I begrudgingly let Katie buy electronic Monopoly (we already have two other versions) at a garage sale…but oh man did these three have fun with it! They were laughing and giggling and screaming for over two hours! I guess I got my $6 worth.
Brandon (left) was one of Owen’s first friends in third grade. He’s so awesome—he wanted to go to Six Flags for his birthday but since he knows Owen doesn’t like rides, they went to the water park instead!
I told the kids that if I ever got a decent deal I’d take them. So… Friday was the day. And they each got to invite a friend. Tom stayed home with the dogs and Anna came with me!
Aaand totally unlike me, I didn’t take a single photo the entire day/night… except one of Anna asleep at 8:03!
But the next morning after Owen left for his baseball game, the remaining three did the ropes course!
Getting higher!
Northern Illinois Music Conference
Thankfully it wasn’t too far to Highland Park Middle School—and they looked pretty alert for 8am.
Between performances we just hung around the library/cafeteria area with Lucas’ parents. It’s a really nice school.
Owen’s big ensemble did The Entertainer and it was really good!
After the performance, the judge gives them a few tips and suggestions and has them practice some bars again to see the difference. It’s really neat.
Owen didn’t decide until the day before that he wanted to go trick or treating so his choice of costumes was limited… I didn’t even get a picture of Katie because so much was going on.
Olive loved everyone! She would wait patiently and wouldn’t bark or go crazy.
But she loved the attention.
Of course, Katie refused to wear her wig at the last minute, so Tom put it on instead. It looked epic.
And he and Anna made a cute couple.
Owen invited some friends over to use the waterslide—and we looked out and saw this. This is apparently how teens use a waterslide. If they don’t use it more tomorrow this might be the last year!
