What better to do on a rainy afternoon than add to our little scrapbook here?
It’s rainy and cold too.
Fall came SO fast!!
The colors outside are starting to change, and it just takes our breath away.
This past Saturday we were privileged to attend the MOST BEAUTIFUL outdoor wedding in the MOST BEAUTIFUL location!
The weather was PERFECT!
The Trail Ridge Camp and Conference Center was such an amazing place.
Other than that and a blessed Sunday with Twin Oaks full of people, life has been about play practice, school, chores, food, visiting River’s place, and medical appointments!
Pretty normal stuff, I’d say!!
We are still slowly working through our Laura Ingalls read aloud, but I hope to do it more regularly after the play is over.
I planned a little unit on apples for last Thursday!
Thursdays are when we have extras for school!
It was fun!
I read some books out loud, we tasted six different varieties of apples, did some estimating of how many seeds each one would have before cutting into them, did a science experiment, and sipped some hot apple cider!
I have already transitioned into our fall and winter food recipes!
I love the seasons changing – especially the food changes!
It’s the time of year to hide zucchini in everything – veggie meatloaf was one of those places!
I took this photo and then stuck this pan in the oven to bake for an hour.
It took my crew about 5.2 seconds to empty this entire pan!
Donut hole muffins.
They smelled divine!
Sheet pan dinner!
SO easy and yummy!
Cranberry applesauce!
I CRAVE cranberries this time of year.
A play date at River’s place was PERFECT as always!
Eliza had an appointment at the dentist very early Wednesday morning.
We got half of the work needed done, and made another appointment a couple weeks away to finish the rest.
She cried hard, but Blake and I still think she is SO strong and brave!
I got to see a very good friend who lives too far away at church one Sunday!
IT MADE MY DAY!!
See these two?
That one on the right wakes up EARLY, and READY FOR ANYTHING.
How do I know that?
Because he comes up the stairs and says, “Good Morning, MOM! You look beautiful! I’m hungry, but I’m ready for anything!”
I know.
He is a keeper!
See that one on the left?
Not so much ready for anything straight out of bed.
He is a keeper too!!
I had big school-like plans for this afternoon with my crew, but they are enjoying a rainy day playing together so much that I let my plans go!
Well, there is a chicken cooking on the stove that is going to be chicken salad soon, kiddos playing sweetly with legos, and an empty coffee cup that is calling my name!
Rainy days are a sweet gift, even though hearing the rain on our steel roof makes my heart ache for SO many in our area that just cannot recover from all the flooding.
It looks like the sun might be out tomorrow, Lord willing!
I hope you all are having a great start to this week too!!
Happy Tuesday, everyone!
