Pumpkin carving

Today we woke up to the first snow of the year! In its honor Lydia got right to work baking pumpkin chocolate chip cookies.

I just spent FOUR hours catching up on the blog and don’t want to get behind again so I am blogging today even though it’s not even half over yet.

Abe took the girls to church while I blogged and Ammon and Clarissa watched Frozen, and then Abe went to Lowe’s to get a tool to try to fix our fire pit. It is so frustrating because one of our kids broke it before we ever got a chance to use it, and after Abe got his tool he determined the whole fire pit will probably have to be ripped up and replaced. It is so upsetting to have such a needless expense, but I guess that’s part of having kids.

Abe picked up pumpkins for all of the kids at Lowe’s and then supervised the carving while I continued to slog through the blog. Here is an adorable video of Ammon and Clarissa doing a pre-carving dance:

Also I took a picture of this INSANE school project Lydia has right now:

These are half of the pine needles that Lydia has to boil for ten minutes and then individually wipe down with toilet paper. It is totally crazy. She spent hours doing it yesterday and is not even a fraction done!! I don’t know what the purpose of the project is so it’s hard to understand why Lydia has to be wiping down pine needles instead of doing all of the other wonderful things she does. But she loves and trusts her teacher, so I’m trying to be supportive through the insanity.
Lydia was riding her pet unicorn (Mary).