Fun filled day

Day off of school, what fun! We were invited to the Kohn's where the kids carved pumpkins, painted a wooden candy corn (which Amy made by the way) and went on a super fun 4wheeler ride. The mom's relaxed while the dad's had control of the kids! How nice was that? After that Simon and I went on a photo shoot for a friend. Did I mention the weather???? HOW beautiful was today??

Boy scout cake auction

We had a pack meeting tonight. A fundraiser. We were to bake a cake and bring it in for auction. I was feeling pretty confident with my cake until I walked into the gym and saw all the other cakes! Wow, some families really went all out. So....then the boys get to bid on their favorite cakes, some cakes sold for alittle money, some sold for alot. $52 was the highest I think.Simon had to have our cake, so continued to bid on it until he won. We ended up paying $17 for our own cake!! It was all fun.

Tonight I had parent/teacher conference with Mrs OH. It went well. Simon is doing good, struggling alittle with reading and writing, but overall she is happy with his work. Me too.

What a week!!

I know, I know. It has been a week since the last post. I try, but am not always able to do it daily. This has been a crazy week.

Simon woke up on Monday morning with a "sore cheek" I knew what that meant. Infected salivary gland again. I called the dr for antibiotics, she suggested seeing an ENT. So, he went to school, swollen cheek and all. We saw the ENT on Wed. He has recurrent Paratosis. Occurs in kids between the ages of 5-10. Nothing serious, just annoying.

On Thursday he slammed his pinkie finger in the car door. Not pretty, lots of tears, lots of blood. He is fine now, but it was scary.

Friday night was our BIG harvest party with the 21 kids. They had a blast with in the dark scavenger hunts, pin the nose on the scarecrow, stories by the bon fire and just running around the yard in the dark with the flash lights. God was so good to us, the weather cleared up for the party and when it was all done, the rain started again. What a blessing. I can not believe I did not take 1 photo at the party, too busy with crowd control. They were all really good and had a great time. Here is a photo from about a month ago at a fall function

Today, Saturday, I did some photos for Laurie's kids, adorable. Then off to the Mineshaft for lunch and games. We spent the afternoon with the Bushman's and had LOTS of fun!! They are such good friends. I am exhausted, Randy is up north, so off to bed early for me.

Prize winning pumpkin

Tiger Cubs on a hike.

Prize winning Pumpkin....the I love my Mummy.

Last week Michael's (the craft store) had a pumpkin decorating event. Today was the judging for the contest. We brought our pumpkin in and were to pick it up at 5pm. Went we went to get the pumpkin, it was gone. Simon thought maybe his was so bad they threw it away, on the contrary.....he WON!! They had it in the back room and were trying to call us to tell him the good news. He won a $10 gift card to Michaels and immediately spent it on an alien making kit. He was soooo excited.

Yesterday Randy and I celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary. And they said it wouldn't last! We had dinner at Johnny Manhattan's.

Today was also the last day of soccer (next up,basketball in January) and a Tiger Cub meeting.

We went on a nature hike and collected leaves. It was fun.

Do pumpkins float?

The question of the day....do pumpkins float? Well, Simon found out at school and I did not

believe him, so he proved it. Pumpkins DO float. Very interesting. Always the scientist. We then met up with Nathaniel, our good buddy who has now lost his 2 front teeth!! Cute.

The week goes so fast

Well, I was told by my mom today that "no new blogs" what's up? SO....here we go. The week just seems to fly by. With working at church now and school not much goes on during the week.Simon has been battling a cold all week. On Friday we played Apple Smash with the Kohn boys.We went and picked up a bunch of rotten apples from a friend from church and then we pitched the balls to the guys who hit as hard as they could and...apple smash. Lots of apples for the deer to nibble on. On Saturday, Simon signed up for a science class thru the rec department. They made slime, cotton candy and some other experiments with chemicals. He loved it. Then he went to frog pond with the boys while I did some photos. Today is Sunday, he spent the day with Rene and Vanesa and I spent the day trying to get our new HDTV set up!!! I am not very good at that, so the service man will be coming tomorrow. : ) This is very exciting. Good sports weekend, Packers and Jets won, beautiful weather weekend, this is why I love fall. The week ahead will be exciting, Simon is special kid of the week and I am trying to get rid of the 100 japanesee beetles that have invaded my house. : (

A day loaded with fun

What a day we had. It started with the soccer game at 9am. Grandma and Grandpa came to watch, which is always a plus. After the game, we went to the Gtown Fire Dept, fire safety day. They had tons of fun things for the kids, free! We did the same thing last night in Richfield. After that he wanted to swim so off to the pool we went. He wanted to swin in the deep section so the lifeguard said he had to take a swimming test. He had to swim the length of the pool AND back in the 6ft side. He did it!! I was very proud of him, so he got to do cannonballs in the deep part, very thrilling. After that, off to the apple orchard for some fresh apples. That is always good fun. Mom was exhausted so we came home, he of course did not stop. As I made dinner, he helped Randy haul wood, he raked leaves into a pile and carved a pumpkin so we could make seeds. I have no idea where he gets this endless engery.

From God

A friend from MOPS and I have been trying to get the "perfect" new photo of her daughter. Something she saw on an email. A baby with a sign "From God" on it. How did we do? It's been fun working with her and her adorable kids.