Cow Pie Bingo

On October 21st, my friend Amanda organized a hilarious fundraiser for our friends Russ and Denise. That's a big cow...bull.

Notice the red paint grid? Wherever the cow pooped, that's who won the raffle. 

You bought a plot to participate. It was fun! I believe Christie and Pete won the first poop plot right when the cow exited the trailer. We missed that one because we were late. 

However I did catch the second poop, the consolation prize going to Kyle and Mary. 

All those boys made me smile. 

There was also a bake sale to which I brought way too much stuff. 

Russ and Denise watching all the girls cartwheeling, dancing, etc. That was a fun afternoon.

D2S 2018

October and November have been very busy. Midway through October, on Saturday the 13th, Terry hosted Dare2Share live at Parkview. This is the second year he's organized the gospel sharing event  in Rapid instead of traveling to Denver or Lincoln and once again he was the emcee. I attended too this year, took pictures and video, and hung out with my small group of 7th grade girls in addition to Denise and Tilly. We all decided to go to Colonial House for breakfast. I totally broke my gluten free diet by eating a caramel roll and felt fine! I have found that I can eat gluten occasionally and not have heartburn but if I cheat too much I start to notice the heaviness that I began last winter. 

Zoe, Maddy, Abby, and Elena came too. 

As did Jazmin's group, Leah, Lindsay, Zeah, and Hannah. 

Even Denise came with Cole. 

From there we all went to the church. JoAnn and Katie signed people in. 

The SD Apologetics guys were there again. 

There's Terry doing his emcee thing. 

Asher and Moses were surprised by me.  

I didn't take any other pictures that morning of training! This was lunch.  

Thanks ladies! 

Sound booth team.

We had over 100 people there but this picture makes it look super empty. 

A little better... 

I can't even remember now what David was cringing over. 

Teaching us the G.O.S.P.E.L.

Go Asher!

The gospel. Boom.

Then they all practiced it. 

Our girls.

Brianna, Elli, and Lydia I think. 

Ed and Sue.

Eric cracking me up with Corban.

David and Cole. 

It was a terrible day to go door to door but we weren't scared by a little snow and wind! My small group went up to the neighborhoods behind the new Walmart and collected food items and tried to have a spiritual conversation. 

So proud of these girls!

Some fun inside.

Lydia's turn.

Terry went around asking for stories.

I like everyone's happy, laughing faces.

Russ and his team were there all day for music. 

The following day Love Inc. came to get all the food. 

Quite a haul for them!

We didn't leave until after 7 and stopped at Blaze on the way home. It was a good day!

School sweetness, Snapchat what?, Bowflexing

We homeschool. This is Evie doing homeschool. 😂 How's that for descriptive?

She was grumpy that I took a video of her. I was just bugging her to hurry up and finish so we could eat lunch and I could go to work. Come to think of it, she's more dramatic and grumpy than she used to be... Hmmmm. 

I work with Samuel and Ezra upstairs at the dining table in order to give Noah and Evie space. Sometimes Ezra is too dang cute and I have to eat him. This video makes me want to eat him. 

Again Evie was annoyed that I recorded her adorably teaching Samuel to play piano...and so was Samuel. They like the videos for the blogs though and that's about the only place they go. They're old enough now that I think they're tired of me posting them to social media. I don't do it very much anymore kids! And whoops, I mislabeled the video. It's Samuel. 

Luna is continuing school on a very part time basis. 

One evening we had some friends over for dinner and Evie made the dessert. It's a fun dump cake that you mix up in the pan. Super easy and yummy. My mom taught Evie. 

Evie was very proud of this achievement. She'd been trying to master a front flip for months and only managed it when Elle, who's done gymnastics, told her to tuck her knees in. And hey presto!

A woman at church gifted us her Bowflex she never used. Very kind of her.

There was no where else to put it but the school room and predictably, it hardly ever gets used. 😑

I discovered Snapchat filters in October. I rarely use Snapchat and am still figuring out how it works. This day I discovered the filters. 😂 The kids and I proceeded to have a lot of fun. 

Samuel was the best. He kept trying to grab the digital additions, the butterflies in this instance. 

And the nose in this one. 

And the ears here. 😆 He's so cute.

He laughed and laughed at his toast face.

Terry got annoyed that I was playing with Noah while they were working out. It's not my fault the Pug wanted to play. 

Oh yeah and we took silly videos. 

Very silly.

My favorite. 

Evie and Abigail's piano lessons overlap a bit on Tuesdays and they were practicing this dance when I arrived. 

And finally, my college friend and bridesmaid Joy was in town on October 20th. I haven't seen her since she got married when Noah was a baby! It was fun to catch up.