Update for October 12-19th

Well, it looks like fall is truly here. The leaves on our trees turned orange overnight and are starting to fall and make a mess everywhere. Worse yet, it rains just enough at night to make them wet and sticky and really hard to clean up!

Gary and the girls spent a little bit of time this last week in the search for deer. Braquel and Mikayla both drew for either sex so they shouldn't have to spend too much time looking. Braquel shot at one last week, but it was too far away and she missed. Most of the deer they have run into are on private property, but several guys from the bar said they were welcome to hunt at their places so I am expecting a couple of deers in the next few days. It will be an interesting adventure for both of them. Chelsey was really disappointed that she didn't draw since she is the only one that really wanted to hunt anyway!

Treven had his last soccer game on Saturday and they did really well. He was glad it was over (as was I since it will be getting cold soon). He learned a lot this year and I hope he will want to play again next year.

Mikayla's volleyball season is over!!!!!!! We get two weeks off and then basketball season starts. Soon after that will be softball. I'm not sure when she is ever going to find the time to take drivers ed. With Braquel leaving next summer, I'm going to need another driver! (I never in a million years thought that I would be saying that!!! LOL) It would be nice not to have to drive her to practice at 6 every morning. She would be able to take herself!

Ellie finally got the hang of sitting up by herself. She would do it before, but only if she was distracted enough to not realize she was doing it. Now she just sits there until she gets bored and then she falls over and rolls wherever she wants to go. It makes me so sad that she is growing this fast.

We took the kids to Lagoon yesterday for one last outing before winter. The weather was so perfect- about 70-75. We all wore sweatshirts (except Gary) and just about sweated to death. He was smart and just wore a tee shirt. Treven was big enough to ride all the big rides so we all got to ride together. It was so fun! Ellie stayed at Grandma Lois's house all day so we didn't have to worry about diapers and naps and stuff. We went on the white roller coaster, Collosus, Wicked, Wild Mouse, the go-carts, the bat, the spider, the samurai, the parasols, the rocket, the swings, most everything we wanted to hit except my favorite the Tidal Wave. We were all set to get on and in line for the back two seats. Braquel looked down and in the third or fourth seat forward was a massive amount of puke!!!! AAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHH....nasty. I wasn't about to get on. Even after they cleaned it up, I couldn't bring myself to get on it. Too gross..... we left Lagoon about 6 and took the kids to Red Lobster for their first time ever. They all love seafood and we had a wonderful meal. We all passed around bites of our plates so we could all try everything! Salmon, coconut shrimp, scampi, lobster, shrimp alfredo, popcorn shrimp, you name it and we tried it.....love that place. We can't afford to go there often, but we didn't get too crazy with money at Lagoon so we splurged. All in all it was a great day. Wish we had infinite money and time so we could do things like that more often!

Well, I better get back to the laundry and things. Hope you all have a wonderful week!