October endings...

Home sweet home and so much to catch up on!  I took the little kids with me on a shopping trip to Hobby Lobby to try and find some frames for some art I wanted to hang in the kitchen.  Colter took a frozen Sunny D and ended up frozen himself. Thankfully, there were hats, scarves, and mittens to spare in the store.  I bundled him up in a few loaners while we finished shopping.

Lorien's friends, Emma (in the orange sweater on the left) and Matt (in the green hat by Colter) came over for a surprise visit one afternoon.  Emma is in college in San Diego and Matt is a senior in high school.  Without Lorien home we don't see a lot of them, it was fun to have them visit (and play Minecraft with Colter).

We took our turn to clean the church building and went for donuts (is it donuts or doughnuts?) after.  We all wanted Krispy Kreme so we drove across the hill to get them hot and delicious!  We were all burping cotton candy by the time the morning was over.

At 2:30 in the morning, Wyatt came in with Lorien on the phone.  The hills near her apartment were on fire and there was a chance she was going to be evacuated.  I realized I have no emergency plans in place for her!  We spent a few hours on the phone with Will tracking the LA fire department web site and evacuation information.  We told Lorien to pack a go back and to tell her roommates to do the same thing.  If they were evacuated we would make sure they got into hotels together and were safe.  Thankfully, she was not evacuated.  She spent the next several days in smoky air and watching the hills blaze.  She sent a series of terrifying pictures...

We did all of the Halloween things:

Wyatt and his friends built a spook alley for Halloween night.  Wyatt was the hanging werewolf for most of the night.  He was the comic relief after the boys came out with chain saws making kids jump, Wyatt would be lowered and start cracking jokes.  It sounded awesome.  I wish I got my act together to go over and see him work his comedy magic.  By the time we headed over they were cleaning up and taking down. 

We went over to Alan and Heather's house for a bronze medal party with everyone.  It was awesome to celebrate with Will's support team.  (This was actually in November)

Peace out October, you've been a peach--or a pumpkin!