Exploring the Sunken Gardens

This week we went to the sunken gardens in Lincoln, Nebraska. It was just beautiful, there was a small pond and water fall. The flowers were just lovely. We saw 5 foot Elephant ears, and the leaves were 4 foot in length, wow. There were asters that were covered with monarch butterflies! These gardens are just beautiful!

A Visit to the Orchard

This month we went to an apple orchard in Iowa. The trees were full of apples. Mom, Dad, Elliot, and I went threw a corn maze. We enjoyed apple slush and fried apple pie, the pie was really good!

Basket Weaving

I had a lot of fun at craft club making baskets with Becca, and Hanna. Weaving, and talking with friends the perfect combination! I always look forward to Craft club!

Hitchcock Nature Center

This week we visited a nature center in Iowa. We walked the Badger Ridge trail. Elliot found a walking stick, leaf bug, and a cool colored caterpillar. I saw a red headed woodpecker, a lizard, and a lot of swallow tail butterflies and monarch butterflies. We love the outdoors!

Playing at Walnut Grove

After we collected walnuts we all enjoyed time with our friends Becca, Spencer, and Hanna Rothfuss, and the Bettis family at the playground. Our favorite part was swinging on the big disks, and jumping off the edge into the sand. We got some good pictures of Spencer jumping into the sand!

Walnut Collecting

This weekend we collected walnuts with friends. We went to Walnut Grove Park and collected the many walnuts that had fallen from the great abundance of walnut trees. The second step after collecting them is to crush the green flesh on the outside, which is done by stepping and rolling them around with your foot. Inside is the green husk, there is a lot of yellow oil that stains your hands so we had rubber gloves on. The next step is to rinse them off and let them set for two weeks. More news later!

Backyard Apple Picking

We went to a friends house this week and their neighbors have an apple tree in their yard part of tree is in my friend Kelly's back yard also. We enjoyed picking a lot of yummy, all natural and fresh apples. I hope to make an apple pie or apple crisp soon!

Skirt Sewing with Becca

This week I had a lot of fun sewing with my friend Becca! We each sewed an ankle length full skirt. There were 6 steps to take and we had finished the skirts in one afternoon. I love wearing the skirt, but I'm glad that we don't always have to make our own clothes!

Rainy Day Baking

Today I baked Pumpkin bars, they are really good. Elliot helped me with the crumb topping. Rainy days are perfect for baking!

Crocheted Granny Square Scarves

In three days I finished an 11 square scarf each square was four rows. Then I connected them with single crochets, and tied on tassels. I was very excited that the finished project turned out well, Sammy likes it too!

Elliot's Snails

Sunday while we were relocating the log pile Elliot found two snails! We put them both on a wet romaine lettuce leaf in a jar. We all enjoy watching them move slowly around.

Omaha Zoo Vist

Saturday we visted the zoo. We had a lot of fun! Our main reason for going there was to see the new butterfly pavilion. It was wonderful we had a lot of fun there the butterflys are wonderful. We also saw a tiger sleeping against the fence with his paw over his eyes! How cute!

Craft Club

Since school has started craft club has started also, Hooray!!!! Craft club is where I get together with other home schooled girls. We enjoy crocheting, knitting, baking and many other fun crafts.

Canoeing

On labor day we had a lot of fun canoeing with friends. We had lunch on a sandbar, enjoyed wading in the river, and playing on the miniature sand dunes. On the sand dunes we found turtle eggs!

Land of 10,000 Lakes

This summer we went to Minneapolis to see dad who is there working. While we were there we did a lot of fun things. We went to Mall of America and rode on the Pepsi Ripsaw! We all enjoyed time together at Bryant lake. On lake Minnetonka we rode on a historic charter boat called the Lady of the Lake. This boat and lake are beautiful.