Halloween 2018

Can you guess what we are?! Dropped the boys off to school and so far spirits are high. Looks like we are going to have great weather for trick or treating too! Yay!

I don't think I'm in KS Anymore!

Well just for one day! The weather this weekend was beautiful so I made an impromptu trip to Weston Missouri State Park on Saturday. Jefferson had been before and it was a perfect day trip. After hiking in the park we headed into town to try out the brewery, but on the way found an amazing winery in an old church. The Rose was great and the wine slushes. The place was Pirtle Winery, you should look it up if you ever get to Weston.  I didn't even need to go to the brewery!

It was a great trip to celebrate a full and slightly stressful week. I had to prepare for a seminar for work that was broadcast to our whole system. I don't know how many people watched it but I felt like it went great! I also had to keep getting things for 4-H Achievement Night ready and make the Halloween costumes! I will have no problem sleeping good tonight.

Daryl didn't need me to make anything for his costume but I had to do a little sewing for Alex's costume. I'm an OK sewer and thankfully I can make a simple drawstring bag. I wasn't that excited about it until Alex saw it and said, "Oh my gosh mom, it's perfect!"

That warmed my heart and we are now ready for Halloween. I will have pictures of their full costumes then! Stay tuned.....

I will add this to the album "Jeff looking at maps!"

Wine Slushie!

He is pretty happy with it! 

While the boys were waiting on me at
Parent Teacher Conf. Alex took about 100 pictures!
I love them all!  

Bike Lawrence!

Decided to take advantage of the one day with no rain and biked the path around Lawrence with Jefferson on Saturday. He thinks it is about twenty miles but my legs thought it was longer than that! We made pit stops along the way and played Uno! It was a fun day, we started at 1pm and ended at 7pm. The scariest part was riding on the river levee in the dark because we thought we would be done earlier! Oops! So glad we did it Saturday because it was so rainy on Sunday. The only thing Sunday was good for was soup!

Today, I did a lot of things around the house including decorating for Halloween! I also met with a contractor to figure out what some of my house projects are going to cost. $$$$ I should have mowed but instead went for a run. With all of the rain last week it was my first run since last Monday. Yikes! I'm going to have to get more in than that if I'm dreaming about a half in April. Dreams!!

See the cow behind us? 

Biking through the wetlands

Wetlands

I LOVE PUMPKINS

AND SUGAR SKULLS! Halloween is the best for decor. 

8 Down 3 To Go!

I finished another class!! Yay!! I only have three classes left, so that has to be what, 12 more papers?! It is now time to play catch up on house keeping and knitting. I know this game, I've played it seven times before.

So this weekend I have a half knitted hat I need to finish, and a half read book to finish. After that I will start some new stuff. I have one Christmas present I want to knit so I need to get on that ASAP!

Tonight, the boys and I took advantage of the free admission to the Kansas Children's Discovery Center sponsored by Hy-Vee. They have a Mo Willems exhibit right now and it is FABULOUS! The boys had such a great time, Alex came home and wanted to write a book. So Hy-Vee I can't thank you enough for doing that for Topeka kids. You never know what a positive learning experience will spark. I know we got in for free, but if you have a child you need to go see this exhibit. It is worth paying for! I want to go back and get the Pigeon shirt that says "I love Topeka." What a great, homework FREE day!

Procrastinating Some Paper Writing

I have about two hours before the kids will be in bed and there will be no more reasons not to finish my paper for my communications class. It has to be six pages long, and I am on page three. This week is my last week for that class, and I can see the light at the end of the homework tunnel!

The boys and I had a fun 4-H weekend. We did a program at the library on Saturday, and today the boys went to their first officer leader training. It was themed using The Incredibles movie and they had a lot of fun!

I'm dreaming about what I will do with all my free time once this class is over. I can read what I want, run, knit and work on some house projects. Better stop dreaming for tonight and finish my dumb paper. Boo.

Alex enjoying the chairs I got for the kitchen!

Alex learning lots of 4-H stuff!

Daryl being studious!