October!

October. 

OH, OCTOBER!  I love you.  You are the perfect month for me and I am so sad you left. 

Here is a break down of some highlights of the most wonderful time of the year ;)

The month started out with a trip to the cabin for Fall Break...Winter Break...NO, it was Fall Break... I just got a little confused because we were welcomed with about 6 inches of snow...hello?

We still had a good time...by the fire...heehee!  We stopped and ate at Maddox on the way down and my children are convinced they will never be able to drink another kind of Rootbeer again...so good.  We did the usual...swimming...pizza....we carved a pumpkin because afterall, we were on Fall Break!

Some people's children???  The little guy does do a sick robot...yeah?

Alec has been busy learning to play the trumpet....he likes it.

 Alec had the opportunity to learn some science from one of Micron's top engineers.

 Carter and I came, too.

 Alec was just a little bit proud of his Dad.....

Since the start of school, this is how we find Emily....her nose in a book.  She walks home from the bus reading, she reads on her way to ballet, she reads when she is eating breakfast......she's been hooked on American Girl Doll Books, The Doll People Books and Judy Moody.  She LOVES her teacher this year and is having a really good year, so far.

 A funny story:

After church, Emily's Primary Teacher came up to me and said she had to tell me what Emily did in class today.  Oh boy, do I want to hear?  They were acting out situations in which the children had to practice choosing the right.  It was Emily's turn and her teacher asked her to pretend to take some cigarettes out of her pocket and offer them to her friend. 

Emily said, "I don't think I need to be acting these types of things out".

Well, then.

She would only participate if she could be the person choosing the right.  Oh, my!

Then we come to Carter.  How about some Cheese Nips for breaksfast?  I love this boy.

Carter is currently doing a residency with one of the best Early Childhood Educators around....ME :)

People ask me what preschool he's in and I have to answer....he isn't going to preschool.  I am being selfish and keeping him all. to. myself!!!

He won't stop cutting!  He did a whole book of cutting projects in a day....I just let him keep going.  We've checked cutting off our list....he's got that one down.

 

 We've enjoyed going to story time at the Library.  I signed him up for a "Stories Come Alive" class....they read a book and do projects that go along with the story.....it has been super!  We go to a class at Zoo Boise, too.  I'm enjoying my little guy and those moments that I know are going to be gone only too soon.

His new line is, "Mom, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

I have to giggle...because I'm never thinking the same thing he is thinking...HA!

As for me, I like to pretend to be Martha.  Isn't this a cute idea?  I thought so.  If you know me you know I love to feed the birds and watch them out my kitchen window...I thought this was great for fall and the little birdies have loved it, too.

October Goodness!

I have been folding Origami Yoda's.  Yes...you read that right.  Weird?  Maybe so.. but Alec and I have spent some quality time folding those things.  Alec and his friends from school are into these books. Guess what I get to learn to fold next?  Yup... the guy who breaths heavy in the black helmet.  Help me!

 Loving our walks and bike rides to the river. 

 Fall is my most favorite time to go down there...it smells sooooo good and the water isn't rushing past so fast...the river feels like I feel....more calm in the fall. 

Have I ever mentioned I LOVE living so close to the river?
I love it.

Then the grand finale....HALLOWEEN!

I can't help it....I love Halloween!

We carved pumpkins, went to parties, had a fun dinner, dressed in fun costumes and collected just the right amount of candy...everything that a good Halloween demands. 

A brave Lion

"Monkey Business"

This Monkey Means Business....

A Paper Doll

October.  OH, OCTOBER!  I love you. 

You are the perfect month for me and I look forward to seeing you again.