November 2018

You have to love Virginia and all the amazing seasons.  Just a few of the beautiful trees on our street.

Weekly dinner at the Macphersons. 

I appreciate all the little things we can do to reduce, reuse, and recycle.  

The elementary school art teacher made these awesome recycle garbage cans for the entire school.

Our skies have been insane lately.  

Cache and his handsome haircut.

Our first lego club of the year. 

 The craziest 6 hours of the fall (with over 20 boys in the club).

Declan and Xander's 2nd grade diorama.  100% kid made.  I'm getting better at not 'helping'!

I enjoyed another amazing trip to Oregon to help out Marcy.  Oregon is so beautiful.  It brings back so many memories.  I feel like a tourist in my own hometown as we drive home from the airport and I am taking pictures out the window.

I lived in Oregon for 18 years and I don't think we ever went to the beach in November.  Such an amazing day at the beach.  Love haystack rock.

Love these sisters!

I won the prize for capturing the picture with the biggest splash.

Emily's photo bomb...

And Marcys!

Tsunami Evacuation Map.  Yep, couldn't done without thinking about this!

Mt. Rainier in the distance.

When we visit Marcy, we always eat at Mod Pizza, yum!

We really should have done a before/after picture. 
Marcy's storage units for preschool.  Getting closer to organized.  We used a few shelves on wheels which will come in handy, but it's still a lot of bins to manage!

Our first snow of the season.  Nothing crazy, but after an hour of getting out the snow clothes and figuring out what fits, the kids had a fun time.

Our annual community Turkey Trot was a success.  The storm blew through the night before leaving a few extra obstacles.  But the actual event had great weather!

Loving their matching PJs.  Such cute boys!

Pretty awesome to have a civil war battle site in your backyard.  The 4th grade classes walked to their field trip to learn more about the battle at Balls Bluff.

I am loving this girl.  The only kid brave enough to bike in this cold weather with her fluffy helmet and pink bike.  You go girl!

I was probably about this age when I first saw jaws.  

Thinking I will skip having this generation watch it since I may never recover!

Yep. This is happening.  

Emily teaching the family how to play Exploding Kittens.

Cache was our manpower to removing 100's of cans of expired canned food from the basement.  

David got it from a friend, but I just don't see myself using it.  We have lots of quality long term food storage and I'm trying to 'lighten up' the feel of our house by getting rid of things we don't need or use.