Tonight the kids and I watched the Wizard of Oz – a longtime childhood favorite of mine. As we were watching Emily chimed in that our family could dress up as the characters for halloween. While my first instinct thought it sounded a little outrageous, the more we talked about it seemed like a great idea. Of course Emily suggested she would be Dorothy, Ethan the Tin Man, Andrew the Scare crow, Evelyn wants to the Wicked Witch, I would be the Good Witch and Paul would be the Cowardly Lion. So far everyone is on board except for Paul. We’re still trying to figure out how we can bribe him to dress up:).
This Thursday Paul is coming home for the weekend and the kids and I are very excited! It will have been 30 days since we’ve seen him. Friday we are heading up to UNI to pickup Ally for her 18th birthday on Sunday. OMG; is she really going to be 18? Saturday we will celebrate Ally’s birthday and probably head to the apple orchard for some apple picking and turnovers.
It’s going to be a busy weekend but we have a lot to fit in in a short amount of time. Next trip home….hopefully October 9th.
This year we planted pumpkins in our garden and maybe a little too soon…..we already have 3 perfectly round orange pumpkins. What do you do with pumpkins in September? Well, a friend of mine from small group said she cut hers in half, scooped out the insides and baked them in the oven at 200 degrees for about an hour. After they cooled she scooped out the cooked pumpkin and is now ready to make pumpkin pie, pumpkin cake (which was delicious), pumpkin bread, etc. So, today Evelyn and I cut a pumpkin, scooped out the insides and it’s in the oven now. Looks like pumpkin cake for the parent social at school on Thursday. 1 down and 2 more to go – fresh pumpkin anyone?
