Fall has arrived

You can tell its fall because we all start getting sick again.  The last 2 weeks all 4 of us have taken turns missing school or work because we were sick. UGH!

Alayna has been doing awesome!  She received an academic letter with Honors last year (she finally picked  it up) and was honored this year with an academic letter with Distinction!  She took the Act and has been looking at colleges.  This time next year she will actually be applying- how crazy is that??

She will also be inducted into the National Honor Society this week.  We are so proud of her and all her hard work!

We celebrated Tyler’s 20th birthday a little early.  All he wanted was to go with the family to see “Venom” on opening weekend. I admit I was not thrilled- it didnt look very good. But it was surprisingly good and super funny and I loved the soft heated seats we were in!  Then we tried a new Mexican restaurant and he got a fitbit for our gift.  Ive been kicking everyones butt on the fitbit- any of you want to join us let me know

Our garden has been a huge success and we have made tons of fun stuff.  We didnt get as many apples this year but thats ok.

We had a wonderful conference weekend filled with crepes and family!  I love that we can skype with our loved ones far away!  It is pretty overwhelming to see all the changes happening so quickly in the church.  For me, the change to 2 hours will be huge.

School has been mind-spinningly busy!  We finally finished a month of NWEA testing (I proctored over 2,000 tests during that time).  We are now in the middle of book fair, book fair preview presentations, parent conference nights, literary pumpkins, breakout edus and much much more.  I have also pulled off a community connections activity on Halloween with 6th graders, 5 cops, and hundreds of donuts donated from walmart.  Watch that week for pictures.

So how am I surviving?  Bob found these amazing heated leg massagers. I race home, snuggle up on my memory foam, throw on my weighted blanket and leg massagers and convince myself I can make it another day…

Here are my literary pumpkins- Im super pleased how they turned out!

Also, our bond was passed so pray hard for me. Im hoping to transfer to the brand new 5th/6th grade building the year 2020 and it is being built less than a mile away from our house!

To sum it all up…

Everything but the kitchen sink…oh wait….

I was out cold 15 hours straight Friday night, just completely exhausted. Alayna was up early taking the ACT- this was the aftermath of her test!

Well it has been an interesting week here in our Hart household.  Our disposal went out when Hal and Corey were here. They tried with Bob to fix it and we realized we needed a new one.  So, Brandon helped Bob get the new disposal in while he was here and it works great! 

Then also, while Kayla and Brandon were here, Alayna's car broke down.  Tyler was driving it to Kirkwood (he was too lazy to move his backpack to his car).  It started smoking and he called a tow truck.  We found out it needed a new engine which would cost several thousand dollars.  We decided to get one so maybe this car would last her through college?  It took about 1 1/2 weeks to get her car fixed.

Then a few days later, Tyler was driving his car and Kirkwood and guess what?? Same problem!  He had it towed to the same place and it also needed a new engine.  Too bad he didn't take the oil light seriously.  We didnt want to put any more money into that dumpy car so we sold his car to some online junk place for a whopping $140. So now he doesnt have a car. Ugh.  Then Bob said something like “Good grief what else could go wrong?!”  Boooo, Bob, Boooo.

So we were canning last Saturday and the sink literally broke.  He couldnt get the parts until Tuesday, so we did dishes in the laundry sink.  Now I REALLY appreciate my sink!

So far we have done 26 jars of salsa and 7 spaghetti/pizza sauce!

Field of Dreams and more cuteness

Happy birthday Alayna and Brandon!!!

Brandon turns 25 this month (quarter of a century)and Alayna had her Sweet Sixteen!  We loved being able to celebrate them together.  We went to Osaka for lunch and amazingly the guys who ate by us paid for the bill!  AND left before we could thank them.  We were so grateful!

The crew helped me try out our 1st breakout EDU

Random cute pics of movie nights

LOVED LOVED LOVED the Greatest Showman- but still mad at Infinity War

Bonding with Grandma

Back to school for mom

Honestly not ready to go back.  This was a great summer for me and going back was a smack in the face.

But it was fun coming home to a baby

The girls had a day out to get their hair colored which was supposed to be about an hour and turned into 4 1/2 and was still a bit disastrous

Ellie with a zucchini as big as she is

She likes my TV area too

Fun at Lost Island

It was an overcast day so there werent many people there.

I got to hold Ellie while everyone tried out the water slides

We had a nice cabana area

Of course we had to have the funnel cake and ellie liked the powdered sugar

Then we were told we had to get out of the water because of the storm coming. What storm?

So we left while it poured and went out for dinner (create our own pizza…we tried BBQ macaroni and cheese pizza!)

When we came back, amazingly the park was still open but it was almost completely all empty.  Ellie slet and everyone else basically had the park to themselves for 90 minutes. Perfect day!