Getting Ready For Halloween

We've got a ton going on this weekend as we get ready for Halloween. Lily is all ready for her school parade in this picture, but there's so much going on this weekend that I'm a little scared.
I hope that everyone has a great Halloween and a wonderful weekend!

Going Private

I've got too many crazy people looking at my blog. I'm going private in a week. Anyone who wants an invite so they can keep looking is welcome, but I want to limit the number of unknown people looking at pics of my family. Thanks for understanding!

The Pumpkin Patch

We went to Tweites again this year and the only thing we didn't do was get a pumpkin. We played in Harvest Town, did the Bunny Slides, took a wagon ride, found gnomes and fairies in the Enchanted Forest, watched Lily get eaten by a dragon , got lost in the corn maze (where Shawn purloined corn for the hungry goats), fed the goats, and cheered on the girl's ducks in the duckie races.

It was a ton of fun!

I eat worms again today!

One of the things i love best about my job is all the fun things I get to do at school. Now i know we all want to believe that we have the best jobs ever, but really, I do. I doubt that anyone reading this has recently enjoyed eating dirt and worms or even been served marshmallows and hot dogs at work recently. But, as a preschool teacher i not only get to eat them- I got to choose them.

Last week C was for camping and we did a pretend camp out complete with campfire songs, a tent, sleeping bags, "roasted" marshmallows and even hot dogs. This week D is for digging and we got to dig in the dirt for worms -and then eat them. Okay so the dirt was chocolate pudding and cookies and the worms were the gummy variety, but it was a TON of fun. I'd love to show you all of the great pictures I took, but I only have asked 3 families (who were already great friends) if they minded if I posted their kids pics. So, you'll start seeing the same 3 kids over and over- but i promise there are a ton more. I've eaten dirt with 30 kids so far this week and have 16 more to do it with again tomorrow.

I hope you love your job as much as I love mine- but if you don't get to eat worms you're missing out!

Fall Fun

We are having a fabulous fall full of lots of fun family time. This weekend was unseasonably warm. At almost 90 degrees, football was played in T-shirts and shorts- no small miracle for October in Minnesota. It also meant that the party we attended Saturday night was not too cold. Lots

of music, great food, bridges over the canals, a bon fire and sparklers meant that everyone in our family had something fun to do. We finnished up today with decorating for Halloween. We'd received some spider webbing and other treats from mystery friends and got busy hanging the web and adding other decorations including some fabulous pumpkins from our great friend Jill. What a great way to spend the weekend.