Red ribbon week followed, in which Cienna got to adjust her outfit with each day, crazy socks, in-side-out, backwards, all red, and crazy hair. Carver Elementary had their fall festival that week also. We got some pumpkin carving done as well in preparation for Halloween!
The weekend before Halloween, Mommy had some more work to do, but did get costumes done in time for Daddy to take the girls to Alexa's 3rd Birthday/Halloween costume party which included a laser show and Alexa's brand new baby brother Max, followed by a stop at the annual Rocktober Festival at the Bakx's (dancing is a must to the music of the AWESOME local band!).
Then for Halloween we started the evening with a trip to Second Street for date night, on the way encountering some new trick or treat friends thanks to Kaylee's friendly nature. After dinner we came home for trick-or-treating around our amazing neighborhood.
Now that Halloween had passed, we had a weekend of replacing a 30+ year old hot water heater and enclosure, plumbing new sprinklers in preparation for our backyard deck, gas re-routing as well, and a new side gate for many reasons mostly to have a place for Porter while our deck is coming together.
New to the public school system, we had our first parent/teacher conference. Our child is as amazing as we already knew (of course we are bias) : ) She really does love to learn!
We shared our equipment with Scott to help brew a red ale for his family during the holidays. Roman, Steph, Larry, Rylee, and Stone joined us as well, which led to a great play date and dusting off Guitar Hero.
After so much work Mommy didn't hesitate to take Veteran's Day off with the girls and loved every minute! We were welcomed to a playdate with Lexie and Nickie for plenty of dress-up fun. The following week at school included Pioneer day (an impromptu bonnet and apron sewed by Mommy), and Turkey Trot which Cienna raised some money thanks to Daddy's work friends.
Back to work around the house, we finally disposed of our dead tree in front of our house and replaced it with a single stem, shade, carrotwood tree, along with a couple of other plants that weren't looking so great. We are getting quite excited and preparing for our big upcoming trip up North to spend time with our family.
Little miss scholastic has been loving every minute of being in Kindergarten. She can't be challenged enough and we are lucky to have a teacher that is doing all she can to encourage her love of learning. She is reading books on her own everyday, determining the words by the story if she can't recognize them, and her ability to concentrate on writing her letters has helped with her love of art to represent all the objects and scenes that she loves to create. She has made friends with pretty much all the Kindergartners at school as they are now all her best friends.
Kaylee as well has made friend with pretty much all the Kindergartners at Cienna's school. They look forward to seeing her every morning and when we can pick her up from school (so do the parents). Mommy and Kaylee had their last soccer class of the session, and she keeps asking when we get to go back for more. She has learned to "skin the cat" by herself after only been shown once and climbs anything she has access to, weather it is 12 feet high or not. We let her figure out how to get down on her own, hoping she'll learn not to go up if you can't go down. So far she has managed to get down on her own no matter what. She is still loving her workbooks as "homework", and had a great time making homemade play dough with Mommy!
Amazing how a large simple box can be so much fun for a family to enjoy. Pretty much we love that anything can be so much fun when our family is doing it together! The girls learn so much from each other. We learn so much from them! We all have our separate times, but the best times for all of us are when we are together!
