Favorite Book-Character Day

        

Last week was Favorite Book Character day at the girl's school.  Quincy's (current) favorite book series is The Series of Unfortunate Events (Lemony Snicket).  She loves every.single.thing about the series---but she most-loves Violet Baudelaire and all of her inventions. 

 

So, when the Big_Day came, Quincy chose Violet as the character to dress up as. 

 

 Ellie's favorite book series of all-time is the How to Train your Dragon series.  She loves it because it is funny AND it is filled with animals.  Her favorite character in the book is Toothless, the dragon who lost part of his tail in the first book (and the book that the movie is based on). 

So Ellie went as Toothless. 

And won 1st place in the costume contest :)
 

 
We celebrated by watching a screening of the movie outside.

Life is good.

The weather is cooling down....

...and we are totally enjoying the outdoors.

 

 

 

 

Blessing of the Animals

We got up early this morning and brought the dogs to church for a blessing.

 

 
They were very well behaved---which was a huge relief! 
 

Fall :)

  

  



 

 
Ellie is still hanging all over the dogs :)

 
We've had perfect weather. 

 

   

 
Tim found a baby chipmunk in the basement...and it's good that he found it before the dogs.
It was sooo cute!

Fall Festival, 2013

 

 

I love love love seeing my current and former students outside of school---and the best time of the year for this to occur is the Fall Festival.

E and Q love going to the festival due to the rediculous amount of candy thrown specifically to them during the parade.

 

 

 

 

The girls were finally (!!!) tall enough to ride the Chinese Dragon roller coaster at the fair this year---they have been waiting three years for the privilege of doing so.
It didn't disappoint---they loved it!

 

Quincy still makes me nervous. 
We had a little chat about leaning out of rides when this one ended.

Fall is here---and that means HS football is back!

...and the girls enjoy it waaayyyy more than we do!

 

Asleep on the stairs at 9:30 on Friday night. 
Our family is pitiful.