Everything Beautiful

October is the best of the best for nature, weather, and activities. Spending time outside, going on dates, and learning to parallel park are just some of them~

WP has really enjoyed his Raider meets with JROTC. Scott and I were able to go to a couple of them. They are all day events all over the state. Boys and girls teams are off to state. This will be done soon and then he begins Drill in the mornings. This has been a wonderful experience for him~

We had the most wonderful time having my sister home for the week. Evenings and weekends were so sweet when she brightened our door. She even went with me to love on Scottie and Lennox one evening. Lennox was SO happy that she came. We love you Sissy~

The Friday Poet Corner~ poems written by the Ankerich family~ ♥️

EC made a delicious treat for poetry time and we paired it with a few readings~

We are enjoying an art class by Yellow Spot: Sun. For the next couple of weeks we are copying a poem and watercoloring hedgehogs~

Fridays are so beautiful and our creatively is peaked and we gather around the island to plant~

Happy Birthday to WP!!! Just a day late, the big birthday gift arrived. Time to get his strong on~ lifting and building muscles~

Memommy gave him new running shoes which will come in handy with all the JROTC running he is doing. He also got his jacket to wear with his uniform on Wednesdays. So handsome~

This was a wonderful night! EC invited Memommy, Sissy, and the big sisters (Scottie) to youth worship since she and SJ were singing. Ella even surprised us! We loved it so much~

Savannah went on a girls trip with some friends and had a night in Atlanta before flying home SO the girls and I drove out to spend the afternoon with her at The Avalon.

It was the best few hours shopping, eating, and just being together~

Our school this year is so full and fantastic with mapping the world. This is a CC subject, and we have incorporated it into our read-aloud time. While I read, they sketch and label. We are working on Europe right now!

Ella continues to do well at college. She has made some of the sweetest friends, and they encouraged her to go to her very first homecoming dance. She looked absolutely beautiful~

Smile Leilei~ 🥰 How 'bout them Dawgs~

I purchased painting kits for the girls, and they have loved them. HM finished her's pretty much in one day~

The selfie girl and the dogs wishing Ella was home~

We had a few men come to begin helping us get the 50+ trees up and out of here~

CA's masterpeice~

Another piece of CC that we have incorporated into our days is Lost Tools of Writing. As we read our read-aloud, we are asking questions and exploring many ideas for essays. We write charts of ideas in the first week, move on to an outline in the second, and finally, the essay in the third week. Everything is handwritten until we get to the published product, and then we type them up~

We have new notebooks this year; we call them our brains because everything we are working on and learning is stored in them. We are learning so much with Fix-It Grammar and LTOW~

A few of our Friday Poems~

We also copied poems and painted cute turkeys~

Pairing poetry and sweet books makes our Fine Arts Friday a wonderful time of the week~

Our baby student brings joy every time she walks through the door. She's right in there with us no matter what we are working on~

We finished these two wonderful books just in time to write our essays. CA has been sick with Pneumonia, and we missed school, so Ms. English sent us a pic of the class~

A new haircut for our sweet Bubba! ADORABLE!!!~

More pics of the college friends enjoying fall weather in the foothills of north Georgia~

Girls just having fun~

Pumpkin patch fun~

I spent the evening with LL and Maverick the other night, and they are absolutely precious together~

Breakfast with the sweetie pie~

What a beautiful sky and what a beautiful couple~

EC has been reading The Princess Bride. I took CA for an eye appt., and she will have surgery in Jan. The big girls and babies went to visit Ella for the afternoon~

I think the grandkids take FULL advantage of pumpkin season and hit all the places~

Costume try-ons~

Hey Nana via Facetime and how we LOVED having Memommy visit for the morning~

Pumpkin Pals~

A little demonstration time at CC in preparation for Science Fair time coming up and Holly reading her essay to the class~

The grand snaps: LL and Mav; Marshall is reading his own books now! and S&L eating~

LL is SO sweet when she asks for Her EC~

Our son-in-law hit a huge milestone and deserved a celebration. He took the Builders License exam and passed it the first time. Also, they were celebrating their 8th wedding anniversary, and our little surprise on the way. We took them on a boat cruise to The Galley and enjoyed ourselves completely! So proud of you Logan!!!~

Finished our little hedgehogs and poems~

Poems written this week~❤️

Mimi and Rosie are the best moms carving a giant pumpkin with the kids... seems like yesterday I was doing this with them~

Sweet Ella and her friend Chloe and S&L taking over Mimi's bed before bedtime~

Our CO kids are in full fall swing with a day by the river~

Official Halloween portraits: Buzz and the Princess~

Meanwhile, we were took the kids to dinner on the boat and had our last rip on the lake~

Sunday evening, the girls and kids came for dinner, and we asked them to pretend trick-or-treat with us, and they loved it! We did more than them, but aren't they adorable???