Two pictures

 Between us, Jeff and I managed just two photos this week. Kids with cat:

And Kids on a hike:

There really is plenty to report: Thanksgiving and days off of school along with a break from work, many pies including Thanksgiving pumpkin pies and a mini apple pie from the few wormy apples that we harvested from our brand new tree, putting up our first Christmas lights and wreath, enjoying some time outdoors, and all the other things. 

We are headed into our last week of classes, then we have finals week and a bit of a sigh of relief after that!

Middle of term slog

 For the last few weeks we have been in the middle of the term at OSU which means that Jeff and I are busy and not really able to make a lot of interesting things happen around here. Last week I had nothing to say in a blog post and this week I thought OK I had a better post something, but there is not much to say. Things are just moving along the way they always do. In the last two weeks I have these photos to report:

Linden being silly with carrots:

Linden being silly with a friend:

Rad Dad

Monday was Jeff’s birthday. The kids decorated his cake:

 

They did a pretty awesome job 😊 

Then of course on Friday was Halloween, and along with it came pumpkin carving. This hurt they carved things completely themselves.

This one has eyes by Maren and a mouth by Linden:

This is Maren’s 

And this is Linden’s 

And of course trick or treating. A few weeks ago, Maren came to us and said she doesn’t want to be vegan, and Linden agreed. There were social reasons, and wanting to be able to participate in food-related things with other kids. We talked as a family and decided that we would be “mostly vegan.” So this year that meant keeping all the candy from trick or treating - no swapping for vegan chocolate. In previous years we were able to pare down the amount each kid had significantly by taking out all the non-vegan candy and trading for a much smaller amount of vegan stuff. This year they have mountains of candy, and we can do nothing to stop them! 😬