The Snow Angels

Dry Run.

Contact! Now what!?

Eyes squeezed shut...."I can do this...I can do this..."

You must be joking. Nuh-uh. My SHOES are dirty!

Calisthenics

What do you after you feed the children donuts, 25 minutes before bed time?

Stretches.

Side lunges.

Laps.

Morning Story Time

The Rest of Saturday

We had such a nice Saturday together!

Wonder Daddy planted the 200+ bulbs we salvaged from the yard before the Earth Movers came.

The girls painted their pumpkins (and my squash from the grocery store)

Wonder Daddy pushed the girls all over the neighborhood to the other 10 families from the ward, for Trick-or-Treating. We booked it over to Aunt LoLo's ward party, but got there just in time to watch them put everything away in all the classrooms. The girls were bummed (probably because they were coming off a super sugar high, and the holidays are such an EXCITING time) but one of Aunt LoLo's friends was very kind and retrieved his candy bowl from the car for the kids to trick-or-treat from.

Halloween Day Proper was a quiet day- I made orange colored pancakes for breakfast and threw together a batch of bread and an apple pie, Ernie got to give the scripture in primary (Moroni 10:32), I taught Young Women's for the first time, we dropped a loaf of bread off at Grandma and Grandpa's house after church and chatted for a while, and had dinner (and apple pie) with the new YW president's family. A very nice day!

Pumpkin Patching

Better late than never, we made it to the pumpkin patch the morning of October 30th. We found this patch last year after Wonder Daddy rode by on a bike ride- I think it's where my family bought their Christmas trees after I moved out and they started getting fancy. (Because when you don't have five kids at home, you can spend time doing fancier things, instead of just trying to get it all done!) The girls had fun picking out their Perfect Pumpkins, and Ernie got a pleasant surprise at the end. She remembered that last year there was a bouncy house, so she brought her little purse to buy herself a ticket, but the fellow at the counter let the kids in for free since it was wet inside, and we were the only ones around.

Froma picture standpoint, I kind of wish we'd been able to make it out 2 or 3 weeks ago when we were having such amazing weather, but as I tell Ernie: If wishes were fishes.....we'd all be pescatarians. And no, I don't know what that means, either.