Mateo is getting so big!!

So this week was a busy one...on Monday and Wednesday, Mateo and I trekked over to the middle school to watch our friend Sean Murphy play soccer...if you remember the pictures from this summer at the Fronza/Kelley/Petrik soccer game, many commented that he is the next great soccer player...must be in his genes.



He had so much fun playing with a soccer ball. Sean's mom Angela and I were sitting at the top of a short slope and the ball would roll down the hill, Mateo would chase after it, he would carry it back up and set the ball down just before the crest of the hill...and it would roll back down and the cycle kept going and going and going...



Mateo is a big animal lover...and with the lack of furry friends at our house (both the cats were adopted to other families)...he loves to play with pets. This is Max Martinson (of the Jamie & Val Martinson Family fame). Mateo kept trying to feed him some snacks...



This is my favorite picture in a long time...he keeps trying to do bigger and bigger things. He loves to try to walk in any of our shoes...but this picture of him in my slippers makes me smile!!

Other activities this week included: canning 30 half-pints of apple butter and 8 quarts of applesauce (and getting to put the canning stuff away for the year); cleaning the craft area; watching Kyle Murphy's football team play; hanging out with the Murphy boys while Greg & Angela took a motorcycle ride; baking brownies, cookies, and making chocolate covered pretzels (thanks Sean for your help) for a fundraiser at work; saying good-bye to the summer sun and hello to the winter rain.

We are off to Tennessee this week to visit Matt's brother Mark, his wife Paula, and the original Sarah Miller. We fly on Thursday morning to Little Rock, Arkansas (SWA flies there cheaper than any other airline flying into Memphis directly). I have never been to Arkansas, so I am looking forward to seeing a bit of it.

We'll take lots of pictures...thanks for all the emails lately. Hugs, Sarah