Silas and his select choir, the Silverbacks, got to participate in a one day workshop and performance with the Patriot League Honor Choir in Ark City on November 1st.
Ernie met us in Ark City that day for Silas's choir performance and then came to our house for a visit.
Owen spent the first weekend in November in Manhattan with Sarah. They had a good time hiking, discovering new things in and around Manhattan, and going to the home K-State football game.
Silas has been putting in a lot of work at church and home learning his parts for the Christmas play. The performance will be on Sunday, December 14th at 10 am at our church.
Phoebe decorated her entire room with ALL of her GRINCH decorations. Her room looks great! She even got our dog, Belle, to wear a Grinch hat for a brief minute.
We had some Turkeys in our yard several times this fall. We enjoy watching and learning about the turkeys and other wildlife that wander up around our house.
Our church youth group helped pack at least 100 boxes for the Samaritan's Purse - OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD Christmas shoeboxes. These boxes and children are prayed for and will help share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The gift boxes are sent to children in need all over the world
We got to attend a Thunder hockey game with some of the people that Eric is currently working with building the Biomedical Building for KU and WSU downtown.
Silas and a small group of his friends played in a dodgeball tournament at school.
We celebrated Phoebe's 16th birthday towards the beginning of November. She is a bright light in all of our lives, and it is fun and easy to want to celebrate with her.
Silas ran in the HAC's 5K Gobble Wobble. He hadn't run for a couple of weeks leading up to this race, but still ran hard, looked strong, and finished in a good position, 9th overall, and time 22:09. After the race, a yummy breakfast was provided for all the runners from a local food truck and hot drinks from Barista Blenz, a local coffee shop.
Eric and I attended the third annual Haysville Education's Barn Bash, a fundraiser for the school district. Hutton was the main sponsor this year.
Phoebe and Ava went to Addy's 18th birthday party. They played Top Golf and ate dinner together.
Sarah knows that I LOVE fall and the changing leaves every year. She sent/text me several pictures of beautiful trees that she saw on her college campus and their changing leaves.
Here are a few "Before and After" pictures of the Christmas blow molds that I repainted. Dad bought me the NOEL candles from a sale that he went to. He knew that I had been wanting a couple of those for a long time. And, my Uncle Ernie gave me the big Santa. My Aunt Judy loved to decorate their home every December with Santas. It had been repainted before, but needed some paint again in some areas and some touch-up work, so the girls helped me with the candles and I worked on Santa. They look good and are some of my favorite new decorations.
Our church held a Thanksgiving potluck one Sunday after church. There was SO MUCH yummy food!
I caught our cat, Lucy, sleeping on the couch and laying by Christmas tree on a couple evenings in November.
Phoebe made the high school basketball team. Individual and team pictures were taken on November 22nd.
Lowe's has some GREAT (giant) Christmas decorations this year! We all have our favorites.
Phoebe had to complete a video for her Sports Medicine class at school. Sarah took this same class four years ago and did the same assignment. Sarah's video was good, set to the song "Rocking Around the Christmas Tree", she had Phoebe and I in it helping show different exercises. Phoebe took it to another level, adding in costumes and creating an entire dance. Below, is just a still shot of us at the end of the dance. I hope her teacher loved it. We had a lot of fun and did a lot of laughing while rehearsing and videoing our "dance" multiple times.
Phoebe and I enjoyed watching this season's Dancing With The Stars every Tuesday evening. Our favorites this season were Robert Irwin and Andy Richter. I have decided that Owen looks a little like Robert Irwin and suggested that he dress-up as him next Halloween. Sarah could be a crocodile, or a snake, or a Wallaby, or a Koala....
We spent time with family for Thanksgiving in Texas and Oklahoma. We also got in a little bit of Black Friday shopping while we were there.
Sarah and Phoebe attended Ava's 18th birthday party. They went bowling, ate pizza, and had some birthday dessert.
