Trick or Treat & The Day After

We had a great Halloween month (and enough candy to prove it). We enjoyed an awesome pre-trick or treating party and roasting marshmellows and a roaring fire after. Today was beautiful and we drove up to Amicalola Falls - the colors where everywhere and the girls were excited. We enjoyed it until our check engine light came on and had to drive ever so slowly back home.
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On Monday, during language arts a film crew from 11alive, the local NBC affiliate, was in Kaia's classroom filming a segment for "A Class Act". Her teacher, Mr. Witt, was nominated to receive the "Class Act" award. Donna Lowry has been doing this segment for a couple of years - another adventure in the room of Witt. It is suppose to air on Oct 20 and be online sometime soon. As soon as it is - I will post the link. Kaia is very lucky to have such a great teacher this year - kind of reminds me of the greatest teacher I know (hmmm, hmmm, Dad)

Uncle Shuck's Corn Maze

Every year Kaia's girl scout troop goes to Uncle Shuck's to brave the corn maze (imagine 9-10 screaming girls), enjoy the hayride and make some smores. Its a lot of fun and this year the weather was perfect! Not to hot and humid and not to cool. I love this time of year. The night before Kaia's school had her fall carnival and all I can say is that I survived! Kiersten had to do everything the big kids were doing and it was driving me crazy!

Gas - it makes us go

I would never believe it if I didn't see it and experience it myself. For about a week gas stations in the metro area are bone dry. I keep praying that I will make it til there is more gas and wonder what I will do if I run out of gas. I hate being a gas watcher but for the past 2 days I was constantly checking websites and seeing if there might be gas anywhere and this morning I found it! Just down the road. I didn't even turn the lights off or anything just left the house and went and filled up - I've never felt so lightened before by filling up. When I got there I didn't have to wait but by the time I left there were at least 8-10 cars at each entrance waiting - I wonder how long that supply of gas is going to last. They say this shouldn't last much longer that the EPA has lifted restrictions and the governor has signed a waiver to allow truck drivers to work longer hours - we'll just keep praying that all goes well. A little reminiscent of days gone by.................not sure I like it to well.

Say good by to my little nest egg..........

So last night we were having a pleasant evening. I gave Kiersey a bath - Kaia's homework was done. They were fed. David came home from work took a shower and got cleaned up. Next thing we hear is water flowing - We thought it was the fridge filling the ice maker - no it wasn't that. Walk out to the garage where the water heater is and the sound is a lot louder. I open the front door and water is gushing everywhere! What a headache.

The plumber came this morning. A new water heater, pressure regulator and some lovely re-piping to get the new water heater to fit - my money for a rainy day is gone. I am not happy. But then when I think about all the damage we could have had, flooding in the house, a fire (you'll see from the picture below) I am thankful that it wasn't any worse.

It could have been so much worse.

International Night

The Spanish branch had international night. It was so much fun! There was food from Mexico, El Salvador, Peru, Belize, Costa Rica, and some other places. We ate and we ate and we ate. There food was so good and the girls loved trying the different foods as well. I was excited that they had horchata - I can never find it out here.

They had some great performances as well. Dances from each country and a mariachi band. Kiersten was mesmerized. She would dance in front of our chairs and was so serious about watching. The night was a lot of fun - it reminded me of something my mom and dad would love and I am glad my girls get the exposure to other cultures.

Twilight Fans

The majority of you who read this are - so just passing along this little tid bit. If you go to Stephanie Meyer's website she has posted a draft of Midnight Sun. I'll let you read why there - but if are you wanting a "Twilight" fix this might help.

End of Summer

It was a ho drum weekend. We did make it to the pool and Kaia was off but Kiersey stayed around.

Back to School

I'm not sure if I am excited or not. I kind of enjoy not fighting Kaia to get her homework done and to stay in bed after we send her there at night.


Kaia had an awesome first week of school. She loves her teachers (yes, she has 2) Hopefully that stays that way as the year progresses. Kiersten and I on the other hand had to deal with her being sick the later part of the week with what ended up to be Hand, Foot, Mouth disease. I felt so bad for her. She had sores all over in her mouth and she didn't want to eat and about an hour before it was time to give her another dose of Motrin she would get so irritable. It was not fun. By Saturday she was more herself and wanted to be outside all day playing.On to week 2. We'll see if the excitement continues.

Memories

Memories...I hope you will play along.Here are the directions:

1. Add a comment on my blog and leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot just do anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments!