Heat, thunderstorm and snow all in one week!

So we haven't had the snow yet, but it's coming...tonight!! Up until today we've been in the 70's! Good thing I'm slow on packing the boys clothes away as Kaden wanted to wear shorts this week. Sure, it's been in the 60's in the morning and 70's in the afternoon! Today it's down in the 50's :( And over night we had a thunderstorm! Tornadoes were in the neighboring states, missed us though! Oh and wind, lots and lots of wind!! Not enough to blow all the leaves out of yard though, darn. Kaden and I were out there yesterday afterschool raking leaves into piles so he could make a course out of them. It was getting dark and almost time for him to come in, but then Keith put Salem's bike light on Kaden's so he could stay out a bit longer. He was ecstatic! I raked a huge pile which he was excited and wanted to ride his bike through it. I said why not jump in it. Oh yeah and he went flying! Pile buried him up! Salem missed out, he was inside with daddy riding on the trainers. (plenty other times for a leaf pile) Gotta get his legs going, another race this Sunday. And Kaden is super happy, there is a kids race!!!

What else has been going on? Kaden is ready for his school play on the 13th. He's got his lines memorized and you can almost understand him when he speaks. He has to speak with an accent as he is the "distinguished" judge, but he has a couple harder words (for him) so we've been working on kinda of slowing down a bit and saying the words clear. Although all the kids are kinda of hard to understand at the mic, so Kaden won't be out of place.


Salem is working hard on his clarinet learning music. They have a concert December 4th! I need some earplugs though as he is learning Christmas music. Oh, no Christmas music until after Thanksgiving...but I'll let Salem slide through as it's for a good cause! His class is studying Indians from the different regions of the US. They also studied animals, Salem chose the flying squirrel. The kids had to do a report on their animal and make a life like drawing of them. In their classroom, the back wall has been transformed into a forest and all the kids animals are hung up in their appropriate spots. It's really cool and they did a great job! They are going on a field trip next week down to Iowa City to visit a few museums to learn more. I get to go as well!!


Hey gas is down to $1.97 for the crapanol stuff. $2.09 for my car, but wow, it's gone down like a buck in a month!! Why isn't everything else going back down then??? You know they blamed high airline prices and food costs on fuel, yet all that is still super high! Milk did go down though!! I can get a gallon for under $3 now!!


I've got my first OB appointment this afternoon. Kaden has been asking me if my belly is baby fat or food fat, lol. He loves when I get a big ole belly and is waiting for then! I've got a little one going...okay maybe not so little, but not huge either!

Keith...he's been riding and working. Hard to do with it getting dark at 5:15, but him and another guy meet up at the local park at 5pm to do a couple laps and then ride with their lights for a couple more. They are both dreading having to do the inside riding thing for the winter!

Alright, that's it for now, Keith is coming home for lunch...gotta go find lunch!