Corn husks!

For the first time the boys made corn husk people. They had a lot of fun and I think they turned out great! We did some art today using the secondary colors on the color wheel. We love art time and the ambiance of classical music playing and the smell of a fall candle burning.
Enjoy the pictures!

Misc. happenings

Well, let's see, Spike our oldest kitty just turned 19 this month! There's a picture of him enjoying a box and some catnip with his 2 other kitty family members. Also, I managed to get a picture of Ryan playing football. He looks great out there! Emily wore a pony tail for the first time this month and learned how to say "pretty" which she says quite often for her cute shirts and even told Ryan that his shirt was "pretty" today. lol!
We had a visit from Jim, Tiana and Sasha this last weekend and all enjoyed spending time together.
Other than that it's been a great month with some heads-down school going on. The boys are doing great with their studies and we've gotten into a really good routine. Even Emily stands with her hand on her heart for the pledge of allegiance. :)

Visiting Grandma Stensland and updates!

We went to Iowa this past September to see my beautiful niece get married to a wonderful man. We also enjoyed seeing lots of family and friends, it was great! We also appreciated spending time with my mom. Emily loved playing with play dough with Grandma! Here are some pictures from our trip.

What's going on around our house right now? Home School- and lots of it! The boys are full force now into all their subjects. Ryan is doing great and Jeremy is amazing at keeping up with all of his assignments. I'm very proud of them both! Jeremy is learning sign language this year and really likes it! Emily evens enjoys school time and will stand with her over her heart for the pledge of allegiance. She likes to play with toys and sit at her desk during school, then she and I go upstairs and do some focus time activities like legos or play dough. She is really enjoying the routine and so am I.

Jeff spent a week down in Rochester for work and here at home it was the busiest week we've had in months. I managed to keep up but it was high energy the whole time-whew, I can chill now that he's home. Lately, I've been whipping up some stuff in the kitchen like homemade salsa, homemade ketchup, water kefir (it fizzes like soda pop and when you add a little juice it tastes like pop but it's healthy for you!), dehydrated watermelon and am going to make some pickled watermelon rinds this week still.
Anyway, football is still going on, baseball is done now as of last Sunday. One more football game on Saturday for both of them and then it's time for playoffs. Woohoo!

Randomness

Here are a few pictures from this last month. Our days have become a bit more "serious" with the start of school and all but we still have a good time. The boys don't sit still for pictures much, unless they're studying and those don't make for the most interesting of pictures. So here's some of Emily doing her thing! :)