Catchup part two

Quinn on his first day of preschool at the YMCA. Backpack? Check. Folder? Check. Not exactly the exhaustive supply list the Davidson's needed to start school (I wasn't quite sure what a Pee Chee folder was until I found it on wikipedia) but Quinn was super excited.

We managed to finish a project that Quinn and I started last summer - a mountain for cars. Quinn was constantly bunching up blankets to make mountains to drive his cars on. We made a wood frame, covered it with chicken wire and paper mache. The kids did the landscape painting and I put on the roads the night before we took this video.

Catchup

This is a quick recap of the last few weeks. Summer blurred quickly into winter with a dusting of snow a few nights ago. We picked our pumpkins and finally gave in to buying a leaf blower as the leaves came raining down from our neighborhood trees. As the trees loose their leaves, the grass finally sees some sun but the front yard is barely visible underneath the fallen ash leaves.

Aunt Hil and Gran visited while I was at the Boundary Waters with C and Ralph. Thanks for some great pictures (courtesy of Hil and Gran) of the last few days of summer. Here are Quinn and Max riding up our street.

And Mae catching the sunlight.

Max, Mae, Quinn and I rode bikes (well, I pulled them in our long-haul bike trailer) to a nearby nature center for a fall festival. Decorating cookies (and eating the frosting) was a favorite.

Parker's Eagle Scout Project

This week the city called and needed some trees planted. Parker was able to us it for an Eagle Scout project. It worked out well and now all he has to finish is some merit badges. We had a good amount of boys come and Kurt and Thomas also came to help. It's nice to have an Eagle project just fall into your lap.

Halloween Quilts

Here are some Halloween quilts I'm posting for Mom. Anyone interested in hosting these lovely wall hangings in their home? Contact Mom.

Now and Then

Friends from High school. I am not the only one with grey hair.

Family History Trip

Cousins at Nine Mile School where Hannah Molland Byington was a teacher.

First Day of School

Ready or not, school is in session. Here's what it took to get everyone there:

8 spiral notebooks

60 #2 pencils

3 boxes of colored pencils

3 boxes of crayons

3 pink pearl erasers

2 bottles of white school glue

1 pair Fiskar's scissors

2 pair of Gym shoes

3 back packs

4 boxes of Kleenexes

4 bottles of hand sanitizer

4 reams white copy paper

1 each yellow, pink, and green highlighters

2 fine tip black sharpies

1 water bottle

1 ruler

1 water color paint set

1 set markers

9 pee chee type folders

1 sharpener

1 package wide-ruled notebook paper

1 teddy bear

It is a quiet house this morning with everyone gone. Izzy and I don't quite know what to do with ourselves. But I'm sure we'll think of something.