Lincoln wanted to make some Halloween decorations for our house, so he drew this family of ghosts and I helped him cut them all out (his orders). He said it was dad, and mom, and liv, and him , and ian.
"And that big blue one at the top can be Will". (his friend from fort wayne) he went on to draw some serious monsters, and a pretty great bat.
                                                   
                                                

I knew about this very nice family who had an enormous amount of grapes they had grown and didn't want. So I thought I may like to try my hand at canning some grape juice. I watched some you tube videos asked some friends, and read up a bit. Everyone seemed to do it a bit different....the point as far as i could tell was to make everything very very clean and very very hot. My juicer (which is amazing) didn't fit the bill for this type of thing so I borrowed a steam juicer and it worked great. I am excited to have some yummy grape juice for the holiday season...so yummy mixed with seltzer. Who knows I may even try this canning stuff again :)

                                          waiting for the school bus....

olivia has been trying to make these roller skates work for years. who would have thought some thrift store cowboy boots would be the thing to fit. jonny is helping her get them attached to her feet....because i have no skate key.

beautiful day for playing at the park

*Well...we are finally getting settled around here. We had a big weekend a bit ago with lots of family coming in town for livs baptism. We had a good time and liv was so happy that everyone was able to come.....thanks!

*Lincoln has turned a corner with preschool and told me that he likes it now, there is no more crying or holding on to my leg....he just says bye and goes....im so proud of him! At dinner he often talks about things they do at school, I can tell he is enjoying it.

*I have been enjoying wearing sweaters and making chili for dinner, and the other night we used our fireplace...the kids thought that was the coolest, and linc laid in front of it like a cat for quite a while. Now if it could just never get below 60 degrees during the day that would be really good.

*I got a new calling as primary secretary, no matter where i go i just can't escape primary :)  

* Ian has been sick for a while with a bad cold then the other night he was so fussy and couldn't sleep. Jonny and I had him snuggling with us on the couch while we watched a movie. He finally relaxed with the crying and was a happy little potato, then out of nowhere tons of puke.... all over jonny  Poor jonny handled it very well for someone who can't even stand when the kids drool on him. Ian had a rough couple days but is doing much better now....and his sweet old self.