Week 31 at Home: Let's Get Cookin'!

It was another wonderful week, filled with family adventures. Last Sunday, Scott and I headed northwest-ish and went to a winery. It was about an hour drive, and it was freezing when we got there, but it was still worth the drive in order to spend some time together. The winery is super cute, and they had live music and a plump little beagle that loved getting all of the attention. It was a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

Ava and I made another one of the Raddish recipes this week...sweet potato gnocchi. It was SO good - Scott couldn't stop talking about how great it was. I'm very pleased that we joined this cooking club. It's been fun to get Ava out of her room/away from her phone, and helping out with dinners.

This was shortly before she grated her thumb...hard lesson to learn, but necessary

The kids didn't have school this Thursday/Friday (MEA), and I took Friday off of work so I could spend the day with them. We kicked it off with a trip to the library, and then we went to a local "natural" park, where there wasn't any traditional playground equipment, but there were logs and rocks for G to climb on. There was also a zipline that Ava took for a ride, and then she headed to the car where it was warmer and she could read. G had so much fun on the playground, though! No one else was there so he was able to ride the zipline as much as he wanted to.

After that, the kids and I went to Target and Costco, which wasn't very exciting for them, but it accomplished my goal of spending the day together, and outside of the house. :)

We had family pics taken on Tuesday night by a local photographer. It was pretty breezy, but the sun was out and it was in the upper 50's, so we opted to go for it. I'm glad we did, as many of the pretty leaves have fallen and we even had snow on Friday!

I also decided that the house needed to be a little festive and spooky, so I decorated our front window, and set up some décor outside. I switched our porch/garage lights from boring white to orange, purple, and green. Fun! We took a walk through the neighborhood to see how others had decorated...lots of fun ideas out there!

I'm not 100% sure what we're going to do for Halloween, but I picked up a few bags of candy, so we'll be set, no matter what we plan!

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