A glimpse into what it is like to live in our home just moment.
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| photo cred: Abba |
Intentional Outdoor Hours: 729+ hours (of 1000)
Soaking up these beautiful fall days of sun and chilly breezes. The sunrises and sunsets have been out of this world (thank you October!)
Reading John Dies in the End by Jason Pargin for our book club choice! WILD. just wild, man.
Visiting the pumpkin patch on Sunday. My dad booked a private tour of Weakland Farms for the whole family and it was amazing. We had a tractor ride, got to pick pumpkins, had lunch together, and even got lost in the corn maze for awhile. The husbands and sons all had a hilarious time stuffing corn cobs and corn kernels into everyone's clothes and cars during the photo shoot the moms and daughters tried to have. Thank you Chummie for setting it all up- what a perfect fall day!
Busy week at the kids' school. Grey had a science presentation and paper due on Monday, it was Red Ribbon week (dress up every day!), and the elementary kids had their fall fest party and parade on Friday. Thank you to Kuma and Mimi who attended the fall parade and waved to the kiddos as they paraded around in their costume!
Singing non-stop "Baby Heathy, loving you, loving you" because my sweet nephew is so stinking cute I cannot even stand it.
Sending Gem and Vi to the Halloween Parade with Abba on Tuesday night. They helped throw candy from Abba's work float and had such a fun, special girls' night with Abba (thank you for having them!)
Trick or treating twice this week! On Thursday night we went in our own community with the kids' friends and my sisters' families. It was pretty chilly and Red and Olive were over it after about a half hour (ugh), but thankfully we were surrounded by friends and Kitty who helped push the stroller and carry cranky kids. We end the night each year at our friends the Huffman's house for snacks (thank you!). On Saturday we spent the evening at Mimi's house with our Garretson and Rummell cousins to walk all over Daisytown and Cover Hill for trick or treating. It was a beautiful night and such a wonderful evening with cousins #cousinsmakethebestfriends
Enjoying a Halloween themed lunch with cousins. Heather made a beautiful spread for us on Saturday morning and we spent the day laughing and chatting around the table all together. We are in three different school districts all with kids in lots of activities so it's been a while since we all had some time together. So grateful for this afternoon with good food and even better company! (thank you Heather!)
Proud of Grey for tagging his doe this weekend. He shot it on Saturda night, but it was too dark to track it. So he and Brandon went out on Sunday morning and tracked it and brought it home. He was in his stand himself (he passed his hunter safety course this past summer) and since it was Youth Rifle day, he was able to use his gun all on his own. He had a great shot and the doe had passed quickly (we can reason from the location of the shot and how far it did not run afterward). But after they had it strung up and skinned, they found one whole side of it was infected (can you believe how green it actually gets inside due to infection! It also smelled pretty badly too). So even though we don't love shooting doe, and we couldn't eat any of the meat - Grey reasoned that he probably actually did that deer a favor - a quick death versus a long, painful death due to infection.
Laughing about how we did every single BASIC fall thing ever this week! Pumpkin patch (yep!) trick or treating (yep!) football game (yep!) rake leaves and jump in them (yep!) harvest a deer (yep!) enjoy fall-themed foods with friends and co-workers (yep!)
FINISHING our family yearbook for 2021-2022. omigoshhhh, always such an accomplishment. Literally hundreds of hours of photo taking, editing, page creation, tweaking, caption writing, and finishing up all the little details. It is such a labor of love. I ordered it on a day that was already 50% off and then I had another code in my email and then free shipping and holy cow - I am happy with the final cost. It's 100 pages of nearly 1000 pictures. I know I'm an insane person, but it honestly brings me so much joy and gratitude to make it and then have it in the house for the kids to look at it and cherish this chaotically wonderful life we have.
Teaching the Alfabeto to Spanish 1 while Spanish 2 finished up El Silbon novel. Spanish 3/4 worked on vocabulary words for Somos 19. We also signed up for foods/donations for our upcoming Day of the Dead food day (next week). We had Red Ribbon Week at school too, so it was dress up days every day this week - PJ Day, Doppleganger day (I twinned with Ms. P in the math department since everyone always gets us confused anyway), Pink Out day, Orange & Black, and costume day (I was Hermonie). I organized the staff potluck meal for Friday on our Early Out; we had so many people participants that the staff lounge was filled with delicious foods and treats!
Sporting a basketball practice for Gem. Grey had two football practices and then his LAST Jr High football game of the year. Brandon and Grey went to the Varsity football game on Friday night too. Sports seasons always makes the year move by so quickly - hopping from one season to the next just zooms the year. We are getting to a little lull between fall and winter seasons which means it's time to cozy up, try to catch up on laundry, and eat dinner all together before we pick back up in full swing. Sending love to you parents of athletes out there trying to make it all work logistically for dinner, transportation, and washing those uniforms. xxo
Making Hawaiian meatballs over rice, church picnic chicken on the grill (YUM), potato soup in the crockpot, potatoes and candied kielbasa, and spaghetti. I made Swedish meatballs for our school staff potluck on Friday too. We enjoyed wing night at Jim&Jimmies on Wednesday night with a bunch of friends to celebrate the last Jr High football game for the season.
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