Halloween week...

Mac's bed is always covered in stuffed animals and books. I have no clue how he finds room to sleep in it.

 

I guess a pomegranate helps you to think. 

 

I taught how to look up a word in the dictionary if you don't know how to spell it. 

This girl spends so much time outside with our chickens. But mostly Gloria our bantam.

Her bat costume. We bought the leotard and leggins and I made the wings and ears to put on the headband.

Pumpkin carving.

Oak with her friend and the girl I babysit at the ward trunk or treat. It was raining so we had to do it inside the church building.

I have been having so much fun doing Oak's hair in fun ways on Sunday.

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eye doctor, outdoof adventures and lots of pumpkins...

Sometimes when I am sitting down with my kids and we are working on school I just get so overwhelmed with gratitude that I have this opportunity to be home with them. Yes, they drive me crazy. But I can't help but think all I would miss from them growing up.

For about a year I have been planning on getting the kids in to get their eyes checked. I didn't have worries just wanted to do a routine check, especially since we have coverage for it. Both kids did great despite the long visit and they hated having their eyes dilated. They both are far sighted with a bit of trouble focusing when things change distance but I guess that is normal eye maturing.

Such a beautiful sunset on my way home. Loved the glow on the lake.

We were doing a science lesson which then I had the idea to do this when talking about symmetry. It was so fun to see what the kids did.

In the tree.

I know I say this a lot but I love the blue skies here.

Her love of bears.

The weather was so nice one afternoon and I had been wanting to take the kids to this museum since it isn't too far from us. It was so cool! And the kids really loved it.

This is Mac.

This is Oak.

There was a super cool bridge that crossed this creek which leads into the Williamson river I think.

We haven't seen many deer this year. But one day this deer was literally right at my moms window looking in. It moved away before I took the picture.

We headed to the one and only tiny two acre pumpkin patch with our homeschool group. The new owners did a great little presentation on their process of planting the pumpkins.

Our pumpkins.

I finally got my wall finished! I love it! I can see it right when I walk into my house and I can see it sitting on the couch. I think it is beautiful. Just don't look too close. I have some major touching up.

We decided to do Train Mountains pumpkin express this year. Thankfully it wasn't raining because it has been raining a lot lately. And this time we got to bring Grandma who says we always do the fun stuff when she is gone. Which is only because she is gone a lot not because we try to do them when she is gone.

They had their little "pumpkin patch" set up so cute!. Oak wanted a little pumpkin and we found this one hanging in a tree. A little bit later she said she wanted a bigger small pumpkin. It was so cute!

Oak has been letting me do her hair in fun ways lately before church. I am loving learning some fun things and her hair has turned out so cute.

My first attempt at Sunday photo.

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Lots of reading and family visits...

These were introduced to Mac and he is OBSESSED! He has read them all at least three times. And he is asking for the whole set for Christmas. 

Is this not the cutest picture you have ever seen?! Oak reading to Gloria our pet chicken. She loves our chickens and spends at least an hour everyday out playing with them, well mostly Gloria. 

Oak finished her first reading chart. She has earned herself a trip to Jump N Jax. Just like Mac, her reading improved so much from doing this chart. 

My Aunt and Uncle (my moms brother) came to visit. It was such a nice visit. One night I let the kids stay up a bit later and listen to my Uncle and mom tell stories of when they were kids and my Uncle read us some poems he has written over the years. It was such a sweet moment. Mac attached himself to my Uncle just like he was his Grandpa. It was so sweet to see. 

My Uncle served in the US Navy and Mac loves that his Grandpa did too. It also just happend to be the birthday for the US Navy so we had to get this photo. LOVE!

Oak and I played Farkle to help with her math. 

Cute girl reading to me. 

My kids love our tradition of pizza picnic and movie night on Fridays. They don't like to miss it for anything. Hopefully it stays that way when they are teenagers. Love having traditions like this. 

The kids had their Primary Program and Grandma and Grandpa came for a quick visit to watch them. 

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I bought this cute fabric for grandma to make Oak a skirt with. It turned out SO CUTE!

Oak was giggling so much playing thumb war with grandpa.