Where does the time go?!?  My mom reminded me tonight I need to do a post.  I can't believe I missed last week!!  Whoopsies!

Well, it's hunting season!  That means the boys are in full hunting mode.  Mainly Kade but Mason is always willing to play along!!  Fortunately it's been a very warm fall so fishing season is still going strong for Mase as well.

They went turkey hunting a couple weekends ago.  Mason got to go along for his first time ever, which means Kade and Grandpa didn't get one.  I'll let you figure out why that is 😉.  

They had to get up at 5:30am on Saturday and Sunday in order to be ready to hit the woods by 6:30.  The plan was that I would set the alarm, go wake Kade up, go back to bed and Kade would get himself and Mason ready.  On Saturday the plan was working just like we imagined, except Mason was SO proud of himself that he marched into our room, flipped the light on, came over to my side of the bed, with his hand on his hip exclaimed, "MOM!!!  I'm up super early!  I feel great!!!  I think I'm going to do this every morning!  I'm a hunter!!  See you later!!" flipped off the light and slammed the door.  Aaaaaaaaand....I'm up for the day.  On Sunday I didn't even bother, I got up with them.  I will say we got A LOT done before 8:30am that weekend!

Target practice.

Pick which one is the better drawing.  

Kade was adamant that he kicked my butt at drawing a turkey head.

I'll tell you whose was whose at the end.

We've got a trombone player!

I came home one day and I swore Kade was crying.  It sounded like he was moaning and groaning, I'd never heard him cry that loud so I ran downstairs to see what happened.  

He wasn't crying.  

He was practicing.

*my drawing was the on the white sheet on the right, Kade's was on the cardboard on the left

 

Just some random pictures this week...

Cupcakes at bedtime, what could better?!

This super warm fall has really extended Mason's fishing season!

He's not complaining!!

Kade and a bunch of friends at a birthday party,

he's the dork in the back with the sideways hat.

Kade and Tyeson eating smores at midnight!

 

Flag Football

So this year Kade was originally signed up to play his first year of tackle football.  However, at the very last minute we learned there was a weight restriction for the skills positions.  Needless to say, he is over that limit so would've been stuck on the line which is NOT where he wants to be.  Probably don't need to say this either as it's no surprise he wanted to be quarterback.  

Anyway, it was well past the deadline to sign up for flag football.  Also, at that time there was only 7 kids signed up (need 10 for a team) and zero parents willing to coach.  To say that flag football was dead in the water was an understatement.  But Kade wanted to play, Erik was willing to coach and I knew a few kids signed up for tackle that were also over the weight limit and didn't want to be stuck on the line either.  

Erik contacted the lady in charge of flag and she said if we could get a team together THAT DAY, she could get us in the league.  Oh, did I mention we were leaving for vacation the very next day and had zero packing done?  We got to work.  I messaged every mom I knew, Erik talked to a couple more dads to help him coach.  We were hoping for 4 more kids....we got 22.  Yep, we went from 7 kids and 0 coaches to 22 kids, 4 parent/coaches officially signed up and a bunch more willing to help when they could.  Wish I was that ambitious for things that actually matter--like world peace 😆

It's been a pretty ugly season.  The teams they play have a couple years of flag under their belts and it shows.  We kinda look like the kids from The Sandlot but hey, they're having fun...I think!

Anyway, a couple weeks ago they got to play a game at US Bank Stadium, where the Vikings play!  It was awesome and it doesn't hurt that we won!!!  Fun memories from a season that almost wasn't.

The best part of this picture is after it was taken I told them to set Tyeson down.  They literally just dropped him.  Good thing Tyeson is tough and the turf is soft!