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.

Fall Hike

It has been such a rainy fall, but we squeezed in a hike on Saturday. After climbing to the top of the Platteville M, we hiked around on a new path and did a Little Rock climbing!

Walking to School

This morning mom had an early morning dentist appointment that meant the kids had to go to school on their own. This was the first time letting them walk to school by themselves. They were all excited, while mom watched until she couldn’t see them anymore.

Honey crisps are Ready!

After Alstan’s soccer game, we made a stop over at the Sutter Ridge Farm for some apples. Once you’re there, you just have to stay for the fun!

Look-a-likes!

 

To help Elsie with her sewing project, mom modeled what to do on an apron for herself. Now they can do their baking as twinsies!

1st Year at the Fair

Alstan and Elsie decided to join 4-H this year. Part of our duties as a 4-H family was to work the concession stand for two hours during the fair. Dad and the kids did a great shop of running the donut stand portion! The kids had a good first year exhibiting with Alstan entering a ceramic dinosaur and photos of animals from our trip to Costa Rica and Elsie entering baked cookies and an apron she sewed. 

Evening Entertainment

This is what we came home to. We found ourselves entertained for some time just watching them work. 

First Day of School

Mom and the kids had to go back to school a week before dad this year, so dad was able to drive the kids to their first day. He didn’t feel like walking all the way to the building in the rain though, so he caught some photos to show the lovely weather on the first day of school.

Camping with Their Buds

We finished off our summer break with a camping trip at Blackhawk Lake. Alstan and Elsie had been talking about getting together with their friends from Lisa’s (their babysitter) all summer. We finally got something planned for the very last weekend before school started. They had a great time biking, fishing, swimming and just plain playing ‘til the sun went down.

The bottom photo is of Alstan after he fell off the dock.