Friday the 7th, Chayse Anthony Stanley was born to our nephew, Tony, and his wife, Katie, Stanley. The baby and mom are doing well. We're all hoping to see the baby when we go up for Thanksgiving dinner.

The high school introduced a fall Jazz concert this year. Typically this band doesn't get to perform until Jazz N Java which is all the way til May! So it was cool to hear them in a proper auditorium earlier. They're gearing up now for Band Revue, the all-band musical they'll perform in December. Bryn has signed up for a major acting role, but still hasn't heard about that yet. She does know she'll be playing her trombone with the Jazz band that plays in the background throughout the entire musical, as well as 2 different ensembles that will be featured on the main stage. Stay tuned.

I've now met with the Art Guild president, and the website is all mine! With the holidays approaching quickly, I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll just be updating the site as it is until January. Then I'm going to give it my all and redesign! I'm excited.

Paige was all about projects this weekend. A Revolutionary War project for Social Studies, and a cell project for Science. The Soc Studies project was basically research, but the cell project was making a model. Models always require parental support. Jeff ran to the village's craft stores searching for gel wax that Paige wanted to suspend her cell components in. We spent Saturday night melting the wax and pouring it into trimmed-down ice cream buckets. Today Paige used found objects from around the house, labeled them and positioned them within the gel wax cell membranes.

This morning we attended our church's Generations of Faith. It's a quarterly event where families have breakfast together, then a group Sunday School-like activity. It actually replaces a couple Sunday School days for the kids. Bryn and Paige got up late, thinking they'd get out of it and complained that it's for babies. I counted 8 of Bryn's fellow confirmants in the group today and we sat with 2 boys that were Paige's age - so there!