November Happens

Jo Color

Never a dull looking meal when Jo helps cook.

Ever had tie-die biscuits with your soup?

Actually, she wanted them purple and plans on

coloring the liquid next time before it hits the

dry ingredients.  We love that she is always

willing to try and learn new ways of coloring

our food.

Lil Visit

We had the pleasure of having Lil stay with us for a for a couple day-time visits.

Doug and Lil had a few words of “This is my toy” and “Those are my people”.  But over all they did really well together and even started to play with each other.

No Walnuts!

I’m sure I have stated this before, but if not, we call our walnut tree our “Giving Tree” as it gives us things to do outside year round.

If it’s not dropping walnuts, it shares leaves or dead branches in the winter and in the spring it drops it’s flowers.

And when there are leaves there must be playing!

Even Doug enjoyed running through them.

Friends

Karly and Jo are at it again creating colorful cupcakes followed by colorful frosting.

Self-entertaining as these two are, the only direction we give them over a full weekend together is “Please pick up your last activity.” Otherwise they just move from one imaginative activity to the next.

For example, after they finished baking the cupcakes they created “walnut families” and drew houses and cars on paper.  The girls just crack us up!

And in the morning they created cinnamon pancakes.

I’d tell you how great they tasted but they only made enough filling for two so the rest of the family ate plain old pancakes.

Jason, Payton and Cole played a ton of football.

On the Wii followed by touch football in the street.

(Why the street? The yard was wet and cold but mostly Cole didn’t want poop patrol)

CAST IS OFF!

Though Cole enjoyed the thought of a cast and the attention it gave him, (for the first couple days), he was ready to have it off so he could resume normal activity. 

After an x-ray and a visit from the doctor he was given a thumbs up. No breaks!

Within an hour he was back to playing the video games he couldn’t play while in his cast.

Findtners Fun

While Betsy and John went to the Duck football game Sam and Cole jumped right onto the computers and played Minecraft…for hours and hours.

And they were quite happy about this!

I had other ideas for Chloe, Jo and I.

During the past month or so Oma and I have been planning on and planning for our wedding. We had reached out to Betsy for some much needed help with planning and organizing.  At one point we were searching for someone ordained to marry us and Oma said, “Betsy, you get ordained and perform our service.” About an hour later we received an email from Betsy with the subject line: “Free Online Ministry Ordination – Notice #” and we now had our Ordained Minister booked!

This long story brings us to my thought of a fun joke for Betsy.

She MUST need a robe to perform these wonderful ceremonies in life, right?

Jo and I found this perfect robe at a second hand store.  Fate!

And Chloe jumped right in with us to design and bedazzle the robe!

Presenting: Ordained by Universal Life Church Monastery, our MC, Betsy!

Chloe, Jo and I had a good time with this project and I will call upon Chloe the next time I have a creative joke to build, the three of us worked great together!

Hoping Betsy gets a few miles of fun with her robe.

Basketball Try-Outs

I guess we are moving into the next phase of sports with Cole as sixth grade actually had tryouts for teams.  Around 22 boys signed up which will make three teams for the North Eugene sixth graders.

Cole made the second team and he is very excited about his team.  He feels his team really came together as a team, not a bunch of individuals who think they are good. But guys who passed, screened and communicated well like a team should.

Looking forward to the season and a new bunch of boys to get to know.