Soccer Banquet 1

Owen and some of his teammates got invited to the Greater Cleveland Scholastic Soccer Coaches Associated awards banquet! It was a nice honor to round out a great senior year. He was named First Team Greater Cleveland for Division 1 and also received academic honors for maintaining a high GPA while being a school athlete. We're so proud of him for achieving both!

 

Anniversary!

Pat and I celebrated our 21st anniversary! Last year we went on a big trip so this year we kept it simple with a dinner at a restaurant we'd never been to. We went to a place called The Cabin Club that had great reviews and was a little dressy but not super fancy. It ended up being so good! Pat got steak, potatoes and carrots and I got Chicken Vesuvio. I brought some of the chicken home and both kids liked it so much they wanted to go to the restaurant sometime too! The restaurant treated us to a dessert because we were celebrating!

Before

Dinner!

Dinner!

Dessert!

After!

 

Extra

Owen and Timmy went to a Browns game-they lost

Saw this squirrel when I was walking on the bridle path

Paige and friends went to Lorain for a high school football game-they won!

Cutest way that Binx has ever fallen asleep

Owen and friends at their trunk or treat station, ready to give out candy to the freshman

Saw these pumpkins on the bridle trail when I was on another walk

The cats love bubbles

Paige took a nap with a cat

 

Mean Girls!

Paige and I got last minute tickets to go see Mean Girls downtown Sunday night. Going in, I actually didn't know much about the musical but I did enjoy the movie so I was hoping for the best. We ended up with great seats and the show was really good! It was funny and the music was catchy, so glad we went and had that time together!

So fun seeing the signs on the walk up

It was windy outside

The curtain! NSHS-North Shore High School

Waiting for the show to start

We took a picture at intermission

Got this picture with the chandelier when we went to find our ride-thanks Pat!

 

Halloween

Halloween came on a Thursday this year and we got really nice weather for it! Not much happened in the morning and we saved our donuts to eat after the kids got back from school but things were getting busy around the house about 4. Paige's friends all came over to the house to get ready together and Owen had some friends over to hang out. Paige's friends ended up staying the night, which felt weird for a Thursday but they did a great job getting up and going to school the next morning. Owen got his chance to dress up a couple days later when he went to a friend's costume party.

Decorations

Owen and Paige on their way to school

Donut!

Donut!

Donut!

Griffin was on board with the costumes! Binx was not!

Snack board

Ready to give out candy

Luca, Owen and Jalen with Pat

Trampoline basketball

4 greek goddesses, 2 soulja boys and a cat

Luca, Owen, Jalen and LJ

Paige and Miley

Outdoor decorations

Traditional family selfie

LJ, Owen, Omar and Luca on their way to the party

 

Pumpkin Carving

Last year we all shared one pumpkin to carve but this year we all got our own! Griffin really got in the mix this year too. He hung out with us and really investigated the pumpkin pieces. 

Ready to carve!

Stare-down

The group

Looking for ideas

The carving begins

Checking the pumpkin pieces

Finished!

Done!

Completed!

I can't think of any more words that mean done!