GIRLS WEEKEND

While the boys were at the Cubaree Campout this weekend, Cora and I had a date night (a fancy dinner and glass bottle root beer at Rusty's downtown), finished decorating the house for Halloween, and scouted out a potential trail route for our upcoming Girl Scout hike (there was a LOT of blowdown due to the tornadoes last April, so we're thinking this will not be a good route for our littlest Scouts, or some of the parents/grandparents). She slept up in daddy's spot in our bed and got to goof off on her Kindle until late at night. She was sooo happy to have me all to herself for 30 hours or so and it made me feel pretty special.

(She thought that tree stump looked like the Upside Down...)

(It's always reassuring to find the orange blazes when you haven't seen one in a while due to having to go around big tree falls and jump over small ravines)

MCCLAIN EXPERIENCE

We met a unicorn...

DINNER AND A HAUNTING

 

SUNDAY HAPPENINGS

My first (looooong) game of D&D

Drinking like royalty 

Sleeping with mama (I don't remember why...)

It's close enough to October - time to decorate for our favorite holiday!

OKTOBERFEST 2019

Cottonwood hosted it's second annual Oktoberfest celebration today and you know we weren't going to miss a chance to eat festive foods and drink amazing beers!

After lunch, we moved upstairs for some rooftop fun!

James loves that the elevator to the rooftop has a fake grass floor ;-)

There was photobooth posing, there was dancing (that's Cora's old babysitter, Miss Elizabeth, swinging her around the roof), there were more beers, and there was some arm wrestling... We had a great time! We left Jay there for a couple hours while I took Cora to a birthday party, then took Grambot and James home to chill, then I joined Jay again for a bit longer before picking Cora up from her party. It was a great low-key way to start the weekend.