Around here we have been…

FINISHING up football season. Both {L} and {D} finished their fall football programs. Though the game play looked a lot different this year, both boys had fun and were happy to at least be able to participate in the limited capacity that they did.

For {D}’s last game, the parents played the kids. It was a fun way to cap off the season. Now he is focusing on fine tuning his kicking skills in preparation for the national kicking showcase in Texas in December.

ENJOYING the beautiful Fall weather. The bright colors of the changing leaves make us so happy.

It is fun to see our finished house surrounded by color. This time last year we still had quite a bit of exterior work that wasn’t finished.

Angela brought a little of nature’s beauty inside with some Fall decorating.

SURPRISED by an early October snow storm. Over the course of a week, our area had received over a foot of snow. It was a heavy, sticking snow, which meant we spent quite a few hours shoveling the driveway (and one of us even got the van stuck! That person shall remain nameless. ha!)  The kids went sledding at a nearby hill with their friends.

We were sure that we had been ushered into an early winter season, but the temperature rose to the high 60’s and low 70’s for a few days and every last bit of snow has now melted!

DOING normal things. With the strangeness of the pandemic, it felt really great to be able to do something ‘normal’ as a family. Trick or Treating in our new neighborhood was a lot of fun. Many houses had interesting social distancing strategies, such as leaving candy in buckets at the end of the driveway and handing the kids candy bags via fishing poles/line.

This year we didn’t have a family theme, since the kids really wanted to pick their own costumes. We had a firefighter, unicorn princess, and ‘creepy blue guy’.

{D} opted out of the actual treat getting this year and instead stayed home to pass out goodies. We only had a handful of visitors though! Later in the evening he went to a local outdoor haunted house/maze with a friend and had a lot of fun.

This is just a glimpse at what our family has been up to. If you’d like a closer look, be sure to check out our weekly ‘mini vlogs’ on our family YouTube channel ARROW HILL FAMILY. Be well everyone!