In a nutshell...

October came and went in one big blur. I love Halloween and spent many hours on costumes and crafts and cookies. We had school parties, friend parties, church parties and I really got tired of running around! But I also loved every minute watching these girls enjoy the month. Dad was gone but the party still went on, the house was messy but we had a blast.





We have some really great friends out here who are always there to help us out, to craft with us, to hang out with us .
So here are just a few of those people we love!

Visit with Grams

We had such a blast last month when Grams came out to visit. J was in Indiana for October for an externship and his mom came out for a week to help out.
We did so many fun things. She helped with costumes, she made this scarecrow hat which happens to be the cutest hat ever!

Ani wanted to go to the childrens museum so of course we had to take Grams. They loved playing shopping.

The night before Grams left, J jumped out and surprised her. She did not think she was going to see him this trip so she was so excited.
We talked him into driving us around to see the covered bridges. There are seventeen of them around here, we made it to about six. It was a beautiful drive just a bit too much for these little ones.


No pictures with the older girls but they did have plenty of time after school to spend with Grams too. She took Ry shopping for Christmas and Birthday gifts, and went to lunch at the school with Ave, she also helped at Ani's school and took Joss for walks to the park in the mornings, she helped Ave make a cat costume for her doll, and she helped me out tons. We cleaned, cooked, she helped me go through tons of toys and books that were in our small basement flood. She is so great! We loved having her visit and are counting down to the next visit in May!!