BOO! BOO!

Wow, it’s Halloween already! 

It was a nice fall day (73 degrees) and no rain in sight, so the kids were excited to get ready and get some sugar.

Doug wasn’t feeling too well, and since he is the one that normally puts all the Halloween stuff out, we didn’t have much in the way of decorations. He didn’t even sit out on the bench in his skeleton costume with the strobe light and fog machine scaring all the kids this year.

Our decorations this year consisted of some pumpkins…

A flag…..

Some cute candy corns Shelley made to scatter around the house…..

A skeleton hanging from the light over the desk…..

and some shrunken apple heads Doug and the cub scouts made….

Meghan and Marissa went out with their friends, going with the younger kids. Marissa couldn’t decide what to be, so she was two different things.

When everyone got home, it was time to “sort” 

 

 

I’m not sure how this tradition got started, but I remember sorting my candy when I was a kid too!  You put it into piles either by “kinds” or “favorites” or “ones I am going to eat all tonight” and “ones that I will give to others because I don’t like them that much”.

In any case, it was a good Halloween and we all had fun and got enough candy to last until at least Thanksgiving.

Now go brush and floss your teeth!

Let’s Go For A Walk

This last Saturday, it was a nice fall day and we decided to go for a little walk… Ok, a little hike.  It had been over a year since we’ve been to a nice hiking area in Auburn called “Hidden Falls”, so we decided to go.

 

 

It’s a very nice park with miles and miles of trails for horses, bikes and of course people.

 

 

 

 

It’s about  a 1 1/2 mile hike to the “Hidden Falls” but it’s a nice easy hike.  Finally, you come around a corner and there are the falls! You certainly don’t expect them to be here – in the middle of the countryside like this. It’s not like this is in the mountains where you would expect it.

Below the falls are some little ponds that the kids loved playing around and in.

Here is a video of the falls taken by Hannah:

And here is the video taken by me:

I like Hannah’s better..it catches the essence of the falls – almost like you are riding a barrel down the falls!

We had a good time and got out of the house!

 

Welcome To Fall!

What a difference a week makes! Last Saturday it was still summer and 105 degrees! This Saturday, breezy, nice and only 73 degrees! 

There was a small air show in Lincoln today, and we went a few years ago because they had free plane rides for kids 8-17, but Hannah and Jacob couldn’t go last time, and we went in the afternoon and waited 3 hours for the rides!  This year, we decided to go early, since Jacob’s soccer game wasn’t until 3 pm.

We got there around 8:30 and only had to wait a little over an hour.  The kids all got to ride and their rides were about 20 mins long.  They loved it!

We saw lots of planes and helicopters.  We had to leave before the actual “air show” of jets, and aerobatics, but we got what we came for – the free rides for the kids.

Here is Marissa, Jacob and Hannah and their pilot. For some reason, we didn’t get a photo of Meghan and her pilot.

Their plane only held 3 passengers, so Meghan had to go on the next plane, and it only held two. Meghan got to sit in the front, as did Marissa and they each got to “drive” the plane.  They wanted to go upside down, but they held back and didn’t do it.

Here is Marissa, Jacob’s and Hannah getting ready for take off:

And here is Meghan getting ready for take off:

Here are some pics that Meghan took while in the air. If you know the area, the houses shown are in “Sun City Lincoln”

 

It was fun times!

Later, we went to Jacob’s soccer game where they (The Puma’s) won lost :-(