Family Weekly Digest ~ Week of 16 October

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~*The men in our family ventured forth to “War” this week – a Paint Ball War.

~**The younger set and I gave the older ones a tour of the Concho Riverwalk….we fed and/or observed ducks, geese, muskrats, a water moccasin, fish and fishermen.

~Stacia turned two months old this week. It’s always amazing how quickly a family absorbs and adapts to new members.

~We’ve met *TWO* neighbors this week. One when a nameless male broke a solar light running back to receive a pass and the other when a nameless woman and daughter showed up on our doorstep. The woman did have a name: Kathy. She began by saying “Are you the lady with lots of children who drives a big red van from AK”? She went on to tell us LOTS about us…while we knew nothing about her. She filled us in and we look forward to getting to know her and her family better.

~Football season continues. The TLC Eagles won their game 33-0 this week. The highlight of the night for us was watching Jamin introduce several opponents to the ground, blocking a pass and Zander discovering TX FIRE ANTS! We’ve been warning him since June but now he *KNOWS*. He was indignant “Mom, the FIRE ANTS are BITING ME!”

~**School marches on. We’ve made cookie dough maps, spotted planets and more this week.

~ *A couple of Family Funnies

~* Reading continues to be a favorite family hobby. Check to see what we are reading this week and leave some suggestions of your own.

~By the way, Girls, although you insisted our food consumption would not change when you left home, we need to report that we now need THREE pizzas instead of four and we eat ONE Chicken Pot Pie instead of 1 ¾. It’s also been noted that left-overs are not leaving the fridge at the same rate of consumption. Arielle, Nolan & Zander continue to listen to the story tape you made constantly. Arielle still sleeps with the picture of the three of you.

~Pictures of this & that are uploaded to the blog.