When Grandma Comes to Town

When Grandma comes to town...we take her to:

The top of the Columbia Tower

The Art Museum

The IMAX movie

The Science Center

The Chocolate Factory


And many more places, including the Farm, Co-op, trick or treating, Fall Festivals, Mountains, and The Museum of Flight!

To the Farm with Grandma!

Grandma Kathi blessed us with a visit this Fall. So we took her everywhere, including the farm! We had so much fun!

Highlights: riding the hay wagon, cow ride, playing in the corn pit, playing in the hay maze, slingshotting pumpkins, cuddling kittens, eating homemade doughnuts.

Lowlights: Terrible rainy weather, Jason losing his wedding ring in the corn pit

Highlight: Jason finding his wedding ring in the cornpit!

Lasso those cows girl!

Asher buried in corn

Asher loves him some mud!

Go Grandma!

Yummy farmmade doughnuts

Rainy Hayride!

Trick or Treat 2011

Halloween has arrived in full force. We tried some old and new this year. We hit up the Mars Hill Ballard Family Fall Festival with our favorite cousins, the Russells. Then we went with the Sinnetts to Mansion Row in Capitol Hill. It was amazing. Nearly every house is decorated super scary and there are thousands of people. We had the time of our lives! I loved it! And so did the kids. Except for the houses that were too scary...for mom of course! :)

Carving!

Well, it's that time of year again! Pumpkin Carving time. This year the kids had one request...spooky. Josiah went with a skull being electrocuted carved by me and Isabel went with a big mean pumpkin eating a baby pumpkin. They turned out great...I mean, spooky!

Fox Hollow Farm fun!

We took another trip to Fox Hollow Farm! Isabel callsthis "her farm" and that is because they always have kitten roaming around here. I LOVE this farm because it is in the mountains of Issaquah, one of my most favorite places to be in the world!

Surrounded by mountains
Rope swinging in the barn

Asher LOVED his first horse ride!

Holding kittens in the barn!

The happiest girl on earth. She could do this all day

The Home of a Homeschool Family

So often I am asked how I have time to do everything that needs to be done and homeschool. The answer is that I don't. So I thought that I would visually take you through a short visual presentation of a 5 minute section of our homeschooling day. Here you go:

We just finished a chemistry which required 20 cups and wine glasses that I now have to clean

And these were the indoor activities that Asher got into just while we were doing that one lesson

And these were the outdoor activities that he got into

And...I have to fold that laundry

And...Asher seems to have lost his pants

Oh there they are

And...I have to make lunch

So there you have it, 5 minutes of our 6 hour school day. Hectic, sure, but 5 minutes that I wouldn't trade for anything in the world!

DCC and Craven Farm

Fall is so fun and busy that I always fall behind on pictures! These ones were taken at Downtown Cornerstone's annual trip to Craven Farm. We ALL (30 0r so of us) ventured into the corn maze together. We got so lost, so the big kids and I finally broke off and found our way out! Then we had lunch and picked some pumpkins. We are so thankful for this church family!

This kids living the good life
Carter and Josiah practing their pumpkin bombs

Love at the farm!

Isabel and I enjoying the beautiful corn maze (and getting out of there as fast as we could!)

Some of our DCC Family

Isabel's First Ride

Isabel learned to ride this week and we couldn't be more proud!