Days 295 - 301

 

 Day 301  Oh yeah, it's time once again for LOST.  Only one more season to go!

  

Day 300  Playing outside with the Moorheads.

 

Day 299  We got an A/C........preparing for next summer.

 

Day 298  A worker cleaning the area by our apartment.

 

  

Day 297  A car crashed into this fence and then took off.

  

Day 296  Walking home after an afternoon at the mall.

 

Day 295  The fall centerpiece I made

Nathanism

Recently Nathan has been crazy about tickling.  But not just tickling with anyone he will only tickle with his daddy!  The second daddy comes through the door he starts yelling "kickle time", "kickle time".   Well the other day I started tickling him and he looked straight at me and said:
"Don't "kickle" me!"
So, I asked "why not?"
He then said "only daddy "kickles" me and you are not a boy".
Well eeeeeeeeeeeeexcuuuuuuuuuuuuse me!!!!

Cookies

 

My friend, teammate, and neighbor Sharon gave me an incredible 

recipe for chocolate chip cookies!  The recipe calls for coconut 

and I think that's what makes them delicious.  Everyone really 

enjoyed them,especially little Naynay who was also goofing around

with my "head light".

Days 288 - 294

 

Day 294  Walking home from the market in the rain.

  

Day 293 Getting ready for flu season!

 

Day 292 The boys boxing each other on the Wii

 

Day 291  Scrapping some more!

 

Day 290  Scrapping again! 

  

Day 289  It's another day for a white wedding!

  

Day 288 Craft time with our wives' group!

Pumpkin Creme Pies

I'm not a huge pumpkin flavor fan but since it's fall I've decided to try to get into the "fall" spirit.  So far I have made pumpkin cupcakes and the other day I tried my hand at pumpkin creme pies.  I got the recipe from The Pioneer Woman.   It was quite time consuming considering that I have to make the pumpkin puree but it was worth all the hard work.  The recipe also made a bunch of creme pies plus they refrigerate real well and tasted just as fresh on the third day. 

 

My taste tester thought they were quite yummy!

Columbus Day

 

October 11 was Columbus Day, so I decided to take a break from our regular school day 

and concentrate on a lapbook project pack.  I have never done one of these before and the

concept is entirely new to me so I did the best I could.  The idea is to concentrate on one 

subject and to take a good amount of time to go through but we did this in one day considering

that Jojo is only 7 years old.  One of the best things about homeschooling is that I get to learn

right alongside of Jojo.  We learned some real interesting facts about Christopher Columbus and

then I did my own research on the internet and found some more interesting facts.  Lapbooks are

a lot of fun.  This one on Christopher Columbus came from here and on the top menu they actually

have some freebies you can download!

Days 281 - 287

 

DAY 287  Playing with the aperture and boys being silly.

 

DAY 286  Grace To You in Russia 

  

DAY 285  The Samara Preachers' Conference

  

DAY 284  Dusk

 

DAY 283   Guests in our living room so they have to settle for the computer.

 

DAY 282  Lunch time at the mall.

 

DAY 281  Slumber party with daddy.

Naynay and Gerson

Gerson is our pastor's son here in Samara and he was born 2 months before Nathan was.  He is Naynay's church buddy.

Gerson and Naynay in February 2008

October 2010

Days 274 - 280

 

Day 280 - It's getting cold!!!

 Day 279  Card making........or at least trying to.

 

Day 278  As part of one of his school assignments, Jojo will be

monitoring the changes in this tree as the seasons change.

 

Day 277  Loving the Fall colors!

  

Day 276 "New" friends from Ukraine at church.

  

Day 275  Pumpkin cupcakes.

  

Day 274  Wives' group.

My Little Artist

"Auntie" Heather gave Nay-nay some water color paint and he has really enjoyed painting lately!  Here are some cute pictures of my budding artist.

 

He had no idea that paint splattered on his face until I showed him in the mirror!

DAYS 267 - 273

 

Day 267  It's PARTAY time!

 

DAY 268  Little Miriam at the next days party.

 

DAY 269 Baptism at our church.

 

DAY 270  Remains of a party.

 

DAY 271 - The fall colors are slowly arriving.

 

DAY 272  This building has been under construction for over 4 years!

 

DAY 273  The days are getting gray.

Spiderman Sleepover Celebration

We celebrated Jojo's 7th birthday a month late only because it takes us a bit to get acclimated and organized once we return from the States.  Not to mention trying to schedule an event with everyone's schedule being so insane.

This year we decided to go with a slumber party with 3 of the boys on the team here in Samara.  Of course they are all of Jojo's "best buds".  It was a lot of fun until some particular boys woke up at 6:45 a.m. which was a little too early for this mama but oh well!!!!