This week started out pretty lazy (how I like it), with the boys perusing the local Toys 'R Us ad for potential Christmas list items. October is probably my favorite month out of the year - there's apple cider, pumpkins, pumpkin-tasting baked goods, doughnuts.. and the list goes on and on.
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| Lukas drinking apple cider through a cinnamon stick |
One of the highlights of this week was finishing the 1,000 piece puzzle that Justin bought. This happened Monday or Tuesday evening and it was cause for great celebration - at least by me :) Justin was sad that our puzzle-couple-bonding time was over, but this just means we'll have to find some new and different things to do together. It is a pretty fall scene, so I will probably frame this and hang it in my master bedroom or something.
Justin began drill team training on Wednesday of this week. It is usually an 8-week course, with the first 2 weeks or so being hellish physical training having absolutely nothing to do with twirling the rifle around. However, for whatever reason (maybe because there are so many old-fart NCO's like Justin in this class), the course will only be about 7 weeks long, with evaluations being right before Thanksgiving. This is lucky for them because the hellish two weeks is (I think) being cut down to only about a week.
Justin's typical day is 12-hours long. The first week they worked from 9am-9pm and starting this week they will go in from 4pm-4am. I'm not sure of all the details, but they should be doing some PT, working with the weapon, and a bunch of other super-secret initiation activities. Hooray. All to join the AF's cheerleading squad. Drill team has a rep around here for thinking highly of themselves, and I'll be right here to make sure that never happens to Justin ;) . Justin also attended an Airmen Leadership School graduation for one of his troops.. hard to believe it was almost three years ago that Justin was going through ALS. Time is flying!
This week I spent a ton of time walking every day and running errands. I picked up a present for Justin for Christmas and returned a flashlight Luke stole from my brother a long long time ago. Devin's new night and day braces arrived at Bethesda, so I picked those up on Thursday. Luke has had fun in school, though he did get an accident report after falling off of a bike and needing a band-aid. I was told the same day he threw his first tantrum in class. This makes me feel bad, because these two sweet ladies have like 20 toddlers in this class - which is super-hard to begin with - and mine was making their day harder.
The highlight of the week was by far our trip to Summer's Farm on Saturday. We went to a different farm last year, but decided to check this one out because it had a 'military appreciation weekend.' All active duty members get in free and families are half price. 3 and older are supposed to pay, but the nice girl there didn't charge me for him :) Admission that would normally be $30 cost us only $5 that weekend. SWEET!
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| Obligatory head-in-farm-animal-body photo |
The kids loved the hay, jumping on the trampoline, playing in the mini-mazes, checking out the farm animals, eating apple cider doughnuts, and going down the giant slide. Devin was pretty independent and went down the slide many times himself. I was impressed - and content to watch - as he climbed to the top by himself over and over.
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| Had to leave when Luke started throwing sand at me. PUNK! |
We took a hayride to the pumpkin patch and picked out four pumpkins. Justin was really helpful and surprisingly into it this year :) Luke wandered around for a REALLY LONG TIME looking for the perfect pumpkin.
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| Chasing the children through the mini-maze |
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| This isn't Paleo. SHHHHhh!! :) |
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| X-Treme slide fun |
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| Luke found a worm - SHOCK! |
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| Devin enjoyed hiding in the corn. |
At the very end we went into the giant corn maze, which I was really unprepared for. Thinking this was going to be your normal hokey maze, I didn't bring any juice or hiking backpack. By the end, the kids were begging for 'attle'- juice/water/'molk.' After what I think was a couple of hours, we found our way out, hopped in the car and drove home with a gigantic bag of kettle corn. After picking up some pizza and carving a pumpkin, we watched Role Models on T.V. and called it a night! Perfect end to an awesome day :)
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| Justin, Katelyn & Will collecting clues to the puzzle sheet we got |
This week started out pretty lazy (how I like it), with the boys perusing the local Toys 'R Us ad for potential Christmas list items. October is probably my favorite month out of the year - there's apple cider, pumpkins, pumpkin-tasting baked goods, doughnuts.. and the list goes on and on.
Justin began drill team training on Wednesday of this week. It is usually an 8-week course, with the first 2 weeks or so being hellish physical training having absolutely nothing to do with twirling the rifle around. However, for whatever reason (maybe because there are so many old-fart NCO's like Justin in this class), the course will only be about 7 weeks long, with evaluations being right before Thanksgiving. This is lucky for them because the hellish two weeks is (I think) being cut down to only about a week. 
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