Trophies, Tournaments, and Twilight

Our weekend was nice. We started it off with a softball tournament all day Saturday for me, and also Paige's last soccer game. We played about 10 hours of softball, which I loved, with a break conveniently at the same time as Paige's game. After the game they gave the kids their trophies, and then they had pizza. I watched her receive her highly anticipated trophy with a look of obvious disappointment.
She was expecting a big golden cup I think, or at least a shiny pedestal with a golden soccer player on top, but instead got a ceramic soccer cleat and ball trophy. She was fine with it when we assured her it was in fact a trophy. Ha. She just expected something different, and didn't believe it was a real one.

I went right back to my softball tournament, and it was SO windy and cold, but I had fun. I love tournaments! Then I got home to a clean house and a warm dinner, thanks to my awesome husband. Neely was more than ready for me to nurse her to sleep. Speaking of which, if you normally nurse a baby every 3 or 4 hours, don't suddenly play softball all day without stopping to nurse at least once. TMI? Sorry.

Sunday morning we got family pictures taken, by the photographers from Chris and Sarah's wedding. They were SO nice, and we had fun, although it was pretty windy. Hopefully we'll even get a picture or two with all of us looking at the camera at the same time, but I wouldn't bet on it. Ha.

Paige and Cason are so used to me taking pictures all day every day that they're instantly bored when a camera comes out. They were all being really good, but Paige and Cason seemed to love staring at the ground while smiling. Neely was hilarious, she kept doing the funniest fake smile for the first five minutes, like a pro, looking right at the camera. But then, right around the time the older two started to look up, Neely got bored and started looking around. Ha. I'm sure we got some cute ones in there somewhere though. They all looked cute, that's for sure, and Neely got a new cardigan for the occasion.
Then we went to play our last kickball game of the season, and of course won, which made us the champs. :)

AND I finished off Sunday evening by going to see Breaking Dawn with Veronica, Tyra, Connie and her sister Jeni. And I'm only a little bit embarrassed to admit that. (But I was more than a little embarrassed while watching it, even though I liked it)

Today we spent at Starbucks, getting peppermint hot cocoas, which I'm addicted to now, and then going home and taking another crazy long walk around the neighborhood, where the trees are finally changing color.