Tommy's Seven Year Old Q&A

Tommy is going to make sure I keep up on this blogging thing because he was adamant that I get this Q&A done right away.  He wanted to do it at 10 pm last night and I refused.  So here we go, Tommy's Survey Questions as a 7 year old.

1. What is your favorite color? Orange

2. What is your favorite toy? Legos

3. What is your favorite fruit? Bananas

4. What is your favorite tv show? Ninjago

5. What is your fave movie? Night at the Museum 2

6. What is your favorite thing to wear?  My new Japan soccer jersey 

7. What is your favorite animal? Snow Leopard

8. What is your favorite song?  Demons by Imagine Dragons 

9. What is your favorite book? The Day the Crayons Quit 

10. Who is your best friend? Dash, Crew, Roman, Connor and Bode 

11. What is your favorite snack? (The one with the box with the chip in the air??) Pringles 

12. What is your favorite drink? Water 

13. What is your favorite breakfast? little bites (Tommy wanted to type that one. :) 

14. What is your favorite lunch? Beanie Weenie 

15. What is your favorite dinner?  chickin nuget (Tommy again)

16. What is your favorite game? Mario Kart 

17. What is your favorite thing to play outside? Soccer

18. What is your favorite holiday?  Christmas because it's in the month of December and my birthday is in the month of December 

19. What do you sleep with at night? Precious (his Snow Leopard)

20. What do you want to be when you grow up? A Fossil Digger 

 Tommy is 47 inches tall and 48 pounds.  He has grown almost 3 inches in the last year.

He has grown in school too.  Today I just got an email from his teacher telling us that she asked him if his head grew because he is getting so smart.  She said she is so happy with his progress academically and socially.  

And this was my heart: 

He still surprises us everyday.  Today he told me that he knew what 250 times 5 was.  He said it's 1250.  I almost didn't believe him.  Andrew had to prove it to me on the calculator.  Ha!
Also, this was definitely a photobomb planned by Tommy T.

He is making lots of friends at his new school. He's having so much fun.  

He had an accident on the treadmill at Grandma and Grandpa's.  It was pretty brutal.  But it didn't really slow him down.

He has at least two super loose teeth right now.  What's funny is that he lost his first tooth exactly a year ago this coming weekend.

My, Tommy, how you've grown.  We are so proud of how much you are growing up and learning and changing.  You are still a hilarious kid and we love you so much.  Happy birthday, Tommy T!

Tommy's Soccer Season Fall of 2017

Andrew decided to coach Tommy's soccer team for the fall season this year.  We put him on a team with a couple of his friends.  We also had a bunch of the same kids from the last soccer team and the baseball team.  However, we had a few, what we shall call, special cases on our team.  I thought Andrew was going to lose his mind about 676 different times throughout the season, but just when it came to 3 kids.

 However, the rest of the team were great kids and really decent players.  Tommy had an AWESOME time playing with his friends.  He actually looked forward to all the games and practices for the most part.

 He loves playing defense.  That is his favorite.

 He also didn't mind playing offense and goalie too.  He's a big fan of soccer and I love that he's really getting into it!

 Some candid photos from the ride home after the game. Haha! Poor Grandma got stuck in the 3rd row with a horsey and a Charlotte. :)

 Tommy had to play along too. :)

 After the last game, the sponsors, who were one of the players grandparents, threw a big end of season party with a giant bounce house.  Do you see the size of that thing??

 It's massive!! The kids LOVED it.

And terrifying! 

They may not have been the most well-behaved team but they certainly were the cutest! ;-) It was a fun season with lots of "hugs" and drop kicking the ball for no reason.  Goooo Pirates!

The Engagement of Adam and Emily

 Adam had been planning this event for quite some time.  It finally came to fruition at the end of September.

Was there a GoPro involved? Does the pope sh*t in the woods? Of course there was a GoPro involved and it captured these awesome images...

 It was a wonderfully sweet, well-planned proposal that ended with the song, "I Wanna Grow Old With You."

 The following day, friends and family drove and flew in from all over the country to celebrate with the happy couple.  And celebrate we did! You can't celebrate without Flip Cup! (Love my dad's face in this one. :)

 It was flip cup game with Boys versus Girls.

The girls came out victorious. We had a couple of ringer grandmas on our team.  We rocked it.

 The kids had an amazing time.  Emily's step sister has 5 kids and two of them match up with Tommy and Charlotte like amazing besties. We didn't even introduce them.  They found their soulmates on their own. Turns out, Tommy's friend has food allergies just like he does!  Charlotte's friend loves horses just like she does.  Seriously, how did that work out so well?  Oh and did I mention we kept them up ridiculously late? I don't know if it's hard to tell from the picture...

 But this is what they looked like on the way home.

 Even Tommy fell asleep.  He never falls asleep in the car.  These kiddos were exhausted after a super fun mega awesome day.  We are soooo excited for Adam and Emily to get married.  What a huge exciting year to come.  AAAHHH! We can't wait! Congrats to Adam and Emily!

Labor Day at Lake Wawasee

 It was Uncle Adam's idea to go to a lake during Labor Day weekend.  My parents said Ok as long as you do the research.  So Adam found the place and we all showed up for Labor Day Laker Fun!

 This is the only picture you can see our house in the background.  It doesn't look big but it held all 15 of us!

 The first day we got there was a little chilly.

 Can you tell from all the sweatshirts?

 But Tommy didn't care!

The next morning the boys went for a bike ride. 

While the girls and Grandpa and Tommy went for a boat ride.  Our ride was much more fun according to Adam.  Heehee! 

Charlotte was just happy to drive the boat with Grandpa.  You can tell how happy she is but how many of her bottom teeth you can see. :) 

We came back to pick up the boys and make some sandwiches for the boat.  Charlotte was excited to make her own sandwich for once.  Mmm cheezit sandwiches! 

Time to head out on the water again! Uncle Adam was ready!

Sandbar time! Hey look that's me! I made it into a picture or two! :)

We met up with one of Adam's friends and his family and their little boy joined us on the tube.

 Tommy and Dada decided to take the tube for an actual ride at some point during the day.  He loved it! He was smart to wear those goggles.

 Charlotte was by Emily's side the entire weekend I think. :)

 Look at Charlotte's face.  She looks like she's actually riding the tube around.  Turns out, she's just floating gently in the water.  Ha!

The house had a beautiful deck where we spent most of our time.

Photo crew goes to Emily for this one.  So cute. 

 Not sure who took this one but I love it.  Isabel looks to the future of boating. 

Uncle Adam grabbed some GoPro Shots that turned out pretty great as always. 

 Charlotte took a good one too! ;)

This one is especially cute.  #topknot 

Our last night at the house, Brandon got out the karaoke machine.  Many of us sang a tune from Andrew's iPhone.  The kids' greatest hit was "HandClap" by Fitz and the Tantrums.  I was involved in that performance and we had the whole crowd going.  It was so much fun that no one got a video! Boo!! :(  But it was definitely awesome.  Charlotte was a dancing machine! 

 At 10 pm, it was sound DOWN.  No more karaoke.  The kids had to go to bed and everything fell silent.  All except for the game of spoons in the kitchen.  I didn't play this time.  It seemed VERY intense so I'm kind of glad I sat this one out.  I don't think there was any blood or biting so that's a plus.

 Awwww someone wrote Lake Keiper on the steps.  Cute!

 Awwww, someone decided to cross it out and write Thornburg instead.  I wonder who that was... ;)

 We picked up some sweet shirts for the whole family while we were in town.

The weekend getaway was a super success.  So much so that Charlotte crawled into my lap at 4:30 pm on Monday and fell asleep.  It was a big exciting and tiresome weekend.  Definitely a win!  Can't wait to do it again!