More October

It's "fall back" night, so since I get an extra hour today, I'll spend it blogging!  Here are more pictures from our busy, busy October:

Soccer sisters

Pretty dahlias from my garden

Jessi LOVES gymnastics class!  She's upside down here.

Meg sprinting to the finish at a meet at Stoney Creek Metropark

Meg's cross country team practiced every day after school.  One day, the whole team finished the practice with a run to the cider mill for some treats!

Me and my dahlias.  <3 td="">

Science club fun!  At our first meeting, we had a challenge to build the tallest tower out of toothpicks and marshmallow. Two engineers hard at work...

The second challenge of the night was to make a tower out of a single sheet of paper, and a 2" piece of scotch tape.  Meg was a pro at this!  She also had some experience, since she did this in STEM class a few weeks earlier.

Jess was good at it, too!

Katie in her color guard dress before a football game

Meg joined Girl Scouts!  We had a ceremony with walking over the symbolic bridge to become a Cadette

Bonding

Meg's troop, made up of great friends from elementary school.  (She's the only new girl, so that's why she doesn't have a sash.)  This will be a great way to keep in touch with her friends, who all attend a different middle school.

After the Girl Scout ceremony, we zipped over to the game at Adams HS.  The sunset was beautiful!

Our team got killed, but the bands were awesome!  They played together for this number.

The next day, we went to Uncle Carl & Aunt Jenny's house for their annual hayride and bonfire!!  We arrived JUST in time to get in this picture!!

We rode to Grandpa & Grandma's old farm, back to and through the woods.  It's a great spot for photos!

Beautiful Katie

Jess the selfie queen

Katie gravitated to the little kids, of course!  She had so much fun with Hailey!

On our way home, we "had" to stop at Cabela's, of course!

On Mondays, when the girls are in ballet/gymnastics/ballet, I go on a one hour walk down the Clinton River Trail and into Bloomer.  The trails are just magical...

One of Megan's eight cross country meets this season, this one was at Delia Park.

She placed in the top 20 overall, including 6th-8th graders!!

She won a medal!  I think her time was around 14:33 for two miles.

One day after school, we visited Yates!

Cider slushies and hot cinnamon sugar donuts, yummmm.  We love watching the cider press in action!