Oh the weather outside is...October?

As of an hour and a half ago, the official snow total for Broomfield
was 20.7 inches and it's supposed to continue through this evening. We
lost power for a couple hours last night, but it came back about the
time we were starting to worry. We're thankful to be safe in our warm house and the boys are learning that a downside of homeschooling is that they don't get snow days. *Evil laugh*

*I just noticed that the official Broomfield's official snow total of 20.7 inches that the news reports is from 10:30pm last night and it's been snowing nonstop even since then.

Pumpkin Carving

Last night we carved pumpkins with our small group. It was especially nice to take advantage of Greg's newly cleaned heated garage. We're enjoying the yummy toasted seeds today.

I didn't have a camera with, so these photos are from Deb and Chris.

Kings

Our art project today was to make the double crown of the king to rule all of Egypt after Upper Egypt conquered Lower Egypt and became one. The red crown was from the king of Lower Egypt and the white crown was from the king of Upper Egypt. The yellow on the front is a cobra made of gold. The boys are trying to look very powerful here.

A funny from Tiffany.

Love this!

Guess she feels safer there.

End of an era

My dad picked out this toy as a gift when Isaac was born because of how annoying it was. Wouldn't you know, it was a favorite for every one of the boys as babies. Drove me nutso. I am cleaning closets today and found this little gem in a box. I am happy to report that he is getting cleaned up and donated, as quickly as possible. Thanks a bunch Dad! :-P

Evening Walk in Boulder

We met Jeremiah at his office last night to go for a walk and have dinner together before he went on to another meeting. It was a gorgeous fall evening.

Fort in Progress

Northern Illinois

On the top, a cortland apple from the apple orchard in Indiana. The cortlands are really big, bigger by about half from the fujis I usually get from the store. On the bottom, a wolf something apple from a tree that belong to one of my mom's neighbors. The thing that's amazing to me is that this is one of the regular size apples from that tree. They had other apples that were twice as big!!

Proof that I can still use the stilts!

Enjoying his peaches.

Samuel's Indiana birthday.

First of all, check this out. This is so hilarious to me. Don't see it? Check out the cat in the doll stroller. And she stayed in there happily for quite awhile!

Christi and Maca were kind enough to celebrate Samuel's birthday while we were here, complete with gifts and cupcakes. Notice the apple in his hand. He had to chew and swallow before he could blow out the candles.

Cutie nieces!

Legos!

Space vehicle! Samuel was a happy happy boy.

Indianapolis

The second stop on our trip was Indiana where we are visiting with Aunt Christi, Uncle Justin, Maca, Lauren, and Maddie. We visited another apple orchard too. Samuel, who will constantly be eating an apple if I let him, is in apple heaven.

The silly cousins.

Time with Uncle Seth & Aunt Heather

This past Wednesday, the boys and I headed out for a road trip. I had been considering such a trip sometime this fall and then Jeremiah reminded me that his rocket club had their big October launch the first weekend of the month, so our trip became reality.

Our first visit was with Uncle Seth and Aunt Heather. We got to see their apartment and get shown around Greenville. We went out to an apple orchard with them and pick some apples and bought a scrumptious carmel apple pie that we enjoyed back at their place before we headed out.