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Due April 16th. Can't wait.

Halloween

Halloween week was so fun. Mon. was doing errands and getting Zeke signed up for school, Tues. we went to the county fair, on Wed. we had a Halloween Party at the Rossville story time, Wed. night was our church Halloween party, Thurs. was a party at the Chickamauga story time, Sat. morning Kim and Megan took the kids to the aquarium, Sat. night was trick-or-treating. The kids dressed up for all events (Cole and Zeke did not for the aquarium). Candy candy and more candy. The church party was really fun. Dempsey and Sage won a cake on the cake walk. After that the girls ate while the boys were doing the other games (face painting, lasso a horse, sucker pull, bean bag toss and fish pond). By the time the girls were finished eating, all the games were over so that was kind of the pits. Last but not least, the trunk or treat. Victoria took the kids around while I haded out the candy. She told me that the girls were so excited to get candy and were having a blast. It was great practice for Saturday night. Also, Will went hunting before the party and he shot his first deer! That was a fun surprise. The kids loved looking at it and Dempsey always stood where she was right in the middle of the blood. On Halloween night, Sage and Dempsey were having a blast trick-or-treating and then we had gone half a street and Sage took off running and tripped and landed on her face. She had road burn across her cheek. The next morning, her eye was all swollen and turning kind of purple. After her fall, she didn't want to trick-or-treat anymore. The Vanderslice's street blocked off and they had a air jump thing, free pictures, free hot dogs and cotton candy and popcorn. It was really a fun little place to go so we went there. From there, we went home.

County Fair

We went to Dalton's county fair. It was so much fun. I have always loved county fairs but theirs was even better than Delta's. We went early in the day on Tues. It was a special showing for school kids (we got invited to go with a play group). They had all the farm animals, a bear, and another exhibit with zebras, camels and some I had never heard of. When we went into the live stock area, one of the little boys with us, Miles, was holding his nose. He told me how bad it stunk. So I asked him if he wanted to live on a farm with the smell. He shook his head and said no. Cole pipes in, "I want to be a farmer and live on a farm. I love the smell!" Dempsey was so funny. She was so excited to see all the animals. She was petting everything she could and running around like crazy. Cole liked to pet them (which consists of touching them with one finger quickly. Sage loves pigs. She sat with the pigs for 10 minutes just yelling at them. "Pigs, wake up!" It was a lot of fun plus, there were hardly any people there so it didn't matter if they kids ran around.

Hurry! Hurry! Hotter! Hotter! Fire! Fire! Water! Water!

Story time's theme was fire fighters. We read a few stories about firemen, colored a fire truck and went next door to the fire station. It was so good. The firemen were so kid friendly and they let them put on their uniforms, sit in the firetruck, had someone climb to the top of the ladder, and did a tour of the fire house. We even got to use their bathroom (lucky us). Here are a few pictures of the little expedition. P.S. the head band Sage wears around her arms in front of her is her "dress". We don't go very many places without it.