Scrapbook Flashback... January 2010

No one needs to remind me how far behind I am with my scrapbooking... I'm even spending most of this month just organizing all the pictures I have on my computer and figuring out what pages I'm going to do next... but in the mean time, I thought it would be fun to do previews of the pages I've finished... so we're starting with our first 

New Year in Turkey... JANUARY 2010!

Weird Al Experience

I went to see one of my favorite musicians this past week..."Weird" Al Yankovich.  I had an absolutely awesome time.  Admittedly I have not been to a lot of concerts but I find it hard to believe that you could find a better live performance.  From the numerous video clips to entertain you during costume changes to the humorous takes on pop culture to Darth Vader swaying his lightsaber to "The Saga Begins", I thoroughly enjoyed myself and highly recommend a live show to anyone.  I can't wait until next time he is close and take everybody.

Amish Paradise

White & Nerdy

Fat

The Saga Begins

Ft. Meade, Fort... yes please!!

Our wonderful neighbors have gotten orders and will be leaving soon :(   BUT they called and asked if we'd like to have their "fort".  Their dad has collected fallen trees and sticks and tied them together to make a barrier fort thing for them.  Our families spent the afternoon moving the "logs" from one yard to the other... we nearly finished in one day, but we needed the next day for finishing touches.  The boys (and girls)... and there are A LOT in the neighborhood, are having a GREAT time with it... YAY for being kids and using their imaginations instead of video game skills!!

   Some of 

 us were 

 hard at 

 WORK!!

A few of us were hard at play!!

They did not want to stop!!

I know it's too dark to see... I'll post a "daytime" picture in a future post... stay tuned!!

Homemade Popcorn

So who knew that you could buy tiny cobs of popcorn kernels?? Our family didn't know, but during our exploration of the pumpkin patch, we discovered we could buy our own cobs, knock all the kernels off, and pop them in our air-popper machine.  We all had a lot of fun... de-cobbing (my own word!), watching it pop, then, the best part, eating it up!!

It was a little harder to de-cob :) than we thought it would be!

it was blowing hot air out!!

It's starting to pop!!!

What was left when we were done... they were soft and fuzzy!

YUMMY!!

He really liked it... even though he looks confused!

Creative Writing from Boba

Week 1
Creative Writing

Finish the Story

Tim and Sally received a new sled for Christmas one year.  They waited and waited for the snow to fall so they could use it.  Just before they went to bed one night, they saw some snowflakes fall.  When they got up the next morning, snow had fallen on everything.  They got on their warm snow clothes and…. They ran outside and played in the snow.  But a big monster came out of where the girl was, the monster went in its hole and telled the babies that it snow, then the babies came out and grabbed all the men and ate them up.  Then the monster spit them out, then the men punched the monsters down to the ground.  And the Monster got killed.  Then they lived happily ever after.  The End

He has to write something almost every week, and I just copy down exactly what he says, someday he's going to love this, right??  For this one, I gave him the beginning of the story (in italics), then he finished... 

Decorating

We are slowly working on decorating every room in our house (we've never lived in a fully "decorated" house before)... but in the mean time, here are a few of the ways our boys help us get ready for this holiday...

Just getting started... see the fangs??

All done and so proud!!

couldn't decide on an overall theme... or exactly how to smile!

Now he's got it... maybe!

So just outside our front door, you are greeted by these nice looking pumpkins....  yay for decorations!!

If you are wondering how we got these awesome pumpkins... see this post about our punkin patchin'!!

Punkin Patchin'

Our first "punkin hunt" of the season!  We enjoyed a very informative lesson on bees and how they make honey, then fed some cows and goats, followed by a hayride to the "Patch" to pick our very own punkin!
"Some" of us (mainly the one with the camera) just LOVED the leaves and all their beautiful colors.  We were certainly impressed with the picture of our world that God painted for us today... truly blessed!

What greeted us on our way in... just majestic!!

Yep... bees!!

Ready for our bee lesson!

Feeding the cows.... 

mostly standing around holding straw... the cows weren't hungry!

Boba said, "This is my FIRST hayride!"  

What we were surrounded by all day!!

After trading in a LOT... finally deciding on this one... 

Just the right one!

In the Corn Maze!

Want to know what happened to those little punkins they picked??? Stay tuned!!