Fall Fun

Another week has zipped right by. Weds. morning I went with Maisie's preschool class on their first field trip. They went to a local screen printing place to watch their class shirts printed. I left from there and took Sadie to Kindermusik. That afternoon during snack time, Sadie started a slight fever and was sluggish. When she slows down, I know something is wrong. Of course it was church night. Brandon opted to stay home with Sadie so I could do Awana games. It was hard for me to leave Sadie knowing she wasn't feeling well. It doesn't help when she gives me her puppy dog face. She did fine all evening and spent most of the time snuggling with Brandon. It was probably good for both of them to rest. Game time went well. My favorite part was when a sweet 1st grade girls said to me, "Hey, I thought the tall guy was going to be here this week!" With that she had her hand raised as high as possible. Nice to know Brandon was missed. :)

There was no school Thursday and Friday. It felt great to sleep in until 7:40. However, it was one of those mornings where it seemed that there was always one daughter who was grumpy. I made them pancakes...complaints; I let them take a bath...arguing...not fun for this mama!

I finally loaded them up in the van, and we went to the library and a grocery store. They were much better after that. Thursday after dinner I took Analise to the high school volleyball game. I hadn't been to one in a couple of years, and I wanted Analise to experience this, too. It was a fun night! I sat with church people and enjoyed visiting while watching. Analise had fun too, and I hate to admit, but she liked watching the cheerleaders better. Yikes!

Friday morning our college gal came over so Sadie could have a follow up doc appt. about her cheek. We were in and out; it looks great! We were gone 20 minutes at the most. If only all doc appts. could go so fast! T stayed for a bit and chatted. She is such a sweet gal! I can't believe it's been 10 years since I was in college. After T left, I told the girls I was taking them somewhere, and it was a surprise. They were excited, and Analise tried to guess anything possible. I took them to the apple orchard. The day was perfect!

We were allowed to pick the gala apples. I let them pick about 25 since we really didn't need the apples; it was all about the experience and time together. It was enjoyable! The lady working didn't even charge us for the apples! We went home for a short bit, and I called Brandon and asked him if he wanted to have a picnic at the park for lunch. He was more than willing to join us. He even told me he was going to surprise me and take the afternoon off so we could go to the apple orchard together. Ooops. He ended up coming home at 2:30 anyway.

Friday afternoon Brandon washed both vehicles, and the girls and I helped some. I also made a fall tradition meal....pizza dip in a pumpkin. Yeah! Brandon's dad, and bro and fam joined us. We had lots of fun! The kids played outside and also played Wii Dance. It's a riot watching them!

Saturday morning we headed to the lake. Before boating, however, we took a family hike. I know my cousin does this a lot with her family, and I always think it sounds fun. We are at the early ages to start this, but overall it went well. We walked almost two miles in one hour. Maisie probably complained the most; she kept telling me she wanted to go back to the truck. One time she said, "Mommy, I want to go back. My button (bottom) needs to sit down." Cracked me up. Sadie was a trooper. She walked quite a bit but would take breaks and rode on our shoulders. She was my "stop and smell the roses" daughter.

After the hike we ate lunch at the cabin, and then Brandon, Analise and his dad left to go boating. Shortly after they left, rest of the family showed up. It turned out to be a bummer of a boating day. On the way to the dock, Analise's new life jacket flew out and is still lost. So sad. And then when they put it inthe boat, it acted funny so they didn't even feel comfortable taking it out. So the boating day turned into a fish from the rocks day. I stayed back at the cabin with Maisie and Sadie. I was glad S and B were there too!