American Heritage Girls Women Inventors

Elyana's group of American Heritage Girls lead a badge in a day for the younger girls. They taught them about Women Inventors. Elyana was the inventor of the ice cream churn. I was very proud of them!

Thanksgiving Happenings

Dad came for Thanksgiving. The girls were jamming with him. Elyana is playing the viola this year Mikayla is still taking violin lessons in addition to being in choir.

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Faith is listening

Mikayla wanted an electric piano for Christmas. There was one at Costco she was looking at but it was up too high.

Here is Mikayla with her violin teacher. She let her try out a Cello.

Mikayla went to a birthday party for her friend, Sofia.

Elyana went to a play two of her friends were in. She is sitting in a prop on the set.

There was a fun youth program at church. The kids got to decorate the youth area for Christmas. The youth pastors dressed up like turkeys and let the kids shoot them with paint guns.

This is a wreath that I made for the youth area. It is out of paper straws.

The girls being silly.

Halloween

Elyana dressed up as Belle from Beauty and the Beast for Halloween.  It took some scrounging around town to gather all the items to complete the outfit.

Mikayla studying before Trick or Treaters come.

Here is Elyana studying before she trick or treats. Faith is helping!

Here is Elyana and her friend Zoe. They each were Belle but different outfits.

There is a house in town that makes huge cotton candy for each trick or treater.

Essex Park

We discovered at our family photo shoot that a local park (Essex Park) has an outdoor archery range. Nate and Mikayla enjoyed some archery time together and Elyana and I explored nature.  It was a beautiful day. I wish our family took the time to do more outdoors stuff.

October Birthday's

My mom and I have birthday's in October. It's such a special month.

Here is Mom with her dog, Chloe visiting at my house...

For my birthday, we took a trip to Ikea in Minneapolis. Mom bought frames for me. I wanted to finally frame all of the girls professional photos one kiddo's pictures per stairwell.  It's a project I've wanted to do for a long time.  Here is Mikayla's stairwell.  Crazy to think a few more years and I'll have senior photos to add!

We Rearranged Elyana's Room!

I'm Such a Gardner!

I cannot grow things very well. My house plants suffer and my garden produces weird plants a lot. Here is an odd tomato that we grew. I added wiggly eyes of course!