Fun Times

Wow, my postings have really dwindled!  Thought I would take a moment and put up a post about the fun stuff we've being doing around here recently.

Rob and I had a chance to go on a date that turned out to be completely free.  Our local coffee roasters, Berres Brothers,celebrated 20 years in the business this past Saturday and Rob and I received an invite for a special tour.  We contacted Emilie, the kids favorite babysitter, and she offered to sit for free if we'd let her practice her budding photography skills on the kids.  No problem!  We got to try some of the new coffee flavors coming out next year and won lots of freebies.  I won a pound of coffee in a drawing, we both won free drinks answering questions (although Rob helped me answer mine), we played a game and Rob won a coffee scoop and I won a travel mug, we both won coffee packets, and in our last game Rob won coaster and I won a $5 gift card!  And we both got coupons.  We ate lunch afterwards in the cafe and I had a free lunch coming for my birthday plus 20% off Rob's lunch.  We used my gift card and the lunch was free!  The only thing we ended up buying was some more coffee b/c one of our coupons was only good that day.  We'll use the free drinks and the other coupon on my birthday to treat all of us to a hot drink.  It was really fun to do the tour and go on a free date.

Anna got to go to the annual children's class at MBBC put on by her former Sunday school teacher.  The class is for children up to kindergarten age so this will be our last year going :(  The students read to the kids and Anna found her new friend, Anna.  The other Anna is a student from China and she and my Anna had a ball reading and talking to each other.  Anna got to go in a costume and she wore a red skirt made by Grandma Litwiller and a shirt that said "Princess."  She got some fun toys and snacks as we left and had a marvelous time.

The boys were able to attend a class Halloween party for the first time!  The Johnson Creek library had a Halloween party for homeschool kids in grades K-4 yesterday.  They went in costume and had a grand time playing games, making crafts, and eating snacks.  The librarian sent me the menu ahead of time and read packages so I would know how to plan.  Thankfully the only thing they had to avoid was black licorice (which they don't like anyway) and the cookies.  I took some gluten free cookies for them to frost with the kids.  They were both very well behaved and had a grand time.  And I had a grand time reading a book in the corner of the library while I waited :)

I'll update later on all of the health issues and such, but I wanted to start with the fun stuff first!!

How to Choose a Spouse

I was teasing the boys at dinner tonight as we were discussing Halloween.

Me:  Boys, when the day comes for you to propose to that special girl, the main question you need to ask her is "What is your opinion on Halloween?"  If she says she doesn't like it, then walk away.  I'm not letting her into my house.

Matt:  No, Mom.  First we ask her if she loves Jesus and then we ask her if she's willing to go gluten free.

Anna:  I'm going to find a man who is not already married.  If he's already married then I'll find someone else.

81Things that Matthew Likes

For some reason unknown to any of us, Matthew decided to write up a list of things that he likes and he has allowed me to share this list on Facebook.  He said they are in no particular order and he wants to clarify that the people he loves, the rest he just likes.  I have left in the spelling errors on purpose.

1.  cake
2.  ice cream
3. soadapop
4.  hot dogs
5.  burgers
6.  culvers
7.  pie
8.  stufing
9.  mom dad ben and anna
10.  grandma and grampa litwhere and fulkerson
11.  gg and auant ruth
12.  abbie
13.  popcorn
14.  bananas
15.  grapes
16.  beries
17.  candy
18.  shrimp
19.  tuna fish
20.  steak
21.  chiken
22.  pbnj
23.  pizza
24.  pancakes
25.  wafeles
26.  bacon
27.  sausage
28.  davis
29.  tacos
30.  smoothies
31.  rice and shine
32.  calvin and hobbes
33.  thunder storms
34.  harry potter
35.  legos
36.  mollys bakery
37.  michky mouse
38.  tigers
39.  draculus
40.  my stuffed tiger
41.  joke books
42.  mario strikers
43.  spot it
44.   luigi
45.  fish
46,  mummys
47.  werwolfs
48.  craons
49.  chex
50.  slopy joes
51.  jamei and julleion
52.  pasta
53.  lions
54.  cats
55. kittys
56.  mushrooms
57.  birds
58.  flowers
59.  soup
60. Jesus
61.  God
62.  water
63.  blankets
64.  juice
65.  peopole
66.  cristmas
67.  bread
68.  monsters
69.  bears
70.  ron weasly
71.  hermione grager
72.  gold
73.  silver
74.  bronze
75.  snakes
76.  broclie
77.  fred weasly
78.  gorge weasly
79.  pumkins
80.  fruit
81.  pumkin pie