Early this morning our missionary friends came back to the states for a month long furlough. They are staying down in our apartment. It's a family of 5 so we had to get creative! i was a little concerned about the setup being 'cheesy' but they seem very appreciative of the space, so praise God for that!
Adam and I are training for his first 5K in a couple weeks! The race is on Thanksgiving morning. I am enjoying the time running with him. We add a little more distance each time we run. We are up to 2.5 miles and the boy doesn't get out of breath. I'm a little bit speechless about that.
The boys are also practicing for a "gig" they have coming up. They are participating in an annual Christmas musical with the New Holland Band, held at Willow Valley. They've been asked to do the "surprise music" where they will be a barber shop quartet, lip singing "santa clause is coming to town". I''m a little speechless about this too. It's a fast moving song with a lot of motions and words. 400 people attend this event so there's some motivation to make sure Clay knows a little about what he should be doing. He's going to be the Bass singer, of course.
Another new thing the boys are doing is Tae Kwon Do, they started a couple weeks ago and have class 2 times a week. They really like it. Their coach Mr Luie is really good. Rod and i get a little desperate in the colder months to find them places to put their energy into! We agreed on trying this and it's been fun for them.
A highlight for us this week was taking our homeschool day on Wednesday and heading down to mom's to rake leaves. It was a warm day (for November). half of the boys got big truck and tractor rides too. We worked on their school work the night before, on the way to moms, and the next day. I like having the flexibility in my days.
And it looks like the rest of this year will be like this....lots going on, but all things we look forward to and enjoy. We have 2 events here in November, smaller then the norm, and one inside. And Adam has a birthday in 2 weeks! Then December is filling up with a school program, field trip, family gatherings, the quartet singing, our Anniversary, etc.
I will leave you with a recipe for my favorite way to use pumpkin......cookies! try these...and don't skimp on the caramel icing.
Pumpkin cookies:
Beat: 1 cup butter & 1 cup sugar
Add: 1 egg, 1 cup pumpkin, 1 tsp vanilla, 2 cups flour
1 tsp. baking powder, 1 tsp. baking soda, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp. cinnamon
Bake 350 for 15 minutes
Caramel Frosting: (enough for a double batch)
1/2 cup butter
1 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup milk
2 cups 10x sugar
melt butter and br. sugar on low heat stirring constantly, boil 2 minutes
add milk and heat just to boiling again
remove from heat and stir in 10x. ice cookies.
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