Thankfully both things are easing up.
But that translates into a really long blog post as we try to catch up on the silliness of the last few weeks.
The tuesday after Labor Day marked the start of the school year here in Door County. That meant the four kids to the left saw their summer come to an end...
The very next day, however, marked a first in our home. It was our baby Malia's first day of Kindergarten...
For the child that we thought would be a bit too shy for school - she proved us wrong and jumped into it with all the enthusiasm in the world!
For my lovely wife, however, this marked an important day as well.
This is the first day in nearly 13 years that we didn't have a little kid not in school.
Cari didn't know what to do with herself!
But as the first school day came to an end, there she was at the bus stop on the corner waiting for all our kids to come home...
To celebrate this week of firsts, we took a walk along the water...
And went out to eat for dinner.
I guess Cari was so busy not having kids at home with her that she didn't have time to cook!
I'm sure I'm going to get into trouble for that comment.
As a complete non sequitur, I was in Fish Creek the other day and stopped at my favorite hat shop - Hat Head.
What, you mean not everyone has a favorite hat shop?!
This place is great because it sells not only wonderful hats of all kinds, it also sells the most outrageous hats you can find. And in case you haven't noticed, most of my children seem to always be wearing a hat - some a bit more goofy than others.
Well, I discovered during my last visit that they also make customized caps.
Since my youngest daughters Malia and Nalani desperately wanted their own Dallas Cowboys hats but couldn't find a girly one that fit - we had some made for them...
Here's a closer look...
And of course, it says "Malia's Cowboys" on Malia's hat...
This saturday marked the third football game of the season for Bret Jr.'s Bobcats.
Bretty loves playing defense, but he also played a little center during today's game. And wouldn't you know that across from him at nose tackle was the biggest 5th grader on either team.
But our boy held his own against a kid who must have outweighed him by 30 pounds and was a head taller than him...
But what Bret really loves is playing on the interior of the defensive line. On one play he drove the quarterback into the ground and caused a fumble...
He made his best effort to recover it as well...
Here's Bret dragging down the running back in the backfield with a little help...
He really got into today's game as our Bobcats overwhelmed St. Joe's from Green Bay 30 to 0.
Just as Bret's game was coming to a close, we had to run down the road so our youngest son Kekoa could begin his flag football game.
Here he is tossing a pass...
Kekoa doesn't have his brother's bulk to play on the line. He typically lines up at wide receiver or running back...
Although I'm sure when he sees a sea of blue jerseys like this he wishes he had his brother Bret in front of him...
Shortly after Kekoa's game began, Cari arrived with Bretty.
And like a good big brother, Bretty stood right at the line of scrimmage on the sideline to watch his little brother play (Kekoa is the running back immediately to the right of Bretty in the red shirt below)...
Of course, one of the great things for Kekoa is his team's name...
Yes, as his jersey says, Kekoa plays for the Cowboys!
It was a long day to say the least and we were all a bit tuckered out...
Bretty wanted to know how I was able to take that picture when I was the person driving the car.
Kekoa said I must have taken it at a red light.
Uh, yeah, sure. That's it.
Finally, to continue with the non sequitur motif, we also spent the afternoon meandering around downtown Sturgeon Bay for the harvest festival. Look who else happened to be in town...
Elvis has left the building.
Apparently he's in Door County.
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