Catholic School Week

This week is Catholic School week and I was able to bring the kids lunch today.  Of course, they picked Chipotle, their favorite place.   Anyway, the cutest little thing happened.  We were almost finished with lunch and one of Olivia's classmates, Ethan, came up to her and gave her his toy from his happy meal.  It was a bracelet.  Apparently, Olivia told me she was going to marry him and I spoke to his mom and she told me that Ethan said to her "Mom, I need to talk to you but not in front of  my brother....I have a girlfriend, her name is Olivia."  OMG seriously, these kids are 5 years old! Is this normal!? I have to admit, it was the sweetest thing that he gave his happy meal toy to her, though.  She was so happy and her face lit up. 

My Lil' Tiger Cub

Luca is a Tiger Cub and is soo excited about all the fun stuff he gets to do especially with his dad. When I first found out that he had to sell $300 in popcorn I thought to myself that I'm going to have find 30 friends that will donate at least $10 each. I was wrong! We basically walked in our neighborhood of maybe 20 homes and half the people weren't home since we did it on a Sunday and I couldn't believe that he sold $521 in about 1 and a half hours! He did soo good and wanted to do it all on his own. Olivia did help him by pulling a wagon with some popcorn tins which was sweet. The funny thing is on the other side of our gated community are estate homes and Luca REALLY wanted to sell to them because he thought they would buy a lot of popcorn. We didn't even have to go on that side of the hood, but I think he had so much fun that he still wants to sell more so maybe we will go on the fancy side of the neighborhood and see if they'll buy some, too. Not one person said no to him which I was afraid of. But how could you say no to this sweet face? :)

1st Soccer Game of the Season!

Olivia and Luca had their 1st soccer game this year. It's going to be a busy fall with 2 soccer games every Sunday. I was able to take a snap of O's game on my cell phone, but not of Luca's because I had to leave his game early for a photo session. They both did GREAT and Olivia is a beast. We knew she was going to be athletic from the time she was a baby. She was seriously on every single ball. She scored 6 goals and almost all of her team mates scored a goal, too. We lost track of the score but I think it was at least 12-0. Olivia was also goalie and saved every ball. We were so proud of her!! Luca is in a 1st and 2nd grade team this year so the team is much larger and they have less playing time but he still did great. Right before I left for my session he was goalie and he saved 3 balls! He also is very fast. I'm glad they are enjoying it so far! So proud of them.

Apple Picking!

I've always wanted to take the kids apple picking. This is something we've never done before and I'm so glad we did. It was fun and we made it in time to get the last of the honeycrisp apples, our favorite. I guess they go very fast.

Olivia picking 2 apples to give to her teachers.  On Friday, she said to me "Can I write my teacher a note to tell her she's a good teacher?"  I said of course and thought giving her an apple would be a nice old fashioned gesture, too.

This apple was on the ground and it was huge!!

Picking some more. I love how the trees are so short that the kids are able to pick their own apples.

They were delicious!

My sweet kiddos.

Yay, Mommy is in a pic!

It definitely felt like a fall day.  Olivia LOVES this dress and wants to wear it every single weekend so I put some tights and a long t-shirt so she still could wear her favorite dress. 

Luca wanted to pose like this in front of the tree.

Another pic with Mommy, wow this is a record! ;) Corey even got the farmer in the background, too!

Go Buckeyes!

I'm really not a huge football fan at all, but I think my kids are super adorable in their OSU jersey and little cheerleading uniforms. I was waiting for a newborn client to come to the house and while I was waiting I was playing with the kids and took some shots of them. As a former cheerleader, I think Olivia has a little bit of me in her blood. She loved doing stunts and here are some shots of my goofy kids having a little fun stunting!

I love Luca's face, he's trying to smile, but Olivia's really heavy!

OH NO!

They are so cute together!

Happy Happy!

She thinks she can do the splits. LOL

This stunt is a little more manageable for Luca.

Cutest kids ever! ;)