I cannot seem to remember to get on here on a weekly basis any more. Between family stuff, work duties, my church calling, and just life in general, I find myself not taking that many pictures and our life is kind of in a repetitive cycle of work/school, sleep, repeat. We did get to get out of the house a couple of weekends ago, though. We went to Buc-ee’s (which we kind of regretted after seeing how many school groups were there on their way to games, band competitions, etc…but we got our Halloween shirts!) and Black’s BBQ (which we decided was good, but B. Daddy’s right here close to home is just as good. Other than that, it’s been a pretty standard month. The kids are busy with school, I’m busy with school (report cards are finished and parent-teacher conferences are ALMOST done), and Paul is busy with work and LP stuff (thank goodness we’re approaching the end of election season). So here’s our month in pictures!
We have a resident squirrel. He has figured out that we keep the bird feeders stocked, and while he can’t get at the bird seed in them, he is more than happy to collect what is dropped on the ground. He also likes the acorns in our trees, I suppose. The top of the swing set makes for a nice bridge for him between trees.One of my sweet students knows I love Nightmare Before Christmas, so she made me these bracelets. Aaalll the heart eyes with this one!Here’s our cutie foraging for some seeds. I just hope he doesn’t try to get into our house when it gets colder! General Conference was at the beginning of the month. I love listening to our church leaders and I love getting the chance to bake (I don’t have a ton of time to do that any more). General Conference tradition is cinnamon rolls. I didn’t want to make a full batch, so I made half regular dinner rolls and half cinnamon rolls.Joseph saw me pouring on the icing and said it was torture having to wait for it to set and for the rolls to cool down more. Abigail doesn’t care for cinnamon rolls, but she was excited for the dinner rolls. It makes me excited for the holidays.I almost forgot that we also made a trip across town to IKEA (which we don’t do often since it’s 30 minutes without traffic…and there’s hardly ever a time when there isn’t traffic) and we got this cube unit for my classroom. Paul put it together and then we got permission to go to the school on a weekend (one perk about being in the portables is that since I don’t have to access the main building, all I need to do is clear it with admin) so that he could bring it in for me. It’s sooooooooo much better than what was there before (which was just two student desks with stuff piled on top of them and other stuff shoved underneath).The elementary school fundraiser was an obstacle course. Abigail was totally ready to go. She was literally bouncing with excitement. I was lucky in that 4th grade and 2nd grade happened to be running at the same time, so I got to see her and get a couple of pictures (2nd grade was cheering on 4th and vice versa). Don’t mind the hearts…I was covering up faces of the other kiddos. I try to do that whenever I post any pictures online that have kiddos I don’t personally know in them.In her element running (she’s at the front of all the blue hearts). She loved figuring out the different obstacles.They even glow in the dark!I realized after the fact that we didn’t get a picture with the statue out front. Abigail was super excited to get to see Buc-ee, though.Black’s BBQ. The consensus was: Abigail liked the turkey better than B Daddy’s because it was less spicy (B Daddy’s is a bit peppery all the way through while Blacks is just peppery on the outside, so with the outside cut off, it was just right for her), those that had brisket said that B Daddy’s was a bit better, we liked the mac and cheese at Black’s a little better because we could tell they use real cheese (I love you, B Daddy’s, but I don’t really care for Velveeta, even if it DOES melt better), and the potato salad was a solid tie.I love this little firecracker!
