Halloween 2020

Halloween 2020 involved sweets, costumes, treats, trick-or-treating, candy, pumpkins, cookies, and more sweets. The neighborhood gathering was cancelled (bummer since Halloween was finally on a Saturday), but there was plenty of people giving out candy.

Preparation

Cookie decorating with Amelia

Pumpkin Carving

Julia draws and carves

Julia scoops out the seeds

RJ carves "Door Prize" which was appropriately rated as challenging

Halloween Night

House at night	Costumes
At the end of the night we ended up with a living room full of candy. I didn't take a picture, but a picture would not have done the situation justice anyway.

Last Produce Sale of 2020

 The garden was a success this year due to some awesome dirt from Grandad and the lack of an extended summer vacation trip away from home.

The team braved a cold wet day to sell butternut squash and bags of peppers. Towards the end of October we were still getting lots of butternut squash, lots of peppers, some tomatoes, mint, kale, and some tiny squash.

Refurbishing a Trail

The family spent an entire day climbing playing in the woods. Mr. Brad found an old abandoned bike trail which the gang decided to rejuvenate. The trail featured many turns, a jump, 3 bridges, and a stream crossing (almost). 

Here are a couple pictures from the stream crossing.

Kids add rocks to fix the broken bridge

Classic Construction Scene - 1 worker / 5 supervisors

Twelve Years of Marriage

 After twelve years, we are still having fun ... 

Whitetail house, skiing, and Covid-19

Or put another way ... after 15 minutes of picture taking ... a Julia tantrum ... and 30-40 pictures ... this was the best we could muster.

Selfie stick photo

Patient Julia

Julia won the Virtue of the Month for the month of September - which is a big deal at St. Agnes. The virtue of the month was PATIENCE. Humph, Doug feels like he should have won.

 

RJ was courageous in April 2019 when he started at St. Agnes.

RJ Plays Goalie

 RJ loves playing goalie. Doug does not like putting on goalie gear ... but I'm getting good at it.

Navy Blue rushes Out