This Week at Our House # 46

1. John is cleaning out our woods, so they will be a nice place for the family to gather. They had a lot of garbage in them, and tons of briars. He has removed a lot of both. John gathers us together a couple of times everyday and teaches us from the scriptures and the words of the prophets. Our kids are so good because they have a good dad who leads them in righteousness. This was not something I thought much about while I was dating. I wanted to marry someone who read his scriptures regularly and tried to understand them, but I did not understand what a blessing that would be for children. Our kids love and respect their dad. They bring their scriptures to him to talk about what they are reading. I am really blessed to have this in my home.
2. I homeschooled, transplanted a lot of trees (10 I think) and continued to dig in my garden. Today I took a long walk with some of the kids to see some cows. I love living out in the country.
3. Ruth didn't write much because she was busy proselyting.
4. Kate has been frustrated with me because I have been doing yard work when she wants me to be walking with her. 
5. Johnny is a top notch cookie baker. He makes cookies for the family several days a week. Suzy just came in crying that she needed her cookies, so Johnny is in the kitchen mixing up cookie dough. (Homemade too, by the way.)
6. Food has become pretty competitive in this house and I think it is because Adam the Eater is a teenager. 
7. Rachel LOVES playing legos with Kate, Johnny, Adam, and Anya. They have a lego world that is quite interesting and complex. 
8. Anya goes to sleep when she thinks something is boring. She does this during history, so she knows a lot less about American History than all of our other school kids.
9. Joseph is a smart kid. Often I feel like he is not paying attention, but then it turns out he knows more about what I was teaching than Adam, Anya, and Rachel.
10. Joshua discovered where I keep the toys in the garage, so he has brought Arwen and Susan in there to play with him. I think that is good. I was hoping with buying such a small house the kids would use the large yard and the large garage for space to play. He discovered the dress up and it was pretty cute to see him running through the yard in a dinosaur costume.
11. Arwen has been drawing and coloring full pages of very intricate pictures. She saw Rachel do that and then asked her for her pictures so she could see how to do it. She mailed one of her nicest pictures to Ruth.
12. I went through winter clothes and found a princess nightgown from my sister's daughter. I knew Susan would like it, so I just put it in her clothes. She found it and was very put out that I would not let her wear her "princess" to church.
13. Sam had his birthday and instead of grabbing the candle like we expected, it scared him and then he didn't want to eat his cake. 

Pictures

lego world

There are a lot of vultures around here

a vulture

a dressed up kitten, but she was purring. Arwen named her Ella.