Black Friday

Alstan and Elsie volunteered to bell ring through their 4-H group this year. It was a little cold and damp, but otherwise not too bad.

Thanksgiving Day

After lunch they went it together to watch the Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Time for dessert.

Setting up our Tree

Due to the short holiday season this year and the predicted crummy weather next weekend, we decided to put up our tree early. The kids are getting old enough that they do almost all the decorating by themselves now.

Dinner Train

Grandma and Grandpa Zielicke celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary this weekend! To help celebrate, the whole family met in Trego to ride the Wisconsin Great Northern Railway. We had dinner on the train, while it drove out on an hour long loop. I think both the kids really enjoyed riding the train and dinner, but their real highlight may have been playing with their cousins.

4-H Leaders

At the last 4-H meeting Alstan and Elsie were voted into leadership roles. Alstan was elected as the Historian and Elsie as a co-sunshine member.

Trick-r-treating

It looked more like Christmas than Halloween. We were glad the kids’ costumes were able to be layered, and we still didn’t stay out long.

Happy Halloween!

2019 Pumpkin Carving

Yes, we’re a little late with our carving this year. It was definitely too cold outside, so our kitchen table had to do.

Halloween Celebration

Carrie and Garret invited us up for some Halloween fun this past Saturday. Since we haven’t had a chance to get our pumpkins yet, we stopped at a nearby farm with a pumpkin patch and family activities on Sunday. Although it rained heavily the night before, it ended up being a beautiful fall day!

Alstan’s Choir Concert

Alstan had his first choir concert last night. He was pretty nervous ahead of time, but did a great job. It just so happened that the high school gym had a scheduling conflict, so the concert was moved to the Mineral Point Opera House!

Elsie’s First Wheel Thrown Pot

First Volleyball Game

Elsie decided to try volleyball this fall. It was mostly just practices to teach them the game, but on Tuesday they played a twenty minute game between the high school games. Elsie says she definitely wants to out again next year!

Haircuts

Elsie has been growing her hair out for some time now to be able to donate it to Wigs for Kids. Today was the big day!

Day 2 of Inktober

Elsie did a drawing of Santa writing out his list with a little elf that stepped in the ink. 

Elsie and mom did another ink drawing, while Alstan did a drawing for his next comic book about dinosaurs in a Jurassic World type situation.

Inktober Challenge

Mom got out her pen and ink sets. She was inspired by the worldwide challenge called Inktober. The idea is that artist do an ink drawing every day for the month of October as a fun way to encourage people to practice their drawing skills. We may not stick with it for the whole month, but we had fun trying out the pens tonight.