Spencer's 7th Birthday

Spencer turned 7 this past Monday and we had a great day. Here are some photos.

Interesting Craft/Project Today

I'm learning so much, hopefully the boys are too! A couple of things we learned today: the inside temp of the Great Pyramid is a constant 68 degrees, it is located at the exact center of the earth's land mass and is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the World still standing.

He Loves Me!

Something you may not know about me is that I have a bit of a sock fetish. My favorites are wool socks, not of the 2-inch thick winter sport variety, but awesome, everyday-casual-style wool socks. Hubby not only humors my addiction, he single handedly feeds it. You can imagine how excited I was to get a surprise package today with a return address of The Sock Company!

Science Experiment: Making Butter

We didn't exactly churn it, but I wouldn't let the boys use the standing mixer either. The boys each got a jar of cream to shake into butter. I didn't let the cream get to room temp first, so it took longer than it should've, but once it started hardening it went quickly.

The liquid leftover is buttermilk. I think we could've made more butter and had less buttermilk, but the boys were getting impatient to see the fruits of their labor. Isaac has now requested buttermilk biscuits, anyone have a good recipe?

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.