Weekly Wrap Up - Welcome November

We got to spend time with my family this past weekend for our annual Great Pumpkin Party.  We always do a weenie roast and s'mores, along with pumpkin carving and my little pumpkin patch dessert.  It was a fun evening with family.

Monday morning we were up early to head to the girls' 6 month dental appointments.   No cavities or other issues and Lindsey's gag reflex was less trigger happy and they actually got her x-rayed for a change!   We ran a few errands and were home by about 11:30am.  The girls worked on lessons while I took the van to get an oil change.  While getting the oil changed I was told our tires were well beyond their life span, so I made an appointment to get new tires on Tuesday at a different place.   In the evening, the girls had their 4-H officer training session with County wide 4-H leaders.

Tuesday morning I was up early to get the new tires on the van.  Unfortunately, the tire guy found that my front tie rod was broken, sigh.   I made an appointment for that on Wednesday, sigh.   School went pretty smoothly and both girls were done by early afternoon.  Olivia had her fall sports banquet in the evening.  She earned a letter in varsity volleyball and was very excited.

Wednesday was of course Halloween.   We don't really celebrate it as a holiday, but I did pick up several fun size bags of candy in case we have trick-or-treater's, and so the kids don't feel slighted, grins.  Lessons were pretty standard.  Olivia is doing practice ACT's and is scoring really well!  We had church in the evening, and no little goblins came by before we left, so the kids (and hubby) got to have the candy to themselves.

Thursday was a bit cooler and breezy.  Our local library has free pizza and live music the first Thursday of the month, so we went over at noon.  The girls enjoyed the pizza, and the bluegrass.  We were back home a little after 1pm and got all the rest of the school work finished up.  The evening was pretty low key with a trip to the YMCA to work on volleyball skills.

Friday morning we were up early and out the door to drop Lindsey off at work.  Olivia and I headed over to the DMV to begin the long wait for her to take her learner's permit test.   We were in line before 9am, and were there for over 2 hours...but we have a new driver in the house!

Overall, this has been a great week.  Super proud of all the achievements this week, and the hard work that went into each one of those.

Have a great weekend!