Week ending 10-25-20

 We had a great week. We didn't have many plans so we mostly stayed home and got a lot of school work done, read, did housework and yard work, practiced instruments, and hung out together. It was quite a productive week. The weather was in the 60's and 70's all week and this morning we got our first snowfall--just enough to barely cover everything, an inch or less.

Playing the sock game for FHE

Tuesday: Andy took this picture of us doing school. This is the best school year with everyone being able to do school and not having to be taking care of babies. Tilly gets bored and lonely sometimes but luckily she has Ruth next door to play with.

This girl loves to paint and draw all the time.

We spent some more time this week getting the last of the produce out of the garden before the snowy weekend. We made this quiche with 13 eggs we collected from our neighbors' chickens when we were pet sitting plus zucchini, squash, peppers, and tomatoes from our garden and milk from the raw milk farm. I love it when the whole main dish can be made with ingredients my neighbors or I grew ourselves.

We also made apple muffins using apples from our neigbhor's trees. 

Sam and Andy got a bunch of sod from a neighbor ripping his out and they put it under this big evergreen tree. The branches touch the ground so it's fun to crawl under them and it made for a perfect sleeping spot.

All of our pumpkins being picked. Harvest is over.

Saturday: Having a last campfire before it snows.

Waiting for everyone to come to dinner.

All of the pumpkins we grew. We only bought 2 pumpkin plants at the farmers market (and then later found our saved pumpkin seeds but never did plant them) and grew 30 pumpkins from them! A few are still green but the city turned off the irrigation water so there isn't a way to water them even if it stayed warm.

We lined them up from left to right in age order. Almost everyone had 2 pumpkins. A lot of the names didn't get carved deep enough so they scarred funny but we'll know how to do it better next time.

Here are mine, Kylie's, Madalyn's, Spencer's (they each only got 1), and Alexis (she got 3 and so did Kaitlyn but they worked the most in the garden and when they found a pumpkin w/o a name on it they wrote theirs. It was hard to keep track of how many everyone had.)

Here are Thomas', Kaitlyn's, Makenna's, and Samuel's (who wanted McKay on his pumpkins.)

McKay, Andy, and Tilly.

Alexis holds her 3 pumpkins. She is the one who bought the 2 plants and took care of them the most.

Makenna and her 2 pumpkins (she took a braid out right before this picture but the other one is still in.)

Kaitlyn

Tilly/Talea

We took a bunch inside and huddled the rest in the corner for the cold night.

I told Spencer Brooke could only come over and watch the BYU game with us if he let me cut his hair. So here is the before picture.