October 2024

 Kaylee finished off her cross country season so strong. She PR'd every single race and ended up getting her varsity letter! They got to wear special pink uniforms for breast cancer awareness month at her last race and they all said it made them run extra fast ;)

Holly and her family were heading to Niagara Falls for fall break and stopped by to see us before and after their trip. We just grabbed lunch with them real quick but it was so fun to see them! Brooklyn was home sick from school both days so she got to tag along and see them too. We all joked that Brooklyn wasn't really sick, she just knew the Andreason's would be coming so she stayed home to see them.

We tried to wait to carve pumpkins since it has still been so hot but finally decided to do it for FHE one night. They definitely didn't last long on our porch but the girls got very creative with their pumpkins this year!

Bryant usually drives his truck only on the west coast lately but he had a long haul and was able to come see us! We got him a for a few hours that night and then he left after lunch the next day but it was great to catch up with him and the girls seemed to connect with him really quickly. We got to see so much family this year, it was the best!!

At school, they don't let the kids dress up on Halloween, which is a bummer, but Brooklyn's class did something really cute. They called it a word parade and they were all supposed to choose a word they didn't think their teachers would know and dress up like that word. Brooklyn chose arctophilly, which apparently is the study of teddy bears! She dressed up in a scientist lab coat and carried around a clipboard and a teddy bear. I thought it was a really cute idea!

All of the girls went trick or treating again this year but we only got to go around with Brooklyn. Kaylee went with the same group she did Homecoming with and McKenna went with her best friend, Reagan, who she has gone with every year since we moved into this house. Brooklyn also went around with 2 of her friends from her old school but one had to leave really early to go to her grandparent's house and the other was wanting to go with someone else and I think she ended up making Brooklyn feel bad, so it wasn't the best night ever but we still made the most of it!