Stars Wars with a Friendly Cowboy Sheriff

Happy Birthday to Sweetheart! He celebrated his birthday by biking with the boys in a school race and dressing up as Han Solo for Halloween.

He isn't sure about being older this year. We had a chocolate cake with peanut butter icing - his favorite.

We completed our online adoption profile. Please share. We are hopeful.

On Monday, we decided to find Halloween costumes. We were going for a a Star Wars theme. Hurricane found a horse costume on the rack at the thrift store.

He decided he was going to be a sheriff cowboy riding a horse. So we bought it. Underfoot found 2 different Star Wars costumes.

After looking we found a vest that was black for Han Solo. I finally got to play the role of Princess Leia.

The boys got to trick or treat 2 nights. One was at the Fall Festival for Cub Scouts, and the other was in our neighborhood.

The boys went with a neighbor door to door while we passed out candy. Underfoot said that next year he would stay home to pass out candy, and Underfoot could care his treat bag. We said that wasn't the way it work. He then changed his mind.

Underfoot and Sweetheart participated in a pumpkin activity. Each student brought a pumpkin, estimated how many seeds were in the pumpkin, and then counted the seeds. They had a lot of fun together.

The boys decided they were going to ride their bikes for the Spooky Run instead of running. They had a good time.

The Pie Party is November 14. Come if you are in the area.

Be Well.

Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale

Hurricane planned a lemonade sale then added a bake sale. We called his Uncle Aaron to get some help with marketing the event. As we talked together, we added pre-orders of chocolate chip cookies, brownies, and yummy syrup (caramel syrup.) For Labor Day, we started making things.

Our friend, Shelby Ryckman, came over to help us. We canned 42 jars of yummy caramel syrup and made a few dozen cookies and few pans of brownies. The rest of week was making cookies and brownies and making deliveries. While Sweetheart was out the week before, he printed the flyers Hurricane had made. The flyer explained the purpose of the bake sale.

Later in the week we made another batch of yummy syrup.

On Friday night, Sweetheart and I stayed up to make cookies.

We made 24 dozen in addition to what had previously been made. On Saturday, we sold out of cookies and syrup.

The boys were wonderful with people.

If someone gave them a tip, they sang them a song.

They were thrilled to go to the bank to open an account for adoption.

That night we went to the church's youth road show. The boys enjoyed the different skits and olios.

Previous Week -
Birthday Party: The boys were invited.

I helped with a carpool. They had so much fun.

Garden: I built a flower garden in Underfoot's classroom. She said I could make any flowers I wanted.

I put most the flowers that I can't grow here - daisy, lilac, water lily, columbine, daffodil, sunflower, tulip, and then 2 made up flowers. I had a lot of fun creating.


Bedroom Painting: When we replaced the carpet, we painted the baseboards and door jams in the Master bathroom. It didn't quite get finished before the carpet went in. Since that time, we took off all the doors and painted them. I finished the touch ups. It took me 6 months to finish. That's a little embarrassing that it took so long. The bedrooms are all done. Now we have 1 bathroom and the rest of the house.

Tub: Our bath tub has been dripping. Sweetheart had the time to change the cartridge on his off Friday. He started the process but couldn't get the coupler to loosen.

In the process, he broke the handle. After he called and got help to fix it. It took the 2 of them 15 minutes to loosen the the coupler. Sweetheart fixed it without problems after that. I'm so grateful he has the skills to make things work! He has great skills!