Back in May when we went on the Open House Minneapolis tour we visited Orchestra Hall. They had a drawing for tickets to see Harry Potter in concert. I put my name in and won. Meadow and I finally got to go.

You could say we go to two places too much: the cottage and Culver's. Turns out the kids had enough kids meals to get a prize, a kickball, this time. Meadow was off school so I took a day off so we could enjoy going to the cottage one last time before New Year's.  Theo loved kicking and passing it around.   My mom told us to eat up all the food at the cottage since they would be closing up soon. Except the first few things I ate were expired! The pizza was so bad.

I was supposed to go to Lake City this weekend to shoot some fall 360s for their tourism board . We were going to stay at a hotel and then go to the Red Wing shoe sale after. The leaves weren't changing colors, so we ended up just making plans to go to Red Wing. I needed new boots and Scott said I couldn't get the ones from Target because they'll fall apart. Meadow's eating a donut? I suppose she is. Now that I think about these were from Lindstrom. I had picked some donuts at their famed bakery. Theo's sad he didn't get a donut? I'm sure he got some sweets. Before we could go we had to change out our summer for our winter clothing. We have one small closet that Scott and I share so we trade out clothes seasonally. All my sweaters and long underwear were in our winter clothing bin. I'm knitting Theo a sweater for Christmas. Luckily he won't remember that I had to try it on him to make sure it's fitting. ...

Blake's like a union leader or something. It takes him to Minneapolis from time to time. He flew back from Dallas and decided to stay for the weekend before heading back to Duluth.