CRAZY BUSY!

It's been a crazy, busy couple of weeks. I really don't think we could have packed anymore into them if we needed to! This week has been quite busy too, but as we approach the end it is slowing down a bit. Jason and Kyle leave tomorrow morning to go pheasant hunting in Valley City, ND. They will be gone through next Tuesday. It is usually a family trip, but because it's such a spendy trip, we decided that Kory and I will stay home this time. So I'm not sure what we will do, but it will be nice to have a weekend with nothing planned!

I started a new job as the administrative assistant for North Central Wisconsin's FCA program. I can do it from home and it is only 5 hours a week. So far I have easily fit the hours in between being in the boys' classrooms, a weekly bible study and helping out at MOPS twice a month. And, a little extra cash doesn't hurt. :-)

Jason has been as busy as ever. He is still out of the office more than he is in the office on the road driving from project to project for meetings and such. He was up and at 'em at 4 this morning because he needed to be in Eau Claire by 6:30. Yuck! He definitely needs a break and his hunting trip will be a nice little vacation.

Well we managed to fit a family photo shoot into our busy lives last weekend. My good friend, Emily, took them. She is awesome! Here are a few of the shots...there are so many goods ones it's hard to choose!

I hope that this post finds you all doing well and enjoying the fall colors and weather. Take care and God bless!

Mrs. Lewis' class to the apple orchard

I went along with Kory's class to the apple orchard yesterday. It was a very cold, windy day but the orchard was still beautiful despite the weather. We went on a hayride around the orchard and Helene explained what she and her husband need to do each day and year to make the apples grow. It was pretty interesting. All of the kids were able to fill a bag with apples they picked from the trees. Kory brought home 1/4 peck of apples that amounted to I believe 9 apples. He has already eaten two. He won't let anyone touch the one's that are left. Last night he was ready for daddy to make an apple pie with them, but we'll see what today brings!








All of the leaves are changing here and the landscape looks so beautiful so...Jas and I are taking the boys on a drive tomorrow after football. We are going to hit an apple orchard on the way up north. We have yet to drive "up north" so it should be fun to explore the small towns while enjoying the fall colors.

Football Season

Kyle is playing tackle football for the first time this year...yikes! As a mother, I questioned the sanity of myself when saying "yes" to such a thing. Yes, it is okay for other boys (most of which have a couple inches on and outweigh Kyle by 10 pounds) to smash you into the ground! So every Tues. and Thurs. it's off to practice for 1.5 hours. Then every Saturday morning it's up and at 'em and off to the field by 9:45 where Kyle positions are...tight-end on offense and cornerback on defense. (Please don't ask me what either of these positions are suppose to do!) They have played 4 games...won 2 and lost 2 and they have 3 games left. He is enjoying it so much...now if only we could pack on the pounds :)

So serious...a football player must not smile!

The Ravens

A couple of action shots

Tomorrow's game time temperature is suppose to be a balmy 45 degrees! However, I have a feeling it won't even be that warm. I guess I'll be dragging out the winter jacket for this one.