At the beginning of November, our best friends from Rochester came to visit! It was so refreshing and nice, but so so sad to see them go. Lucky duck Maida was able to go back to Rochester with them for a slumber party with Hailey. It was a much needed time together!
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| It was strange to have only boys at church with us when Maida was in Rochester! |
We picked Maida up in Rochester on Sunday when we went to make sure we had gotten everything out of our old house! We feel so blessed to be able to have sold it so quickly. Definitely the answer to prayers we were hoping for!
Celebration dinner at Red Lobster to celebrate selling our house!
The manager at Red Lobster took one of the lobsters out for the kids to pet!
Skogen had a Veterans Day program at school and Erik was invited to attend!
Each kid in Skogen's class wrote a note to a veteran and Skogen was able to give his to Erik! So sweet.
I got all my Christmas shopping done and presents wrapped! Always a great feeling to get that done.
One short weekend, the kids and I took a trip up to Park Rapids for deer hunting! I sat in the stand with my niece, Sarena. Even though we didn't get any meat, it was great to be in nature for a while.
Maida's friend, Natalie, was able to join us up north for the weekend!
Torsten and I got to eat lunch with Maida at school one day!
Erik and the boys did some worm collecting!
I started my planning and decorating for Thanksgiving! We were expecting Erik's family from Oklahoma!!
The kids and I spent a day at the Minnesota Zoo! We really enjoyed all of the animals, who were rather lively, but especially loved the brown grizzly bear named Sadie. She played and played with us at the window!
Maida and I read, "Number the Stars," and then did some research on where the title came from and the parts of the story that were true! It was so fun to do this together.
The boys found some ice outside and they were excited that this meant snow was coming! (Yes, they are wearing their underwear over their pants...)
We got our Christmas tree! It was fun to put up in the new house and we decorated it in record time this year! The kids were great about doing all of the ornaments and getting them evenly spaced on the tree. It turned out beautiful!
Klaasen had a trial run at a preschool run by the school district. He had a great week there and we hope he is selected to attend preschool there more regularly to get him ready for Kindergarten!
We finally got snow and the boys were SO excited! They played for HOURS. Even when it was time to come in from playing outside and take Maida to gymnastics, they still asked to play in the snow while we waiting for Maida at gymnastics!
El Niño Y Tu Pilin
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