Fall is Here...we're busy...

Jocelyn's school had Parent Teacher Conferences this past week, it's been six weeks, so she was out at 1:00 each day. It was fun to have her home a few hours earlier each day. We thought this was a great chance to do some fun things with her.

Monday- I attended Girl Scout training, Jocelyn was determined to join Girls Scouts and they needed additional leaders, so I signed up and I get to be a Girl Scout leader, assistant troop leader! There's lots of training involved, but I am grateful to have a say in all the activities and be there to participate with Jocelyn, she's thrilled to be a Daisy Scout and yes, she'll get to sell cookies!

Tuesday- We took Jocelyn and Beckton to the 50¢ movie in Lewisville, we saw Space Chimps. Cute movie and only $2.00 for the whole family. I let Jocelyn and Beckton pay for their tickets and they really liked being in control!

Wednesday- We went to the pumpkin patch. There are many many pumpkin patches around here, we chose to go to the free one and we could hardly believe it was free- there was so much to do! They had several bounce houses (even a jack-o-lantern), a pumpkin cottage, a jail house, hay-bail towers, hay mazes, tons of wooden characters, a playground and of course pumpkins. We all had some much fun, took a bunch of pictures. It was a chore to tear the kiddos away from bounce houses, I think Jocelyn's favorite was the hay mazes. We bought snow cones and had a fabulous afternoon.

Thursday- Our parent meeting with Mrs. Martin Jocelyn's teacher. Jocelyn loved showing her little brother her school and classroom. Jocelyn is excelling in school and is right on tack. She already has so many books and artwork that have made their way home. It was great to know that she is truly a good student and excited to be at school!

Saturday- Busy, busy day... Morgan took off to the Temple first thing in the morning and we ran over to Megan and Scyler's for a quick yard sale. Jocelyn and Beckton had fun playing with the girls and I sold a couple things. The Fire Department held a Fall Safety Festival at one of the seven fire Departments. There were hot dogs, cotton candy, popcorn, tattoo (fake of course), balloon characters and the kids got cute firemen helmets. They also gave tours of the fire department and the museum, had a bounce house, a dunk tank and drawings for freebies. And of course it was all free. Morgan even won a set of smoke detectors, a mini flashlight and a free tote bag. Saturday night was Girls Night, we planned to go to Grapevine and go ice skating, but only five of us showed up so we settled for dinner at El Guapo's, Shopping and Ice cream. I drove and it was lots of fun to get away and chit-chat! Morgan took the kids to a farewell party for one of his Home Teaching families, the father is headed to Iraq for his second tour.

Sunday- Morgan tried to make it to choir practice, but we slept in! Beckton is finally excited about going to Nursery, he actually asked to go play with his friends this Sunday. I was so excited, he has despised Nursery from the beginning, so yeah, no more crying! Morgan taught his Primary class and the Priesthood lesson and I had the Laurel lesson. We all love Sundays; we get to sleep in, be uplifted, usually get a nap and get free bread! We haven't had to purchase bread since we moved to Texas. Each Sunday we come home with 2 0r 3 loaves of bread and it's usually whole wheat. I think the entire ward loves the bread-man. His van is full each Sunday and open for the ward to dig through, we are lucky to have extra loaves in our freezer and really appreciate the free bread. The kiddos usually get to pick which loaves we grab and who gets to carry them to the car, I thinks its tradition for them...go to Church get a loaf of bread.