Having the Time of My Life!: Fall Fun

Since we don't have a baby around, kitty is the next best thing.

Mindy's last cross country meet was at the Chewelah golf course. I couldn't resist taking a few pictures with the beautiful background.

Mindy won "pumkin bowling" for her age category at the last farmers market for the season (at the Chewelah park). At least her bowling class with the homelink kids has paid off. She won a $20 gift certificate to the bowling alley and a bag of pumpkin spice hershey's kisses.

Taking Fall pictures at the park.

Maddy had "dress like your parents did in high school" day. I curled and ratted her bangs, she wore a baggy shirt, we pegged her jeans and she scrunched her socks. Pretty RAD don't you think?

Carving pumpkins

Maddy got out the drill to carve her pumpkin. She is taking woodshop this year and I think it is starting to go to her head.

This was Barry and me at the golf course.

Imagine this sand pile twice as high and three times as long. That is how big it was at the beginning of this summer. With a dirt pile next to it, the same size. We have worked for an hour each morning as a family to move that dirt and sand, by wheel barrow, to spread it out over our rocky soil so that we can have a nice ground cover to grow grass (someday). We really wanted to have the project finished before winter, but were not sure that it was possible. Barry told the kids that as soon as we had it done he would take them to Zips for dinner. They stopped complaining and started working, HARD. We finished on Friday (yeah!) and everyone enjoyed cheeseburgers, fries and milkshakes.