Wonderful Nate

Nate has been working hard and studying to become his company's Primary Principle Pesticide Person. On Thursday he passed the final test!!! We are so proud of him and all he does for our family. I feel so blessed to have a husband who works so hard and takes such good care of us so that I can be a stay at home mom. I love Nate for the motivation he has to improve himself and his work for his company. I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Johnny seed appleseed

Yesterday was John Chapman's, AKA Johnny Appleseed, birthday. We celebrated by learning about his life and about apples. The kids helped to peel and eat apple slices, make apple pie,and frosting apples. We had fun thinking of all the ways to eat an apple. They came up with apple slices, apple pie, applesauce, apple juice, and apple muffins. We talked about where the apple seeds are in the apple and how they grown into an apple tree. Wyatt then said, "You plant muffins to get more muffins." I told him muffins do not grow on trees like apples and he replied, "yeah, they grow in the grass!" We finally helped him understand that muffins are something you have to make at home.

I know I have been totally behind on blogging. Both posting and reading others. I don't have any good excuses except I have been trying to get my priorities straight and that has left turning the computer on to do anything besides pay bills on the very bottom of the list. So much has happened since our last post, but no time/energy to put it all down except in a short list form: *Camping *Two Carnivals *Labor Day Hike *Golf Tournament *Hole in Wyatt's eardrum *Lots of birthday parties *Getting ready for school to start *Babysitting *Bought a bigger tent so we can camp more *Toasted Marshmallow Day (toasted over the gas burner on the stove) *Ice Cream sandwich Day (we tried homemade-yummy) *national Chocolate chip day *National Picnic Day (it rained on us) *National Waffle day (thanks Trevor and Tiff for the waffle maker!!) *Sea Serpent Day *National Creamsicle day *Watched Wizard of Oz on the anniversary of it's first showing *Dream Day (learned about Martin Luther King Jr) *National Cheese Pizza Day *Read a book day(that is everyday at our house) *Patriot Day *Grandparents day *Lots of trips to the library *HOURS of reading out loud *Nate out of town a few times for work *AND LAST BUT MOST EXCITING: Mara started Kindergarten!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

To say she LOVES it is a complete understatement. She is having so much fun. Her friend Lincoln is in her class. She loves her teacher and the whole idea of school.