Amanda on November 10th, 2013

The weekend before Halloween, we went to the Boo Bash that our school district puts on as a fundraiser.  They have high school students dress up and hand out candy in the halls of the school and then have snacks, face painting, basket raffles, and games in the gym.  It is nice to get out […]

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Amanda on November 9th, 2013

Okay, he wasn’t up ALL night but he was up until after 1AM one night. Not playing.  Not sneaking video games.  Up reading books I got him from the library. I learned MY lesson:  only give Ian one library book at a time and remove them from his room before we go to bed. On […]

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Amanda on November 8th, 2013

Book: 10 Creepy Monsters Craft:  Yarn spider webs The boys made spider webs, worked on foam pumpkins, and even made some book marks!

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Amanda on November 7th, 2013

We were out to dinner a few weeks ago and someone stopped by and asked us if we wanted free caricatures drawn of the boys while we waited for our food.  It turned out to be a lot of fun.  The boys thought the pictures were absolutely hysterical.  LOL

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Amanda on November 6th, 2013

Ian and Matthew’s school recently had a skating party at a local skating rink.  Neither boy has ever gone rollerskating before so it was a learning experience for all of us.  LOL The skating wasn’t too bad on its own but Matthew nagged for one of the “walker” things and then proceeded to skate worse […]

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