May the FORCE be with you

Luke started playing soccer on his first organized team a couple weeks ago and I officially became a soccer mom.  Luke is loving it and practices his skills all the time in the backyard.  I am also enjoying my new soccer mom role, (but that is because it has been about 75 and sunny for the last month or so:)).

His team name is "The Force" which is perfectly fitting.  His team nickname is of course Luke Skywalker. 

First Day of 1st Grade!

Luke returned to school a couple weeks ago and he is of course pumped about being back with all his buds and learning all sorts of new stuff.  So far his favorite activity has been painting a map of the world.  They are also having conversations about how Earth was created which has him really curious.  As well as black holes (he wants me to mention).

1st grade is pretty darn cool....and interesting!

CALIFORNIA

The Canton Horne clan had a seriously amazing summer in California.  We had tons of great family events, beautiful weather, great food and a couple big landmark accomplishments.

Luke learned to both swim and ride a bike.  Big Big stuff!!  Luke got to spend lots of time with his CA buds Noah and Bella as well as our amazing Frenchies!  Luke LOVED spending time with his cousins Pablo and Lea and of course the super stellar JC and GiGi!

Luke also got to have his Papaw and Mamaw from Florida visit him in Lodi.  It was truly special to have Ed and Pam stay out in Lodi with us and Luke just loved having them there.

We were also able to visit with Erica 3 times!!! We went to Ventura to see her and she come up to Lodi twice too!  We felt really lucky to have that time together. 

Other exciting events include; Papa's big 80th, Bella's 4th bday, Lea's 17th bday, Lisa and Paul's wedding, Toni's big bachelorette, an amazing water balloon fight, Luke's first bow and arrow lesson from Uncle Ted,  a trip to Santa Cruz, Kasey's killer bday bbq in SF and so much more.

So many wonderful celebrations!  We were a little sad to return home to real life but of course thrilled to return to Guapo and the beautiful weather in Seattle.