Very serious decorating going on.

It says:

Caution: Work going on. Please don't come in the

hallway, making decorations.

Small Group Date Night

Small Group Date Night has started up again, and we love it!

We went out for drinks & appetizers and started planning our vacation for December.

Soccer

One more early release adventure

Since neither kid was going to the pumpkin patch with school this year, and we couldn't make the church one, I decided to take the kids to the Pumpkin Patch on Thursday of Parent/Teacher conference week.

We were actually able to get several families to join us and we had a great time.

We went to the Farm at Swan's Trail, which is where ALL THE SCHOOLS go for fieldtrips.  But, they're done with fieldtrips by 2pm, so we pretty much had the place to ourselves for the afternoon.

The kids had a blast in the corn pits, went down the slide, watched the pig show, saw the duck races, and picked out pumpkins.  AND, we got out of there for just over $20 (including 4 pumpkins) which is a whole lot cheaper than any other pumpkin patch we've been to.

When we got home, the kids were worried that the squirrels would eat our pumpkins, so now we have this lovely display in our front yard:

I think we wore them out.

Cecily Kruger, Civil Engineer

Cecily worked on a new site plan for Keith:

Notice she included cold water, hot water, and at the bottom: "These pipes are underground and are dirty"

Daddy is exceptionally proud.

Trip to the Tiny Zoo

We took a trip to Swanson's to do the hay maze.  It's not as exciting as Christmas when they have the reindeer and train set, but the kids still had fun.

Zoo trip

It's Parent/Teacher conferences this week, so we have half-days all week.  We decided to take a trip to the zoo.  It turned out to be a great day, the weather was overcast and we went in the afternoon, so it wasn't crowded and the animals were super active.

They're giving the sloth a hug.

It felt like half the people we saw there were from Highland Terrace.  We ran into one of Cecily's friends and spent the rest of the afternoon wandering around with them.