October 2018

A few highlights from October.  We have our calendar on the fridge.  Every week we write down what is happening every day.  Abby was sad one day when Darren took Ella out on a hike/walk for a daddy daughter date. So Abby marched in side and wrote down on Monday that she got a dad-de-dor- dat.  She got one!  Fries at Wendys dipped in a Frosty.  

Abby is with me a lot so there are always a lot of pictures of her.  Hanging out with Darren and I at the Garden store.  Darren is back in the trees.  Yard work... with Ella, Ella helped her look like a garden fairy. 

Tyler has a great piano teacher, Lindsay Lee Pope.  6:30 AM lessons every Monday morning.  Ella got to go to Biz town and work at the bank.  Pretty cool field trip for fifth graders.  

Abby made a play with her friend Ava.  We had just watched a play called Wait Until Dark at the Hale Center Theater... so this was a murder mystery.  I didn't love it since a dog got killed by someone.  But Abby colored several knives red with  a marker for blood!

Ella had a pre tumbling competition.  She is dressed up as a baby on the left side of the picture.  She got to skip a level in double mini which was fun.  Ella is a creative kid.  She decorated our house for Halloween and helps Abby with dressing up.  She got Grandma Balls old phone and does some cute stuff with it.  Ella hiding in her laundry basket.  Shes super strong and super small.  No fat on that girl.  Ella had a great lesson in Primary.  She loved it so much she came home and gave it to us for FHE.  She even made Abby a costume that she "sewed" so Abby would look like Elijah.  The girls took care of their own costumes this year.  I am not good at stuff like that.  They did their costume and make up.  I helped a bit with the hair.

Tyler has some good friends.  They raked and raked then jumped in piles of leaves.  Abby lost her first offical tooth.  We dont count the one when she fell down the stairs when she was one.  

Halloween is fun.  Especially when I dont have to do much.  I am not good at all that cute creative stuff.  But I have two girls who do it great!  Trick or treating with Aunt Linda.  Then Tyler took off with friends and got a haul of candy. His friends dressed up as colors.  He was gray.   We headed out with friends and Grandpa Harston to check out the neighborhood.  It was a great night.