Whirlwind Weekend!!

I know it's a couple days late but I'm finally getting around to posting about our "Brett's bday-Brett's Last Football game-Blake's First Basketball game-Boys Bowling Party and First Earthquake Experience" weekend. Yes this all took place in 3 short days.

Friday was Brett's 9th birthday. His day started out with donuts for breakfast. Blake and I took him Taco Bell for lunch at school and then that night we all went out to eat at Sumo Japenese Steak House, Brett's most fav place ever.

My boys...Brett gives a thumbs up on his pile of shrimp.

Brett trying to catch a flying shrimp courtesy of our chef. (Don't ya just love Marty's expression?!)

After supper it was home to open his gift from Blake. (He gets his gift from us on Nov. 19th at the big family bday bash, as will Blake.)

Most definately excited about the Hero Factory toy.

Saturday morning we were off and running to Blake's first basketball game. As you can imagine 4/5 year old basketball is CHAOS!! However the kids thought it was fun and that's all that matters. Turned out Blake played against his buddy, Parker from his tball team....they were excited to see each other. Blake is so excited to play but I think its mostly because he gets to play something and Brett has to sit in the stands and watch.

You might wonder what Blake is doing here....he's spinning the ball on his finger using the floor. He taught all his teammates this trick during Saturday's game.

He SHOOTS....He SCORES!!

He SHOOTS...He SCORES again!!

This is the start of the game...the jump ball....lucky for Blake the little girl didn't know what was going on either as she was a foot taller than him.

Bringing the ball down the court...

Saturday afternoon was Brett's last football game of the season..the Championsip Bowl Game.

The kickoff...Brett's in the middle.

He RUNS....He SCORES!!

Brett, the holder, for JD, the kicker, for the extra point.

Running through the parent tunnel after their victory!! Brett giving the KSU defense motto...Lynch Mob.

The Knights ended their season 8-0!! It was such a fun season with a great group of kids and coaches. We finished the season with a party Sunday afternoon. The kids received their first place medals and a video of clips from the season. Each coach took 5 kids to talk about and Coach Aaron found a bible verse that he thought best described them. It was a great party and a great way to end the season. Can't wait for next year.

After the football party it was off to The Alley where the boys had invited some friends for a bowling birthday party. Turns out the boys birthdays really do fall at a busy time of year as a lot of their friends were busy with finishing up football games. However they got lots of bowling in and still had a good time.

Blake and Brett bowling.

Brett's friend Noah has form.

Blake's friend Ben and Blake bowling.

Football cupcakes!!

Presents!!

Last but not least....did anyone else feel the earthquake Saturday night. I sure did and for a moment thought I was going a little crazy. Thank goodness for facebook as everyone started talking about it. I felt another aftershock on Monday evening too. CRAZY!! However this is Kansas and anything is possible I guess.

All in all it was a great weekend just very busy. This weekend seems to slow a little with KSU football on Saturday and closing up the lakehouse for the season.

Can you believe he's 9!!

November 4th, nine years ago we were blessed with a 7 lb 12 oz baby boy. Brett Martin Albright changed our lives forever. He's turned out to be a pretty good fit for us.

If I hadn't taken this picture of myself and dressed him in my "coming home outfit" I would never guess that this is Brett. It looks nothing like him in my opinion.

And even though he's a mature 9 year old (most days) he still loves his purple blanket and his bear, Blue that he's carried around since he was old enough to carry them. His dad occassionally teases him about it but I love that he still loves them. (FYI...he absolutely hates this picture and is mortified that it exists, I however love it and will continue to use it to show his future girlfriends, high school graduation, college graduation etc.)

Happy Birthday Brett!! We love you!!

Can you believe he's 9!!

The boys annual photo shoot.

So for the last few years I have decided to do the boys birthday pics myself. Mostly because I'm really anal when it come to pictures and I love to take outside fall pics. Here are this years crop....they turned out pretty good. Blake has been diagnosed with "chandler bing smile" (anyone remember that episode from Friends). The kid has a great smile but can't do it on command. Which is another reason I like to take the pics myself....I don't want to pay for something that doesn't look right.

Brett is very photogenic (not sure where he gets that from as Marty and I are NOT). The kid has smiled at a camera since the day he was born.

This one of Blake probably took 100 shots. He finally told me "Mom I just can't do it". So I gave up.

This is probably my favorite pic of Brett. Yes I know it looks like something a senior in high school would take but it's still good.

Another fav of mine as I don't have to worry about if they're both looking at me or even smiling!!

Throwing leaves as the parting shot.

I did do one self timer of the three of us in hopes that maybe Marty will put this in his office as I don't think he has one pic of me in there.

All in all pretty good pics and I can pick and choose what I want to print and how I want to print at a very reasonalbe price.

Happy Halloween!!

The boys enjoyed their night of trick or treating. The weather was nice so Marty and the boys enjoyed walking the neighborhood.

Blake decided to be spiderman tonight instead of his clown costume. Hopefully that will be the last appearance of that costume as it's been around for quite sometime and worn LOTS. Brett wore it when he was 3 and loved it so much he would wear it daily. It's definately a well 'loved' costume.

The boys and their loot.

Last week and weekend all wrapped into one....

By the time I got all the pics uploaded for this post I realized they are in reverse order...most recent first...oh well...too many pics and too late tonight to redo them....enjoy anyway.

So tonight was the annual pumpkin carving. We got some really nice pumpkins at Walters Pumpkin patch and it turned out they were good ones to work with.

Blake wasn't real excited about cleaning them out.

I told Brett that if he wanted to do the carving this year he was going to do the cleaning out too.

Carving the masterpiece.

Ta-Da!!

They turned out really cool I thought and weren't too bad to carve. Next year it's definately going to be a Powercat and/or G for Green Bay.

Last night we were at Gma and Gpa Albright's for the annual halloween party with the cousins. Marty's parents used to do a party for him and his siblings when they were little and the tradition continues with the grandkids. Normally they do a weenie roast and hayrack ride but it was windy and cold so that was done earlier in the day while we were at the KSU game. However there was also bobbing for apples and a pinata in the basement.

Brett bobbing. Blake didn't want to do it this year.

My gangster and clown. Blake is wearing the clown outfit his dad and uncle scott wore when they were little. My niece Karlie wore it last year so Blake's the last one to wear until there's a new grandbaby....hint hint Kay and Trent.

The Albright 6-Pack in their Halloween attire. L-R Blake the clown, Emily the baby, Garrett the werewolf, Brett the gangster, Erica the hippie/70's woodstock, and Karlie the ladybug.

Saturday was KSU football. My niece Emily really wanted to go to a game this year so we decided to send Blake to the farm to stay with Papa, Gma and Karlie and give Em his ticket. Her parents also ended up with tickets so we all got to go together. It was a fun day even with the result of the game, I'm still proud to be a Wildcat. The weather was beautiful, the tailgate food was excellent and the company was awesome.

Brett and Em throw a little football around during the tailgate.

Friday was Brett's Halloween Party at school. Blake and I brought our share of 25 "mummy hot dogs" as part the snack. It was quite a party as there are 25 kids in a total of 3 3rd grade classes. However it seemed to run pretty smoothly as the kids rotated to each classroom and played games, ate and played more games.

Brett getting mummy wrapped by his classmates as part of one of the games.

Last but not least....Blake's class got to go to a pumpkin patch on Wednesday. I volunteered to be a driver and took 4 kids with me. They listened to a couple of stories, got a pumpkin painted on their cheek, walked thru the "patch" and looked at all the different types of pumpkins and then got to pick a pumpkin to take home.

His class....Blake's on the far left.

His pumpkin to take home.

It was a busy week and this week seems to be just as busy. Hope everyone has a safe and Happy Halloween.