Tee Time!

 Aren't these the cutest little golfers you have ever seen!  Since moving into the new house we have enjoyed many evenings putting and chipping around hole number 8 and hole number 9.  Hunter outgrew his old set of clubs so those have been gifted to Lucas.  Hunter now has a new set to include one more wood and a sand wedge.  He loves it!  So far his favorite sports have been tennis and golf.  Lucas likes them all and just goes with the flow and creates his own game of fun.

 We all go play.  It is a lot of fun.  Poor Hunter only wants to take a brotherly picture.  It makes me laugh looking at Lucas's little hand pushing him away.  Typical Lucas move.

Hunter walking back to our house and the green of number 8 after his tee shot.

Watauga Lake Triathlon

 This triathlon was an odd distance Triathlon at Watauga Lake located right outside of Boone, NC.  Mom and Chloe came up to watch the boys so David and I could take off and race.  It was an 1000m swim, 25 mile bike and a 5 mile run.  It was a super hilly bike and run course but it was a great training day and a lot of fun to do.  I finished 2nd for the females.  So irritating to lose based on my poor swimming abilities!!  The girl that beat me was something like 10 minutes faster than me in the water and I couldn't make the time up on the bike or the run.  I made some ground and she only ended up beating me by about 30 seconds.  Bummer.  I have got to get faster in the water!!  David did great too and placed 4th overall for the men and first in his age group.  The prizes for this race were handmade pieces of pottery.  Beautiful, beautiful pieces of pottery.  Now we need to compete in this race every year until we have a full set of coffee cups!

 The men representing!  Brian Dawson joined us from Abingdon and Matt from Maryland and Joe from Raleigh.  All three of these fabulous guys competed with us in the Raleigh Half Ironman this past June.

Picture of the lake where we completed our swim.

First day of Preschool!

Yes, this was all I got for the first day of preschool for Lucas.  He wore his backpack long enough for the picture to be taken and then it was pulled off and pushed to the side, "too heavy" he proclaimed.  Note the dinosaur egg from the Cracker Barrel made the photo.  I feel like we can't leave home without one of those eggs.  Despite his lack of enthusiasm, Lucas had a wonderful first day of preschool.  This year he has Ms. Kayla and Ms. Mary in the 3-4 year old classroom.

FIrst day of 2nd Grade!

Big Chloe dressed to impress on her first day of the second grade!  Hunter, Lucas and I traveled home for the big event!  Cute as button and growing by leaps and bounds.  Can you believe this sweet little girl is going to be eight in just a few short months?

First trip to the Dentist!

This little guy did GREAT!!  I had been putting off the trip to the dentist with him as long as I could.  He is AWFUL to get his haircut so I just knew going to the dentist was going to be a nightmare.  All I can say is that Lucas was terrific.  He did exactly what he was told to do.  He used his big boy manners, climbed right on up in the chair, opened his mouth as wide as he could and made me one proud mommy!  All smiles and dimples with NO cavities today!!

Planes

Ready, set, go!  This was Lucas' first trip to the movies and we saw Planes.  They all loved it and were great, well behaved movie watchers.

Atlanta exhaustion!

 This usually never happens.  He never, ever sleeps in the car but this little man was tuckered out!

Not so surprising.  Hunter has always slept in the car.  You can see his birthday present in his hand.  His new Nintendo DS which he played in the car until his battery died.  I guess after that he decided to nap!