Thanksgiving

Since November began we have been learning about the pilgrims and their journey to America.  Luke has loved learning about this adventurous part of our history and we have been able to get together with our dear friends and make lots of crafts. 

We made a Mayflower.

First, we painted.

  

As we waited for the paint to dry, we measured the estimated length and width of the Mayflower.

  

The completed project:

  

When we sit down for dinner every night, we have been writing down things we are thankful for and then we fill  up our Mayflower.

 

We also made turkeys.

 

Luke has learned this verse.  We used the Thanksgiving song from Songs for Saplings to help us learn it quickly and ,hopefully, more permanently.

 

Tonight we will be performing a Thanksgiving play with our friends…put on especially for our daddies.  They even got invitations.

Luke will be proudly playing the part of Squanto.  Pictures to come of our exciting performance!  Until then, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Fall

I’m having a hard time even figuring out how to write this post since I have so many different events/pictures to share!  I can hardly believe it is almost Thanksgiving and just a few weeks away from Christmas.  Wasn’t it just New Year’s Day?

The beginnning of October came in with a bang……literally.  Luke fell out of his bed one night and gashed his head open…many tears and much blood, but after several weeks of doctoring we were left with a lovely scar on the back of his head that will most likely never be seen.  The bedrail went back up that night and as far as I’m concerned it can stay there forever because I never want to go through that again.  He is a wild sleeper!

We had fun at the pumpkin patch again this year and picked out a little pumpkin just for the Lukester.

We lovingly carved a “Mater” jack-o-lantern this year…our first carving with Luke.

Halloween was full of muscles for us.  We had a festival at church and Luke basically walked around all night like this:

…ready to save the day.

 

We’ve spent lots of wonderful time in our beloved Auburn.

Don’t they look like they’re in love???…what great pictures we will have one day if  Luke and Bethany do get married…and according to them they ARE getting married.

 

We threw a surprise 60th birthday party for my dad…

 

Whew!  Just writing that wore me out. 

Next post: what we’ve been learning about in school!!  I know you’re on pins and needles.