Fall is in the air!

Abby's figure skating club had a fun hay ride / smores outing yesterday....and luckily the weather was beautiful.  A little windy and chilly, but the sun was shining, so we'll take it. I say it all the time, but the families in the skating club are so nice and the girls all get along so well....it's fun to do these outings with them to give Abby a chance to have friendships outside school and with great girls.  Anywho.....not all the girls show up to these events - the older girls are too cool :-) - but this smaller, younger group is who Abby most hangs with at the rink.

 It is really pretty out where the hay ride was.....

 The girls rolling down this huge hill

 And running back up it!

 Smores!

Abby is also on the cover of the club's little brochure that is available at the rink.  It's helpful to be on the board of the club at times like these....you can get your kid on the marketing materials :-)  She likes it b/c they mistakenly said she's 11 :-)

Lastly, the fun 10 mile Monster Dash was Saturday morning.  I was planning on running with my friend I run with (ah, duh), but on Thursday I came down with a case of "oh my gosh the tendon the top of my right foot is so swollen I can't get any shoes on or walk on it without swearing" - itis.   I was hoping against hope it would repair itself overnight (as it came on overnight so it only makes sense it would leave overnight), but it did not.  I missed the race, which made me royally mad. I do, however, have the very cool Monster Dash Finisher hoodie you get when you, um, finish.  I feel a bit like a fraud wearing it :-)  However, my friend ran her best race and did awesome, so I am assuming I would have run right along with her and would have had my best race also....so I'm very pleased with what would have been my race time :-) he he

Griff is in the midst of hockey evals and will find out soon what team he is on for the season. He's excited to start playing games again, and Mike is coaching again this year. 

Abby, Hannah and I are off to a local high school Halloween event his afternoon while Griff has evals. Then we are going to carve our pumpkins. Will post you pics of the cool carvings we (read: Mike) do when we are finished.

That's all for now!

Oh, Hannah says Happy Halloween!  She draws pictures on our little whiteboard all the time...