Froemmings

Last Friday was the fall festival at Clara's school which included trunk or treat outside, bingo, pizza and popcorn and inflatable bouncy houses inside.  Brynn and Hubert came for a while before heading over to their friend's for their own Halloween party. Clara and I had signed up for a popcorn shift, but ended up working two shifts since our replacements never showed. It was a good turnout and fun to see all the costumes and kids Clara knows. We were able to snag a whole pizza to bring home as they had extras. So, we settled in for "Teen Wolf" and some cheese pizza when we got home. Brynn shared some pics with me from their party.  Clara Jo hosted the party at her house and it sounded from Brynn like they had a lot of yummy goodies over there. I was texting with her mom the next day and she sent me this pic of one of the treats...which was edible Eddie. Ha! So fun. On Saturday Clara was on to more festivities. She made up some ghost cookie treats to take over to a H

The girls were off of school this week on Thursday and Friday and out early on Wednesday for teacher's convention. I had taken Thursday and Friday off of work to meet up with Tessa and Elise at Fort Ransom State Park. We were set to spend the night in one of the houses on site and then do a hike the following day before heading back home. The house was very old and completely overridden with box elders and lady bugs. I think old houses are neat, so that part was cool to me; the bugs not so much, however. Tessa made a fun 'would you rather' game: Halloween edition, so we played that and snacked on energy bites in between collecting bugs in a soapy jar of water. I had to send my mom a pic of me snuggled into my 30-year-old sleeping bag that we bought for me for some camping trip when I was younger. It's still going strong!  We slept in and chatted for a while in the morning before heading out It was such a beautiful day out; we really lucked out with the weather. We went