October in an Acorn Hull (ie: a nutshell)

October came and went and it is now the eve of the Elections. Here is a glimpse of the last month.

Melody arrived in our home toward the end of September and cleaned the pantry and reorganized it! [What I'm pointing at in the picture is a U.P.P.- an Unidentifiable Pickle Product, Date of Orgin: unknown. -Melody] Praise the Lord for those gifted with organization and love doing it. I think this was taken in September, but I don't remember, so it is now in the October bunch. This was such a gift of love to me.

Ashlyn, Melody, and Julianne decided to wash the car and soak each other in an all out water war. I have no idea who won, but they were all happy and wet by the end.[And there was a clean car! -Melody]

Julianne and Will, my nephew, dipped Nutter Butter cookies in white chocolate and made ghosts, thanks to Grandma for supplying the ingredients. We assured Will they were the Holy Ghosts...so I know there isn't more than One, but we didn't want to scare him. :)
This is Clint Walbeck, and I had to include this picture because it is priceless, or should I say, the priciest bucket of ice cream ever. Clint and Erin are so sweet to bring dessert to Taco Tuesdays and Clint stopped by Ben and Jerry's on the way home from Men's Fraternity, so we could enjoy some sweets. There is a huge story behind it, but to sum it up, the bucket you are looking at cost Clint $30. It was memorable. Kylen is running in his first championship cross country race ever and got a personal record. This picture was shot around a mile into the run. We are so proud of Kylen's diligence and perseverance. [We are such a good looking family! -Melody]
Ashlyn and Melody are Greek Goddesses, of course. They got ready in about 10 minutes and their costumes turned out great. They all dressed up for a youth group activity last Wednesday and played a game throughout a neighborhood called, "Bigger or Better". The teams began with a business card from church and the goal is to go to houses and get people to give you something bigger or better than what you have. Melody and Julianne's group came back with a fully fuctioning air hockey table that they carried back to the church from two blocks away, all in their costumes.
Kylen, the mechanic

Julianne and Hannah...Hershey Kisses...picture them carrying the hockey table in those.
Fun pumpkins...Brian was working this year and he has always been the one to carve with the kids, so we missed him but had some help from Josh and Melody and it's hard to believe, but the kids are big enough to carve all by themselves.

By the way, Melody is the witty one...she came up with the whole Acorn Hull idea in the title...I thought it was cute.

...And now this is Melody signing out for Yvonne. She had to run (well, more drive) to pick up Julianne and Kylen from 4-H stuff (I'm not really sure what exactally they're doing, but I'm sure they had a good time!). Ashlyn is already asleep [I've heard that daylight savings can make your body tired, but really? 7.30 bedtime for a 15 year old? Come on Ash! --just kidding, I love you!]

Anyway, October has been a great month for me loving my new fam and getting set in some holiday traditions already with them- home-brewed spiced carmel apple cider with whip, anyone? I feel that I can say October was overall a pretty good month for all of us, busy though we were, and that we're all looking forward to the holidays to come [yeah, maybe we did already listen to some christmas music on our family outting to the library]! So there you have it:

Goodbye, October;

Welcome November!