November Days

almost walking...

Are you from Outer Space?

watching TV at age 7 months

Emma has really been enjoying her piano lessons.

Dad recently bought a new 8-passenger van to replace our 7-passenger mini van. It is very big, and there is enough trunk space to put another 4-person row of seats in! We are all enjoying our new car that can finally fit us all!! :)

Canning Pickles

Mom ordered a large box of pickling cucumbers last week and we set to work canning them. We washed them, sliced them, put together a sauce and then Mom arranged them in some jars. We made both sweet and dill pickles. Mom has made sweet pickles before, but this is our first try at dill ones. We haven't ate any yet (they are supposed to sit on the shelf for a couple months!) but we are looking forward to tasting our pickles!

Medieval Feast

Emma and her friends, Spencer and Andrea.

Paul had a lot of fun building model castles!

To set up for the feast, we made lots of banners and hung them on the walls of our house.

My family has been studying the Middle Ages, so we decided to host a Medieval feast with our good friends who moved to Ketchikan last summer. Our friends have a little baby, Meredith, the same age as Samuel, so we named them, Lord Samuel and Lady Meredith. They were so cute sitting in their thrones! (highchairs)