Wednesday, December 2, 2020

Random October

These are some of the fun things that happened in October...

My sister surprised me with a sunshine package in the mail...


Maddie and I had a Halloween cereal taste test.


We visited Maddie's sunflower at my parents' house. It has grown so much! This is the one that she planted for botany in the summer. 


Our town park had a little pumpkin festival, so we drove by that. 




I discovered the Inklings scripture study with Emily Belle Freeman, and from there began using Don't Miss This videos that she and David Butler make. These two things have transformed my scripture study this year and have helped me so much... they even led to a lot of changes in our school for next semester.



Doug learned to put in outlets. He put in one by our front door and then gave me the one in our closet that I asked for so I could make half of our closet into my own little office. 


One of the Inklings classes was on food storage... and it helped me to finally get our two week food storage done. The top three shelves have two weeks worth of breakfast, lunch, and dinner each in their own little bags for ease. The other shelves just hold random things we didn't need at the moment but had in our pantry. 


We got our first snow so Maddie went out to play and even made a snow pumpkin. 



 

October Poetry Teatimes

The first poetry teatime was caramel apples and apple cider with Whittier.


The next one was Halloween themed with halloween poems, hot cocoa, and ghost cookies. 


Pumpkins

This year it looked a little different- our pumpkin patch visit was the pumpkin bin in Target. 
But, we did find the perfect pumpkins!



We got two bigger ones to carve- one for each girl. However, Abi wanted me to carve hers. She asked for a Sableye from Pokemon. I did an okay job. Maddie did hers all by herself from start to finish for the first time. She made Pikachu. 







The smaller two pumpkins were for painting. They both chose to do favorite characters. 




The finished pumpkins...





 

Witch's Breakfast

This year we decided not to go to the Witch festivities at Gardner Village, so when my mom and I decided she would spend the night for her birthday fun with me, we also decided to do our own little witch's breakfast. 





We had yummy food and then played a game.




It's always fun to have my mom around!

 

General Conference


We always look forward to General Conference. It's a holiday to us!
The family room all ready for it to start...


Maddie asked if she could give a talk too...



We all cross stitched while we watched.


A tradition of new socks...






 

October

To welcome October we had a special breakfast...




Maddie tends to love festive things as much as I do so she was very excited.. and even changed out of her normal jammies into Halloween ones. 


We love Fall and October, so we were very excited!

Maddie wasn't the only one dressed for the occasion. I also wore my Halloween skirt all day. 



 

Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Doug's 43rd birthday

It posted these out of order, but I am going to go with it. 
There was a lot of game playing. 

There was banana bread instead of cake.

the girls made cards for him and then a few days later he bought a new BBQ.