Beautiful Fall-like weekend

We are having fall-like temperatures around here in mid-August.  As much as I don't want school to start, or the temps to decrease, it is going to happen eventually.  Don't get me wrong, I do like Fall, but I'm not a fan of winter.  And if fall is around the corner, then that tells me so is winter.  BUT...on a positive note, the fall-like weather is beautiful and refreshing. 
And if the temps isn't enough to tell me Fall is coming, then the Front Royal Flag Football opening ceremonies will do it.  Saturday morning we headed over to the old Warren County Middle School to meet all the flag football teams and cheerleaders.  Nick is playing for the Browns and they looked great in their brown and orange.  Only 5 players of the 9 were able to make the opening ceremony.

Side note:  Lauren wants to be a cheerleader.  A gymnast and a cheerleader.  Courtney would appreciate this much more than this non-cheerleading enthusiast.  We'll see about cheer sign ups come basketball season as I missed the boat for football.

Later in the afternoon, Lauren and I went to her friend, Lexi's, birthday party.  Lexi and all of Lauren's other friends from preschool last year are entering kindergarten tomorrow.  The girls have been in preschool together for the past 2 years, and they are a great group of little sweet girls.  I'm saddened that Lauren won't be in class with them anymore, and I am also sad that the group will be split up between 3 different elementary schools.  Hopefully they will still see each other in their extracurricular activities outside of school. 

Lauren and her friend Jodeci

This ginormous bounce house/swimming pool was at the party.  It must have been 20 ft high and the kids caught air as they slid down the water soaked slide over the bump into the pool below.  It proved to be a little too daring for some 5 year olds, but my Lauren did go down 3 times before deciding it was too scary. 

Sunday kicked off baseball practice for Nick.  Now he's officially playing 2 sports at one time.  We shall see how this works out.  As of now we have a Tuesday night conflict on practices.  Football practice will take precedence on Tuesdays and baseball practice will be on Sundays.  Games on Saturdays for both and some baseball games during the week.  Lauren starts gymnastics on Saturday mornings in a few weeks.  We shall see how it goes....

After baseball practice we gained Matthew as one of our kids for about 5 hours.  Then it was dinner, and relaxing before bedtime.

Nick starts 2nd grade tomorrow.  Stay tuned!

Large Dolphin bouncehouse/pool