Avery and I have started watching the Pioneer Woman, and Avery has begged to make one of her recipes. We made these crazy brownies. It's a layer of brownies on bottom then all this candy in the middle, then another layer of brownies on top. I have a major sweet tooth, and these were even too sweet for me!
There's an apple orchard near our house, and we went one afternoon. One of my favorite things from Indianapolis was the awesome orchard they had. This one was the orchard, but all the apples had already been picked for you...no fun.
I made a yummy apple cobbler from them, though.
Halloween weekend was a busy one for us. Sunday we went to church with my mom. It was All Saints Sunday, and all of the church members, family, and friends who had died this year were remembered. We remembered Susannah and Memaw. After church my mom, Avery, and I went to a memory service/walk for Susannah. It was held at the Botanical Gardens, and there were so many people there who had experienced the same thing we did. It was a nice service. Afterwards we walked to the Little Ones Garden which was made for babies like Susannah. They gave us two envelopes with butterflies in them. We didn't stay for the release, but we let Avery and Colt release them.
This is the only picture I got of Colt...
A nice way to remember our sweet Susannah.
After that we got into our Halloween costumes and went to Trunk or Treat at Asbury.
Wonder Woman and Superman! I was happy with the way Avery's costume turned out.
So much candy and it wasn't even Halloween yet!
All the Halloween pictures turned out blurry. I think I was in a funk that night. We went around my sister's neighborhood. The kids had a good night and got way too much candy!
On Tuesday I left the kids at Meme's so I could go home and pack. Meme always does fun stuff with them. They went to Mr. Mack at the library. It's a blurry picture, but the one of them dancing is my favorite. So sweet.
Back to the packing...while we were on our Fall Break trip, Daniel and I decided to make a big change in our life. We are leaving TN for the foreseeable future to travel and do tree work. The hardest part was deciding to pull Avery out of school and home school her. We love South Lincoln and Mrs. Monks, but we have to do what's best for our family.
Avery's last day was the Friday before Halloween. She will miss her friends and sweet teacher, but she was excited for me to be her teacher.
This past Sunday we loaded up the van, Shorty in tow (we had to find a new home for Wrigley), and headed to Jacksonville, FL. I'll spare you the details of the horror that was that day. We are loving Jacksonville, and especially loving the beach!
Early on in the trip. Shorty likes being in Avery's lap.
Our hotel has free breakfast...yay! We like going down each morning and eating a nice waffle. Or jelly by itself, if you're Colt.
And we went to the beach Tuesday. I was freezing, but the kids were having the time of their lives in the ocean!
Wednesday was rainy and gloomy, so we got out to explore. This is where I remember coming when we used to visit as a kid. My parents' best friends live here, so we vacationed here a lot growing up. We found a pizza place for lunch, and it was the absolute best pizza I've ever eaten! I'll be dreaming about it for weeks.
Next we went the Avenues Mall. My kids are spoiled rotten. This added to our collection of about 5 million "pets". But they were buy one get one for $2, so I didn't feel too bad. We also saw Santa at the mall!!
When I woke up on Wednesday morning, I was shocked and relieved to see Donald Trump will be our new president! I don't completely agree with everything he stands for or some of his words, but I am so thankful Hilary didn't win. I'm excited to see where Trump will lead our country, and I think he has a lot of awesome folks helping him out. I read Franklin Graham's response, and his prayer will be my prayer: "I pray that President-Elect Trump will surround himself with godly men and women to help advise and counsel him as he leads the nation." Franklin Graham led prayer rallies in all 50 states in the months before the election. You can't tell me prayer doesn't work! I love my country, and I know Trump will put everything into making the changes we need. P.S. This was part of Avery's schoolwork this morning. She spelled all of that almost completely on her own. I'm so proud of her! Her art skills, on the other hand, came from me I'm afraid.
Today we went to a different beach in Ponte Vedra called Mickler's Landing. It was very shelly, but the kids loved it. And Colt's beach hair was on point. Tomorrow is supposed to be warm and nice...a definite beach day!
Yesterday I asked Google where a good cupcake place was. It told me about Sweet by Holly, and oh my gosh, this place is heaven. They have 30 flavors of cupcakes, and they come in mini sizes. Perfect for these little hands! We went yesterday and today, and we've checked six flavors off the list: coffee, lemon, mint chocolate, plain jane, red velvet, and tiramisu. Back at it tomorrow...our time in Jax is limited!!
Possibly going to Savannah and Orlando next. Excited to see where this takes us and what we can get into next!
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