Pumpkin painting day

I’m pretending today is Thursday. It’s overwhelming to try to catch up on the past three days all in one post, so I’m just doing one back-blog at a time.

Good thing I have pictures to remind me what happened on Thursday! We had a good schooling morning, and we ended by studying maple trees and doing a maple leaf craft.

Story time.
Story time.
The girls are showing off their painted nails. Ethelene, our neighbor, painted them. The maple leaf craft consisted of cutting maple leaves off a garland I picked up at Michael's. We then hot glued the leaves to some jars. I dropped a little color changing candle in each jar, and the girls were wowed.
The girls are showing off their painted nails. Ethelene, our neighbor, painted them. The maple leaf craft consisted of cutting maple leaves off a garland I picked up at Michael’s. We then hot glued the leaves to some jars. I dropped a little color changing candle in each jar, and the girls were wowed.
Our neighbor set up a pumpkin painting station for the neighborhood kids in the afternoon.
Our neighbor set up a pumpkin painting station for the neighborhood kids in the afternoon.
The results of the pumpkin painting station.
The results of the pumpkin painting station.

In the evening Shauna, Abe’s cousin, arrived. She is a photographer and came to Utah to do some shots for some of her clients here. I stayed up talking with Shauna until past midnight. She is so creative and wise, and I learned so much from her. I wish she lived in Utah!