Thanksgiving

We went to Chillicothe for Thanksgiving with family.  First we visited Great-grandma Alice and we arrived just in time to play BINGO with her!

 Then we had dinner with my side of the family, but we only took a couple of pictures.

Facetime with the Meneelys

Burning trees!

Then the girls had a cousin sleepover at Granny and Papa's for a couple of nights and we went back to KC.  The weather forecast was so bad Granny dropped the girls off at my parents so she could take Ainslyn and Gwendolyn to Jeff City.  By the time we got to Chillicothe, it was pretty much a blizzard.  We drove back to KC with the worst road conditions I've ever seen.  In retrospect we should have just stayed, but we didn't want to miss school.  Spoiler alert: it ended up being canceled.

We were thankful to make it back in one piece since we saw so many cars off the side of the road.  We were even more thankful for snow!!  It was the first major snowfall in years!

Vroomans Visit

The Vroomans were in town for a visit and we went to Crown Center and Kaleidoscope.  

Tyler brought his new virtual reality headset for us to try out too.  It was a roller coaster ride that was pretty amazing.

Fall Soccer

Another soccer season is in the books.  I don't think they won a game, but they still had fun!  Hannah tried out the goalie position for the first time this season.  She liked it and she still likes playing defender, too.

Nelson Atkins

 We spent a fall afternoon doing at the art museum.  My favorite place with my favorite people. 

We got to touch the carved door with gloves.

There was a Day of the Dead celebration in the main hall.

And Olive honored a loved one.

Random Fall Pictures

a full rainbow at soccer practice

Olive's first grade teacher sent me this.  She often chooses reading to her 1st grade teacher's classroom as a reward in 2nd grade.

Franklin Park

kayak

cousins in Omaha

I am having way too much fun buying baby boy clothes and hats. :)

The girls had two fall sleepovers with the Wilson sisters.  Their favorite activity was "getting fat" in zip up pjs stuffed with blankets.

Pokemon

We had the best doughnuts here!

One time we were making up silly pet names and I joked a funny name would be "It's a Secret." If someone asked your pet's name and you answered "It's a Secret," it would sound like you weren't telling them.  So of course when Steve found a snail and we decided to keep him for a pet the girls named him It's a Secret.

 We trained for weeks for the T-bird Trot.  It was a fun family bonding experience.

Olive's girl scout troop in the Overland Park Fall Festival parade.

Trailwood parent game night.  Despite my abilities, I did not do well in the Connect Four tournament.  However, Steve took first place in the ping pong tournament!  He is pictured with his "beard brother" who got 2nd.

Miner weekend fun!

Crazy hair day at school.

 Olive's Star of the Week buddy.  We hung out with Paddington over the weekend and she shared pictures with her class.

Hannah's girl scout field trip was to the theater in Crown Center.  He troop learned a song and skit and performed it for parents.