Snuggling Siblings

The kids still refuse to sleep upstairs (either because of the dark, or spiders, or ...), so they sleep all together on the inflatable mattress downstairs. It can get silly for awhile, but eventually they do go to sleep.

Club Volleyball Player

Tonight was the team reveal for the 12-U Cowlitz Aces Volleyball Club, and Jillian found out she was on the "Pahtoe" team (or second team), which means Power League tournaments. She didn't know many girls, but she was excited about where she ended up, and she can't wait to get started.

Reverse Referral

Torion received a "Reverse Referral" from his 1st grade teacher Mr. Wells, which is a positive recognition award for doing well in class. Mr. Wells had many very nice things to say about Tor. (The pic is with his principal, Mr. Mendenhall.)

Club Volleyball Tryouts

Jillian spent most of Sunday at the 12-under tryouts for the Cowlitz Aces Volleyball Club. There were about 60 girls, and it was pretty much all skills evaluation. Jillian did pretty well. There's one more tryout night, and then we'll see how things go.

Bad Kitty and George Beard

In lieu of Halloween costumes, Olympic Elementary asks students to dress as their favorite book character. Bridget chose Bad Kitty, and Tor chose George Beard (from the Captain Underpants books).

The Best Part of Bridget

Bridget wrote a paper at school titled "The Best Part of Me". To no one's surprise, she chose her mouth.

Halloween 2019

The kids collected a record amount of candy this year, which we will happily donate to Papa Ken. Jillian chose an inflatable costume this year (a safari guide riding on an ostrich), Bridget chose to be a beautiful Roman goddess, and Tor wanted to be a ninja ... probably so he could have more swords to fight with.

Like the last couple years, they teamed up with cousin Adam to trick-or-treat at the Fibre Federal administration building, with Auntie Greta leading the way. This is where the bulk of the treats came from.

After that, we met up with the neighbor girls Hazel and Ila, and toured the entire Lilac Street neighborhood. Probably only half of the houses were actually giving out candy ... the kids couldn't believe it.

Then, we started making the rounds around Longview, before heading up to Castle Rock to wrap it up.