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Fun Night with Jessie

DH and I celebrated our 18th anniversary of the day we met by going to "The Phantom of the Opera."  We had a fabulous night, but I have a feeling our night rivaled the boys.  Here are some pictures that our sitter, Jessie, captured that night.

Jessie made paper masks for the boys to wear with their capes that Antee Sara had made a few years ago.  She made a mask for herself and played the "bad guy".  Seriously, for the boys, a perfect night includes: vanquishing bad guys, playing Hot Wheels and/or Lego, and eating ice cream.  I think Jess covered all the bases!



I also told her that the boys like it when you draw a picture for them to copy.  So, she left a bunch of small drawings on the dry erase board for the kids to copy. (She is a much better artist than me!)

We went to the Watershed Education Center near our home, with our friends,  Megan, R, and baby R.
A little waterfall on the walk to the center.

R running after R…

RB and A…

Megan and Baby R…

The weather really came through for us and we were able to enjoy a beautiful, Autumn day.  It was great to catch up with my friend, and the boys enjoy playing with RB.

Art Work

Here is a piece from ‘A’: "It’s a restaurant with good ghosts coming to eat.  There’s a guy running with a menu and two servers."

A piece from ‘R’: " Policemen at a police station and this is a police car parked on the roof and all the people.  There’s a refrigerator with watermelon and a star in it."

‘R’s picture of an airplane:

‘A’s picture of an airplane:

Menu Plan Monday


Monday:
   Pecan Crusted Chicken Strips
                   Butter Noodles
                   Broccoli

Tuesday:  Sweet and Sour Meatballs
                   Rice
                   Spinach

Wednesday:  Tomato Basil Soup
                         Green Salad
                          Bread

Thursday:  3 Bean Chili with Chive Flecked Cornmeal Dumplings
                    Green Beans

Friday:  Spicy Honey-Kissed Chicken
              French Fries
              Asparagus

Saturday: Leftovers

Sunday: Eat out

We took advantage of this wonderful weather and spent one day on the Twin Falls hike, and and afternoon at the Lake.  We also had a playdate with our friend, "J2. Holz".  But, we also managed to get some "real schoolin’ " in…

Bible- Egermeier’s Bible Story Book: Moses and the Burning Bush/ moses and Aaron Before the Pharoah/ "Let My People Go"

Scripture Verse- Proverbs 20:11

Read Aloud- We completed "The Apple and the Arrow".  This was a very interesting and detailed story on the legend of William Tell.  It was a little violent for my taste, but it really shared the story of people under tyranny and how they worked together to overcome their government.  The boys were captivated and were sorry to see it end.

Phonics/Reading- ‘A’ and ‘R’ both took turns reading from "I Can Read It".  They also did two pages of worksheets in "explode the Code", p.5-26
One of the phonics activities was to give the kids the letter "i" and they had to create a word around it.  ‘A’ did well.  ‘R’ did well with made up words.  He did better when I gave him two letters, and he just had to add one more.

‘A’ read part of a book called "Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs’
‘R’ read a Bob Book.

Art-Artistic Pursuits- Lesson 3.  We went to Rattlesnake Lake and drew items of nature in a nature journal.

The boys also drew pictures of autumn leaves and we gave a picture and some pumpkin brownies to three of our neighbors.

History/Geography– Children’s Encyclopedia.  We read about Crafts around the world, and Clothing.

Science- First Book of Nature p. 60-63.  We read about pollen and answered activity questions #102-104.

Character– A Child’s Book of Character Building.  We read about ‘Patience’.

Wednesday afternoon, I picked up Linda’s boys (C1 and C2) and drove up to Rattlesnake Lake.  I made little Nature Journals for each boy and gave them a plastic bag (for collecting things) and a pencil.  On each page was an item they were to look for and draw.  (This is a lesson in our Artistic Pursuits curriculum).  Some of the items were:

  • water
  • fish (C1 drew a fisherman!)
  • clouds
  • interesting leaves
  • an insect
  • a neat rock
  • a bird
  • a stick or twig
  • an animal
  • a wildflower
  • something soft

Here are the boys drawing the lake (imagine a dark circle…)

Throwing rocks  is mandatory!

‘A’ came to me and said, "mom, I am a scale and I am weighing these two rocks.  Which one do you think is heavier?  He then lowered his arm with the tiny rock to show that was heavier.  He’s pretty funny

Playing on a big rock.

Another piece of God’s jungle gym…

The boys really tried to climb this rock.  Maybe next year…

After playing around the lake, we hiked up the Rattlsnake Ledge trail for a while.  My camera ran out of batteries and I was unable to get shots in the woods, but we enjoyed the hike.

Twin Falls Hike

This past Monday was a glorious day to be in our neck of the woods.  It was warm, but not too warm, and it was beautiful.  My friend Suzie, and I decided to take our kids to Twin Falls.   I have been on the trail quite a few times with my boys, but we had never made it to the falls.  Well, we did it!  We had a terrific time!

‘G1’, ‘A’, and ‘R’


Sweet G2…

Climbing to explore the root base of a fallen tree…

The first view of the falls…

Suzie and kids.

A very old fir tree in the back…


The lower falls!  This picture was taken where we had lunch.


‘G1’ brought along a piece of rope.  The boys had fun tying it to branches, pulling each other along, etc.

I knew we were on borrowed time with this weathe and am so glad we could enjoy this day!

‘A’ has been working really hard this summer to make it through the monkey bars.  He did it!
(In the background, as ‘A’ is explaining how he did it, you can hear ‘R’ yelling, "and you also prayed to God!")

OK, on to the rings…

maybe next year…

‘A’ asked today how matches are made.  Here is an interesting video that addresses that.

 

Learn How Matches Are Made – Click here for this week’s top video clips

Pumpkin Brownies

For Linda and anyone else interested.  These are fabulous!

Pumpkin Brownies

1 15oz. can pumpkin
1c. vegetable oil
4 eggs
2c. sugar
2c. flour
1t. baking soda
1t. baking powder
1t. cinnamon
1/2t. salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Beat eggs, oil, sugar.  Stir in rest of ingredients.  Pour into greased and floured 9×13 pan.  Bekse 30 minustes.  Serve with cream cheese frosting or whipped topping.  (We just sprinkle with powdered sugar.)  You can add nuts too!

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