Sporting KC

 We've been missing the World Cup around here, so the boys wanted to go to their very first soccer game.  Sporting KC isn't doing great this year, but they pulled out a tie against St. Louis.

It was a fun night.  We even ran into one of my students and her family.  

Fall Ball

 The boys' baseball teams have been lovely, and have let the boys play on the team for the couple of weeks we're still in town.  They're so excited they get to play.  In his first game back this Fall Little Guy got a huge automatic double when it bounced over the fence.  It was almost a home-run.  

BB was starting pitcher with 3 up and 3 down in the first inning.  He was pretty happy with his pitching.  They won 12 -2.

Not a Fan

The kids have extra days off of school, so they've been amusing themselves.  They wondered what Stella thought of apples. 

It turns out she's not much of a fan.  She was honestly a little scared of it.  No fruit for Stella.
 

Last Arkansas Trip

This month is the month of last times for us.  The kiddos look forward to Val's lake house every summer, but we're moving and they're selling it, so this was our last time enjoying it together.

On our way home we stopped in Bentonville for our favorite place - Crepes Paulette.

Bye bye Beaver Lake - we've loved you!

Under the Sea

 My student, Alyvia, was cast as Ursula for the Teen Theater in the Park, so of course we had to go.  She and the cast did such a great job!

Lake Day!

 This summer was so crazy we didn't get out much, but we knew we needed one last hurrah for lake day, so today was our first and last lake day this year.  It rained this morning, so we ended up having the entire place to ourselves. We have loved Hilsdale.  It's an end of an era.  I have so many fond memories of lake days.

 

Last Lesson

With Little Man graduating he's finishing up his final classical guitar lesson.  He's had Kevin for 7 years and absolutely loved it.  He wants to continue guitar in college he's enjoyed it so much.

Final MAMA

A couple days later we packed again and headed to St. Louis.  Sorry Stella, you can't come.  The music festival was a bit more stressful and odd this year.  The voice participants accidentally got put on the wrong day, so we had to stay for 2 days and didn't get to go to the second award ceremony.  Half of the trophies were mailed to us later.  They originally messed up and said Little Man didn't get a superior rating for guitar, so he was confused and upset.  We got a phone call later saying they had made an error for him and other student from KCSM.  One of the voice judges was crazy ridiculous with her judging, so a lot of my beginner students were upset with their score.  We did still celebrate and have a good time even with all the bumps and challenges.