Playing Games and Pumpkins

The week went by so fast. I don't know where all the time goes. I do know that it has all been good times.

We had the younger girls for Girl Scouts this week. They finished painting some masks made from milk jugs. My great co-leader, Joan, does a great job bringing things for the girls to do! I’m so thankful for her.

Here’s our girls at bedtime…so cute! I don’t remember why I took these pictures, but aren’t they sweet?

On Thursday we got to attend a Girl Scout Skate Night. It was meant to recruit new girls and adults, but mostly it is fun for the girls to skate.

 

On Saturday Great Grampa Lohman and his girlfriend, Mildred, came over for lunch and to play games. We played Apples to Apples, and then Fast Track, which is a fun variation of Aggravation only with cards. We had a very nice time.

 

 

 

 

Despite the weather warnings, it held out for a pretty good weekend. We even made it out to the pumpkins without it being muddy. I even got the trailer almost winterized.

 

 

On Sunday, the girls got right to cleaning and carving their pumpkins after church. I enjoyed a nice Sunday nap and Mike watched the (successful) game of the Seahawks Vs the Cardinals!

This week will hold some Halloween celebrations and a bunch of extra time off school. The girls have teacher conferences, so two half days and all day Friday off. Maybe I should think of something fun to do.

~ Love to you all!

Last Camping Weekend

The sun was out for a very nice weekend, so we went up the mountain for one last camping hurrah. Debbie and George stopped by with their friends and then some friends from Mike’s work joined us for awhile.

 

The kids played and tried fishing.

It was so chilly…and then the sun went down! We had to turn the heat on right away.

We played games and had a great family time.

(Kelby looks grumpy here, but she’s not…just caught her making a weird face.)

 

Anika is able to play a lot of games now that she’s never been able to before. On Friday night we played Apples to Apples and she one both times!

We brought a ton of blankets, so really it was pretty cozy sleeping even though it got close to freezing. In the morning our battery was almost drained from running the heat blower, but Mike worked hard to build us a fire.

We packed up camp pretty early so we could warm up at home. It was nice to get one more trip in. I sure love having that tent trailer. It brings me great joy!

…now to winterize it…

A Chill is in the Air

So, things have been great here.The leaves are all changing and the weather is cooler, but the sun is still shining for the most part.

Last weekend I got to get away up to the “Mountain Top Crop”. That’s my scrapbook vacation! My friend Julia came too and we had a great time and even got some scrapbooking done. I wish I had gotten more done, but I got a good start.It is almost all the scrapbooking I do these days. They were having a 70’s costume contest, so I dressed up like Wonder Woman to be a little crazy. I didn’t win though…Sonny and Cher did!

 

Mike and the girls had a great time without me. They went to the Festival of Family Farms with Gramma and Grampa Wright. Then, as a surprise, Mike took them down to Seattle to watch the “Guardians of Ga’hoole” in 3D at the Pacific Science Center’s IMAX theater. The kids thought they were going down to get some “papers”…but the papers ended up being their tickets to the movie.

Last week’s Girl Scout meeting was my younger girls. We worked on friendship stuff. This week my big Girl Scouts worked on planning a Halloween party for the small girls. Girl Scouts sure keeps me busy, but I’m getting better at it this year. The girls still like me being their leader at least.

Here is the day the girls got their silly bands from their aunty Andrea! They were so excited. She’s even sending them costumes for Halloween that she happened to have lying around. I’m so excited that I don’t have to make too many costumes this year.

On Friday night we had a sleepover party with one friend over for each girl. We watched a movie and they girls did really great with their friends. Everyone slept in their own rooms. We figured we might as well get it over with and do everyone’s sleepover at once!

 

Anika got to go to a birthday party for our neighbor girl at the Fire Department last weekend. She even got to ride on the truck and spray water from it!

 

We were invited to our new pastor’s house for dinner after church on Sunday. It was so nice. It was a full Sunday dinner of Lasagna. They had their daughter and her family there, Pastor’s mom, and a neighbor. We really enjoyed the time and really appreciated the invitation. 

We wanted to go camping last weekend, but it rained, so now we are planning to go this coming weekend for one last hurrah. We’ll see how it goes.

Kelby’s doing really well in school so far. She’s got A’s on her mid-terms and did 100% on her playing test for band. And FYI, the book that I stood up against was restricted and won’t be used except with parent permission and then only for grades 11 &12 advanced placement English classes. I am very pleased! I guess the district will listen to concerned parents. That is a major relief.

Mike and I have been working on a website for our new church. It is going to be pretty nice. I’m excited. Plus, I’ve handed it to Michael and he is doing a lot of work on it, so I’m able to relax about it.

I hope everyone is enjoying their fall. Love you all!