This warms my heart

My husband takes holidays seriously, like really seriously.  He would and has put carved pumpkins in the fridge each day to make them last longer.  Every year I try to get him to carve earlier, but he won't have them go bad!  I love this about him.  This year we (he) has been really busy, working alnost every night.  That is how it goes when you are readying to take off for two weeks, and you have your own buisness.  We still wanted to carve pumpkins, but just couldn't work it into our usual tradition time.  Carve pumpkins and watching the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.  This year we did what we could.  I hollowed out three of them Thursday afternoon.  Friday morning at 7:00 am, Rob had special pumpkin sprinkled donuts waiting and we carved pumpkins before work.  It was a fun way to start the day!

Tonight we will watch the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown, and we might even order a pumpkin shaped pizza.

Top L to R, Laura - Noelle - Robert, Bottom L to R, Dallas, Emily

I was pretty impressed with Dallas.  I carved his true to his marker drawing.  I didn't even know he new how to place face features. I have never seen him draw a person before.  Circle eyes, an x for a nose and a smiley mouth.  Emily loved carving hers as well.  I let Noelle eat/test out her pumpkin lid while we worked on hers! 

Fire Drills

Emily showed me this picture she drew this morning, she wanted to take it to her BSF teacher.  At first I was taken a back, she described it as follows.  "this is the church on fire, and here is our teacher keeping us safe outside"  They practiced a fire drill a couple weeks back.  I am glad the teacher is keeping them safe, I love that part way more than the church is on fire part!

Her BSF teacher with the children playing outside, ended up on the backside of the paper.

Hard work Tuesday

Now that soccer season is over, out Tuesdays are free.  We don't need to leave the house for anything, this homebody likes a day without errands. 

Today we accomplished school, laundry, piano practice, made grahm crackers, and ate a lot of crackers!  I did a couple things I haven't done in the six years we have been here.  I removed 60 or so hosta plants from the backyard.  I also washed a lot of the windows.  I had to open them first, my fault for painting some of them shut.  It amazes me that we got so much done, last week we barely finished school each day.  Helps to have healthy kids, and a happy momma. 

Noelle Crawls!

Noelle is crawling.  What finally interested her enough to move, a bottle of carpet cleaner from Craftsmas Carpet Care, perhaps she thought the carpet was just too dirty for her to move.  I am taking this as sign to get my carpets cleaned.  She crawls for the first time at 13 mo 3 weeks!

Emily's First Piano Recital

Featuring Emily Kibbe, playing LH Rainbows, R. H. Rainbows by N. & R. Faber, also featuring Dallas wailing, and if you listen closely Noelle saying "Hi"

I love this kid!

? for the farmers

I have let my kids play in "Corn pools" a number of times.  How do they keep the rats/mice out of these pools.  Please tell me they are not hidden below, and filled with turds everywhere!  Am I the only one who thinks of these things!