'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Lewis and his class went on a field trip recently to several nursing homes to sing Christmas carols and recite 'Twas the Night Before Christmas.  Lewis had a section of lines and did such an incredible performance, we wanted to post it before Christmas, even though I'm pretty behind on my blog posts.  CLICK HERE for the link!! Enjoy!

And a few pics from the event:

jackson's orchard

We got to take the whole family out to Jackson's Orchard in late October including the grandparents Reitmeyer.  Lewis and Owen fight a lot, but once we got out there, they were eager to climb onto the highest part of the hay maze together.

 

 

Owen did some exploring on his own too.

 

Lewis enjoyed sitting on this slide for a while and enjoying the view.

Phoebe found a pumpkin almost as big as she is.

We got all of them to sit together sort of....on the white pumpkins.

Owen really enjoyed being there.

Mom + Phoebe.

Phoebe hanging out with Grandpa! 

sixpence + random october pics

 So, in October, Beth and I took the kids to a free sixpence show at a park in Nashville.  We've been listening to their new album, "Lost in Transition" quite a bit and Lewis had been playing their songs pretty frequently on the piano.  Owen likes to sing along, so it seemed like a good time to take them to a show.

 It was great!  It was a beautiful day, and the boys LOVED seeing them perform songs they knew.  They also played a couple of old favorites ("Line of my Earth" and "Within a Room") so it was fun for all of us.

 We got to play outside a lot with Phoebe who is ever more attached to her baby.

 We threw a lot of rocks in puddles.

 We saw the WKU Homecoming parade.

 Owen, Phoebe & I stopped by Lost River Cave to walk around and see the fallen leaves.

 They ran across the bridge.

And Lewis made some animals out of playdoh.  He went through a "Noah's Ark" and "Dinosaurs" phase so we made mostly those animals and he thought it was amazing.