Star of the Week

My Peanut is the "Star of the Week" at school. She really is a star too! This week, she learned how to ride a bike without training wheels and tie shoe laces. She just sang her 1st article of faith during the primary program perfectly - she made her momma proud! Annie is the BEST cleaner-upper in the house - hands down! She loves to do her school work and help her little sister. We love you Peanut!

Made by Mom

SO I am way behind on blogging and I am trying to catch up.

Tim recently started a new job. He had a few weeks at home before he began at the new company. So out came the paint brushes and rollers. I sold my dining room table and turned our dining room into a new office (french doors and faux finish on the walls). I painted our hallway, stairs and our master bedroom and bath. I love that new paint look!

My old sewing machine died - I've become the proud owner of a Bernina sewing machine and serger! The quality between my old machine and new is like a driving a Chevy and then a BMW. Amazing!

Here are a set of skirts I made for my dear friends little girls:

Halloween pajamas (horrible picture - everyone was too giggley):
My scrappy quilt made from all my scrap pieces of fabric - I even hand quilted this one!

A get-well quilt for a dear friend who just had heart surgery - this quilt is tied:

Baby blankets for a service auction:

When it is quiet for too long....

After dropping the big kids off at school, I decided to check my email while Georgia was playing in the family room. It was too quiet and I decided to check on my Peachy.

She was playing in my purse and chewing several pieces of orange gum. Mmmmmm....now it can sit and rot in your tummy!

Will it turn into a coach?

This year Annie was responsible for the pumpkins in our garden. She choose a Cinderella Pumpkin variety and from the moment she picked out the seeds, she asked me if this pumpkin was going to turn into a coach (like the Disney movie). I told her we had to plant it and wait for it to grow.

This weekend, we finally picked our pumpkins. The kids were each assigned to help wash and carry the pumpkins to the front porch. They took their jobs very seriously!

In the garden ready to pick on a cold Saturday morning:

Helping Dad wash off the pumpkins:

Our final pumpkin show:

I told Annie we will have to wait until Halloween to see if it turns into a coach or rots!

School Days

Our transition to kindergarten went much smoother than I had anticipated. The kids are excited to go and come home happy - I find that as success!

I am volunteering once a week in their classroom (and am also a room mom - I help plan parties). I didn't realize how much I would love seeing them with their new found friends. I am learning more about their friends and actually seeing what they are doing in class. Already, I can tell this will be VERY important in years to come (to be pals with their friends).

I am developing a relationship with their teacher and even found out that one of my children had to be moved to a different table because of being "alittle too friendly". I would have never known that if I wasn't in the classroom.

I have our first parent/teacher conference tonight. I love seeing my kids excel and be excited about life!

Fall Feast

I haven't posted much about our garden this summer...well probably because I have spent a lot of time there (and not on the computer). We tried new fruits and vegetables this year and have been reaping a great harvest. We have had a cooler summer, but I am still trying to decide if it effected our crops.

Our freezer and shelves are full of strawberry jam (compliment of berries grown in our own yard), green beans, peas, broccoli (a new one for us!), green peppers, salsa, spaghetti sauce, carrots, pears (I bought these), raspberries (the kids seemed to polish those off before I could bring them in the house), and onions. We also had pumpkins (which we will harvest tomorrow) and lots of yellow squash and zucchini.

I am canning our last batch of spaghetti sauce tomorrow. I've been feeling like the little ant in the Ant and Grasshopper parable. Hopefully, we have enough stored in our basement to last a winter!

We had many nights of corn on the cob, green beans and watermelon - a family favorite!

Peachy swiping the raspberries - she is a sneaky one!
We also decided to grow a sunflower. The kids love to go stand by it to see how tall it had grown. Sure enough, it did produce sunflower seeds. Picking all those sunflower seeds out of the flower was a chore!