Gratefully Twitterpated: October 2014

October was just a continuation of September: School, Cross-Country, and Football. It was also fundraising time for the schools. Chad and Halle participated in the Chase Fund Run. Chad (tied with another boy) ran the most laps (13) and got to go to Hogan's for lunch as his reward. He was very pleased about that! Sean was chosen to be a library helper at Adams. So once a month (sometimes more) he gets to go to school early and help organize books at the library.

Cross-Country

Shaw

Halle - First Lap

Looking strong.

Chad - keeping a fast pace.

7th Place!

Meeting up with another running family - the Lee family.

Comstock

Warm-up time.

Halle knows how to stretch.

Warm-up for boys.

Getting ready for their group cheer.

Concentrating on passing up the Mt. Side girls.

Coming up to the finish line.

Giving it everything she has.

Hooray! The finish line.

18th place! Great improvement.

Halle and best friend.

Chase takes the lead.

Bompa there to coach Chad on.

Running hard.

Almost to the finish line.

The end in site.

Happy with 2nd place.

Chase

Halle running hard.

Sneaking past one more girl at the finish.

Exhausted!

Running in unison at the front of the pack.

Chad keeping his pace (B went down with a twisted ankle)


6th place.

Garry

Halle first time to run around the tight corner at Garry.

Go Halle!

2nd time around the corner.

Big sprint to the finish line.

Taking the fun corner for the first lap.

Chase in the lead.

Run, run, run.

Some kick to the finish.

All-City (Shaw)

7th grade mob of girls at the start of the race.

Biggest improvement!! She worked hard all year and moved from the middle third to the top third of the pack!

8th grade boys mob at the beginning of the race.

Beginning to pass another runner.

End results of Halle's race. (I totally forgot to take a picture of Chad's results.)

Chad takes 6th place at All City. Good job Chad and Halle. It is now the end of cross-country season.

Elementary Cross-Country

Sean - waiting with his group from Adams.

There he goes!

Here comes Sean!

Great job Sean!

The fancy finish line (not start!) It feels good to be done.

Football

Sean is ready for action.

Sean's last game of flag football for the season.

My "official" football picture of Sean since we missed picture day.

The Fall has been beautiful this year and the temperatures quite mild, especially for Halloween. Chris and I got to celebrate our 17th anniversary on the 10th. Grandma and Bompa took the kids for us. Our original plan to stay at a bed and breakfast didn't work out - but we still enjoyed just hanging out together, watching the movie, "Meet the Mormons," and being childless for a good 24 hours!

October was also picture month. The kids finally had their school pictures done and we also had a family picture done.

Chad - 8th Grade

Halle - 7th Grade

Sean - 5th Grade

Our 2014 family picture by Amy Stinebaugh at Cannon Hill Park. (I wonder if Chad will be taller than me in our next family picture for 2015?!)

Halloween was very strange this year. No more little kids to take trick-or-treating any more. Halle and Chad were both invited to Halloween parties. Halle's party started before the trunk-or-treat so she didn't get to go. Only Sean went trick-or-treating but only wanted to do our cul-de-sac. We didn't get more than 30 trick-or-treaters at our house. It seemed very anti-climatic. I helped out at the Adams fair this year - but never again. I was helping out at one of the booths, got yelled at by parents because their kids didn't "win," was never relieved by another helper during the second shift and was starving because I didn't get to eat, plus I was sick and I never got to go around with Sean - he was on his own for the whole night. It was horrible! We attended the Chase fair the next week - but not all that exciting! The kids couldn't even find enough things to do to use up all of their tickets. Oh well.