October!

October is here and half way over now! BUT.....the first week of the month Presley started cheer camp at school. She didn't really want to do it but somehow I convinced her. Piper had NO interest at all and turns out Presley is the ONLY 4th grader doing it in her school. WTH? Oh well, guess this will be the last year for us.

That Tuesday I had my wine making night with Sarah. We did dinner at The Cheese Bar and then did our wine making which I have really come to enjoy. We hadn't been out together in a while so it was really nice to catch up! After that we headed closer to home and went to Lynn's. We actually saw some people that we know. Drew (who is a rough man and normally goes to The Boathouse and Deb who is a PT bartender at TBH also!). As normal, we were out too late and Wednesday morning was a rough one! :)

I had taken that Friday the 5th off from work since the girls didn't have school so we slept in a bit and then it was time for the girls to get their hairs cut!! It had been about a year!! Presley just wanted a trim, she is really into growing out her hair right now which is fine. Piper however, needed hers CUT badly. It is straight and thin and I just didn't like it hanging there. She wanted to go shorter than I did, but Josie convinced us it would good and we would still be able to do ponies to get the hair out of her face!

 I love, love, love Piper's hair cut! This length is SO much better for her!! (she kept saying that she looked like a mom in this outfit!)

Saturday we had our 3rd annual Adventureland Oktoberfest! The weather was chilly for sure but we get in for free with our season passes so we figured we might as well try! We bundled up so it really wasn't that bad and it only rained for about 30 minutes and we were under a tent watching the Iowa game! So it all worked out!

Our friend Baird playing.

 There is live music and different entertainment around every corner. This was the worst entertainment we had seen. None of them really looked like they knew what they were doing and it almost seems like a joke.

 Royce Johns in a awesome young up and coming country singer that plays in the area, he was really good and it is so fun to watch them play/sing with the roller coasters flying by in the background!

Then of course, we had to make our way over to Hansen. Um Bop! The crowd was very big and everyone was very into it. Steve made fun of me b/c I am pretty much the only person there (besides the media) who has an actual big camera that I take every where with me!

Some more of the entertainment. Not a good picture since it was cloudy and raining but these 3 girls were doing some stunts on a motorcycle with minimal clothing on, so the crowd seemed to enjoy it!

The Polka Police, we had never heard of, but they were playing and giving away some of the pumpkin spice donuts so I had to have one!

Casey Muessigmann was awesome! We have never seen him before either and was on Season 3 of The Voice. We would definitely see him again!

 Steve, Samantha, Nicola and Brent

Our nephew Derek and his girlfriend showed up with his friend Travis and his girlfriend. I am not sure why I needed to be in a picture with these super cute young girls!

Of course, our new favorite band The Sheet was playing, so we stopped by and saw them for a while and I had a cheeseburger which was awesome (it probably really wasn't but by then, I was starving and needed to eat!)

They have all sorts of yard games and drinking games around every corner also, it really is such a fun event! Surprisingly, we didn't actually ride any of the rides!

Finally the last band of the night was the Spazmatics. We saw some of them last year and they are really fun! Singing old school songs that everyone loves! Such a good time, but we were pooped by the time they got on stage!

We did stay a while and then headed out to get closer to home. We stopped by TBH on our way home, which we really didn't need to do but it was only 10 and the kids were at my parents all night!......so why not!?

Sunday we didn't do anything. It was cold and rainy and we were TIRED!!!!! I might have taken two short naps and we opted to skip Presley's volleyball practice that day, we NEVER let her just skip but we just didn't want to leave the nice warm house! :)