Catching Up - A Busy November

Morgan finished JH Volleyball and is now playing basketball. Here is a shot during warm ups - I have mostly been video taping her games so I do not have many photos to post. She is having a good season. December 15th is her last game. This next week she has 5 away games in 7 days. (Well, Saturday is a tournament - I am not sure how many games they will play.) Yikes!!

The Fall Band Concert was very nice. The high school gym isn't the best place for a concert, but at least I could see her if I looked through the lens of my camera!!

Morgan plays in the 8th grade band and the Honor's Band.

Our days of football are coming to an end here. These are the VCSU seniors at their last home game. (Jordan is #4)

Here we are with our favorite football player. We estimated that we have attended between 175 - 180 football games that the boys played in over the past 13 years.

Whatever will we do with ourselves next Fall!?!?

It was a balmy 25 degrees at the final game of the season.

Jordan carrying the ball

Jordan & a couple great teammates/friends - it was hard for all of us to leave the stadium after that final game.

The following weekend Paul, Morgan, Emily & I went to watch Taylor in the Eden Prairie High School production of "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" - It was terrific! I would have loved to gone back another time to see it again. (I had hoped to post a photo, but they are on Morgan's camera - maybe I can still get one from her later.) We spent the night and did a little shopping in Albertville on our way back on Sunday.

Allie & Kara stopped by on their way to North Dakota last week. It was fun having our "Little Al" here for even a short while. They had a great time with family in Souris & Minot and then stopped by again last night to stay with us again on their way back to Rochester.

This fun little guy spent the day with us yesterday while his mommy did a little shopping. Morgan took about 120 photos of him during the afternoon. He didn't mind the fuss at all - see the "peace sign" he gave us? He was cool with it all!!

Click on the video to see just how good natured this little guy is!

Dunkyn & Peppy spent a good part of the day outside watching Paul work.

Nothing like mowing and cleaning up the leaves in your yard on November 28th!! Like Paul told the neighbor, "better late than never"!

Here is our amazing little "Puzzler".

Allie got a PlayDough kitchen for a Christmas gift from one of her relatives this past week. We had a fun time creating all kinds of goodies last night. (Note the beans she is cooking on the burner - I guess you don't need a pan for that particular variety.)

Even Ty got in on the fun. He wasn't so sure what to do with the cookie cutter, but liked to feel the ball of dough.

Timmy showed Allie how to make a perfect slice of toast in the cool little toaster.

Allie & Kara left for home this morning. Allie was eager to get home to see her Daddy and her puppy.