HS Musical, Soccer.. fall in Ojai

We went to Magic Mountain 3 times this summer, this was my favorite activity when i was a kid.. nothing has changed, my kids love roller coasters, what makes roller coasters better, having your friends there.. we went in June for Lucs bday, I surprised myself, Reese asked me to ride the Riddler with him and I did, i loved it, I road X2, Terminator, Tatsu, a few more.. we went back 2 mos later just cause and then again in Sept for Zane's bday.. this time it was kids and dads, but they had fun without me.. Zane and Reese played Soccer together.. it was an ironic year, Lucs team the Golden Jets, kicked butt, they were undefeated, Luc scored 2 goals in the season, he was very happy. Reese's team went the whole season with out a win, but they did tie an undefeated team which felt like a victory.. The good thing about soccer in Ojai is all the games are at one location, not like in boulder where i am driving around trying to be in two places at one time.. we met so many nice parents and kids playing soccer, it's was Luc's first season and he loved it. Luc made a good buddy Cash, Reese connected with Zane and Phoenix, such nice kids..
Both of the boys were in High School Musical the play, Reese played Troy Bolton, the jock who wants to also be a singer/actor, Luc played a basketball player and a skater, they did an amazing job, Reese had several solos, the main male lead, i was so proud of him.. he also did some voice lessons and piano with a cool teacher we met at Burning man..
We got to spend lots of time with Judy, Sierra, Canyon and Chloe, we even got to adopt Chloe for a week or so and pretend that we had a dog, she is an angel.. We went rock climbing, lots of time at parks and beach in Ventura, of course we spent some time with them up in big bear too... Luc and Canyon are best buds..
We tried out a new program Grounded by Nature, a kids wilderness program, did not quite work out for Luc, these boys just don't want to do structured activities unless they are really into the activity.. the homeschool charter worked out better, they boys got to take 4 fun classes a week, tennis, art, lego engineering, wilderness survival, etc.. they had some friends there and really enjoyed it. Reese especially liked tennis..
Kaia and Noah and Lex came to La for Halloween, of course we went to Grandma Lynne's party and handed out 5 million pieces of candy to the masses of kids.. Reese was Gangster Elmo again, Luc wore his Ninja outfit that he got for Burning Man, he looked very cool. Mid November we headed to Colorado for 2 weeks to see all our friends.. Lex was off to Peru so we got to hang with Kaia and Noah for 10 days.. Of course Martha made the best Thanksgiving dinner ever..