The computer uploaded my pictures out of order, so these jump around a little bit :)
Rett joined the taste test club in his Agriculture Science class and the teacher sent me a picture of him trying bok choy. He wasn't a fan (of course!) but they made a big deal out of trying something new.
For Halloween this year, we joined a few friends to trick or treat in our old neighborhood. The kids rode in the back of a pickup truck and they drove around looking for the creepy/decorated houses. Of course the kids took the opportunity to break into their candy every time they had to wait in the truck! Rett ate at least half of his candy before we even got home :)
The spooky street:
Rett wanted to be a cactus this year. I don't know why.
My mom and brother dressed up like Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin. It was hilarious!
Crazy hair day at school. The entire ESE team participated!
Our friends invited us to their house for a fun Halloween bonfire/treat hunt for the kids. James is all about it if fire is involved!
All the kids:
More crazy hair day:
I loved how crazy Rett's hair turned out, but he absolutely hated it while I put the ponytails in.
Ready for school!
James found an injured dragonfly and brought it to my office to try to rehabilitate it.
While waiting for our van to get new tires put on, we walked around the shopping center and was lured in by Halloween-themed ice cream. It was black and turned your mouth into a creepy zombie mouth.
A friend invited us to her parent's farm in north Volusia for a barbeque and dirt bikes/4 wheelers. They also have a skeet shooting range and they peer pressured me into participating. It was so much harder than it looked!
James fell in love with their dirt bikes and never wanted to get off.
Rett did the bouncy house for a little while. He isn't into the dirt bikes or 4 wheelers.
Pinata time:
Giving golf cart rides around the property:
James took us for a drive in the golf cart. He was a pro!
Rett decorated a pumpkin. It had soooooo much glitter glue, I don't think it ever dried.
Taking a break from dirt bikes to ride power wheels:
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Candy corn bowling:
Kayaking in their little pond:
James found me after school during my bus duty and his hair looked like this. Apparently, it got wet at recess and then stayed this way. He needed a haircut so bad!
James and Anthony went to a cub scout campout at Camp LaNoChee, so Rett and I got to spend some 1 on 1 time together. I asked him what he wanted to do and he said he wanted to go to a corn maze. So we did! This maze had a Wizard of Oz theme.
Riding the hay ride:
I was wondering why James always seemed to be covered in cat hair at the beginning of the school day. I looked over one morning while I was getting ready and saw this. Mystery solved!
Rett advanced to his orange belt! He was very excited, but also a little nervous to be in front of everyone getting a new belt.
Doing his testing during class to see if he can advance:
Rett really wanted me to make Halloween-themed food, so I made them this for dinner. Rett didn't eat any of it, except for the cheese stick. He said he wanted me to make the food, but he didn't want to eat it.
Helping in the school garden:
Anthony shot a deer in our yard! We were able to get a lot of ground venison for the freezer, and look at that shot. He got the arrow right through the heart!
James will forget things and his teachers will let him come to my office and ask me for them. Most of the time I'm not there because I am in a classroom, so he leaves me notes. This time it was that he needed his jacket from the car.
For General Conference this year I decided to do it a little differently. Instead of small prizes to open for each speaker, I bought a few large prizes for them to earn at the end of the sessions if they put a thought or takeaway for each speaker on the dry erase board. They complained the entire time, but I really think it made them listen better.
Our silkie hen snuck off and sat on and hatched 10 eggs!! We had no idea she was even missing! If we realized she was gone, we probably would have thought she was eaten by something. Nope, she was just hiding away so that we wouldn't take her babies (eggs) from her.
