Bowling Fun

We used our POGO passes again and went bowling. It's Thanksgiving break and we have the whole week off, so we're trying to get out of the house a little bit. Westley didn't want to come and Dad was at work.

Mini Golf

We discovered now, five months into our POGO passes, that we can go mini golfing for free once a month at a place about an hour away. So we took advantage of a beautiful day and went with the whole family. Even Westley was there, but we didn't get any pictures of him.

Fence Fix

In April, we added some of this lattice to the front part of our fence on one side of our house because that fence is only six feet high and Willy can climb/jump over it.  Well, he figured out how to climb over in the corner so he started getting out again, so we added more lattice to the side to prevent him from getting out.  So far, so good.

Freezing Football Game and Band Competition

We had our last home football game and it was FREEZING!  Dad had to close, so I brought Travis, Nathan and Jonah with me.  We brought blankets and bought lots of hot chocolate. 

This same weekend Westley marched in Bands of America in San Antonio.  Caleb was there too, as he was on prop crew for the competition band (now called Varsity Band) but there weren't any pictures of him in the BOA professional pictures they sent home.  Here is Westley playing his trumpet.  The end of marching season is always a relief because we are much less busy, but it's also a sad time because it's a lot of fun to go to the games and the competitions.  Can't wait for next year.

SkyZone, Multicultural Night, Chipped tooth

Over the weekend, I took the kids who were home and wanting to go to the SkyZone Trampoline Park.  The park was in Irving, so a little bit of a drive, but we were able to get in free with our POGO passes.  We had a really great time.

Jonah had to do a report on a country of origin (somewhere that his ancestors came from).  We have ancestors from Denmark, so he did his report on Denmark.  We also contacted Benjamin, our exchange student from last year, and asked him to send us some Danish treats that Jonah could share.  We were so excited when the treats arrived in the mail the DAY OF the event!  Jonah did a great job on his project.

On Tuesday in the early afternoon, the school called me to inform me that Jonah and another student had collided in PE and Jonah had chipped a tooth.  So I checked him out of school and took him to the dentist to get it fixed.  I had to cancel my afternoon piano lessons for it and now he can't bite into anything hard ever again because it's a permanent tooth.  Westley had done this once before as well, when we lived in Utah.  now I have two kids with permanent teeth that are made up of composite filling material.

And again, I come around the corner to the front room to find this--Annmarie reading her school book to Nathan.  It's great practice for  her and it's great for him to be read to.

Halloween 2019

We decided to break from the normal traditions and go to the Boo on Ballard this year for Halloween. The kids also trick-or-treated around the neighborhood on Halloween night. I don't think we'll be going to Boo on Ballard again. It's kind of the main street for the city of Wylie and they set up all these booths that you can trick-or-treat at. But it was so packed, there was barely even room to walk. We did run into our friends, the Shumards, from church. They had all dressed up as characters from Snow White, even the parents! Annmarie and I were both Snow White, so we took a picture together with the mom who was the Evil Queen and the youngest daughter who was also Snow White (and is Annmarie's friend at both church and school).

Jonah and Nathan were Ninja Turtles.  Eliza was Little Red Riding Hood, and I made her skirt. 

School Pictures 2019-2020

 Annmarie 1st grade

Caleb 9th grade

Eliza 6th grade

 Jonah 3rd grade

Travis 7th grade 

Westley 11th grade