Laura visited at the end of August and it was such a fantastic visit. She met several faculty members and thought one student was quite intelligent, so I try to provide her with regular updates regarding that student's performance and class participation. I hope that isn't violating any student confidentiality laws, ha ha.
We went to Toyota employees' Kings Island Day in September. Such a nice time - mostly because E&M hung out with their friends and Steven and I got to be by ourselves (just kidding). 
Elizabeth continues to hang with her friends, take piano lessons, and enjoy the psychology club.Michael's first basketball game of the season is tomorrow! He played with his select team a couple of weeks ago - his m.o. is still nerves of steel during free throws.
Last weekend Elizabeth and I attended a campus play called "Check, please!" It features multiple first dates, taking place at the same restaurant in NYC. Hilarious! Or, as the mountain folk would say, Hill-arious!I was at her school last week as part of my psychology and the law students'
service learning project. My class paired with the Law and Justice village's criminal justice high school students (taught by a GC alum who actually took my psych and law class many years ago) and taught one another about psychological and legal aspects of famous criminal cases. It was a front page story (granted, below the flap) in the city newspaper and the GC president told me how much he enjoyed reading the article when it had top billing on our school website. 
I have seen multiple other alums recently, including Ashley Clayton, who received the inaugural Distinguished Young Alumni Award (I nominated her!) during Homecoming. She's a research director at Yale University's School of Medicine (psychiatry department). She gave a very moving, kind acceptance speech and I was honored to sit with her family.
October = Halloween. We went to the women's basketball team's party
at the coach's house (she's in my Fun Friends lunch group). I can't
believe Michael's carved pumpkin didn't win best pumpkin, can you? The
full moon of Halloween caused the bottom half of Elizabeth's hair to
turn blue. Oh wait, that wasn't the moon. That was Elizabeth and her
friend Emma. With our permission, in fact!And finally, here's a picture of my good-looking husband and our precious children. Happy Fall.
