Long Beach Octoberfest with the Marshall's, Adam's, and a Donlon (Selena) was a great time. The band was a favorite with their clever twist on lyrics. The pretzels were also a hit. Cienna had a fun sleepover with friends at Peta's house before her choir performance. She also got to celebrate spirit week which she and her friends organized in ASB. Homecoming was the finally after they won the football game and some dancing in the quad.
They continue to have fun holiday gym days, including a dress up Halloween day. Then some of the girls teammates came over to make signs to put up for the compulsory Home Practice Meet.
We got the pumpkins carved and costumes figured out in time for Halloween. Mom and Dad had the best Run DMC costume. Girls had buddy costumes. Cienna and Julia were Fire and Ice, and Kaylee and Nickie were Angle and Devil. Three of us went to the Marshall's to give out candy. Cienna started at Julia's and made their way over trick or treating. Kaylee got plenty of candy around the neighborhood. There was a pretty great haunted house that some of us really enjoyed as well.
We all went to the High School of Choice event even though Kaylee seems to be pretty set on going the Millikan where Cienna is, and Nicki will most likely be going :) There was a multi children sleep over at our house that included Julia and the Three Musketeers. Cienna and Julia went to volunteer at the Ronal McDonald house while Kaylee, Nicki and Adi played and went to Starbucks.
The following week Cienna got an amazing opportunity to go on a college tour with her FLA friends along with other high school FLA clubs. She got to see UCSB, Pepperdine, and Channel Islands (which apparently was built on an insane asylum)
Girls and Mom had an early practice on Veterans Day and then went to help coach the compulsories that evening. Then on Sunday Mom and Dad had a great dinner with friends at Taco Beach. Dad then went into LA to meet co-workers that he'd only previously met online. He did have a new experience with Axe throwing and had plenty of delicious food throughout the day.
Us girls all had a great time with Clara's very clever scavenger hunt 16th Birthday. She grouped up a bunch of friends and they were let loose to find and do some interesting activities on Atlantic. Then all the pictures were shown on the big screen after burgers later that evening.
Bring your parents to gym day came back as one of the fun gym days! Dad won the show for sure! Actually it was a huge success and everyone that participated had so much fun. Although we're not sure how many of us parents were walking the next day.
We had lots of art activities as well including finally making the handstand stilts that Cienna had been asking for for SO long, we also added epoxy to the gymnastics signs that Uncle Joe made the girls a while back. Kaylee made a pinball Kiwico and we got the girls to pose for some (at home) school pictures since they don't do them as school anymore.
More gym fun with a game night and karaoke. Then Mom took Kaylee and Nicki to surprise Adi and watch her amazing school performance. And of course it was followed by a 3 Musketeers sleepover which was mentioned earlier when Julia also was sleeping over, but I don't want to go back and re-edit :)
A couple extra additions is Mom getting to hold an awesome parakeet named Balloo while on a walk, Kaylee went for her front tuck on beam, Cienna and Francesca impressed again at the Marines pull up competition, and we watched the middle Donlon (Bennett) perform a piano recital at our neighbors.
Next up, the holidays!
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