The Pattersons: Weekend Wrap-Up

Friday night Kase had a sleepover at his friend's house. Right before he left he took a pretty good hit in a backyard football game (by that, I mean he made a diving one-handed catch and landed on our cement patio on his knee. As his friend tells it, "But he still made the catch! Best catch I've seen in my life" So, there's that I guess. Boys.)

Anyhow, he iced his knee for awhile and actually was even a little hesitant to go to the sleepover which is totally unlike him which made me think he wasn't feeling super great. Eventually he did go and I thought we might get a call at any moment to go pick him up but he stayed and had a good time. Meanwhile, Kylee was at cross country practice and Kael was at football. While they were gone Kent and I had a fun date night (really more like a date hour) prepping dinner until the bigs got home. We did pizzas on the grill and by the time they got home, showered and ate, we were all ready to call it a night. Introduced them to Hocus Pocus since Kase was gone! Hilarious. And Kase would have hated it- he doesn't like anyting even remotely scary.

Saturday we picked Kase up early from his friend's house and we all loaded up and headed to Marshalltown for the State Cross Country meet and wowza was it windy!!! There were 63 girls running in Kylee's age group- 3 from her team.

So happy the boys were there to cheer her on and meet her at the finish line! Loved capturing this sweet moment.

She finished 5th overall with a time of 12:12! So proud of her! She's been working hard all season!

We had lunch at a fun Mexican restaurant in Marshalltown before heading home to chill. We were all tired from being out in the wind all morning! We had stayed at the meet to cheer on several of Kylee's teammates and friends.

That night we all got together at Keith and Cindy's to celebrate the October birthdays. Krue is getting so big!

Cindy had made a fun photo team scavenger hunt for us all around the neighborhood.

I'm proud to say that Kevin, Kael and I were the winners!

Biggest cousin and littlest cousin. Love this so much.

Cuties!

Somehow Kellen and Kase convinced us to let them have ice cream bars before (and maybe even instead of) dinner- ha!

It was a great night with the family. Kael stayed and hung out with us and taught the aunts and uncles how to play Among Us before taking off for a friend's sleepover.

Sunday morning we woke up to a beautiful snow! I made this little baby snowman and sent a picture to my dad. It's kind of his thing and I love it. Kent and I went for a lovely morning walk before the kids got up.

Then after breakfast we all went out to play! The first snowfall of the season is just the best.

Then the kids went sledding for a bit before heading in for cocoa. We had a lazy afternoon because sadly, Kase's last flag football game of the season got cancelled which was a bummer. Later Kael had lifting, Kylee had cross country and Kase went to his friend's birthday party at Adventureland Inn.

Kylee and Kent had run a few errands earlier in the day and stopped at Five Below- we had never been before! Kylee had so much fun picking out some new things and also picked out a Friends puzzle for me and her to do together!