November at a Glance

November brought us...

Family Skate Night

Our school arranged a Family Skate Night for our students and their families at the skating rink in Galesburg. We all went, and it was really a fun night.

Christmas Tree

We put up our Christmas tree and decorated it together.

Decorating and Grandma and Grandpa's

We went to Grandma Soni and PaPa Wally's to help decorate for Christmas. Tammy and Brooke also came to help. We try to do this together every year.

The boys "helped" PaPa with the bead garland

chillin' out with PaPa


being silly with Grandma

makin' sure the train still works ;)

Playing in the snow

We had a nice snowfall that allowed the kids to go out and play in the snow. The dogs had fun too!

Kasey - not sure she wants to be out in the snow

Nika - lovin' the snow falling on her

Just some more pics from November

It looks like Dustin and Cody read Daddy bedtime stories

My friend Lori was inducted into the Bowling Hall of Fame in November


Mom and Me

Looks like it's past their bedtime!

October at a Glance

What happened in October? Well, let's see...

Middle School Choir Fall Concert

Ali was part of the middle school choir concert. She enjoys singing very much, and has fun with the participation!

Pirate Day

During the High School homecoming week, the younger students get to have fun too! They do theme dress-up days through-out the week. Friday was the day of the homecoming parade, and was "Pirate Day" for the school. The kids decided on Wednesday night that they wanted to dress up. So Vicki helped me, and we scrounged up pirate outfits for them. Dustin had a preschool field trip, so he didn't get to dress up for school. But as soon as we got home from the field trip, we dressed him up, and he got to be a pirate for the afternoon and to go to the parade.

Preschool Field Trip

The preschool class (both, the a.m. class and the p.m. class) took a field trip to Apple Blossom Farm. It was a great day!

We took a hayrack ride to the pumpkin patch, where each child got to pick their very own pumpkin.

We learned about honeybees.

And we got to play on the playground.

Dad's 60th birthday

Dad celebrated his 60th birthday in October. We had a big cook-out. Dad was aware of the cook-out, but not of all of the guests we invited to share the evening with us. We had some fun surprises for him.

Cal and Wally

Wally and Barry

Cal, Lois, and Sadie

Annie and Sonja


opening presents

Justine, Abby, and Danny

PaPa and Brooke

Keith and Grandma Norris

Debbie and Gary

Momma Sue

Dustin and Wyatt

Maddy, Ali, & Brooke

Keith, Betty, Lisa, & Kevin

Abby, Danny, Tanya (roasting away), Lois, & Sue

Debbie & Tammy

And then, of course, there was Halloween

Halloween fun at school - the boys had class parties to celebrate Halloween. The classes also participated in a costume parade at school.

Dustin's class

the 2 pirates

Cody's class

the costume parade

Ali, Cody, & Dustin ready to go

our Trick-or-Treating crew

Dustin, Ali, & Cody's jack-o-lanterns