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Our Trip to Disneyland!

For Thanksgiving we were able to travel to California to visit Grandma and Grandpa Kitty! We had so much fun sharing the holiday with family. Afterwards, we went south to take the kids to spend three fun-filled days in Disneyland and California Adventure. We had so much fun. Everything about the trip was perfect...until I forgot to set my alarm and we slept in the morning we were supposed to go home and knew that we would miss Summer's final dress rehearsal for her big Nutcracker production. So, we did what any parent would do (not). We drove to the Anaheim airport and sent her home on a plane. Aunt Michelle was a lifesaver and picked her up and got her to her rehearsal. THANK YOU! She was able to be in two performances that weekend and she made a very cute sheep. Enjoy the pictures :)

Halloween Party

I felt bad that all the other kids in the neighborhood were getting to do such fun stuff at school for Halloween, and, I didn't want my kids to feel left out. So, I threw together a Halloween party just for them. Here are the picts!


Our feast: mummy pizzas, bone breadsticks, apple mouths with rotten teeth, and eyeball grapes.

Playing "Don't Eat Frank"

Me giving out samples of chilled dragon hearts (orange jello)

Painting eyeballs

Eating donuts from a string

The kids felt things I had in my witch pantry, like dragon hearts, dried zombie tongue (beef jerky), intestines (spaghetti), eyeballs (peeled grapes, and teeth (candy corn).

Fraction Sundaes

Here's a sweet way to learn fractions: open your own ice cream parlor. I cut out lots of ice cream scoops and then gave the kids recipes that "customers" ordered, like 1/6 mint, 3/6 chocolate, and 2/6 bubble gum. We also practiced reducing fractions, but I started to lose them at that point. Afterwards we made our own real ice cream sundaes! The kids had so much fun making sundaes. Here they are with their notebook pages they made with their dream recipes.

New Temple!

Here is our family at the groundbreaking site for the new Payson temple. We are so excited to watch a temple be built right in our own backyard.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas????

Two weeks ago, we studied erosion in homeschool and how the forces of nature shape our earth. So, I scheduled a field trip to see Devil's Kitchen in Payson Canyon. It's basically a mini Bryce Canyon with red, unique rock formations that occurred because of erosion. I thought it would be cool to see some fall color as well and take some cool pictures. We did see a little fall color, but then, as we climbed, our autumn color tour turned into a walk through a winter wonderland.



Aspen grove.




Cool tree trunk

At Devil's Kitchen



Riley chasing me with a snowball. He got my boot :)