Monday morning was Jonathan’s first day back at daycare after spending the previous week at home with me potty training. Guys, I felt ALMOST as nervous as the day I dropped off Harrison at daycare for the first time. Would they pay attention to his cues enough? Would he be successful? (Because I so badly wanted him to have an awesome day & week showing off his new skill!) I checked my daycare app about twenty times that day. And he did awesome. So relieved! It wasn’t perfect, but so, so, so good. Whew.

I rounded up a lot of family favorites from the past few weeks to share today!

I had so much fun going pumpkin patchin’ with the boys and their cousins a couple of weeks ago! It’s truly one of my favorite days of the year. Trying to take a picture of two, much less four kids together is pretty much impossible at this age. So I offer up some very bad group kids pics. 🙂

This weekend rounds out another season for the Winged Bears! Harrison truly loves soccer. It’s so clearly a passion and thing for him, and it’s been that way since he could essentially walk. If there is anything on the floor….toy, clothes, shoe, etc…..he is kicking it around the house. It drives me crazy. But it’s so innately a part of him in a way I can’t really describe. Love watching him do something he loves!

Given the horrific pumpkin patch pictures, anytime we get a good family picture, that should surely be celebrated. Here we all are! Just before Nathan and I headed out to a date night to celebrate our anniversary.

We went to see Top Gun: Maverick. We are about three months late, and aside from seeing Minions with Harrison a few months ago, this was our first movie theater movie in at least two years….and as EVERYONE said…it was SO GOOD. And honestly that’s shocking for me to say, because since TV series have become so cinematically advanced and the plotlines so interesting, I rarely like a movie as much as a really good TV show.

Did you hear that we’re doing a basement project? Nathan is putting in a “soccer field/playroom/heavily padded kid safe room” in our basement. And it is MOVING. The sub-floor, the walls are up, and there are two really cute helpers that are very eager to participate at all times.

We checked off another item on our fall bucket list this past weekend making pumpkin donuts! This is the recipe we use, and then I use a maple icing glaze instead of the cinnamon sugar suggested in the recipe. I feel like donuts are just better with icing and sprinkles.

Have a great weekend!