I Heard Said the Bird

Thursday, November 1, 2018

Grandma’s Chairs

They have quickly become the favorite spot(s) in the living room.

Halloween 2018

We didn’t make it to the orchard this year to pick our own pumpkins due to me being so sick, so I was very excited when Hy-Vee had giant pumpkins for $4 each. Each boy picked one out.

A few days later we open them up to carve them, and unfortunately they were somewhat rotten and moldy inside. See Lewis’ face? Accurate. Turns out they had some cracks in the bottoms.

Elias really enjoyed scooping out his pumpkin. We were able to scoop them out and carve them anyway, but someone was quite disappointed nonetheless.

Team breakfast was at our house on Halloween morning, and Jack was in charge. He wowed is all! He made his family’s sausage soufflé recipe for us, which was amazing. He also decorated the tables and hung a sign, had festive paper goods, AND dressed up like a shark. Elias wanted the shark to read him a book (see pic above).

That evening we went trick or treating with friends, and Augustine was adamant that the kids have a dance party afterwards. I think because he recently made up some sweet moves and he wanted to wow his girl. ;) Lewis went trick or treating with us for the first time ever! He usually stays home and passes out candy with Grandma. And Logan threw together an impressive last minute costume...a traffic cone (he wore the pointy hood on his jacket to complete the look).

The pumpkins turned out great despite being quite mushy by that evening. We had fun trick or treating a few blocks away in the old ‘hood.

As always, we visited the Sisters and Jesus on our trick or treat route.

And Augustine got his dance party in at the end of the night!

Boo at the Zoo

Grandma got to join us this year! We took the SWAT team and a fire fighter along for safety. ;)

They were excited, as always, to see the fire fighters and the police.

Of course, Grandma got to see some good friends!

Turns out a person assisted by a wheel chair is as good as a VIP (early bird) ticket, so we were done in an hour! We got dinner on the way home and sat down to check out the treats.

Elias was wide-eyed the whole time, but understood quickly that this was a sweet gig. He was really good about giving up everything with dairy in it, and still very happy about his safe treats.

Sunday, October 28, 2018

Grandma Carlson

Our Grandma passed away last month, and we celebrated her life last weekend. It was a joyful weekend of memories and family. My sisters and I have lots of fond memories growing up with Grandma in town.

All the granddaughters with Aunt Pat.

We had three meals with all the family, a rosary, and a memorial Mass.

On Sunday my aunts and uncles, my parents, and the granddaughters met at Grandma’s apartment. We all took turns picking treasures we wanted to have to remember her by, as well as anything practical we could use. It was such a fun time! We shared memories, laughed a lot, and found it very interesting what everyone considered “treasures”.

I chose some Christmas serving bowls from her Christmas china, Christmas cocktail glasses with matching coasters, a few glass pitchers, a wooden trivet my Grandpa made, a Mary/Jesus statue, a serving bowl she used for her famous potato salad, a lamp my Grandpa made, and other various items.