Cookies, Moose, Volleyball, and a Gold Medal

Last Sunday when we took a walk down to the park as a family Lyza and I had a photography lesson and she really enjoyed it. She asked if we can have more lessons.

We had a roast beef dinner and said we were celebrating Canadian Thanksgiving

Why can't he use grapes while he is playing with toys?

Mars has been visible so we have looked out each night to see it shining in the sky

On the 13th it was the closest to the earth that it is going to be for decades. Here is a short time lapse of it moving through the early evening sky

Sometimes Mason does silly things when no one is watching

We had a new cookie chain (Crumbl) open in Coeur d'Alene. Kim took the two little boys to get free cookies (and some paid for cookies as well)

They couldn't wait until they were home to eat them

They also got to go pick out some pumpkins

On my way home from work on Thursday there was a line up of cars across the street from our house stopped and watching a mamma moose and her two calves. I parked the car and grabbed the camera to get some shots

Here is one of the calves

I was probably closer to the moose than I should have been so every time the mamma looked at me I got worried but eventually I felt like we had a connection and she was going to leave me alone

The mamma decided it was time to much on something else

The calves stayed behind for a bit

The calves eventually followed

A new bush to trim

The next stop was the apple tree and fallen apples

The mamma eventually joined and ate apples right off the tree

It is really strange watching the moose kneel down to eat of the ground

Then they decided to play in the front yard

And do some more eating

They were eventually frightened by a couple of big trucks and ran back to the place I first found them.

Here is a video with some clips of the moose

After dinner that night we all shared the delicious Crumbl cookies

Lyza had her first volleyball games yesterday. She worked really hard

She definitely brought her game face

I was so proud of her when she returned the ball over the net on one of the first few plays

I wasn't quite as impressed when she almost hit me with the ball 😉

It was fun to watch her because she was having so much fun

Serving was the most challenging part of the game for her and by the end she was getting really close to getting the ball over the net

Mason had his last soccer game of the season and scored another goal. Kim wasn't able to capture it because another child (who won't be named here) was distracting her. Good job Mason!

Nixon also had his last game of the season. 

He made sure he was looking his best

He played hard as usual

He played really good defense and helped his team out a lot

He even got a gold medal at the end (like everyone else on his team)

He was a pretty happy boy

Take care