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Who had a good weekend?!  Anyone, anyone?  We did!  The weather was fab (little windy for my taste on Saturday, but what are ya gonna do?) and the company was good!  On Saturday I realized we were out of baked goods (the HORROR!), so I whipped up some Kodiak Cake Bear Country Cookies.  Dark chocolate AND oatmeal – these HAVE to be good, right?

Wholesome ingredients – check!

And here they are!  They were AWESOME.  Totally remind me of “Tricia’s Famous Cookies” () only BETTER!  Or healthier, anyway.  

Seriously, if you see this mix – definitely pick some up.  They are GOOD.

They brought out the cookie monster in me for sure!  Someone hold me back!

There was a request to see Dylan and Avery’s candy loot from Halloween.  I had to dump all the candy from their candy buckets to put away the Halloween crap, so it all got dumped into this GINORMOUS bowl.  Seriously – WHAT are we going to do with all this?!  The kids seem to have forgotten about it.  Eric has been slowly pecking away at it.  And me?  Not interested!  

When can I expect you, Susan?  Or would you like this mailed to you? Its

clearly time to move on, am I right?  Next holiday please!  Avery’s pumpkin tried to eat it’s own head!  Next!   
Time for Christmas!  Ha!  Ok, so I’m just trying to spare my poor little fingers from frostbite.  Who’s with me here?!  This is the SMART thing to do!  It was 55 degrees today.  If you didn’t put up your lights, you’re a fool!  Because by next week it could be snowing.  Seriously, I’m smart. 
  Eric was busy getting the pontoon (and all the stuff it stores) all tarped up for before the aforementioned snow turns up.  Its coming people!  Be ready!

While were were outside doing all these SMART things, we could hear gunfire in the distance.  Deer hunting started this weekend and the deer are plentiful around here.  So here’s Dylan being a deer hiding behind a tree from hunters.  He’s a buck – see his antlers there? 

Anyone want to move here?  There are no weeds!  Come on!  Someone has to know someone who wants a lake place UP NORTH!  Tell your friends. How NICE of this deer to put away Dylan’s trucks!

Yeah, there was an incident.  Avery took a digger while trying to keep up with her brother and dad.  Poor baby!

Ooooooooooooooh.  Purdy.

And finally, another reason why we rule.  Eric put the hockey rink together today.  

Now all we have to do is wait for it to stay consistently cold and the ice will go in!  

My favorite tiny supervisor.  She kept handing Eric the screws.   And she kept trying to eat lady bugs.

  And she was always looking cute – even with a cut that would NOT stop bleeding!And

she gets moody with her brother.  

The foreman doing his part.  

Well, that’s it for now!  By the way, its night time now, so it’s too late for YOU to go put up your lights and your ice rink.  But maybe you could still do it tomorrow??? Just a suggestion.