Photo Every Hour: October 21st

6:32 It's an up-and-out-of-the-shower-by-6:30 kind of morning, which is why I forgot to take a picture when I first woke up

7:00 Breakfast is the only time I will play short-order chef for my kids. And it usually results making four different breakfasts, but that's totally worth it in my book to get them in the habit of getting a quality meal to start their day

8:00 Turns out you can spin dice like tops. Turns out kids really don't need all that many toys

9:00 Making noise and driving cars (and leaving Mommy alone, which is a-ok in my book)

10:00 The boys found a happy surprise when we stopped at the school to get some PTO stuff done!

11:00 You might not be able to guess from the toys and puppet theater and massive chalkboard, but we are at the library. Have I mentioned before how much I love our libraries?

12:00 Connor is working on word recognition; Matthew is working on letter matching. Win-win!

1:00 Mommy's break time while Connor takes his TV break

2:00 Prepping some playground balls to head to a park after school

3:00 Soaking up every minute of that late October sun while we can

4:00 This was a new playground since the last time we were at this park, and the boys loved it. Unfortunately, they had taken out the basketball courts, so we didn't really need our balls, but the boys played (mostly happily!) for nearly two hours nonetheless

5:00 You know it's going to be a good meal when we pull out the smoked white cheddar (which, for the record, didn't go on the zucchini #photostagingfail)

6:00 Iowa chops marinated in honey wheat beer and topped with smoked white cheddar and toasted walnuts, grilled zucchini, and roasted carrots. So good, and so grateful to have a husband who will prepare these meals

7:00 There may not be any October sun left to soak up, but that didn't stop us from taking advantage of the mild temperatures with a bonfire (and of course, s'mores--and plenty of playing with burning sticks in the fire #becauseboys)

8:00 Bedtime stories!

9:00 When a high school friend comes to town on the night you have a bonfire with your kids, you invite her out around the fire...

10:00 Share a few pints of beer...

11:00 Spend lots of time catching up...

And stay up entirely too late. Whoops!