Annual airplane pumpkin

 

Joel's annual airplane pumpkin.  

Carving Time

Would you like one?

Karis' Pumpkin

Karis gluing tissue paper on a balloon to make her pumpkin.

Thanks Mrs. E!

Basket making

The kids got to make some baskets with our homeschool group.  They weren't too hard, but they had to work at it.  Thanks Mrs. S!!

4-wheeler

Caleb enjoying a ride on a 4-wheeler with friends.

Bird feeder

We made little bird feeders this week.

 It was fun watching Karis hang them on our itty-bitty tree.

She even tried to hang one really close to the ground!

Three- year old Biblical scholars

We recently asked Karis what her new verse was for Sunday School. They

start a new verse every month and had just finished Genesis 1:1.

Instead of replying with a verse she informed us in her cute 3-year old voice, 

"We done wit the old

tessament. Now we on the new tessament." 

I didn't know they covered so

much material in the 3-year old Sunday School class!

The thesaurus can be fun

Joel piqued Caleb's curiosity with a thesaurus game tonight. Caleb

came up with a sentence and then found alternate words for that

sentence in the thesaurus. He found that the end result can be quite funny.

The original sentence:
The old man drank his juice.

The post thesaurus sentence:
The ancient human quaffed his liquor.

Karis' Lava Lamp

Karis made a lava lamp this week.

We filled a water bottle with some vegetable oil, water and some food coloring.


Then we added some pieces of alka-seltzer tablets and watched it bubble.

Here's a video of Karis showing dad.

Doll Power

Great Grandma H made the girls Taekwondo uniforms for their dolls to

match their own. Now that Eliana has two green stripes on her yellow

belt, she asked her instructor to put two stripes on her doll's belt.

Her instructor thought that was great fun.

Pumpkin Patch Fun

We enjoyed a beautiful day at the pumpkin patch!

Going on a ride to pick out a pumpkin is always great fun!

The kids enjoyed all the activities at the pumpkin patch.  Too many to mention them all, but I think the "Boo Mountain" slide was definitely a favorite.  Karis & I even took a couple fast trips down.

Marble Track

Karis and Toby (friend) made a marble track during the older kids' homeschool group discussion time.  It was a quick and easy project.  They enjoyed moving it around and coming up with different ways to race the marbles.

Slide fun with the cousins

 

Cousin Chloe, Karis, Cousin Sam, and Eliana going down a really fun slide together!

Honeydew from garden

 

Yummy, fresh honeydew from the garden.  

Someone couldn't keep her dirty hands out of it :)

Tractor girl

My kids can't resist trying out all the tractors on display at the

home improvement store.

Karis is no exception.

Walk, ride or ripstick

 

Which guitar

Karis has been seen just picking up whatever and using it as a guitar to play to the music in the background.

 

Here she is with a plate guitar.

 
And here is a shoe guitar.

Eliana's Bday

Eliana turned 7 this week and was she excited!

She got to celebrate early too with this chocolate chip cookie cake we took to share with some friends.

We had a little party early in the week, and here she is waiting for everyone to arrive.

 Opening some fun presents.

 Grandfather and Grandma were able to join us too!

Remember that yummy cake we were making?!  

It was just too much for Karis to resist. She knew there was a lot of good stuff in there.

Happy Birthday Eliana!!

1st Night

of Awana and the only year they will all be clubbers together.