The big day finally arrived! The kids were so excited and so ready! All three of them had all their parts memorized. We knew the songs including Noah and Erika's special verse of Let Us All Press On! It was a fun meeting. I thought the kids all did really well. It's cool when it all finally comes together and works out! I made another video for the kids to watch in Sharing Time. I think they liked it enough. 10-28-18
HALLOWEEN PICTURE SCAVENGER HUNT
Monday was a day off from school so we spent the morning getting the house cleaned up (shouldn't have taken all morning, but it did), then got ready to go to our movie. Unfortunately, there were not any movies during the day since it wasn't a normal holiday/day off from school! We were so bummed! Luckily, Kelly thought up a really fun idea to do a picture scavenger hunt. Kinda like the one we did with all our friends last year at the Clemens's party. So we divided into three groups- took some convincing of some of the kids that they wanted to participate, but it ended up being a LOT of fun!! Charity, Luke and Erika were on a team. Kelly, Molly and Noah were on a team. And Bradley, Jack and I were the other one. We cheated and used the car :). Mostly because of how sore my legs still were, but also just to be silly. We had a lot of fun looking around for Halloween things and racing the clock to get pictures of everything on the list. We got back just in time and were the last ones back. Charity's team won. It was really cool- I'd love to do this again as a family. Even Molly was fun and had a good time running all over the neighborhood. Here are some of my teams pictures.
We had to go get some ice cream to celebrate the win :). We got it at Sam's Club where we got Brad's costume.
SPIDER AND FLY CAFE
We had the FUNNEST time at the family dinner! Nancy went all out on decorations, cute idea, and food! I was so impressed! Crazy Halloween-themed foods and crazy utensils- it was a lot of fun! I sat by Molly and Jack and Luke and LOVED their reactions to everything! It was so funny to see Molly's face when she realized there was a fly on her cup and spider on her plate :). She did like the olive spider and the donut spider legs as well. I loved Luke's reaction to the blood and bones cheesecake. And I am hoping I can recreate the yummy "keto-friendly" entre one of these days- SO GOOD! It was a lot of fun to see everyone in their costumes and spend time together as well! Nate was having such a good time, he accidentally ate a whole plate of pasta :). Good times. 10-29-18
REFLECTIONS JUDGING
I helped Natalie with judging today. We provided the lunch for the judges. Molly and I went over to the school and she watched movies on my phone while I judged Fine Arts 2D entries and Photography. I don't know why, but I kind of liked it :). My mom came as well and helped with the music and literature entries. Lots of fun. 10-30-18
THE NEXT DAY
I seriously sat around all day Thursday. It was my rest day after the craziness the day before. I think I did some laundry, but that was it! Molly and I vegged! We did get up and go take Charity to her Laurel lunch and then went to lunch with Uncle Steve, but that was it! And we had a blast with Uncle Steve at Carl's Jr. I wish we could have had more time with him, but it was nice to see him again! Feels like it's been forever! Molly and I enjoyed the day. 11-1-18
BIRTHDAY TABLES WITH ERIKA
Erika chose Wendy's this time! We were thrilled with the easiness of that idea :). And we were on time for once! We had fun sitting there with her and talking about her day. It's so interesting how much of a kids' mind is spent thinking about where they sit and who they sit by- that is one of the few things I hear about that goes on in my kids' classrooms. Seating charts. It really is a big deal! And when I think about it- of course it is! I'm glad she is happy with where she sits though :). She seemed to have a nice time and even missed some of recess to be with us. I thought that was nice of her :). 11-2-18
JACK'S FIRST BASKETBALL GAME
This was so adorable!! I mean, I know I shouldn't say that about a boy's basketball game, but seriously! Jack was SO CUTE!! He really hasn't paid enough attention to his brothers playing or maybe just wasn't feeling super assertive, but he was seriously the cutest thing! The whole game! And he was trying! He had the ball a few times and even took a shot at the basket! He was just not really sure what to be doing the rest of the time. But SO CUTE!! He told me tonight that he thinks maybe they need to have a practice :). Which, I do have to say, it's REALLY STUPID that they don't have practices for this age group. Just 20 minutes before their game. Seems a little ridiculous to me. I get it, they don't have enough gyms to work with, but still. Lame. But Jack decided he is going to ask dad and his brothers to help him out a little this week. He really did great though! Especially for his first time on the court! It was so fun for his proud mom! Nate seemed like he was having fun coaching, got really excited for the kids who made the points. He is so good to do that! It doesn't look easy. 11-3-18
PICTURES
Kelly and I went through the boxes of pictures in my closet tonight! She organized them all by who is in the picture! I got rid of a bunch of things we don't need to hang onto. Doesn't look like we did much, now that it's all cleaned up and reorganized, but it's a good three hours' worth of work, so I hope it was worth it :).
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