Fall sped by with our usual activities.
Darrell settled in at Marshall and is loving college life.
He's taking classes, and working part-time.
He got a job as a life guard at the rec center on campus. It works out great for him because the rec center is right next door to his dorm.
He also joined a fraternity. He assures me it's more of an 'academic' one, rather than a 'party' one though - Kappa Alpha.
He's such a social person, I knew it was only a matter of time.
Leila's doing well as a big 2nd grader.
Leila choose not to do ballet this year - which makes me sad, because I love to watch her in it and I think she's very good.
I also know that I can't make her do something like that if her heart isn't in it.
I hope she'll miss it and want to go back next year - but so far, she doesn't.
She cheered again this year. She does love that.
This was her 3rd year cheering.
I'm glad she's found something that she does really like, but I must say that I'm not much of a personal fan of 'outdoor sports', and some of those football games got pretty cold.
Leila was fine - but I thought I was going to freeze.
In Oct, we took a weekend trip to Amish Country with some friends.
I've been wanting to go for quite some time, but we just haven't been able to work it out until now.
David didn't realize just how much is there to do and see.
Now he's much more willing to go back again.
We went to a carving museum that was absolutely amazing, and an Amish comedy theater - plus we had some great food.
The end of the month brought Halloween, of course, and both Darrell (19) and Leila's (8) birthdays.
For Leila's birthday, I let her miss school.
We went to breakfast with 'the girls' and then spent the day - just her and I, shopping at the mall.
We didn't get to stay ALL day though, because we had to get home and get ready for Trick-or-Treat that night.
Darrell didn't come home for his actual birthday.
He had just been home the weekend before to go to Amish Country with us, so he decided to stay in Huntington.
The lure of a home Marshall football game AND Halloween night was just great to miss in comparison to spending the weekend with us.
We went to the traveling version of 'The Price is Right' in Nov.
TPIR is one of David's favorite shows, and Leila used to say that she wanted to be a Price is Right model when she grows up - so when I saw tickets going on sale, I knew we had to go.
It was a fun night out, and I'm glad we went - although it would have been so much better had we gotten on stage and won something.
We rounded out Nov with Thanksgiving and a full house.
