Sept. Misc

Here was some of our family fun from back in September...

Children's Museum

When Jaden and Cody were young, our family had an annual membership to this museum and visited regularly. The boys have outgrown the museum now, though, so we hardly ever visit anymore. Once school started, I figured the children's museum would be a perfect outing for Adley on one of her days off school. She loved it!

Sliding down the fireman's pole was what Adley talked most about afterwards. She went down this thing so many times!

Checking out at the "grocery store" was also a hit for Adley. 

The museum had installed a new computerized checkout system since we last visited. Adley loved finding each item in her cart on the computer.  Thankfully, the museum wasn't too busy, so Adley could take her time at this station. So fun!

The museum always has a daily craft for kids to complete. Adley enjoyed making this fun pumpkin hat!

Football Excitement

Jaden and Cody are getting to be huge football fans. Each fall, they LOVE watching Sunday football games on TV and checking out their fantasy team scores. Jason thought this would be a perfect year to take the boys to their first in-person football game. Since each of our boys have chosen a different Texas college team to root for, Jason thought they'd enjoy a UH vs. Tech game. Not surprisingly, the boys (and Jason!) had an amazing time!

Even though they didn't stay for the entire (late) game, they loved the game play, the excitement of the crowd,

hearing the band,

and of course, sampling some stadium snacks!

School Re-Start

These boys definitely had the craziest start to their 4th grade school year. After attending school for only a day and a half, our family had to quarantine at home, due to our close contact with my brother who tested positive for COVID. Five days later, I received a positive COVID test too, and our family's quarantine started all over again. Ugh! These poor boys missed out on a lot of initial classroom routines, and they had to complete a ton of make-up work at home. Thankfully, Cody and Jaden are homebodies and didn't really mind missing school at all. They did a great job staying on top of their pile of homework, too. We learned there's a LOT in 4th grade! When they finally were allowed to head back to school a week and a half later, I talked them into taking another first day of school "take two!" photo. It was nice finally getting back into the school routine again.

Pastors' Wives Retreat

Each fall, the Texas district of our church body holds a retreat for pastors' wives at Camp Lonestar. I had never attended a district retreat before, but my mom and I both decided to go to this one. We had a wonderful time rooming together and enjoyed meeting some other ladies from around the state, too.

We attended seminars, Bible studies, played games, went on walks, sang around the campfire, and had a group worship service. What a relaxing weekend! Mom and I even tried out axe throwing and archery.

On our last night out of two, the group had a spa night. We all put on facial masks, made body scrubs and lip gloss, sipped wine, and painted our nails. I loved having the excuse this weekend to spend some extra time with my dear mom!

STEM Class Project

With Adley in school this year, I have two days a week with the house to myself. What an odd feeling! I decided I should use this time productively and take some education classes. I had let my teaching license lapse after Jaden and Cody were born, so I needed to take 60 renewal credits to get it reinstated. Thankfully, I found out I could take all the required classes online. One of the classes I took in September had me do a project with foil boats. Adley enjoyed helping me count pennies into each of my boats, predicting how many each would hold until it sank. The boys loved hearing that their mom had homework to do too!

And that's a wrap for September!