Anna’s birthday dinner celebration at Benihana

Baba and Grandpa were here for the first part of the week while I was off on a business trip to DC. I arrived back just in time for Anna’s birthday celebration dinner at Benihana. We were going to do this Sunday night but Anna had a big day last Sunday and we decided to postpone it until Wednesday night. We had a nice family dinner and Anna had a great time.

Anna with one of the gymnasts on the DU team

We said goodbye to Baba and Grandpa on Thursday morning as they drove back to Iowa. On Friday night Jude and I went to a soccer afternoon at his school. They had a parents vs staff vs kids soccer game. I played on the parents team, it was my first real soccer game in about 30 years but it was fun. Jude also had a a great time playing on the kids team, they ended up beating the staff team which they all thought was really cool. While we were doing that Marcy and Anna were at DU watching the girls gymnastics team practice for their homecoming weekend meet.

He may be almost 12 but he still likes to sit on my lap sometimes, watching Anna’s game

It was a gorgeous fall day on Saturday and we rode down to the farmers market for lunch. Then Anna had a soccer match in the afternoon. She had another good match but their team lost again in a close game.

Anna clearing snow off the back porch in our first storm of the season

On Sunday morning we woke up to snow. We knew it was coming but it was still a bit of a shock after such a beautiful day on Saturday. We had a nice quiet morning and then I took the kids to Spider Monkey so they could get some exercise. We got home and Jude and I watched the Broncos game while Anna decided to bake some chocolate cookies with a recipe she got as part of this cooking club we got for her birthday.

Anna hard at work in the kitchen baking chocolate cookies