Here's a dramatic shot if there ever was one! We've had some great lightning storms this year. This one was all around the horizon, 360º, but not above our heads!
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To go with our study of waves in homeschool, I got this water blob. ("The blobzter," it was called, if you must know.)
Once, years ago, we made one of these blobs, and it was fun, but was constantly breaking apart at the seams. So it was nice to have this one which was a little sturdier! We played on it during some of our late-summer 80-degree days. So fun!
This was a game the girls made up where you had to wrap your head in a towel and decide whose voice to follow, either ending up in "heaven" (one side of the basketball court) or in…well…the splash pool at the other end of the blob. Would you trust the instructions of either of these two angelic guides? You shouldn't.
Clementine liked it!
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Ziggy happily watching a vacuum truck come by and clean out the street drains
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Another double rainbow!
With misty rain falling down.
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Here is Malachi's appropriately guilty look after he had his seconds first at Kneaders! Have you ever heard of such a thing?! If you order the French Toast there for breakfast, you can get free refills of it. So, we went here after Ky's seminary class one day and our breakfast was taking forever to come out and we had to hurry home for another appointment! So we were awaiting our food very anxiously. Then Malachi had the brilliant idea to just go ask for his refill…before our food had even come. He did so. And proceeded to very smugly eat it before the rest of us had anything at all! I couldn't think of anything exactly immoral about this, since we'd already paid, but still…it seemed wrong somehow. Tsk tsk.
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Here is Gus nursing Caw and Taggie (or, as he calls it these days, "Mine Tag") during General Conference
I usually make each of these kinds of bread sometime in the week (we eat so much bread) but General Conference Sunday was unusual because I made them both on the same day. The loaves look quite nice all sitting there together, if you don't think about how quickly they will soon be devoured.
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Gus got these terrible wind-up chomping teeth at the dentist. Who on earth would manufacture such a thing? He loved them, of course. He kept them in his very bosom until they broke about 20 minutes later.
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A girl-nest
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I bought a bunch of different kinds of interesting honey when we were learning about bees, and we tasted each of them. It was so fun! It's amazing how different they can all be and still be…honey!
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Philip has been coming up to Provo for each of BYU's home football games with one of his children. We love it because we get to see him so much! He and Daniel were here the day we did our Flower Unit Celebration.
We made a bunch of sugared flowers with flowers from our yard. (Yes, violets, in the Fall! I don't know why they were growing but we were happy they were, since sugared violets are lovely!)
We decorated two cakes with our sugared flowers.
We also made lavender syrup and rose syrup for Italian Sodas
And Daisy made rose-petal jelly!
Everything looked so pretty on the dinner table!
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Later that same weekend, Philip and my mom invited Teddy and Ziggy to go camping overnight with them. The boys were so happy and excited to get to go! They had a great time hiking and cooking over a fire. They've never been camping at all before!
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While Teddy and Ziggy were camping, the girls were worried Gus would be sad, so they planned a special babysitting night where they did everything he liked. They made macaroni and cheese for dinner, gave him a bath, and then set up the tent in the backyard so they could sleep with him in it. They are SUCH good sisters, it made me almost cry when I saw how much Gus loved it all.
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Here's another race Seb won this year, at the Roy Invitational. This one was great because his team placed 1-2-3-4-5—a perfect score! Malachi ran the freshman race and they also placed 4 in the top 5. Malachi got 4th. It was really fun to watch! I have always liked this Roy race because it winds around loopily and you get to see the runners a lot without having to do much chasing around. And it ends with a long downhill!
Seb all alone at the finish line!
Herriman freshman in a pack
Ky looking strong on the last uphill
Top 5 JV runners
I drove Seb up with his bike to some bike trails in Draper, so I could shuttle him up and down and let him do the trails a few times. It was a beautiful day, with the first Fall leaves just starting to turn.
The goldenrod (if that's what it is…I used to know the name) was so pretty from the top of the hill…
…but even prettier up close!
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Two babies
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A Clementine-monkey. I don't know who put her in the monkey suit or why.
Speaking of monkeys, she's at the stage where she follows you to the bathroom and pats at the door trying to get in! Always alarming.
And she sometimes gets stuck in her suits. Poor thing.
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It was strange to think Abe would be away from home for his twentieth birthday this year. We've never been away from him on his birthday before! Everyone wanted to make him cards and little presents to send in a package (and it's so nice to have him close in Texas so we CAN send a package!). In fact, we sent two packages, because we had twenty (very small) presents for him and couldn't fit them in just one! We sent him, all wrapped separately: the ingredients to make his own birthday cake, candles, a new journal, a new suit, a couple new crocheted Book of Mormon covers (one for his tiny Book of Mormon), some interesting macadamia nut butter, and a few other little things. But the best part were the cards the kids made! They were darling!
Junie likes to sit like this while she makes cards, apparently.
Daisy's card, and poem
Junie's card
Goldie's cut-out card, with darling fwuffball bear sitting on a picnic blanket.
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Gussie always joins in (at a comically slower pace)
You can tell from his face how fast he is! :)
Ugh, and you can see it on Seb's face too.
And Goldie included these twenty (!!) tiny bead-bears she made in a pocket at the back of the card. Abe likes bears, in case you didn't figure that out.
On Abe's actual birthday, the girls also made and decorated cakes, which he didn't get to eat, of course, but hopefully the thought counted…? Goldie is always wanting to decorate a cake and I am always telling her no because a.) such a mess and b.) decorated cakes never taste that good (too much frosting!). But I decided since decorating a cake is one of her goals for the Children and Youth program, it was probably time for me to stop being so grumpy about it. The kids made the cake and frosting all by themselves, and then she and Junie worked together on one cake and Daisy and Teddy did the other, and they had SUCH a good time (and cleaned up so well, thanks to all my dire threats) that I am actually considering allowing it again. Someday. Perhaps.
At Cross-Country Regionals, not to be confused with Region🙄, there was some excitement because a boy in the race before Seb's got hurt and an ambulance had to be called. I think the boy was okay—but I heard he dislocated his hip or something? I don't know how! Anyway, the ambulance came and drove on the sidewalk while everyone waited, and it was the most exciting thing Ziggy had ever seen! The other children went to play on the playground, but not Ziggy—he had his eyes on that ambulance the entire time. And then for weeks afterward he played that he was in that race, and he was the runner that got hurt and had to go to the hospital, and the ambulance had to come. He played it over and over.
It was a hot day, especially for the racers, and it was funny to reflect that exactly one year ago we had watched this race bundled up in coats and with snow in the air!
It was one of those inexplicably bad races for Seb. It wasn't even that he ran that much slower than usual—his time was quite good—but it just didn't feel right, and he'd wanted to do better. So that was sad. But, honestly, for most of our family it's just fun going to races and cheering and running around on the grass. So in that way it was a rousing success (especially if you factor in the ambulance).
Ziggy always demands that we yell "Go Herriman" at him while he runs around
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And a few last things.
Seb and Clementine
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Obedient leash-walker
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Imagine our surprise when we looked on the porch one day and saw two big McDonalds bags full of food. We puzzled over it for quite awhile until I got a text from the man whose family used to live here, saying "Oops! I got DoorDash sent to our old address. Let your kids eat the Happy Meals." It was very exciting! (And convenient, since Sam and I were just headed out for our date night anyway.) They've never had Happy Meals before and found it so cute and fun. Ziggy said, "Mommy, we all got our own little dinners!"
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