We have been very busy this month! It seems like we have been playing more and keeping real busy. We went to the circus in Salt Lake with Grannie and Pop and Grandma Lillie and Jeff and Ally and cousins. We had a lot of fun and our favorite part was the tigers and the great big bicycle with tractor tires. Afterward we went to dinner at Cowboy Grub and got to play on the merry-go-round. Grandma Lillie gave us a wonderful Christmas gift she has been working hard on. A beautiful book about grandpa Grant Alvey Muhlestein.
We have been having fun going on walks and go cart rides and doing the school things. And of course there has been raking and raking and raking the leaves from the two maple trees in our front yard. We have been bagging but it looks like the tree still has 2/3 of its leaves still on the tree.
Our biggest project was painting the house. It was a huge project but we managed to paint it in five days. Everyone pitched in and helped (although I stayed clear of the ladders and only did what I could reach and down!) Ben even helped Dewey off the roof leaning over the paint the eaves of the house. We used a sprayer for the side and most of the back, which was wonderful and very fast! Here are the before and after pictures.
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A little fishing pond opened up this week and Dewey took the kids right over. Not five minutes into fishing, Ephraim caught a nice big fish. The edge around the pond was very soggy so they lost it. Dewey called and asked me to bring the net over. The kids each had fun trying to catch fish. Ben caught a small one and released it. Joselyn caught the largest one, 23 inches. It was very yummy for dinner! We caught four and the smallest one was 19 inches. Can you say FISH FOOD???
And since it is Halloween, we have been carving pumpkins and making caramel apples to munch on (did you know that each apple has about 350 calories?) The kids each chose their favorite thing and we carved them out, after they dug out the innards and cleaned them up. Ephraim didn't want to touch a thing, so Joselyn helped him out. The boys thought it was great, but they kept asking why we weren't saving the seeds to grow pumpkins... my brown thumbs???
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
