It's Almost Christmas...

This month has been a busy & really fun one so far.  We are so excited for Christmas!!!  

We broke several weather records here in NY.  We still haven't had any snow & today it was 70 degrees- pretty crazy (but I love it.)  

Here are some pictures from this month-We are so blessed!

We decorated the tree on Dec. 1st~ 

 We went to Breakfast With Santa at Praxair on Dec. 5th

 Bruce got his Arrow Of Light~

 The Ward Christmas Party was "The Polar Express" ~

 Grandma Damstedt sent us ornaments (love this tradition!)

 To celebrate Brad's birthday we made a Gingerbread house~

 Bruce saved and saved and saved until he bought his XBox 1- he's so happy!

 Kate's cute hair:

 Brad brought me flowers and I love him for it!

WNY Children's Book Expo!

These are pictures for my mom: 

October in Pictures

Happy Halloween!!! 

The kids have been counting down to today and it's finally here.  This year the costumes were: 

A Goblin

A Detective

A Scary Scarecrow

A Survey Corps from Attack on Titan

 Ready to Trick or Treat! 

 The Great Pumpkin Farm and Pumpkins:

 

 

 

Other things going on this month:

We went on a beautiful hike last Saturday~ 

 

We LOVE NY Apples: 

 

Every Saturday we had Soccer!!!! 

 

After Kate's game, Bruce went for a climb:

  This CUTE GUY turned 6!!!!! 

We LOVE our James!!! 

We also went on the Columbus Day Chocolate Tour, yum!

 Bruce was injured in intramural soccer.  He got kicked in the leg and couldn't walk.  I took him in for an X-ray, they found a cyst in his bone.  We meet with an orthopedic on Friday.

September, School, Subbing, Super Great Weather!

Thank you Megan- I miss you!  My friend Megan inspires me.  She moved with her sweet family to Georgia and I really miss giving her a hug and talking with her.  She keeps a blog too- and she writes every week!  It's a beautiful way for me to see into her life far away.  I was reading it again tonight and she motivated me to play some catch up.

School is in! 

The kids are going to have an awesome year- they have really amazing teachers and I am really proud of them for who they are becoming.  Here are some first day pictures:

This is who I'm stuck with at home now...

 

So, I decided that this year I would be a substitute teacher :)  It's really fun because one day I teach Kindergarten, one day Special Ed, another day PE and on Monday I get to go to High School- yikes! 

Here is a cute picture of me and my man: 

Speaking of that guy- we went to an amazing concert last weekend.  We went to see these guys:

 The Avett Brothers

I love that when I listen to music at home or in the car and I really love the songs they sing, then to go to a place and hear those same songs- but have the people singing and playing physically in the same room with you is amazing!!  I was very impressed :)

 This Summer the kids and I painted our backyard fence with a water sealer. It took ALL Summer, but I promised that we would go out to dinner at a fun place if we got it done.  We finished on the last official day of Summer :)  They got their prize: 

 B's friend also met us there!