What else do we do on such a beautiful evening?

Of course we head to the park. We either go to Rundle to walk across the bridge or for the last few times the boys wanted to play soccer at Goldbar park, which is the park after crossing the river from Rundle we end up in Goldbar. LOL Same, same.... not much is ever crazy or changes in our lives. Just different versions of the same!

So today was soccer at the bowl. It`s almost shaped like a bowl, with one steep side and the rest with a gentle slope down the sides. So the boys love kicking the ball down the steep edge & then running and sliding down the grass (yes.... I know... grass stains... oh well! LOL) and running almost out of control to the bottom to catch their ball.

I know, and can feel winter around the corner. It`s not too far away now. So with each beautiful day is another opportunity to get outside and enjoy the weather before it gets too cold! I bring the kids snacks & juice to eat & drink on the way to the park from daycare, and then make a easy meal when we get home. The snack is enough to buy me another hour to two of time while we go enjoy the mild weather & sun.

So yes, there will always be lots of fall pictures of the kids & I playing outside. We get such harsh winters here that we enjoy each day until we can`t play outside anymore. Until April (maybe even March if we get lucky!), where at -5 (yes -5) we will find that warm, after a frigid winter, and be out in the beautiful sun & warmth in our fleeces playing around the melting snow. So enjoy the pics, cause soon we`ll have a white background to these pics! :)

It`s Winton the Super Soccer Star!

Being told to move out of the way of Ayden kicking.

 Winston throwing his mad soccer super star blocking skills!

 Up the bowl, down the bowl, up the bowl, down the bowl!

Me & my bestie Winnie! Dang I got lots of hair still! Even after just getting it cut! LOL

Like a fish.

Lucky article saved itself!! LOL

Other than being pissy, Ewan`s second most talent is swimming... well, and dancing. He`s been able to dance before he could walk, always feeling the music within him (that`s my boy!). But once he started to have baths without being restrained for his own safety it became so apparent that my son should have been born with gills. Ewan LOVES water. He doesn`t get scared in the water, he loves how buoyant it makes him, so he can hop around, and I`m sure he`d stay in there until he was a wrinkled little prune each & everyday if I allowed him!

Now Ethan shares this love of water. But so NOT Aston! Aston was the baby that when the ex & I would take the kids to the pool, Aston would sit in my arms as a little guy (about 1 year old) and just whimper & cry the whole time. It was not a pleasurable experience for Aston. Aston still doesn`t like the water that much. But all three of my youngest are in swimming, for fun & for safety reasons.

Last weekend Ewan went swimming, his swimming day is on Saturday. But when the older boys & I went to go to their Sunday lessons, they were cancelled. For a citywide event of fun & games. I had no clue before arriving, otherwise I wouldn`t have showed. But I did, and they had crafts......

(disclaimer, yes I am a crafty lady, here comes the jokes I know! But seriously, people know I make homemade things, yet, people want to put my children with markers, glue, glitter, etc and TRY to teach them what the final project is suppose to look like.... really...I can`t do that! It`s my kryptonite, I can`t explain why.... but it`s just one of those things I really Really REALLY don`t enjoy. Maybe that`s why I don`t have girls. LOL I`d much rather take my boys to the park for a walk, or playground, but crafts & crafty stuff with MY boys, nuh-uh! Anyways that was a tirade that went so off topic, well maybe not cause of the crafts at the swimming place...)

.....upstairs at the pool. And because I knew Aston was going to be upset about not being able to do swimming and the chick was staring at me like.... `Wha?! Don`t you do crafts with your boys, and wouldn`t that be fun?!?!` I conceded and went to do crafts. Against my better judgement. Did a few and ran out of there to take the kids to Rundle park. Our favourite walking park.

So this weekend I am hoping that the swimming lessons will be on a regular schedule, and that all my boys will get to enjoy their lessons! And that there will be no crafts..... if I could put my order in for a great weekend! LOL ;)

Pics from Ewan swimming last weekend.