Evan wanted to make caramels for his teacher for his birthday, we also took some to people that donated to Alex's robotics team. Eliza helped us with wrapping them up for delivery.
Eliza won one of the Summer Reading prizes from the library. She got all these book sets.
Oma took all of us to the Yankee Air Museum near Ypsi to show us Dave's parents memorial that is set up there and also to tour the place.
One thing I wish was that we knew more about planes, but it was interesting just the same. They had the front of a refueling plan that you could turn all the switches and dials. Evan spent a long time in that thing.
Third times the charm, my MOPS group finally escaped a Escape room. So proud of us.
Evan sold mums to help with the cost of his 5th grade camp. He sold 42 mums and raised himself $140 towards camp. He used Alex's old radio flyer wagon to deliver them to the neighbor's houses.
Turns out transporting mums takes a lot of room. Mike and I had to make 2 1/2 trips (two with my car and one with his) to get all of them home from the school.
Evan had more fun this month with his telescope. His class is studying the moon phases so we went out a few times to take pictures.
Saturn
One last swim for the season at the Douglass's. Can't believe the kids were in the water on Oct. 5th!
Burrrrrr!!
I tried my hand a moon pies. Learned a few things: You need a stiff marshmallow fluff or it will ooze out of the cookies unless you keep them cool, and they are much better after sitting a week in the fridge. The chocolate mellows a bit and it all goes together a bit better.
I had a pretty good pepper harvest this year. This is about half or less of the peppers I've cut up and put into quart bags in the freezer for the winter.
The library book sale strikes again. All these books for ~$40. We love our books!
Eliza and Evan were invited to their friends birthday party at a Zap Zone. There was way more to do there than I thought there would be.
Alex decided to drag us all to the High School band concert. Alex went for extra credit and to dance to "The Time Warp" in front of everyone. It was fun and the Jazz band was really good.
I ordered seed garlic, turned out not to be that great. I planted it anyway, but we will see what comes up in the spring.
My garlic bed for the winter. The left has the seed garlic I ordered, under the harvesting basket is my seed garlic I had from harvesting this year.
Alex's concert playing trombone in the Symphony band (he's in the highest band in the Middle School). He did a great job.
Aunt Jamie and Uncle Dave came to see him play.
I tried making English Muffins, and did pretty well. Everyone liked them and Mike can't wait for me to make more. Fresh are way better than store bought.
Eliza's bus got home at 4:50pm on the day of her trunk or treat, she was late because of a sub. So we all jumped in the car and headed the 20 min north to her school with our dinners packed to eat in the car (which we never do). Most of the parking at her school is a free for all on the grass, and with the van I can't jump curbs so we try very hard to be very early to get a spot.
All ready to get some treats.
After everyone got treats they took off their costumes and went to play on the playground. Eliza loves sliding down a hill on her playground. It makes her hair stick straight up from the static.
We were called in to help at the church to spread 10 yards of wood chips.
With a crew from the church we were able to get it down in 45 min.
Flu shots for the kids. They are showing off their muscles.
I've been going through my Grandma Manny's picture books and I found some pictures of me and I felt like I had seen them before. Turns out I cloned myself to make Alex. (I'm the lower two pictures, Alex is the upper two pictures).
Turns out they do have microwaves at the Bavarian Inn. Who knew?!
We signed up to go to the new water park in June, so gosh darn it, shut down or no we still went. The kids had a BLAST! They went up that tower of stairs for 2 1/2 days and they slept like rocks. They thankfully opened the wave pool the last day we were there, but the water was really cold. I was too chicken even to try the most simple of water slides, but Mike and the kids took full advantage.
We were able to hang out with some of our favorite people while we were there. We even got to go to dinner with them as well. Thank you again Laura.
Evan figuring out his coding for Lego League.
Alex's Robotics team
More moon pictures for Evan's class.
Zoomed in on the craters.
Evan with his telescope
Oreo spiders I made for Evan's class. Use Double Stuffed if you make them they will work better. Also, I had to make my own eyes because the candy eyes have red 40 in them.
We helped with Evan's Halloween party this year. Mr. Malisow knows how to throw a party. The kids decorated the whole classroom and it looked amazing. He also made brain cakes for the kids and left the red frosting off Evans, and made "blood bags" with sprite and juice and even went out to get Evan a vitamin water so he could have some too without red dye.
I helped make caramel apples with another adult while Mike helped with one of the game stations.
We got to see Eliza's costume parade at school and join her for her party as well.
The trick-or-treating crowd this year. We got Enoria, Clayton, James, Clara, and Aunt Shawn to join on for Trick-or-Treating this year. Mike dressed up as Beetlejuice. Eliza was her normal unicorn rainbow princess, Evan was Death again, and Alex was Charlie Brown in the Great Pumpkin.
Alex found a fellow Charlie Brown fan our neighbor Mike.
The kids did pretty well on Halloween candy this year. They were able to mostly fill their 2 gallon zip lock bags.
