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Last Sunday, the family ventured to Fireside Orchard to pick up some yummy crisp apples, and spend a little bit of family time together before another busy week took off. The weather cleared up, and we enjoyed walking around, getting educated about apples by our friend Darren, watching the koi in the pond, smelling the roses, and picking out the first (sage green!) pumpkin of the season. It was a fantastic way to kick off the autumn season.

Sunday was also our 18th wedding anniversary. Yay, us! I cannot believe that 18 years ago, we said "I do"... We opted to wait until this weekend to go out for a nice dinner, so we are looking forward to getting away for a few hours this evening. 


The band has been busy prepping for a regional competition this weekend. Ava left this morning for Des Moines, and the RHSMB will be performing at a BOA Regional event at 2:45pmCT today (Saturday.) I hope they perform fabulously, and advance to finals!

Drop-off capture!


G decided to build either a traffic jam or a train of cars this morning...not sure which!


I was exhausted from a poor night's sleep on Thursday, so I took a nap on Friday afternoon. When I woke up, I noticed someone was watching me. :)



More to come next week on how the rest of the competition shook out. Prayers for safe travels back home for all of the bands!

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