We've had unusually warm weather all fall. Like annoyingly warm weather. And then when we finally have fall break from school, we get slammed with cold.
So Justin went camping. We had Thursday and Friday off of school so Justin took the littles up camping in preparation for the deer hunt starting Saturday. He borrowed a wall tent with a stove so he was prepared. Justin's parents also went up with their trailer.
This tent was huge. Justin has wanted a wall tent for years so this was a good way to test one out.
Meanwhile back at home the biggles traded rooms. This also required a 3-way bed trade since Sarah wanted her big queen bed to go with the bigger room downstairs. So now Sarah has a bigger room, bigger bed and her own bathroom. Henry has a smaller room, a regular twin bed instead of his squeaky loft bed, a walk-in closet, and across the hall from Erica and James which is what he likes--to be in the middle of everything. Erica got her twin bed back so she has the biggest room, small bed and it feels very spacious in there especially since I made her do a deep purge of her clutter.
It's so nice they are big enough to do the heavy lifting. I helped a lot but they did most of the work.
Meanwhile the littles were keeping cozy in the trailer playing games.
Despite not seeing any deer, they had a blast. Every time I talked to Erica, she would go on and on about what they saw and did. James is a man of few words on the phone.
Sarah went up Friday night then they all came home Saturday night and then Justin, Corey, and James went back up Monday morning and came back Tuesday morning because they got word that Corey's mother had passed away.
It was a sad and abrupt end to their hunt. We are all still processing her passing and we will miss her.
Saturday was Grandma Kendall's funeral. We took the opportunity to take a big Dye family picture.
And a smaller Dye family picture.
From there Henry and I left to get him to his playoff game. They fought hard but had a disappoionting loss. I'm so proud they made it to the semifinals regardless. They improved so much over the course of the season. (Henry forgot to grab a shirt to wear under his pads so he's wearing the t-shirt I brought for myself to change into. Lucky for him and hilarious for me.)
He was more sad a couple of weeks ago when we picked him up from practice and realized it could have been his last practice. I think playing in two playoff games that extended his season helped in giving him more time to process the end of things. He's had so much fun and has learned a lot from his coaches and teammates. We'll see what happens next year since 9th graders can try out for the high school team or still play for this league.
Meanwhile the littles were keeping cozy in the trailer playing games.
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