Silas and Phoebe participated in a few of the spirit days at school during the week leading up to Homecoming. They also went to the Homecoming parade together and collected candy that was being thrown out to parade watchers.
Phoebe was invited to dinner at our girls' friend, Ava's house for dinner with friends and then they all attended the Homecoming dance together. Sarah was in town that weekend and she got to join them for dinner too. Phoebe looked beautiful! She picked a super cute and fun dress that fit her and her personality well. After the dance she went back to Ava's house to play games for a couple hours. She said she had a great time that night with her friends.
I went out to take care of our chickens one morning and discovered a large snake hiding next to our coop inside a large metal pole. I do NOT do snakes, so all I could do was hope it stayed there until Eric got home to help me relocate that bad boy. When he arrived home we got out a tarp, Eric dropped some objects down inside the pole to help encourage it to come out one end, he muscled the pole all around while I banged on it with a shovel, Silas and Phoebe kept watch, and ran the flashlight when we needed to look into the pole to see where it was in the pole. We eventually got it to fall out onto the tarp and then we were able to pick up the tarp and get it to go into a trashcan. Eric took the trashcan back to the far end of our property and we released it there. It slithered out and headed towards a big open field. Good riddance and have a nice life somewhere far away from my chicken coop.
Silas was supposed to get his braces off at the beginning of October, but when we got there the orthodontist decided he still needed to do a few more minor adjustments. Silas was pretty bummed about this and we left that morning with his braces still on... hopefully he only has a few more months to go.
Eric and Silas took our boat out for one last time this season. They went to Eldorado Lake for some fishing.
Silas had his first choir concert of the school year. They sounded SO GOOD!
Sarah is doing excellent in college. She was captured in this Edcats picture below - bottom right.
Gus has been sticking close and following Lucy around a lot lately. They were sleeping next to each other one evening.
Sarah and Owen checked out Pillsbury Crossing one Saturday morning. They called me from there to Facetime me to show me what it looked like. It certainly was not how I remembered it from twenty plus years ago. It was Homecoming week at KState so they had fun going to Homecoming events and the football game together.
Phoebe and I made fall and Halloween sugar cookies one Saturday. They were delicious.
Our 20th anniversary fall mums looked beautiful this October! We used them as our table decorations for our 20th anniversary party two years ago and then Eric planted them in our yard. We also had a beautiful black and blue butterfly that visited us one day. Happy 22nd anniversary to us this October!
Our family went to Fall Fest BINGO in mid-October. Sarah may have daubed Owen's face with her blue BINGO dauber. Eric won one $50 BINGO.
Silas ran in the WSU 5K Pumpkin Run on Saturday, October 18th. He did AMAZING! His official time was 21:44. He got third in his age category. We were told after the race that this course is longer than an official 5K and had it been the correct length, at his pace he most likely would have run under a 21 minute 5K. Great Job, Silas! Owen was there to yell for Silas with us. The kids enjoyed painting a pumpkin after the race.
Owen and Sarah tried on our Elf and Jovie costumes for a little preview trial run before Halloween.
I subbed at a local elementary school and my classes did some fall/Halloween art projects together. Here are my two examples that I made to show the classes.
Silas had his first orchestra concert of the 7th grade school year. They sounded good.
Sarah, Phoebe, Silas, and Owen carved pumpkins one evening.
Phoebe got her braces off towards the end of October. She was glad to have them off and excited to eat a root beer float that night.
Silas got to sing at church at the "5th Wednesday Sing" at the end of October. He sang "Christ Be Magnified". He and Phoebe also sang "Firm Foundation" with our church's youth group.
Phoebe, Silas, and I were moving some wood from one pile to another and we found a little snake hiding under the wood we were moving. Silas picked it up and relocated it to another wood pile behind our shop.
Sarah and Owen Facetimed me from a Halloween store on Halloween. I was talking to Sarah, when suddenly she switched the phone view around, and I saw Buzz Lightyear.... Ha! So funny, Owen!
Owen and Sarah dressed as Buddy the ELF and Jovie on Halloween and went trick-or-treating together. They also told me about some funny things they did as Buddy and Jovie that night... Yelling at Santa while trick-or-treating ("SANTA!"), holding hands and skipping down the streets, and posing with Christmas trees! I am glad they have a LOT of fun together!
