Our cornmazing adventure

I know. Way original. What can I say? I am just so punny. Okay this is getting bad. Moving on.
We tried to have as much fun as possible while mom was staying with us. She decided to take us out to dinner, a movie, and the corn maze to celebrate Bobby's new job.
We saw The Three Musketeers and loved it. None of us had ever gone to a corn maze before and nobody else in our family really wanted to so it was the perfect time for the three of us to go.

 I think I remember Bobby doing something silly and mom giving him a dirty look when I took this picture.

 The sun was right in my eyes or I would have given a better bride of Frankenstein face.

 What do you know? Corn in a corn maze. Strange.

 lost mitten

 They had afun game you could play. They had 10 trivia qyestions that coordinated with 10 posts throughout the maze. The game helped you navigate. If you answered true you turned left and if you answered false you turned right. All the questions were corn related. We got them all right and won a prize at the end.

 They also gave us a map so I could use the map to navigate. If we didn't know the answer to one of the questions I just figrued out whether we needed to turn left or right than chose the appropriate answer.

 I thougth this picture with all the kernels was really pretty.

 The maze made a picture of a witch and a pirate. Bobby is standing in the pirate's armpit right now.

 Bobby also video documented our adventure.

Our completed trivia card.

 Bobby was convinced that the maze was haunted so this werewolf hair was evidence of strange things going on at the maze.

 I really took on the role as navigaor. I used the map to get us to all 10 posts and answer all of the quesitons.

Frankenstein and his bride.

Work Halloween Party

I am actually off-track for Halloween (woo hoo) so we had our class Halloween party on October 19th. I can't post pictures of students but I have a couple good pictures from that day I can share.

 Bobby came to help out and document the day and aparantly be silly. Thanks for taking pictures babe.

Mom came to stay with us for a few days. She came to help out all day with the party. Bless her. I had to keep telling her that usually things aren't this crazy. I usually have much better control and order in my classroom. We were melting caramel to make caramel apples with our first grade reading buddies. These are the after shots of my crockpot. We also made what I called modern art with a bunch of bowls and spoons that got stuck together. Yeah this was fun to clean. 

Share walk for remembrance

October is pregnancy and infant loss awareness month. October 15th was the Share Walk for Remembrance.

 We all went on a walk around the park. There was a beautiful fountain that Sharon wanted to take a picture in front of. Bobby doesn't look to happy about it though.

 This is the wonderful family that came to share this day with us. Mom, Aunt Melissa, Cousin JC, Grandma.Thanks for coming guys. It meant a lot to us to have you there. I know Dad would have come too if he hadn't been sick.

 We all got balloons to release for our babies. It was a very emotional day for both of us.

Sharon's balloon got stuck in the tree. It's the one on the left in the middle.

 We were wary about releasing balloons. We know it's not great for the environment and we didn't really see what the point was. But, it was more amazing than we could have imagined watching those balloons soar through the sky. It turned our head heavenward and we imagined Ellie up there with all the other angel babies represented by the many balloons released that day.



Game Night

Our friends the Welch's invited us over for a game night. We had a baked potato bar and played a game called Quelf. The game was really fun. You had to do wacky things. It was kind of a cross between Curses and Cranium.

 This is Bobby rocking out to air guitar.

 I think Boby is being a DJ in this shot. That is Justin Welch in the background holding their baby girl Annica. (I hope I spelled that right. Sorry if I didn't.)

 Kate Welch is getting pretty. Notice the napkin necklace and the hooker lipstick.

 Sharon holding Annica.

She sure loves to suck on those finger. Annica, not Sharon. That would be weird if Sharon liked to suck on her fingers. Although Annica also enjoyed sucking on Sharon's fingers. Sharon didn't try sucking on Annica's fingers.