String Art Kit

Abby has been asking me to do a craft project with her, and for nostalgia's stake, we purchased a string art kit (I loved to do string art at her age).  It was still pretty fun:

Fall Ball

After hearing that several friends were playing, Benji wanted to take another shot at team baseball. Here he is at his first practice:

Benji and Hayes

New Blue Henries

He was very excited. Here he is cuddling them while he polishes off the last Harry Potter book:

Shabbat in the Park

Birthday Poster

Forgot to post a picture of this earlier -- Abby and her 12th birthday poster from Pop-pop:

Pokemon Go

Benji has been newly interested in this game, and we have let him play it on the phone in limited context. The temple had a group outing to catch pokemon, which he greatly enjoyed:

Solly, Benji and Alex

The very next day, he hooked up with Graham Dugas and William Lawson to play some Pokemon at the law school new student picnic:

Birthday Quilt

For her birthday present, Abby and I collected up her old t-shirts that she had been holding on to for sentimental reasons and sent them off to Project Repat to create a quilt out of them. She was so anxious to have them back and loved the result when it finally arrived: