We finally got to use our new campfire pit!
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New Campfire Pit
Category: Family
One of the requests from the family we bought our house from was to decorate well for Christmas. We did an okay job last year but with some effort not a lot of extra Christmas lights we did better this year. We’re going to need a lot more lights for next year.
Archer found a picture of this online and we reverse engineered this. 
Just adorable Atley showing off his juggling skills.
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Family Game Night
Our family has always played lots of games. Archer has been playing 8+ and 10+ age recommended games with me for at least a year. Tonight, we finally got our entire 5-person family together to play a board game together. (It’s possible that we’ve done this before, but I don’t think Atley stayed long enough to finish the game.)
We played King of Tokyo on daddy’s New board game table, and daddy just barely won just before bed time.
Atley knocked out Nana with lots of “smash” side, and then bought high altitude bombing to deal 3 damage to everyone in the game.
Then Archer rolled 5 smash dice and gave the most adorable evil laugh. We tried to recreate it lol :
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Archer’s Big Soccer Game
Archer’s Soccer team is called “Fireball Dragons” (because they couldn’t decide on one). This is Archer’s third year of Soccer.
He played a small local league in Polson when he was 4, and after we moved to Oregon, he played on the McMinnville League (which Plays 7 weeks in Spring and 7 weeks in Fall). (Ashton’s been very happy to coach him every year so far.)
Last year, Archer had been very tentative and unwilling to try to take the ball from an opponent (unless it was Dad or Atley =)). At the end of last year, he started to be less hesitant, but this year, he’s all tenacious ferocity.
The ball even hit him in the face and he still got the ball back and took a strong shot.
And even with Coach’s best efforts to focus on passing to each other and getting open, Archer scored 9 goals today. Anna caught 3 of them.
Coach is very happy to see him and his team improving so much. We’ve had wonderful weather and a great group of kids and parents.