Wednesday

The pictures are from early in the week. Two are at the park on Thursday, the 20th and the carrot/potato picking happened on Friday, the 21st.

As for today, Billy got all dressed up for picture day. He wore jeans and a red sweater with a striped dress shirt underneath. Ian and I worked on colors while Carley took a very short nap. Then the kids played while I read from Mark Twain's Puddin'head Wilson. So far it is a very interesting read. I picked Billy up and we had lunch. Then daddy came home early and we ran errands. Nothing exciting or anything. It's been a pretty ho-hum day. The dog discovered we have a front door (he was never brave enough to venture that far). He was running through the living room excitedly after that. He even went upstairs on his own. I can't think of anything really great to share. The kids we're getting rowdy and unruly by 4 p.m. and we had them in bed by 6:30.

We're getting prices on the roof. Hopefully we can get it finished before the winter hits. We're also looking at getting a doggy door, but we can't find one we really like. Also, we're trying to decide how to do Christmas this year. We're going to Carl's mom's, but usually we spend the morning as a family. Unfortunately, neither of us want to spend 3 hours of Christmas Day in the car, so we are trying to figure out if we should spend the night at her place or a hotel or just give it up and drive. Well, I guess that's a discussion for another time.

Hope tomorrow is full of fun things to share.