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Ready for November!

I erased our October calendar yesterday, and was happy to say good-bye to it!  Lots of busy-ness and lots of commitments that are over with for now.  We had a good month, don't get me wrong!  I just had many things I seemed to be in charge of and they all took place within 2 weeks of each other:  planning the 3rd grade Halloween party, getting publicity out about our women's brunch at church, planning our MomTime gathering at church, coordinating a gift for the first grade teacher whose father passed away, and then throw in a couple of subbing days and my great uncle's funeral to attend.  I could have gone to my cousin's wedding in MO, too!

My brain was on planning overload - so much so that I forgot that our 10th anniversary is today!  I happened to see the date on an e-mail this morning and mentioned it to Chelan, who had also forgotten!  Good thing we're going to Dallas/Ft. Worth next weekend to celebrate.  Otherwise, I would have been disappointed!  

So far, the calendar for November is pretty empty.  Unless, you take into consideration that I have to plan for when Chelan and I are gone next weekend and that Shammi is supposed to have puppies around Thanksgiving and that Caiden may have some basketball practices (if they find a coach - Chelan's not convinced he wants to do that, but I think he's the last option)!

Maybe November is just as busy - bring it on, I guess!

Here are some pictures from Halloween:




Halloween parade at school
Nice costume, huh?  He doesn't get into
Halloween very much - kind of like me.
So, I finally told him he could be a K-State
fan.  The hat and jersey were the only
things we had, though.
Delaney was supposed to be a tiger, but she finally
decided to be a ballerina.  She danced for practically
everyone she saw at church that night!
Everyday is Halloween for her!
Cambry thought her pumpkin needed her fireman's hat!

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