Friday Fun (week 6)

I'm glad my kids like banana bread and consider it a fun after school snack.  I make a lot of it.

Backyard Camping

One of our final summer list activities to check off was backyard camping.  It was officially still summer on the calendar although we didn't get this one done until after school had started.  Sylvia and Eric helped (to differing degrees) set up the tent.  All three of them played and played in it while Dan got a fire started for dinner.  After some outdoor playing we tucked Drake in inside and got the big kids down in the tent.  Dan and I enjoyed sitting by the fire while the kids fell asleep, then I joined Sylvia and Eric in the tent for the night.

Friday Fun (week 5)

Dan took off early from work one Friday, picked up Sylvia from school and joined us for ice cream at Dairy Queen.  We loved having Aubrey join us for a Friday treat.

Red Day

Eric helped me pick tomatoes one day at the end of the summer and I jumped on the opportunity to take his red picture for preschool.

The kids did pretty well considering this is the first color song they'd learned and performed.

Wilson's Orchard

We didn't made it out to Wilson's Orchard as a family this year, but I took the boys out for a picnic and joined Sylvia's kindergarten class on their field trip.

The tractor doesn't run during the week when we went out with the boys so we filled our time with lunch, lots of running and looking at pumpkins.  Not sure what these two are talking about here but I'm sure their devising some plan that was not on our itinerary.

Sylvia's class also did lots of running.  The kindergartners all had such a good time on their first elementary school field trip.  They read apple books, did a taste test of many of the orchard's apples, drank apple juice and rode the tractor.

Happy to have her mama along on the field trip.

Ready for a tractor ride with her friend Pritika.

Someone got a little tired out on her field trip.

Ms. Jensen's kindergarten class.

move it, dig it, do it

The kids enjoyed checking out all of the machines at Move It, Dig It, Do It this fall.  This is such a fun event.  We climbed ladders, pushed buttons, turned steering wheels and honked horns on as many machines as we could.

Friday Fun (week 4)

The weather was beautiful so we headed out to visit Miss Aubrey and Miss Kathy with some apple turnovers from Wilson's.  We brought candles and ice cream along for Miss Aubrey's birthday.  The kids enjoyed the extra attention as we weren't the only ones visiting.