Froemmings

We made it through another successful Halloween! Clara was able to bring her costume to preschool where they dressed up throughout the day. She told us they had to take their costumes off to eat, go outside and to the bathroom. So many cute ones in the bunch! My work gang and me. The pickle kept cracking me up. The kids were able to come trick-or-treating at the office again; always a highlight! One of my co-workers put together the zombie body part game again. The kids really seem to get a kick out of trying to figure out what each item was. I'm not sure how many years they've been doing it now, but Hope has a trunk or treat event in the parking lot of the church as well as some crafts and games inside. Clara knew her teacher (the unicorn below) was going to have a vehicle there and I knew my dad's cousin was as well as my boss's daughter who has baby-sit for us a couple of times were going to have cars there. I cracked up because the Hope...

The weekend after we got back from Disney our good friends from St. Cloud came up for a visit.  There were many four-wheeler rides, lots of food and great fun. The older girls put on a show for us. Auntie Shelly and Uncle Lester were up around our neck of the woods and were able to stay with us a couple of nights as well. Shelly made her famous chimichangas (and homemade chicken noodle soup!) by request of the girls and they did not disappoint! Then they challenged Shelly to a game of Beanboozled, but Shelly remained unfazed and thought they all tasted good. Hehe. Maybe she didn't really get any bad tasting ones after all. Game of garbage with daddy... Brynn working on homework. It was Lego Mania this past weekend. Brynn made a house for her and me to live in. I guess Clara and daddy lived in their own house. We finally got around to carving pumpkins on Saturday afternoon. After carving Dana and I go...

Having missed the Great October Snowstorm of 2019, we have returned home from our Florida vacation, as if the storm never happened. The only inkling of any wintry turmoil was the sad state of one of our bushes in the backyard. I think the heavy snow was too much for it and it split some of the branches. I had heard from a couple of my co-workers that they had the same thing happen to them with trees. Before we left Brynn was working furiously on school work to get ready to leave for our trip. I hesitate to even share this on here because I feel like a bad parent for having her stay up this late, but she was up with Dana until midnight the Monday night before we left finishing school work. Brynn had been working to stay ahead the weekend before we left, but I don't think I did enough to help her realize how much she needed to get done on the weekend. Hence things kind of came to a overloaded head come Monday. We went to her parent-teacher conferences on Tuesday which was great tim...