Hello Again

I've been offline.  Well, I've just been off lately. In the three weeks since my last post...some good things at the Halterhome since then:

Soccer season started and I'm having WAY more fun watching than ever before,

Football continues and is really fun to watch even thought I can't figure it out and lose sight of Tommy in the jumble of boys,

It is slightly cool at nighttime here,

My sister came to visit for a few days and we had fun and giggled a lot, like always,

Tom's sister Kristin and family came to visit from Ohio,

Ashleigh brought her gang up from Tucson for the family reunion,

Melissa came from San Diego for the same reunion,

My family got up to Munds Park for a few days of fall-ish weather,

Grandma Joyce & Poppy Don came to see us up North and played marathon Uno games,

Tom & I went to the Coyotes home opener (alas, they lost in OT, but it was a good game),

I went to 2 really nice classes and services at our "new" church (we've gone on the rare Sunday for over a year so it's not technically new).

And some not so good:

my friend's husband passed away unexpectedly on September 25th.
Not much else seems "not so good" in comparison to that and my heart hurts every time I think of it.  

Karen

Fall Break

October 18, 2009

Today is the last day of the kids' fall break.  It has been soooo hot here that it feels more like summer break.  It's been 100 degrees the past couple days. Too hot for "fall" even in Arizona. 

But I digress. 
Back to what we did all week with the sunny weather.  In no particular order, here are our Fall Break Highlights:
Grace and I made a cake and pumpkin bread and lasagna, all in one day. Not that you can tell from this photo, but we are in teh kitcen in our matching aprons.

Grace and I went to my favorite store, Domestic Bliss, for a Halloween craft class. 

We made these fun decorative "hats."

Tommy went to his first bar mitzvah for his friend, Nicholas Shein.

Daddy helped with the tie.

Look at all the handsome fellas heading off to the ceremony.

Tommy, Grace and I rode the light rail downtown to have lunch with another handsome fella, Daddy.

The kids and I met up with Grandma Joyce & Poppy Don over on their side of town.

We went to a farm with a corn maze.

The kids pumped water,

Posed on a tractor,

Rode pedal cars and saw lots of farm animals. 

Grace and I went to the zoo.

This was in the spider monkey exhibit...the monkeys are right there walking the rope over your head!

We just monkied around all week.

Back to school and work tomorrow. 

Karen