Raggedy Ann and a Bumblebee

No, I am not going to tell one of those what do you get when you cross Raggedy Ann with a Bumblebee joke! I am just sharing our Halloween pictures:) We had a great time trick or treating!!

 

New Kitchen Gadget

I am still on my whole/real foods quest and I am still taking one step forward and two steps back. I don't know why it is such a struggle for me but it is! One of the things that is making it easier though is having the right tools for the job. Remember a long time ago when I got my Vitamix blender(which I LOVE)?? The next thing I put on my wish list was a nice mixer. I didn't really think I would get it because who wants to fork out almost $400 on a mixer but I never thought I would get a Vitamix and I did so why not wish for the mixer, right? Well guess what I got?? Yep, after saving up my credit card bonus points forever I finally had enough to order this beauty:

 I broke her (yep it's a girl) out by making 2 loaves of zucchini bread, pumpkin oatmeal and pumpkin muffins. Yummy! The muffins were gone before I got a picture.

Back to Blog Land

Wow, it has been a whole year since my last post!! I had decided I didn't want to blog anymore for various reasons but I have changed my mind. I have really missed it and I miss having so many pics of the girls because let me tell you I take a lot more pics when I am blogging!!! I know it has been so long that no one is probably going to be reading this post. Well one person probably is so here is a quick shout out to that one person...Hi Mom!!!! Anyway, I am probably not going to do a lot of back posts of what we have been up to the last year (maybe just a few) but I what I blog about will pretty much be the same: homeschool, cooking, day to day life and that sort of thing. So just to catch up a little here is a recent picture of the girls. There is even a picture of me which is pretty rare! I vow to force Chris and I to be in our pictures this year!!

Fun with Grandpa

The girls are blessed with 3 grandpas and this past Sat. we spent the day with one of the grandpas at the balloon rally. We had a great time with grandpa!

Ellie is enjoying the view from dads shoulders

Emily was in awe of the balloons

The girls and I enjoying the launch

The girls LOVED LOVED the trampolines.

The night launch was beautiful!

I used to go to the balloon rally growing up so it was so cool to experience this with Ellie and Emily!

Halloween Lunches

I have had fun making the girls Halloween themed food this week. 

 

 

Lunch was a sand "witch”, white chocolate strawberry ghost, pretzel stick witches brooms and mummy juice. All of these ideas came from Pinterest.

  (Picture won’t flip for me…..again)

PB&J mummy roll ups, pumpkin tangerine and snap pea crisp witches fingers.

Homeschool Fieldtrip

A local corn maize was having homeschool day recently so we joined some friends for a day of fun. They broke us up into two groups: 4 and under and K-5th grade. I went with Emily’s group so I didn’t get a lot of pics of Ellie until we met up at the playground. Emily got to plant corn

Go on a hayride, visit the chickens, collect wooden eggs (she had no idea they weren’t real),

 

practice milking a cow

 

feed the goats, collect fake veggies and once she turned in and sorted all of her eggs, fruits and veggies they paid her $2 and she was able to go pick out a pumkin for $2. It was such a cute process!!

Ellie’s group went to a small lecture all about corn and the farm, went through the big corn maize, went on a hay ride and finished up with the animals. After we were done we played on their really cool playground. The tree house was the biggest hit.

I wanted to get a picture of the girls together….just one….but it seems impossible to get both of the girls to look at the camera and smile at the same time and this is what I kept getting:

I think I will appreciate these goof ball pictures more in the years to come!! Man, I love these cuties!!!!!

Halloween Sensory Bin

I just finished making our newest sensory bin and I hope the girls enjoy it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Here is what is in it:

Black beans

Little witches pots

Orange pom poms

Little plastic bugs

Glow sticks

Ghost erasers

Little plastic Halloween to toys

Wooden Halloween figures

Three Weeks Down

We just finished up our third week of school and I can’t believe how fast it is going by! I haven’t taken a lot of pictures other than of Emily on the first day (because Chris was actually taking them) and of some of our book and art activities.

The first week we worked on the letter A. Here is Emily with a few of her activities. Most of the activities were printed from Kidssoup. She worked on making an A with playdough, matching different color A’s, tracing the letter, coloring things that start with A, putting together a puzzle, and gluing on words that start with the letter A.

 

We read the book And Rain Makes Applesauce and made umbrellas with cupcake liners and yarn on cardstock and drew applesauce rain on the pictures.

Their favorite activity of course was making acorns. I saw this idea on Pinterest. You take Hershey Kisses and add a mini vanilla wafer and top it off with a peanut butter chip on the top. We used icing for the glue. .

We enjoyed our acorns while watching our letter A movie…The Apple Dumpling Gang. Lets just say they were not that impressed with the movie:)

On the 2nd week we worked on the letter B and what is more fun than blowing bubbles. I filled up cups with water and food coloring and added straws. I let the girls blow bubbles in their cup onto water color paper. This was a big hit because they are normally not able to blow bubbles with their drinks.

This wraps up the first 2 weeks of school. I was very happy with how well the girls have gotten back into the groove of school. Yes, we have had some not so great moments but I feel so blessed to stay home and teach my girls!!!!