November 1-3

Where in the world did October go? We are through with Halloween and onto the next big holiday – THANKSGIVING. Which is a much bigger deal than in Canada… and a different month all together. It is quite the trick to go from an event like Halloween and then back to school on a Friday no less.

We had a timely mail delivery of two of our magazine subscriptions to read during our reading time.

And of course we took a moment to enjoy the glory that is fall in our backyard. These trees were chosen (and planted when they first built the house) specifically for the fall season!

We had time for painting with watercolours (Thomas the Tank Engine)…

And a Halloween activity for Trinity.

We had a new countdown to the 5th and Aunty Karyn’s visit… that had us making Christmas cards on Saturday for all the people who live near her so that we could send off our early Christmas presents and save the shipping costs for mailing later!

We also had our Home Depot craft session – BOATS! 

We also finished our lovely ghostly footprints to go into our Halloween book. I love the individuality!

That evening it was finally time to eat our other mailed gift from Gammie – our cupcakes in a kit – a Hello Kitty Halloween themed. They went over VERY well.

We rounded off our weekend with first Sunday School (as usual) and THEN a beautiful afternoon out in the sunshine… a good stiff wind earlier in the day brought down a bounty of brightly coloured leaves.

So what better to do than rake them into a pile and jump and play in them… and THEN clean them up into the bags to be taken out with the trash this week?

Enjoy the pictures… I did take a few…

The inclusion of Echo

September 19-22

Half a week in and my family showed their love by coercing me to sleep in until NOON! Ken took a partial day off and we were able to go out and have a lovely Family Day. Just us 7 out and about running errands… getting free cookies at Cub… enjoying time together.

It was coupon week at JoAnn’s so I was able to buy quite a few skeins of yarn and save almost as much as I spent!! Way to make Christmas affordable! Though I do have some colours yet to pick up. It is fun to go and just look  through yarn and feel it, see the colours… so many possibilities!

And still Miss Echo loves her hat… in fact, the girls BOTH uses their Grandma change to get special gifts for themselves at Walmart.

We are still holding in on the braids but their time has come to an end. I really need to learn how to do more than the simple stuff I am able to do.

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We worked on some lovely poems using the letters of the twins’ names on Friday.

While Miss Echo went back to rocking her curls.

Trinity likes to re tell her stories using our books, her memory and a nice dose of imagination!

We had a crafty duo make paper tissue baskets (Zander).

And on Saturday the kids worked on getting dirty… enjoying the sunshine…

And attacking Daddy…

Equal opportunity…

On Sunday we had our second session of Sunday School! happy kids!

And then… thanks to a sale on apples at Cub… we made PIE!!!

How better to end the weekend (and the week for that matter!) than to have a run outside. With Daddy’s remote control car as well! Yay!

July 1

Well belated Happy Canada Day. With our original post on the date HERE, it is time to expand on our activities and share some special red and white themed photos with you all!

I lucked out with Karyn’s package getting here in time for Trinity to wear her new Hello Kitty themed gear…

Oh and for ALL of us to take a turn with the themed Canadian sunglasses!

Emanuel

Trinity

Gavin

Zander

Echo

I love the beachblanket I picked up for a steal before we moved south and added to that the flag banner Karyn included.

Our schooling was totally Canadian focused with our lapbook…

And then another fireworks project. This one uses oil, water and food colouring. You can find the step by step instructions HERE thanks to The Little Sewing Shop. We had great results with less colours.

And for lunch, themed desert – strawberry jello with whipped cream topping!

We had a special book thanks to Grandma to read… M is for Maple by Mike Ulmer.

And Canadian pencils!

Then in the evening Anthony actually had a soccer game extremely local to us! So we packed up and enjoyed the sunshine with Darcy and her boys.

For more photos check HERE at our overflow entry!!

A great way to round off our Canada Day!