Soccer and a Walker

Neely took her first steps yesterday! All 3 nieces were over, playing, and Veronica had just arrived to pick Lily up. When she first got there Neely tried to crawl out the front door to play out front. I pulled her back in and closed the door, and she wasn't happy. I tried to distract her by holding her hands and helping her walk. She let go of my hands after a few seconds and leaned back against my legs. All of a sudden she just took 3 steps forward by herself, stood for a second, and then sat down. I freaked out, and immediately realized that NONE of the other people in the room had seen it. So sad. There were like 6 of us in the room and I was the only one who saw. Mostly I was sad Jess missed it. It was only an hour before we left to pick him up. :(

Oh well, she took a couple to him at the park during Paige's soccer game today too. Speaking of which, Paige scored her first goal today! So cool. Before the game I was helping her get her shin guards on and she said "I hope I get a goal this time." And she did. We all cheered and she looked over, all embarrassed, but clearly proud and happy.

We also went to the pumpkin patch today, took lots of cute pictures. Then we left for the fall festival downtown, which was disappointing. On the way there a lady waved us over on the freeway, pointing like something was wrong. But when we stopped she just kept driving. We never figured out what she meant, so we just went downtown. We couldn't find the camera or Jess's phone once we got there, so we went back to look for it at the pumpkin patch. Didn't find it. Then we remembered the lady on the freeway. So we went searching and found our camera. Part of it anyway.
Jess had set it and his phone on top of the car while we buckled the kids into their seats, and then forgot them on top. So we drove on to the freeway with them both up there. Ha.

We never found Jess's phone, but I was just relieved the camera would still turn on, figuring I'd at least get the pictures off of it. (Especially since Cason figured out how to cross his eyes earlier today and I took some incredible pictures of it.) But we got home and realized the sd card had flown out of it too. So it's somewhere on the side of the freeway. :( I'm gonna try and find it tomorrow. So mad, not only is our camera a goner, but I got bitten by ants several times trying to find it and didn't even get the pictures. :(