Happy fall and happy last day of September! That may sound like I'm rejoicing but I am actually sad to see September moving on. Did it not just get here? It is definitely feeling like fall. Like Jenn said, our nights our cold but the days are beautiful. The leaves are beginning to change and you can just smell harvest in the air.
Yesterday, we canned up a batch of salsa so all of us are now penetrated with that smell for the next few weeks I'm sure. We also began the cleaning out of our garden. It is almost a bigger job I think than planting and getting things going in the spring. The kids have had a fun time harvesting our huge sunflowers and also our dry black beans. We had an abundant crop of onions and decided to try our hand at braiding them. They turned out pretty good and our storage room looks all...harvest festive. Speaking of harvest festive, I love to decorate for fall. Thanks to Emerson's pumpkin patch, we ended up with 9 orange pumpkins and about 15 flat white pumpkins. We also grew some fun broom corn (sorghum) which ended up being a variety of colors. We took all these goodies and smothered our entry in fall-ish loveliness. So fun!
This past week we took our kids on a field trip with our homeschooling friends to what's called the Butterfly Haven. It is a small home run business where this family decided to take their big greenhouse and turn it into a butterfly farm. They breed, hatch and raise native butterflies and let other people come and enjoy it! It was so lovely! In addition to the butterflies, there were several little birds including a pair of button quail. Oh my goodness they were cute! Another miniature creature we may just need to add to our farm. It was so much fun!
Addy got a camera this week for one of her classes she is taking. She has been taking pictures of everything! So between her and Ian, we may have some future professional photographers on our hands.
Emerson has been doing everything legos. He is taking a really neat lego machines class where he is challenged to make real life models of things that work using gears and pulleys and things. Quite amazing the things he comes up with.
Eliza is constantly leaping around. She discovered how to do a front flip and is always showing us how flexible she is. Ouch. She definitely did not get that from Garrett or me!
Henry is trying to keep up with all the other kids all at the same time. That takes a lot of energy but he has plenty of that and then some.
Millie is our farm girl and loves to be out with the animals and look at every book we have with animal pictures inside. If you ask her what any animal says, she will respond with an enthusiastic "Hee-haw." We have trained her well.
We are gearing up for general conference next week. Woo-hoo! Can't wait to see what big changes will take place. We are also holding our breath for our big ward boundary changes. It hasn't been done in twelve years and from what we heard, every ward in our stake will be "significantly affected." It will be interesting. Love you all!
My computer is not cooperating so I will hopefully have some pictures to post soon!
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