Life MORINteresting: Fall 2021: Reading, Concerts, Soccer and Halloween!

Drew has grown so much as a reader and writer this fall! This guy who completed most of his first year of school online is working so hard and we are so proud of him!

Elle and Drew walking to school together on National Walk to School Day!

And Luke at his first Hart Middle School choir concert. Can you spot him? Last row with light, blue shirt and blue mask. When did he get so grown up?!

Click this link for the next song! Aladdin's "Friend Like Me" https://vimeo.com/658156847

Vanessa and I took our boys to their 1st middle school...event? I don't know the cool lingo on what to call this yet. Obviously not a playdate. Not a party. Hmmm. Well, their choir teacher organized a "meet up" at Blake's Apple Orchard for their spooky Halloween night. We got there at 7 and stayed till midnight. The boys loved their "freedom" of going on all of the scary things and haunted hayride with their friends by themselves and Vanessa and I loved getting their spiked cider and donuts. A win-win! But on the way home with all 4 of us and Vanessa driving, not even kidding, I fell ASLEEP! Who does that?! That pretty much sums me up on a Friday night.

Luke and Ellie are loving their Fall soccer season. Luke has been starting center D and will rotate in to play either goalie or left D. Luke made his way back up on the black team after breaking his leg! He started back on the white but halfway through the season, they asked him to play black as well. 2-7, we are so proud of you!!

Ellie improved so much during her fall season. She learned what Coach would be yelling like, " On the line. Ellie!" :) Ellie played a lot of midfield and defense. When our starting goalie was absent, she would often fill in for goalie too! We are so proud of you 9!!

Drew is the best little bro going to ALL of Elle's games and Luke's black and white games! This little tiger will know all the things when he starts up!

This Fall was a little crazy with the bus situation. The first month of school or so, we were getting calls almost daily from the bus garage about "late arriving buses". I mean there were consecutive mornings where Luke's bus was 2 hours and 20 minutes late. Same with Elle and Drew's! All of this has been so hard on schools and we completely understand that the schools are doing their very best to keep up and when you don't have the people some things are going to give...but it's still hard on everyone. Thankfully, we have amazing friends who have been picking Luke up at 6:30 each morning and who can pick Luke up at 2:22 if the bus is late. They all have been a true blessing! The texting and organizing just starts at 5:55 am each day.

For Drew and Ellie, they are still on the wait list for the school latchkey program (called SAC). Again, they didn't have enough people to fill these teaching latchkey positions so we are waitlisted until further notice for that program. Once again, we are so THANKFUL for our babysitter Bria! She is able to come each morning from 7:30-8:30 to help get them ready and on the bus. If their bus is late, she is able to drive them to school for us.

It all came together for us and we are so grateful for our people!

Ellie and Drew on mismatch spirit day!

Getting ready for Fall at Yate's!

More Fall soccer...This is Ellie on the sideline 🤷

Halloween is here and Papa and Gma Uitti came over for the day and carved pumpkins with us!

Ellie put braces on her pumpkin :)

We almost had a pumpkin meltdown but Luke quickly problem-solved with some hot glue. Phew!

Happy Halloween from a Phantom/Death Eater (Harry Potter), Mia Hamm, and Spidey.

We love you Papa and Gma! Thank you for helping us carve pumpkins and getting all of the seeds out of the pumpkin slime!

And here we are with yet another Morin 1st. Last year we didn't go trick-or-treating because of Covid (we did the spooky egg hunt instead) so this year was Luke's first year going to another neighborhood altogether to go trick-or-treating with his buddies instead.

The four of us still had a blast though and made sure to stop at every house in the neighborhood! The weather was mild and a perfect night to be out and about.