The Wood Family

My child is a Halloween Scrooge. As I was getting everybody ready for our church Halloween party last night, I went to put Jaxon's costume on and he refused to let it anywhere near him. It was a cute, warm, fuzzy lion costume. I then tried to dress him as a devil. I had horns, a cape and a pitchfork. He would have nothing to do with that either. I took the costume with us and he still refused to wear it, so he wore his regular clothes to the party. So this morning I took him shopping to see if we could find him a costume. I found a Mater costume that just had straps to hold it on. I thought for sure he would love it (He loves the movie Cars and Mater is his favorite). I tried to put it on him at the store and he flipped. I am now trying to find a Diego costume at the last minute because he says he will be Diego(yeah, right). So don't be surprised to see Jaxon dressed this Halloween as.....himself!

Today was a crazy Saturday, with one thing right after another. Devin had his last flag football game and he did great. He got two sacks and pulled a bunch of other flags. He has had a great season with a touchdown, some points after, some great kicks and an interception. He is playing on a team that is a 5th and 6th grade team (he is in 5th grade) that all played together last year. We didn't know anyone on the team, but his coach was awesome and let him play nearly every position. Their team went undefeated and never had a team come close to beating them! (The picture is lousy because my camera is acting up and every action shot I got was blurry.)

McKenzie had her violin recital. She memorized her piece and did really well. She likes violin but she hates to practice. Her teacher told me she has really started to "get it" and is doing awesome. We can't wait to see what comes next!

Devin plays for a super league baseball team. They got to the semi-finals in the Labor Day tournament, but then the game got rained out. Yesterday was the make-up. We lost, but we were also playing one of the best teams in the state. This team creamed every team in the tournament by 15 points. We only lost by 5 and 2 of their runs were scored on a bad call by the umpire and 2 more on an error on our team. They played awesome. Bragging moment: Devin is the catcher and he is really good. He gets asked to sub in on other super league teams and has three super league teams that would pick him up. Jared helps coach his team and they love hanging out together. He loves playing baseball and we love watching him play!

I was upstairs cooking dinner on a Saturday when I realized that it was too quiet downstairs. What I found was a shock. All four kids were sitting on the couch watching the same movie. Nobody was crying, fighting or even touching each other. It was a rare moment, worthy of a picture!

Jaxon is always trying to be like his big brother!