"I'm so glad that we live in a world where there are Octobers." -L.M. Montgomery
October is always one of the busiest, if not THE busiest, months of the year for our family. Here's a sampling of all we did!
We had family in to celebrate Joseph's 5th birthday (we celebrated the weekend before his actual birthday). I cannot tell you how hard it is for me to believe that he's FIVE!!! He had a pirate-themed party, and we also had lots of good times together with our family.
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That Saturday night the whole family - my parents, David's parents, and his sister and our nephews, enjoyed dinner at Cugino Forno at Revolution Mill
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| Great Mimi gets a visit from Gracie |
We went to the NC State Fair for Joseph's actual birthday. There was a lot of riding rides and a lot of eating fair food. :-)
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| 3:09pm on October 20th at the NC State Fair...sleeping through the exact moment he turned 5 |
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| Lizzie also took a nap |
We celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary with dinner at Liberty Oak (while my parents kept our kids), and my sweet husband brought me a dozen beautiful roses :-)
We went with Daddy to watch him give blood at a blood drive at a local church. The ladies volunteering fell in love with Jojo and entertained him the entire time, as did the Red Cross ladies...
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| Training them to be future donors! |
We went to the Lexington BBQ Festival, where there's always plenty of food, fun, and rides..
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| This girl loved sharing BBQ with her daddy |
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| These swings actually went way faster than the normal ones this size. We were a bit surprised after putting Joseph on them and seeing how fast they actually went, but he loved it! |
We also made a visit to Clodbuster Farm in Kernersville, where we did fun things like a corn maze, a hayride, and the pumpkin patch...
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| David leads us through the corn maze while wearing Lizzie on his back |
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| Hay ride fun! |
We went to the Greensboro Jewish Festival, but the only picture I managed to get that actually turned out was the picture of the knish that we split...
The kids had their checkups - Joseph's 5 year and Lizzie's 15 month - with Dr. Lowe...
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| The looks of children that are anticipating their shots |
Homeschooling has continued to go well, and Joseph has worked really hard on new skills, like writing his name :-)
A few nights before Halloween David carved our pumpkin...
And on Halloween night we went trick-or-treating, followed by coming back to our house for our annual front-yard Halloween bonfire (which my parents joined us for). Things were a little "batty" here.
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| Waiting for Daddy to get home so we could get to our Halloween fun |
A fun month with these crazies...
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| This picture was taken closer to the start of October when it was still warm enough for short sleeves and bare feet :-) |
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| His last night going to bed as a 4 year old |
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| We went shopping one Sunday afternoon at Belk with daddy and these two had a ball gazing at themselves in mirrors and chatting up mannequins. **Eye roll.** |
