October Outings and Oddities

We enjoyed a bunch of fun things in October.

If you zoom in you can see the turkeys crossing the parking lot, we see groups of wild turkeys quite a bit, especially funny right before Thanksgiving.

Kate had to go with me to get my TB tests done at a nearby hospital but we found the cool kid area for the Sacramento Kings fans (The NBA team we have adopted until we get the Sonics back)

Since Jaydon and Lucy were heading back from WA by camping their way down with Gma and Gram, Kate and I needed to do some fun things together. I took her to Funderland (a kid amusement park) and we had a blast.

She loved the rides, we went on so many together I got tired but she could have kept going for hours more!

The fun Fall Festival that our kids school put on. It was a great outing and I neglected to get many pics.

Lucy won a round at the cake walk, she is totally my girl. She picked the biggest one left!

Kate and I played Hiss (an amazing game with preschool and lower elementary age kids), she had the big pile, I had the small pile and the leftover cards had two snake heads and tails - super rare!

The kids soccer buttons that they got. At some point I will try posting their team pics but no guarantees I will remember because I have to take a pic of the pic.

Took the girls to a local trunk or treat event at our nearby auto-mall, Jaydon chose to stay home and watch football (shocker).

I was able to chaperone Kate's first school bus field trip. She had a wonderful time at the pumpkin patch.

She loved the petting zoo time.

Class photo

Wrapping up another day at gymnastics!

End of the School Year Celebrations!

Our kids loved their school year down here! They had a wonderful and easy transition to CA and their school friends and teachers made a huge difference in their enjoyment of the move. We had a lot of fun activities to end the school year!

Last day of school swimming party at our clubhouse!

We sure our proud parents! Jaydon and Lucy were given  the Hawks award for the last trimester (Soaring like Hawks: Hardworking, Accountable, Wise, Kind and Safe)

Both kids also earned the problem solving character award (and Jaydon had earned friendship earlier in the year).

Lucy's class go to go on a field trip to Funderland (a local kid amusement park) and I got to chaperone, she had a great time. These are solo pics because I was in charge of only 2 kiddos during the field trip and the boy wanted to do the rides by himself, luckily very soon after we started we met a new friend who rode all the rides with Lucy.

 The school put on a thank you event for the volunteers through the year. It was amazing, each grade came in and did a little performance.

 Decorating the tables were kid art and I just happened to sit by Jaydon's so I snagged it.

Kate with her buddies who will be going to the same school next year.

Sorry it's blurry but Kate and her teacher saying good-bye

What does Kate want to be when she grows up: a horse champion like her sister!

These kiddos did a great job singing their songs and celebrating their year

 Singing and getting ready to help Jacob hold the alphabet sign

The third graders did a big patriotic performance. Jaydon was one of the two Statue of Liberty's and Marco (one of his best friends who lives next door) was JFK

All the kids getting ready to perform

It was amazing, 12 different songs they all memorized and then short speeches in between. It was a very cool event.

 The kids got to bring home a lot of projects at the end of the year. Showing off their writing and art skills. 3rd grade Jaydon did the work in the first 3 images and 1st grade Lucy was the bottom 4 images..