The beginning of the end of October w/Mom and Dad going to Rasselbock with the Marshall's and Knobbe's for an Octoberfest celebration feast. This was a month of parties. Cienna did an outdoor movie night with crafts for Lilly's Birthday, then a night celebrating Maiela. The girls had their first choir concert of the year. Their concert groups were the hit of the show.
The next morning mom dropped them off early at school for them to head to Camp Oaks in Big Bear for the chamber retreat. They had so much fun with all the team bonding, Halloween skits, singing, food, and even being together. Meanwhile Mom and Dad were still looking for garage quotes in hopes to get started as soon as possible.
As soon as they got back Kaylee went to Mady's pool party, Dad left for an onsite work trip to Menlo Park and Cienna was off to her first official visit for college Acro and Tumbling to Azusa Pacific. Kaylee mostly held down the fort during the beginning of the week with rides from friends. Dad's visit was a success even though he was transferred to a whole new team just days prior to the trip. He enjoyed meeting new people and sharing thoughts and ideas of the best ways to work together to create a successful environment incorporating AI and improving the company as an efficient community. Mom took Cienna for the majority of the next couple days back and forth to Azusa, coming home for the evening while Cienna stayed in the dorms with the current team. Cienna started the first morning with a hike with the team then we got to take a campus tour and meet a lot of the staff. The next morning she got to practice with the team and then had a meeting with the coach who immediately accepted her to join the team for next year. We don't know that this is the school for her, but it was an amazing experience and opened other opportunities.
Girls got to enjoy Halloween at school first, then actually made a little time to carve pumpkins before the evening festivities. Somewhere along the way we decorated as well and got costumes pieced together. Mom and Dad went to the Marshall's to hang with the fire pit and enjoy trick-o-treater's, Kaylee cruised the neighborhood as well with friends and even went with Mom to the neighbors haunted house before heading with friends to a party. Cienna got ready and hung at a friends house before her party at a nearby house. They both ended up at the same party at the end just as it was "ending." Then had a sleepover at our house to end the night.
The next day Cienna went with Evan to the Sunken City and Mom and Kaylee went to see Rene. That evening the Water's girls came over to join us and Evan for dinner, then the five of them made fun videos as always and had a lot of laughs and memorable moments.
Then we decided to try and make the garage remodel a real possibility. We took out a main bush that will soon be a counter passthrough area to the garage. Meanwhile also did major weeding in the garden and saved the blueberry and blackberry bushes. Throughout the week we discussed how to get the plan in action and made one last visit with the chosen contractor. That being done we were moving everything out of the garage. Where to put it you ask? Well, seems as if our bedroom and the office had "plenty" of space for everything that needed to be covered by the elements. So that's what we did the following weekend.
Veteran's day apparently gave the girls a Tuesday off, so Monday was treated like a weekend. More sleepovers all around. Kaylee with 7 awesome ladies at home walking to In N Out and Cienna at Alana's making homemade pasta!
Kaylee went with many of her friends to support Amiah in Frozen as she took a leading role of Elsa. Then went to Val's Quinceanera the following day. Rain was welcomed throughout the weekend! Kaylee scheduled a DMV permit appointment for her 15.5 birthday and Cienna competed her UC applications.
We enjoyed the last Sunday very late breakfast after morning work together and then having committed to the garage remodel and contractor we proceeded with removing everything left in the garage to outdoor locations with tarp coverings.
Then the demo began!
More Adventures to come.
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