Some More October Things...

Adell got her braces on.  Her teeth are pretty straight but there is one adult tooth that came in misaligned and her bottom teeth are making it impossible for the adult top tooth to move into the correct position.  Hopefully, this will be a short job and she will have the braces off before her 14th birthday (November 2023).                  

                 

October has been the month of Adell.  She had her school choir concert (Halloween themed).  It was perfect!  The songs were fun, the selections short, the costumes adorable, and the kazoo playing on point.  

Adell dressed as her Dad for the show (a wrestling coach).

Remember how October is the month of Adell?  She also had her last fall swim meet in October.  She only had one other meet she didn't go to because we were out of town.  This meet was a big deal because she is almost 13 so she swam 50's and 100's and did five events!  It was hard but she did it.

                  

She popped her time in freestyle and finished in the top three in a few events.  However, her best stroke (Breast) came after her 100 yard freestyle and she was super tired.  She didn't do well and was so bummed.  It was a hard day (early, cold, long) but she did it!

October marked my 4th year of working out at Orange Theory Fitness.  I love the community and the work outs.  I am glad the me of four years ago decided to be brave and try a class (right before and during Hell Week!) and the me of 3, 2, and last year stuck with it.  Since I joined Will joined, his brother Dave, and several of his other siblings and their spouses.  I am an Anderson trend setter.

Clare was a high school chaperone for a 5th grade out door ed week.  She said it was hard, the kids were terrible, and it was cold.  But she made friends with the other teens and they made the most of the time.  She wants to volunteer to do it again with other schools in the district.  Bless her heart.  

We have a friend who has a vacation home near Monterey.  He offered us the use of his home the last week of October.  We couldn't use it so he offered it to someone else.  They couldn't go either so it came back to us for the weekend before Halloween.  We have traveled so much this month but looking at a few of the fun things going on Will and I decided it was worth the trip down for a couple of nights.

Adell and Clare wanted to stay home so we just went down with Colter (probably for the best since we only have a five seater car and long drives are hard with all of them in the back).  

Colter was good company and we all had a ton of fun.  The weather was sunny and cool.  We biked the 17 mile drive, ate at restaurants, ordered pizza and had a movie night in.  We enjoyed remembering the last time we were in Monterey for the Renaissance weekend event.  All three of us were glad we went!

Two notable events you don't see every day.  At the end of our bike ride we decided to stop for ice cream.  We could only find one place on our path so we stopped.  It was an anti-establishment-hippy place.  The guy manning the counter only wanted to tell us about how masks were government mind control.  The ice cream was bad...but the experience was memorable!  Colter needed to use the bathroom so we went across the street to the Laundry Mat.  It was seriously decorated for Halloween!  Every inch had something spooky on it.  It was great!