backyard afternoons

Well I just got soccer schedules for our three boys - and our lazy backyard afternoons are getting ready for some big changes!  We knew it would be a little wild and wooly to put all three of them in soccer, but when opportunities like these are limited, well.... you go for it!  

For six weeks there is going to be a LOT of soccer around here, but that doesn't start till tomorrow, and this afternoon was lazy long (sweaty) summer perfection.

The garden continues to produce buckets of cherry tomatoes.  And we eat buckets of cherry tomatoes.  win-win

There are also some really big pumpkins out there, and one that grows in girth by at least an inch a day.  It's a giant, and it just keeps growing!

Yum!

Luke (in borrowed shin guards that make his heart race with excitement!)... catching frisbee.

And Isaac, who is our most committed soccer player and on a team roster with 10 players he already knows 6 of them.  Add in a daddy for a coach and you've got yourself a happy 3rd grader!