Our Halloween concert for you. We are dressed up as a nudist colony for Halloween:). Happy Halloween!
Maybe we'll be a musical family!! OOOO that would be fun!!
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Sunday journals
Sundays are journal writing days. The boys have to write as many sentences as their age. Here is Nathan and Katherine writing in journals.
fun girl days!
One of the books I got at the library for Katherine was "Dance Tanya" about a little girl doing ballet. After we read the book, we watched ballerinas on youtube. Katherine was mesmerized by the ballerinas! On Fridays the boys have school at Liberty Academy, so Fridays are fun girl days!So for our first fun girl day, we went to get Katherine some "dancing clothes", ballet shoes and a ballerina backpack. She picked it all out. The lady there told us about some places that do "mommy and Me" dance classes for her age, so we signed up for a dance class. Last Tues. was her first day and she really loved it! I thought she might be shy, but she wasn't at all. All week she's been asking to go dancing again. 
This past girl day we went to Barnes and Nobles. I brought our little Halloween teacups, and had them put our hot chocolate and whip cream in our teacups and we had cute little autumn treats and read Halloween books:
Then we went window shopping at a toy store and we played with the toys they had out to try.
Our Oct. activities- backwards
Halloween:
Every year we go trick or treating at Todd's grandparents' house:
It was raining and I told the boys they could go trick or treating if they wanted, but I was waiting until it stopped raining. They went outside, then went right back in. It stopped raining not too long after that, and they went trick or treating for a long time and got 2 1/2 pounds of candy each! I stayed in the car and drove with them. The girls stayed at the grandparents' with Todd.
One day I decided to make homemade pesto. Todd was gone. I felt so domestic! Nice garden tomatoes (thanks Secelie!):
Our homegrown basil, olive oil from Napa, and pinenuts....see a problem?
The result! I was so proud! Todd came home and asked, Did you shell the pinenuts?......oops. Reason 587 why Todd is the cook in our family.
Our Oct. uniforms. In Oct. we all wear our Halloween clothes pretty much every day.
P.S. Guess what my mom did for Halloween? She needed master gardener hours to keep her master gardener title, so she called the office and asked what she could do, since it was the last weekend of the month. The lady said she could do something for "office hours." So last night, my mom was part of a haunted hayride. She held a butcher knife and pretended to chop a guy's leg off, and then she threw a fake leg at the people on the hayride. That's what she did for "master gardener" hours! I laughed and laughed and laughed! Then I told the kids, "Guess what your Nana's doing for Halloween??"
P.S.S. This year we started a new tradition. The kids can eat a few Halloween candies, then they put out their trick or treat bag with candy in it for the "witches". During the night the witches take the candy and leave money in their bags.
P.S.S.S. Today we are making "happy potion" (rootbeer). This picture is after we drunk most of it.
Todd made this for dinner- bloody brains (meatloaf), ghost mashed potatoes and goblin toes (edamame)
Saturday, October 23, 2010
beautiful fall activity
Last Wed. we went up Payson canyon and had an activity with our homeschool group. First, we made a fire and roasted our lunch over the fire. Then with the boys, we had "author's guild" where everyone wrote about "buried treasure" and then we got a treasure chest with treasure in it. We buried the treasure and then split up the treasure between the boys. It was an absolutely perfect day, perfect weather, and the leaves were falling like snow, and were bright colors and the light glowed coming in through all the colored leaves. Magical!! (click on any picture to enlarge it)
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