Emmy at 11 Months

  Here is our silly little girl at 11 months old .

Fall Festivals and School Field Trip

      Our community center held a fall festival this year.  It was on a Saturday, and I was unfortunately in school all day.  The weather was really nice, so Joey and the kids walked down to the community center for some fall fun. They said they had a great time.  They got their faces painted, picked out a pumpkin, and got to bounce on some bounce houses.  Our community center puts on some really nice events.  We are lucky to live in such an incredible community.

The fall masterpiece that Dawson created.  Joey put it in a frame so we can display it every fall.

  At Gracie's preschool, they go on several field trips through out the year.  Their first field trip was to a local pumpkin patch.  I was working that day, but Joey got to go along.  Gracie had a great time with all her school friends.  They had some inflatable blob that Joey said she just jumped and jumped on.  She immediately fell asleep in the car ride home.

Gracie and her classmates

Nap time on the car ride home!

    The next week, Gracie's preschool had a Dad's pumpkin carving night. They got to bring their pumpkins to carve with their dads and then have ice cream sundaes.  Grace just loved getting to have a special night with her dad.

Cub Scouts

     Dawson is in Cub Scouts again this year.  Joey is the den leader again which is actually a pretty demanding role.  He has to organize a lot and plan a lot of different activities for the scouts.  Dawson has done some fun stuff this year so far.
    One weekend, he had his rain gutter regatta.  They had to make boats and then they raced them down rain gutters by blowing on them.  Dawson had a great time racing his Iron Man themed boat that he made with Joey.

   In early October, Joey and Dawson went on a Cub Scout campout. They had been looking forward to it for weeks.  As the campout got closer, the weather forecast was not looking good.  The hight overnight was predicted to be 33 degrees and the high was 42 degrees.  Joey got lots of cold weather gear and they had a heater for their tent. They said it was pretty cold, but they had a good time.    

Their tent that Dawson got to help set up

Ella and Jameson are also in Scouts.  Ella is one of the first girl scouts which I think it pretty cool.  

Joey looking cold

Breakfast in the cold

  At another meeting, they created wooden motor scooters.  

    For another den meeting, Joey arranged a trip to a local firehouse.  The firefighters showed the kids around and they got to see what life is like for a firefighter.  Dawson said his favorite part was going inside the firetruck.