Renaissance Fair

A few weeks ago Geoff's mom took the girls to a Renaissance Fair.  Here are a few pictures from their day.

Fall Catch-Up

Here are a few random pictures from our fall.  Our schedule is so full that I find I'm not taking many pictures, and certainly don't have as much time at home.

The girl's art teacher, and our good friend, Dana Solomon, entered a scarecrow contest.  She didn't win, but we love her creation, Desidua.

It doesn't have to be Halloween for dressing up at our house...

The girls disappeared all afternoon last Saturday making a fort.  Again my pictures are horrible, but this was a fun creation.

The salvaged all sorts of things out of the burn pile, thatched a roof out of dead grasses, and even created a real latrine so they wouldn't have to go "all the way to the house" when they had to go.

Tennie in front of the latrine.  It drains down onto the road...

Another day they were really itching to make fairy houses.

We're off on a three week field trip this week.  I'll try to keep posts of our adventures, but I'm not promising anything...

Halloween

This Halloween was a breakthrough.  The girls pretty much did the pumpkins on their own.  They made or found their own costumes from the costume box for all of their different parties.  Somehow it was easier all around.

Tennie, and her friend Skyler, dressed up in different costumes for every Halloween event.  I didn't get a picture of Tennie as a fairy, and too bad because she threw it together in a matter of minutes and it was pretty fun.

 They had jokes written on their arms

 
 We had pumpkin pancakes for breakfast, and Mr. Bones came for lunch, as usual.

Geoff was in Utah working on Halloween, but he added a little costume fun to his workday suit (which feels like a costume in itself!)

Then there was the usual trading, which is quite serious business, and our family dance.  Since Tennie was with a friend, and Geoff was out of town, and Geoff's parents were out, it was a small family night.  The pictures are pretty lousy, but I'll include them anyway.