October 2020

 Richard got a new job!  He now works in the E-learning support team at OSU.  I went with him to help clean out his old office and it was definitely a little bitter sweet but he is excited to move onto new adventures!

We drove past his new building and saw that it is really close to this pretty pond where OSU does agriculture studies.  We took the girls there and walked around the little pond and Brooklyn and McKenna found a grasshopper to play with and took him around with us the whole time. 

I was so proud of Kaylee. The kids in her class were supposed to pick one word that was important to them and draw a poster of it. She chose equality and it made me so happy that she truly does see everyone the same and tries to treat them all the same. She has a very sweet heart!

 We made sure to go to Boo at the Zoo. My favorite part was the Red Pandas. We usually don't see the them very often, but this time they were so active and were going all over the place.  Then we got to see a tour come through and feed them so they were even more active!  It was so fun to watch and we spent at least 40 mins just watching them!

We also had REALLY good weather most of the fall season, it was so nice!  We raked up our first pile of leaves and the two older girls felt like they were too old to jump in the leaves anymore.  I had to get in there with Brooklyn to prove to them that you are never too old to do fun things!

We also got the girls their own pumpkin to decorate. Brooklyn and Kaylee had fun with the paint but McKenna just drew on hers with marker. Richard also bought a huge pumpkin to carve and the girls had fun helping him scoop out the guts!

We had a problem with one of our gutters and I thought I could look at it better if I went on the roof.  Kaylee has begged me for ages to go out on the roof so I let her come with me to check it out.  When Brooklyn and McKenna saw us up there, they wanted to join too so we let them crawl out Kaylees window and sit on the roof of the garage the rest of the night.  They didn't want to ever get down! It was really fun and brought back memories of how much I loved being on the roof with my dad. 

Trick or treating was scheduled for two days before Halloween and all day long it poured rain! I was really not looking forward to going out but luckily the rain calmed down and it was just drizzling when we went out. Kaylee was so sad that her friends canceled their plans to go together so we told her she could go around an extra loop in the neighborhood without her sisters and I could not believe the amount of candy she got! There were a lot less people out trick or treating and not quite as many passing out candy so everyone felt bad and gave big handfuls to all the kids. 

Since Halloween was a Saturday, and we had already gone trick or treating, we did a few Halloween crafts and then watched a Halloween movie. It was pretty low key as far as holidays go but it was still good.