November has arrived

I’ve been having a strange time lately. My ex-step-dad (uh huh) has been extremely nice to me. It’s been nice, but … strange.

He arranged for my brother, his friend Jake, my sister, (with my mom) to all come  over and help take care of a bunch of things around our house.

They broke up and removed the concrete in front of our front stair case. That took some muscles. Believe me, I tried to smash some up, it’s harder than it looks.

We also cut down the giant pine tree that was in front of our house. I liked that tree. I’m pretty sad. But I think it was the smartest decision to make. It was dangerous, or would become dangerous, covered in ice, and the larger it got.

 

It came down very easily and was cut into pieces in no time.

My brother and I had matching butt holes today. LOL

 

My mom brought over the dogs, and a new Diego truck for Ben. He had a good day. Luckily he woke up early, we had the time change, so he took an early nap before everyone got there.

We’re stilllllllllllll raking leaves. We have a lot more to go. James even broke out the leaf blower today. It didn’t go any faster. It was just easier. Raking is really hard!

 

So, what do you think the insurance inspector would say now? LOL!

 

We need to start planning on what we’re going to put in front of the house now! We can actually grow something with that tree gone. And we need to! It looks so bare! We’re going to install a picket fence in the spring. But we need some sort of bush or something in front there.

 

I’m sure the village is going to be so happy when they come by to pick up “sticks and leaves” at our house! HA!

Halloween!

Friday Ingrid and Ben went trick-or-treating downtown Dexter. It was fun! I enjoyed going into all the shops, since I haven’t spent any time in town yet.

Later I took him downtown Ann Arbor, and just him and I hit up Mainstreet for some treats. It was fun, kind of wet, but he really enjoyed it. Then we met James and his parents for dinner at the Blue Tractor, which is always good. Good beer :) 

 

I made a cape for Woof. It was my second cape, and it was pretty funky. It wasn’t the shape I was aiming for, and it wasn’t easy to sew on the “W”.. I made some progress though, it’s a little better than Logan’s was.

 

When Halloween finally came I think Ben was a little tuckered out. After going twice on Friday, he was like ReallY? Again? I've never been into Halloween, but I knew he would enjoy it once we got going.

The first house was an old woman who invited them inside, which was pretty funny.

 

But after he warmed up to the idea, he started having a great time. We only did one block, up and down, but it was enough, it was pretty cold out. 

I took down all the Halloween stuff today, even tossed out the pumpkins, it was fun, but now it’s over. Whew. We have SO much candy. James bought 3 (!) more bags for trick-or-treaters, we ended up getting about six. So we have a LOT of candy.

In the Midst of Autumn

We had Ingrid, Maya, and Olivia over on Thursday. It was so fun to have everyone over to our place. I can’t wait to to it again. The weather is pretty mild still, so we had a chance to take a few turns on the tire swing. :)

Kelly came over for a while on Saturday afternoon, while my mom got her hair did, so we decided it was a good time to carve the pumpkins we have. James missed out, he was out watching the football game, but I figured my mom wouldn’t be doing any pumpkins with Kelly this year, and I figured she would like it. It was FREEZING. For some reason I thought it would be Ok to do it on the porch. But my hands were frozen stiff. Kelly did most of the work.

Ben loves Halloween. It has taken a lot of reassuring that the ghosts and zombies you see all over aren’t real, just pretend like any other stuffed anima we have at home. We’ve done a lot of pinching and poking of zombies just so he’s sure. Now he’s really into it.

We took him outside last night, and lit candles in the pumpkins. He thought it was pretty cool, then we took a walk outside in the dark. He calls night time “good night” and he thought it was pretty cool to be outside at night.

Today we went to Allie’s Halloween Party. Ben was so excited to get dressed up in his cowboy costume. So excited that when it was time to take a nap he just layed there and said “Halloween Party! Halloween Party!”… so nap didn’t happen… until we got in the car of course. We drove around a little so he got about 20 minutes, then he was good to go and ready to PARRTAAAYY!

Kristen did such a good job with Allie’s party. They have a great backyard with all kinds of fun stuff. Ben had a GREAT time.

  

There was even a giant pumpkin.

 

And balloons!

 

And jello jigglers!

And a pinata!

Ingrid was a little freaked out by all the Halloween stuff. She’s still cute when she’s freaking out though.

We had beautiful weather, and a great time. Thanks for throwing a great party Kristen! It was SO much fun :) !

Good Weekend!

We did a lot this weekend, and it was a really good one. It has been a good feeling to have a lot going on and lots to do.

Saturday my sister Raquel had a Halloween party with a hayride with all of her 8th grade friends over. We went over before any of the 8th graders arrived. {OH yah}

My dad had a big garden this year and grew a bunch of pumpkins. Ben picked out a TINY pumpkin. It’s the cutest pumpkin ever.

 

My dad bought Ben this new winter coat. It’s really cute, really warm, and super soft. Thanks Dad! :)

 

After the short stop at my Dad’s, we went to Red Robin and got some take out and pigged out on the living room floor when we got home.

Today we went to Jenny’s Farm Market in Dexter. They have a wide variety of things to pet, ride, climb, and eat. It was a lot of fun. We all took a hay ride and it was Soooo much fun.

And of course we had some hot cider and donuts.

We still had time to swing on the tire swing

 

And check out our pumpkins.