Life as a Lewis

Today is a coffee day, maybe even a double shot of espresso. I was up until well past 2 a.m. No idea why - just couldn't sleep. Less than 3 hours of sleep is not a good thing. This is the first year that Camden has been interested in Halloween. He even wanted to dress up this year and chose Spiderman. Unfortunately, our soccer Halloween party got canceled; the church canceled their Halloween party, and we've got church tonight so I'm not sure when he's going to get to wear his costume! I told him maybe he can trick or treat at Gram and Gramp's house this weekend. I've been meaning to list a few fun and not-so-fun things that Camden is doing right now, and I finally sat down and remembered a few of them. 1. He's discovered that his fingers fit really well in his nose. Not a fun thing. 2. His new favorite phrase is "You're wearing me out." I think he might have heard this from me one too many times. 3. He has always loved hugs and kisses, but now...

Technically we won the game on Sunday, but officially, they gave it to the other team after 45 minutes of deliberation and lots of adult parents acting like ridiculous children. I've never seen so much shouting and yelling almost to the point of blows! And to think it was all over a 4-year soccer game. I don't understand all the technicalities, but apparently each player was supposed to have a specific amount of game time, and we didn't qualify because one of our players stayed in the whole game. Thank goodness the kids were oblivious to how the crazy adults were acting! All they cared about is that they did get a trophy and medal and their picture in the paper. Here are a few pictures from the weekend. I wish I could show more, but I am exhausted tonight! If you've never experienced soccer with 4 -years olds, I highly recommend it. They are all too cute.

I had no idea that a soccer tournament involving 4 year olds could be so intense and so fun! We're still in shock here, but Camden's team won 3 games today, and they're playing in the championship game tomorrow afternoon. They all played so well - I guess they saved their best for tournament time! Camden made a goal in the first game, and when the game was over, he came running to me, launched himself in my arms and was soooo excited! It was so sweet, and made the entire season worth it just for that moment. He was so proud of himself! The tournament pretty much consumed our entire day. I did get up early and go walk with my friend, and then we pretty much collapsed when we got home this afternoon. Camden was exhausted and in bed by 7:00. Tomorrow will be another busy day! I took some really cute soccer pictures, but I haven't got them uploaded or edited yet, but hopefully I'll get to it this week. We did have one thing happen today that while I've known was g...

Well, I hate to complain about the rain since we've been without for so long, but this is our FIFTH straight rainy gloomy day, and I'm stuck in the house with a 4 year old that desperately wants to play hockey, baseball, football, any kind of sport. I've been busy protecting everything breakable in my house all morning! Tonight is supposed to be our last soccer practice, and we were making a little party of it. The parents were going to play against the kids and fun stuff like that, but I'm thinking that it's going to be too wet. The soccer tournament is tomorrow, but I guess we'll be rained out if it doesn't dry up soon! We have Camden's first parent-teacher conference late this afternoon. I am interested to hear what his teacher has to say. I'm not worried or anything, just interested to hear how he is doing in an environment apart from us. I scrapped two pages yesterday. The first uses pictures from our trip to the park last month, and I think the...

It's my perfect day. I'm off work; it's cold and wet outside; I intend to stay in sweats all day and spend it scrapping and reading! Camden and Brian are both at school. I am getting some housework done. You're going to laugh at my system, but I've got the timer set for a certain period of time. I work for a while, play for a while. And I am not telling you how long the timer is set for because it would be too embarrassing. I've been hit by the Christmas bug. I'm in the middle of several big scrapping Christmas projects. I've started making my Christmas gift list (what I'm buying for people, not my own list!). I'm planning to hit the mall tomorrow with some coupons. I bought my first gift a couple of weeks ago and another one tomorrow. I know it's early, but it just creeps up on me if I don't start ahead of time. Here are two pages I've completed this week. I love the pictures in the first one. Camden is just too darn cute!

After months and months of no rain, we've had a straight 24 hours of pretty heavy rain with another 24-48 hours planned. Sure makes my commute into work a little scary and very slow, but I'm not complaining!! Maybe all the rain will help our water not taste like dirt! Camden learned about Zaccheus in Sunday School this week. Here are a couple of reasons why I know this. Sunday afternoon when I complained about not being able to reach the top cabinet, he said, "Mommy, that's just cause you're short like Zaccheus." My second clue came as he was coloring a picture last night of Jesus going to Zaccheus's Halloween party. Where he comes up with this stuff I have no idea! Jesus decided to go to the party as a ghost, by the way.

Saturday was the Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk. Elizabeth (my youngest sister) put together a team, got t-shirts made for us, and raised money and we all walked together in honor of Becky. I can't believe there were so many of us! It was actually alot of fun (after the first 2 hilly miles were over). There were more shades of pink there than I ever knew existed. Many teams wore t-shirts with pictures that said, "in memory of . . " I saw one man with a flag and pink ribbons with a woman's picture on it that said, "My Patricia, this is for you." Very sweet and so sad. We walked the 5 miles in about 1 hour, twenty minutes. I will admit to being a little sore this morning, but not too bad. Before the Walk During the Walk End of the Walk Our weekend was very full as usual! I did the walk Saturday morning then met Brian and Camden at the soccer field. Camden's team won (second weekend in a row), which is always more fun than losing! Unfortunately,...