Hi Everyone! We have had such a fun weekend! My mom arrived in Olympia bright and early on Friday morning and came with me to my school to do my DRA testing for me. What a help that was! It took her all day to read with all of them and she admitted it kind of made her miss the whole thing. I reminded her of the 25 progress reports I would be doing soon as well as the conferences :) Darci and Emilie arrived on Saturday morning for a day filled with pumpkins. We headed out early to the pumpkin patch in hopes that it wouldn't be crowded....we quickly forgot about that as the parking lot was PACKED when we arrived. This was the first year that the girls truly had a great time at the pumpkin patch. They wanted to do anything and everything and we ended up spending a lot of time at the patch! The girls went on a minitaure "train" ride, climbed haystacks, went to the petting zoo and rode the hayride out to the pumpkins. After we arrived back home Taylor was very excited to carve the pumpkins. She actually lasted a whole 20 minutes before giving up and doing something else. Maddie picked up one slimy pumpkin seed and was DONE,my mom was playing with Emilie and Dave was watching the Coug game so that left my sister and I to scoop and carve 7 pumpkins. We were laughing pretty hysterically by the time we were done! We ended our evening by heading up to Dave's moms house to meet Jerry's family for the first time. He has an amazing family and we really enjoyed our first get together with them. We are off to another busy week and are hoping we might get a call from Katie one of these days saying that she is going into Labor! We shall see though....Wishing everyone a great week!
The girls on the train!
Nana, Emilie, Taylor and Maddie on the hay ride!
Emilie slept through most of her first pumpkin patch trip!
Dave waiting for all of us to get off the hay ride!
Tay and her pumpkin!
Maddie girl is so proud of her pumpkin!
Can you believe how tall the girls are getting?
For lunch we had "Mummy" hotdogs! The kids loved them!!
Taylor and I scooping out her pumpkin!
All of us with Jerry's family!
The Myers family had surgery :) Look at Maddie-terrified of all of us!!
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Mummy hot dogs...you'll have to let me know about those. =) How fun. When did your mom retire? I'm sure she's loving all these grandbabies, and will Katie's baby be Connie's first grandbaby?
A mummy hot dog doesn't get much more exciting! You buy breadsticks and cut them long ways and then in half and then you wrap them like a mummy around the hot dog. Leave a little space for two mustard eyes, bake them for 18 minutes at 350 and you have a happy family! My mom has officially retired and is watching my girls one day a week and Emilie one day a week. She is hoping to sub for the other three days after the holidays. She is loving not working though! Connie already has 3 grand daughters if you ask her but technically this will be her first grandbaby!
So, did your mom move or does she make the trip to Olympia each week? How wonderful for the girls to have that special time with their grandma. =)
My mom still lives in Everett. She drives to Olympia (bless her heart!) everyone weekend. We are all loving our time with her!
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