After a ridiculously cold October, we now have 60's in November! It's just crazy! So, we made the most of the nice weather and spent a ton of time outside over the weekend. We first went to a birthday party of our little 2 year old friend,
Linah. The kids had a great time playing together and running about! Visits to neighborhood parks and bike rides were also part of the weekend.
Saturday night Aaron and I went out on a DATE...that means we went out without kids for a nice dinner and bottle of wine, a grown-up movie with no Dora, Thomas or Elmo as the main character....we didn't even need to bring diapers, wet wipes,
sippy cups, snacks, activities or books! Wow! We had a great time!
Sunday I cleaned out my car...it was really pretty disgusting, so I'm thrilled to have had the nice day to do that. Then I also hung up the Christmas lights (no, they are not on yet), finished raking the yard and other yard stuff, ironed some of my student art (I have to do this outside as it's so stinky....but I've done it in the snow before so I'm happy for the warm temps!)
Here you can see Aaron got out the catapult for
Eliah. They had fun chucking footballs and tennis balls for
Oskar! You can also see our newly painted door....it used to be a strange purple
grapey sort of color from the previous owners....I think it looks pretty nice! We probably lost our chance to get the front door done.



We have work days today and tomorrow. We started today at the Russian Museum of Art for our morning session. What a great place! It's in south
mpls if you ever have the itch to go. On our guided tour we were surprised by the sudden appearance of a bat! Yes, he was busy swooping around and getting really quite close to us! Needless to say, our tour downstairs was cut a little short as a couple of the workers took care of him (humanely for those of you worried;-) Also found out that our docent was an art teacher that is now retired...but I used to sub for him back in the day! Funny!
Tomorrow is a work day....oh just in time! My classroom is a disaster and needing a bit of a make-over!