The Kassel Family Project Life 365

John’s class made “Frankenstein Hands” and I think they are ridiculously cute!  He was so very proud to show me his “super scary hand paint.”

Laura had a Daisy Scout Play Date after school at Stephens Lake Park.  The girls colored two wooden daisies each – one for themselves and one to give to a Kindergarten Daisy.  With this activity, the girls will earn a petal, the Violet Petal – Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout.

Laura was very excited because she earned her very first petal, the Magenta Petal – Respect Authority, for touring a local fire station and learning all about what Firefighters do!  She couldn’t wait to show me the petal and her petal bag after her play date.

Now, I just need for her actual Daisy Scout Tunic to arrive so that she can wear it to her meeting on Sunday.  Unfortunately, it won’t have any of the iron ons like her troop number because I’m waiting for a list of all the required ones so I only have to place one order.  Maybe her tunic will be complete for her meeting in November…

We had a little bit of photography fun with John and Laura joining in.  First up, Laura takes one…

Then, John follows up…

With me running in last place!

Enjoy!

John is “Star of the Week” at his new preschool this week.  It means that he gets to do pretty much everything first.  Today’s favorite “Star of the Week” activity was line leader.  We had to gather up some photos of him for his classroom display, pick out his favorite book to share (“Dino Racing”), a toy to share at Show and Tell (Woody from “Toy Story”), and a movie (“WALL-E”) for Movie Day.  We’ll also provide snacks on Thursday for Movie Day.  He was quite excited and can’t wait to take his “bucket of stuff” to preschool tomorrow!

The big spider and spider web have returned to the Kassel Household!  It must be Halloween time!

The Kassel Family was busy, busy, busy today.  Andy left the house about 8:30 am for a golf tournament for the University Golf League.  He said he didn’t play as well as he would have liked (this is a recurring theme with Andy when it comes to golf), but he still had a great time.  He got to play his round of golf with Jeremy and those two always have fun.

The kids and I left the house about 12:30 pm for Kathryn Dothage’s 7th Birthday Party.  It’s truly unbelievable that Kathryn is 7!  The kids had a blast playing with everyone, eating birthday treats, hunting for skeleton parts, and beating on a pinata.  OK, so maybe they enjoyed scooping up the candy from the pinata, but I digress…  It was a great birthday party and the kids had tons of fun!  Kathryn’s American Girl doll now has lots of accessories, and the kids came home with some great party favors and candy.

The evening ended with the annual VanHove Family Bonfire and Hayride.  We got to eat burgers and hot dogs, enjoy a great bonfire, and take the kids on a hayride.  John fell asleep on the hayride, but they both still really enjoyed it.  The evening ended somewhat early for John and I (about 9:30 pm) as I took him back to the truck and we snuggled under a blanket.  He fell asleep almost immediately and I read a book and played some Words With Friends.  Andy and Laura wandered back to the truck sometime after 11 pm and we headed for home.  We all had a great time and we are already looking forward to next year!

It was “Camera Day” at Ridgeway Elementary School.  I let Laura take my camera to school and told her to take as many pictures as she wanted.  She (and her friends) took roughly 50 pictures of each other.  It was really fun checking out all the pictures while Laura provided running commentary.  Laura said they had lots of fun snapping pictures even though she *almost* lost my camera case.  Thank goodness for teachers!

This is Laura and Saryia.

This is Laura and Reagan.

Looks like they all had fun snapping some pictures!