Parent Teacher Conference

October 22--the kids had the day off of school because we had parent teacher conference. I went to talk to Blake's teacher first. He is doing great. His teacher just loves Blake. He did say that it is his goal to make that kid laugh every day because he is sometimes too serious at school. His classmates really like Blake too. He is doing well academically, but he is supposed to work on his penmanship.

Dylan's teacher is probably the sweetest person in the world. She gives the students a hug every morning, but Dylan doesn't dig that at all. Dylan is doing extremely well in class. He is getting 98 and 99 percent on all the district exams. He comes home every day saying he is bored, so I told this to his teacher, so she said she would challenge him more. At home we call it "lala land" This is when Dylan spaces out. Well, we found out he does it at school. She says she has to call to him. She said that you can tell that his brain is just going and she wonders what he is thinking about. He doesn't interrupt anyone so it doesn't make her mad. Anyway, she said, "well, he is going to be a doctor or something because he has terrible penmanship". I told her that he wanted to be an engineer...also known for not great penmanship.

After the conferences I took the boys to Dollar Tree to pick out one item for doing such a great job at school.

Since I am so behind on the blog, we actually just got sent home their progress reports. On Sunday Blake's teacher sent Aaron and I an email saying that he was filling out his progress report card and just wanted to pay Blake a compliment.  He said he wanted to let us know how much he enjoyed having Blake in class and that he is a great kid. "He is one of the bright spots on the class."

We are sure grateful for the boys' teachers. All of them are great!

Shopping Day

October 20- We had record amounts of rain in September and October. We had so many soccer games rescheduled because of the rain. October 19 it poured, but then stopped. They still canceled the saturday games because everywhere was too wet. We had so much rain that we had damage to several of our parks.

So instead of a soccer game we went shopping. It was a beautiful day. Aaron had to get his scoop calibrated at Cabellas where we got some free fudge and did a Halloween craft.

We went over to a sports store and found this running shirt for $.02. Seriously. I bought it. I think this is a record for me. Not a bad deal.

Someone loves Halloween

We got in our car last month for the October Pack meeting for cub scouts. I looked behind me to backup out of the garage and I see this kid. He makes me laugh.