a comment so I know who you are.  It's more fun that way after all). 

Oh, and here are some pictures of my cute monkey and bumblebee that I promised:

Happy 200th post!  :)

Oh dear - Haha...I just counted up my posts on the side and apparently it's only my 194th post because my "stats" on my homepage counted a few posts that were never published.  Oh well, I'm not erasing this whole post now!  I guess we'll just celebrate again in a couple weeks when I really DO pass 200.  Anyways, it's time to go watch Friday Night Lights with the hubs.  Later!

Happy Winter

It is hard to believe that Christmas is still 50 days away (nearly as long as Kim Kardashian's marriage! Sorry, I couldn't resist). I got into the Christmas spirit very early this year. I mean, how could I not when we got a foot of snow and have had our wood stove burning to keep us toasty warm. A snowstorm any time of the year, even in October, calls for a little Amy Grant Christmas music...so alas, I started listening to Christmas music two months early and there is just no turning back now! We got the first snow of the season last Thursday and the boys were SO excited! I'm sure Micah has no memory of playing in the snow from last year, so it was really fun to watch him re-discover the beauty of winter. The boys were thrilled with the light dusting, but little did they know, the weekend would bring us a foot of snow!
Here they are tasting the first snowflakes on Thursday night...Micah still needs to learn the art of catching snowflakes! 

 Friday morning...

 My boys...

 We felt like true Homesteaders on Saturday.  I spent much of the morning attempting to make beef stew.  I chopped veggies like a pro, but let's just say it didn't turn out quite as well as I had hoped...

 Scott and Camden worked outside making us a new coat rack for our mudroom...

 After a long day of stewing...we enjoyed our beef SOUP!  Definitely put in waaay too much water, but it was still yummy.

 And that evening, the snow started to fall.  It didn't come quietly and slowly as many storms begin, this storm came on with a vengeance and went from 0 to 100 in seconds.  It was so exciting to see the snow literally pouring down, and we are thankful to be on of the lucky New Englanders who didn't lose power! 

 Our church service was canceled on Sunday morning, and we had a wonderful relaxing day at home...

 So happy!

 Super Dad!

 Strange to see the fall colors against the white snow!

 We love our little road...

 Scott had fun playing in the snow too!

And all of this before Halloween!  I'll post some pictures of my little monkey and bumblebee on the next post.  Happy Winter!  :)