Dec

Fall Fullness

You just can’t have enough time to do all the fun fall things. Such an action packed few months and I just enjoyed the heck out of it. Enjoying looking back on all the photos we took too! Happy scrolling, friends!

Evie’s birthday breakfast! Yummo!
Evie chose to go to Olive Garden for her birthday. And would you look at that, it was on a Grow Group night so the gang (not pictured) got to join us!
My new assistant in the library! Pam Boyd is doing a fabulous job learning her new role! So glad she’s on my team!
Grow Group at Second Realm for a change of atmosphere. Fun!
My Hallo pie!
And because I’m just amused that I get a million photos of myself every year without ordering anything. I really need that 5×7 people.
Olan got to be baptized! We are so much praising the Lord for this little guy and this big choice.
You guys, I met one of my favorite authors. He came to MY SCHOOL. I still cannot believe I got to give Jason Reynolds a side hug. This dude – if you don’t know him, you should. He is such a genuine, generous, down-to-earth, made it big but still kicks it with hicks from the sticks kinda guy.
This was just a lot of fun.
And then that same day, I was this freaking close to the stage at the Backstreet Boys concert. If only Jason Reynolds could’ve been there.
My partner in crime at BSB.
This just made my day pretty awesome! I get to spend money on our secondary students doing cool things in the Library! Thank you GSCF!!!
Grandparents Day with the Henrys! Olan had a great time with them in kindergarten!
Grandparents Day at SES with G&G B!
Grandparents Day at Southeast of Saline! I AM SO SAD we don’t have any of Evie with Grandma and Grandpa Henry! 😦
Our third or fourth year of sno-cones with the Kochs! We went on the last possible day that Tropical Sno was open. And I was clearly excited to eat my half-price sno-cone.
Cool woman Evie.
Cool man O.
Evie got to have her friend Bristol over early this fall! They got to work on the gift that Bristol gave Evie at her birthday party. They were chattery and made some really cute little pets out of clay!
The lone football game we got to this year! Go Trojans!
Evie in her element. Building stuff.
Evie went to the Girls in Aviation event that KSU hosted! She had a blast!
Made some new friends and got to do some stuff that’s right up her alley!
We went for a SUPER nice weekend camping trip in our backyard. Someday we’ll be brave enough to REALLY rough it.
Pickin’ out a pumpkin!
Swimming at Homewood Suites! My kids were devastated about leaving this place. Magical.
Tara and her cake! And her 40 candles blazin’!
Tara’s fun birthday dinner at Yayas!
Can’t go to Wichita without Smoothie Kinging.
Can’t go to Wichita without Crumbling
And this was the moment when the pull out couch got lodged in a really inconvenient position and we had to call maintenance for help…
Went to a pumpkin patch. Didn’t take many photos. Dur.
We did a dress up of literary villains (and Scooby)! 🙂
Our Helen Society Super Spooky Special Edition food spread!
Grow Group carving night! It was a fulllll house!
Didn’t they do just awesome!?
Our BAM club met for the first quarter and watched “Ashes in the Snow,” the movie version of the book Between Shades of Gray. Ruta Sepetys is an wonderful historical fiction writer. Love all her stuff.
Halloween brekkie!
The “specials” ladies were the Sanderson Sisters! I got to be the ugly one. Lol.
Babies were a tiger, a minecraft creeper, and an astronaut!
This was just the best time. I got to take the kids trick-or-treating around the neighborhood and they just were in such a magical mood. A truly beautiful night. They were so pumped about being out sooo late and going sooo much further than we ever have before. 🙂
Loot. Glorious loot.
Olan and his kindergarten cronies on 50’s day (the 50th day of school!)
This was one of the colder Frosty Fun Runs we’ve done… brr! Kids did fantastically for how chilly it was! Very proud.
Grandpa Baldwin and Olan out on the kayak! Grandma and Evie are somewhere on the water too…
Olan made his first good new call of the day to his daddy. So excited and shy and wonderful.
Evie and Daddy, obviously without mom’s judgment, went out for lunch!
Olan learned to ride a bike without training wheels this summer! He was ready with all the gear!
Olan getting to play a modded game boy for the first time! 🙂
I just kinda like this photo. And it shows what our brick wall looked like before our fun fall project was started! See below!
Here’s the very start of our bookshelf project.
And here’s the finished product! We are totally loving it! It’s actually a lot for my eyes to get used to because it’s been so naked for soooo long. And the cute little baby hiding in our reading chair. He he.