Marshmallow Roasting

The kids really wanted a campfire for family night but there was too much rain! I might have tested Jason's Boy Scout skills if he hadn't already ridden to and from work in the down pour. So we decided to have a little marshmallow roast with the help of the stove instead.

A little marshmallow inspecting.

Here's Delia cleaning off her stick!

Mudpies to Magnets

We've been having lots of fun with a book that we got from my brother and his family - More Mudpies to Magnets: Science for Young Children. They don't have this one at our library, but they do have the original Mudpies to Magnets if you want to check it out.

This one above is called floating rainbows - it's just water and oil and then you add food coloring which eventually sinks through the oil. The kids loved watching it again and again. We had to do it again at the dinner table to show Jason when he got home.

And here we blew up a balloon without our breath. You fill the bottle with vinegar and the balloon with some baking soda.

I like this book because the ideas are simple and most of the things the experiments call for we already have on hand.

Eliza, Jara, & a lollipop

Jason says "disgusting". I thought it was kind of sweet!

Halloween 2009

Jedi Master

little chick

Fancy Nancy

Crepuscular Rays at the Farm

Jason took Eliza with him to do a couple of chores after church on Sunday. As I was passing by the window I saw them walking back to the house with the sun rays filtering through the trees. It was so beautiful I rushed to get my camera, but when Eliza saw me she wanted me, so the photo above was not I had envisioned!

But then Jason took this for me.

We get these crepuscular rays (Jason told me that's what they're called) all the time, it's one of my favorite things of living here - I think heaven is somewhere right above South Whidbey!

Grandma and Grandpa Come for a Visit

October was our month of visitors! Grandpa came to visit us for a week while Grandma was at a work conference and then she met him in Seattle for a night before they vacationed in Hawaii and then they both came back to visit us for five days at the end of their trip.

I try to be a hard-worker, but I've got nothing on my Dad! While he was visiting he did all the dishes, cooked us yummy food and took us out to eat too many times, painted our chicken coop, planted us a Winter garden (which we ate from tonight - thanks, again Dad!), fixed our rear windshield wiper, read lots and lots of books to my kids, put up with my thrift store shopping (by that I mean - watching my kids in the toy section while I am trying to fill up my $5 bag at Good Cheer - I couldn't leave with it only half-full), and he insisted on doing all of my animal chores while he was here - I'm sure there's more that I'm not remembering!

Here's a picture of Grandma and Delia - this is one of Delia's favorite things to do with Grandma. Between Delia's love of make-up and shopping she has her father a little worried. Grandma and I got to go shopping for almost an entire Saturday while Grandpa and Jason did lots of fun things with the kids. Grandma and I had a great time and I think that I have most of my Christmas shopping done!

I love this picture of Grandpa and Delia at the Greenbank farm.

Delia took this picture.
I didn't take many pictures while they were visiting, so I guess I didn't take any with Joshua and his grandparents :(

Saturday Morning Chores

Chores seemed a little more glamorous with the addition of a tutu this morning!
Maybe I need to make myself one!