Busy Bees

Wow this last month has flown by. I cannot believe it almost the end of October. Well, this last month has been pretty busy...
While we enjoyed the end of Sept with some nice weather and extended trips to the zoo and playgrounds, October came in with a bang. We had a massive storm that dropped quarter and golf-ball size hail and an inch of rain in less than an hour. It looked like snow at our house. We were fortunate that no major damage was done, as we had friends with home damage and car damage. We are grateful for that. We were, however, rewarded at the end of the storm, with a beautiful double rainbow. What an awesome site and reminder. :)

Mike and I had our first night with no kids in over 5 years. The older two had a birthday party sleepover and we have a wonderful friend who offered to keep Erika for us.

It's amazing what a good nights sleep can do. No one wandering in at 5 am (or earlier... as Erika is prone to do) or having to rush to get up and feed the kids, or get them ready to go... it was sooo nice. Mike and I went on a date and then relaxed at home. (Insert contented sigh here). But, then we were back to being mom and dad. We love our kids and did miss them though. But they all seemed to have a good time.

We decided to celebrate Erika's birthday a little early. We just had a family party at park. It was fun. October may have started off with a bang, but the weather has been very finicky. It was still in the 90's on Sat, but the kids were just happy to be playing outside.

We were planning on picking pumpkins with our homeschool group tomorrow, but again with the finicky weather. The news is saying there is a 60% of rain, so it's looking like that will be postponed. But we will be hitting the zoo this weekend with my folks and we will get around to picking pumpkins, plus Halloween, so I should have more stuff to post before long. Thanks for checking in.