My Boy Being a Boy...

I love looking outside and seeing my boy doing boy things. Like climbing trees.


Or running gleefully with a rotten apple to chase his younger brother with.



And his sister following close behind.

It is a good day....

Fall and Food Fun....

The light was shining on the leaves and looked so pretty. Fall is my favorite time of year, and the trees here are wonderful to watch as they change. It is cool and crisp out, a little cold but dry.


Whenever we get a little carried away with the whipped cream, the kids squeal with delight at the silliness of it all.



They love to get it all over their faces and then pretend that they didn't even know how it got there. I wonder where they get that from....

Apples....

The kids have a new hobby...Picking apples...It is amazing how many apples they can bring in, and they haven't even put a dent in the trees.

Katie likes to pick them and eat them. We have three trees that have tart apples and one that has sweet apples. Surprisingly, it is the green apple that is sweet.

I learned quickly how to make applesauce and it is sooo good. We have had apple pie, apple crisp, apple muffins, and apple butter. I would like to make more applesauce, but, all of the local stores are out of canning supplies. Next year I will have to be more prepared!

Back in South Dakota...

Here we are in South Dakota again! It has taken a long time to post, I know, but we are working on getting faster Internet service out in the country. This is our new house on a beautiful fall day.
There is a lot of room for the kids to run around and play, the house is roomy as well.

This is the view of the backyard. We were all taking a walk to the road in the back. There are nice gravel country roads with corn and soy fields to see.

The back view of the house, a nice sun set. We are waiting to see the color of the trees and enjoying the crunch of the leaves on the ground. We miss all of our new friends that we had made in Florida, but we are glad to be back here in South Dakota.

Pumpkinland

We went to Pumpkinland in Orange City, Iowa last week with our local homeschool group.

The kids had a great time going through the giant corn maze. Here is a picture of the maze, the kids had to find 6 mailboxes to receive a prize of candy.

Justin is standing at the top of the bales of hay. They had lots of time to run around, look at animals and pick pumpkins. After we left Pumpkinland we went to a dairy and I have to say, we were all impressed.