NFL is Back & Lots of Selfie Fun

We had a lovely rest of the long holiday weekend with a very chill Monday.  I headed to get a much needed massage in the morning while Clint took the kiddos to the local park on a gorgeous morning!

We bummed around the house the rest of the day and got ready for the short week ahead.

The rest of the week went pretty fast with the whole family getting excited for the NFL to be back on Thursday night.  However, since they weren't teams we cared about too much - the kids and I started playing with some fun snap chat filters.  Maci calls these the "silly selfies" HA so fun!

Friday - The kiddos represented daddy's dolphins by wearing team gear to daycare.  This was also a smart move by mom because this means they wear Bengals gear on Sunday. :)

Maci had a great day with Costume Kim coming to daycare, dressed up as an apple.

I picked up the kiddos and Clint cut the grass/grabbed Panera for dinner.  We had a lazy evening at home and got caught up on the Dateline Jon Benet Ramsey special.

Saturday - Maci had her first dance class!!  She was so dang excited!  Clint and I got a good glimpse of what she is going to be like when real school starts.  The girl couldn't wait to get up and get out of the house.

There will be 6 in her class but only Maci and 1 other little girl made it to week 1.  It was like they had a private lesson with the teacher, Miss Heather and her helper.  Maci loved following their every move.  It turns out I didn't need to keep reminding her to listen to her teacher - so cute!

After dance we hit the grocery and a few errands.  We were thinking of doing the apple orchard but Connor has started to get a late summer cold and we figured we shouldn't try to jam too much into 1 day.  So we headed home instead, got some laundry done, let Connor nap, watched college football and Maci played with her toys.  Around 5p we headed to the Cassem's house for pizza and a bonfire.  The bugs were so bad that only the guys sat outside and the girls suffered inside with all the kids.  I let it go though as this was a get together for Clint since he will be out for the count for the next few weekends.  We headed home around 9p when all the kids started to lose their minds and melt :)

Sunday - NFL is really back for our house!  We were going to have our friends the Brubacher's over but we asked for a rain check.  Last night was awful in our house.  Maci woke up with a crazy bad night terror.  Connor was up every few hours with his cold and teething so we are walking zombies today.  However, even being utterly exhausted, we are so excited to have football back on.  I have been attempting to get this blog done before the Bengals kick off so I must hurry.  I am hopeful for a good season ahead for both of our teams and even if not, we are just so happy to have this Sunday transition back!  After the Bengals conclude I will be hitting the work computer and to do list.  I have to get some things done since this week is crazy with all day HR team meetings Tues-Thurs and Clint's Surgery on Friday.  At least I have our fall white chicken chili cooking upstairs in prep for dinner.  :)

Momma Post Shower w. Her Bengal Tribe

 The Poser

 More Silly Faces w. Mom

 Yikes HA

About the coming week's surgery - I will plan to update the blog as usual on Sunday to share how Clint's surgery and weekend recovery goes.  In addition, I will call/text on Friday once I know how surgery went.  If you are the praying type, please send some up for my wonderful husband and our young family throughout the coming weekend which is sure to be stressful and a bit chaotic.  We know this will all be behind us soon but I hope he has as little pain as possible in the process.  Feel free to reach out if you are curious how things are going and I will respond when able.  We truly appreciate every kind word, prayer, offer to help and we want to celebrate with all of you once this bump in the road has ended.

Off to Football!!

Lots of Love,

C, K, M & C