Week 15 and 16

Here we go with our 2 week update!!

Home school is going AWESOME! I love it. . .WE love it!! This month we covered the pilgrims more in depth then I ever have and we enjoyed learning about their voyage to the "New World" As one of our hands-on projects we made butter! It was fun and yummy to make.

 Heavy whipping cream, jars and two active boys = BUTTER! They shook and shook until the cream thickened into butter! Can you guess whose was thicker??

 Josiah decided to have his reading time in his comfy chair. . . in Daddy's comfy chair.

 We have a friend who is a parametric in Vancouver, WA. Her husband attends school with Dave. She works in Vancouver every other week and is here in the Yak on her off weeks. We enjoying hanging with her and the boys love her! This week she was gone for work, however, we got a super cool surprise. She had a transport from Vancouver to Yakima and she stopped by to show off her ambulance to the boys. She hooked them up to the EKG machine and showed them their heart beats. Now the boys think they have waves in their hearts. Super fun!!

IT SNOWED!!!!!! We were so excited to see the snow falling on the ground! YEAH!!! It warms up during the day and normally starts to melt it, but then the next morning new snow is falling. It makes for icy roads when is drops below freezing, but this rarely happens. I heard that Thanksgiving week it suppose to be in the low 50s!!! So we are saying good-bye to the snow. I think we will see it again though.

 The boys spend so much time outside. More so then they did when there was NO snow on the ground. I think they miss Alaska. Sadly, we do not have enough for sledding yet and I think that makes them a little sad. But for now we will enjoy the sweet gift we have.

YEAH for SCIENCE! This last week Benn and I did a study on Volcanoes. After drawing pictures, watching documentaries and reading lots of books, Daddy, Benn and JJ built a volcano and made it explode! (Nothing major ;) I did not get a good picture of the eruption but it happened and it was cool.

I think we made it erupt 3 or 4 times and each time was more fun!!! We decided to save the volcano and maybe we will cause another eruption soon.

Dave is doing well and is excited for our short Thanksgiving break. He gets off early Tuesday and does not have to go back until Monday. I am so proud of Dave, he is doing a wonderful job keeping up good scores at school and keeping up good scores at home, not only with the kiddos but also with me. He has learned to manage everything very well. Coming into medical school we were prepared to be missing Dave a lot and I was prepared to be a single mom. While we do miss him a lot he has managed to be very hands on with everything here at home, he lifts my load whenever he can, even if it is a quick 10 min shower during his lunch break or a quick diaper change. Because the time we spend together is so guarded and precious it is deep and meaningful making everything much easier. Dave helps me write up my lesson plans for school, he is very active with the kids and we have a date night every weekend (We call them in-home dates). We do know this season of life is only for a short time and in that I think we find peace, but knowing that God is present in everything we do makes this time wonderful. We would have it no other way, we love the lessons we are learning as we travel this path.

Week 14

The first day of this week was Halloween and the boys had a blast getting to go out trick or treating. Daddy and the boys walked around for a couple hours while Mommy and baby hung out at home and passed out candy. Sammy enjoyed all the costumes and woofed at a few but when a werewolf came to the door, she went BONKERS!!! I had to put her away before giving the kid candy and then I gave him extra for scaring the dog. It was a thrill. . .for her. hee!hee!

Getting ready to go out

Bennjamin and I are taking the month of November to learn about the pilgrims. There is a lot of interesting things I did not know about them and we are both having a great time learning it together.

This week we went out with my dear friend Mary and her children and took time to shoot up our pumpkins and of course exercise our guns. Gotta make sure they stay in working order right?  Benn and Josiah shot a 22 Rifle and Benn, with the help from Daddy, shot my 9mm.

my friend Mary

Dave shooting the AK 47

No, this is NOT his car seat, he is sitting in JJs for a brief moment and I thought it was cute!

As we move into the next week we are excited to see what lies ahead. There is much to do this week as we all start to prepare for the holiday season ahead!

Harvest fun!

Halloween night before trick or treating

 The weekend after tests are wonderful! This last test cycle, we celebrated with Bobs Burger and Brew and enjoyed laughter and time out.
But Saturday was when the party started, the boys got to dress up in their super hero costumes and we headed out to a Harvest Party put on by the SAA. The host was wonderful and made a yummy warm soup, chilie and stew. It was nice to have a handful of families together from the school.  Students, spouses and kids all had a wonderful time letting their hair down and taking a brief break from the books.

My little puppy before his nose rubbed off.

Trying on Mrs. Gs hair :)

Our trunk for trunker treat!! The Candy is behind the BOO

EEK!! To much Candy and his teeth turned GREEN!

Hay ride!!!

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The boys loved the hay ride

a LOT of kids all dressed up!

 There was a pinata at one point and the kids enjoyed batting it around. When it fell off the string, my husband thought it would be a good idea to hold it. ????? REALLY????? While he walked away injury free it was still fun to watch.

The Dad who OPENED the pinata.

Sack race, notice Daddy holding JJ!! Hee!hee!!

Before the party with my little men, LOVE THESE GUYS!

The boys and I worked hard this week making the decorations for the trunker treat, it was fun for the boys to participate and make the trunk their own.

On the bike, Coy, JJ and Benn, Caleb walking. Benn is saying "Iron Man strength over and over!! It was so funny!

This was super fun, Benn and his buddy Caleb

After the party we all went home and crashed! We all had so much fun and look forward to the next SAA bash!

Caleb after a long day