Lady Washington Battle Sail

In lieu of taking the family to Grants Pass this year, we decided to take the kids on a battle sail between the Lady Washington and her sister ship, the Hawaiian Chieftain. A battle sail consists of close maneuvers and firing of the canon! For those who may not know, the Lady Washington was used in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl as the HMS Interceptor. After our 3 hour sail and dinner at Sonic's, we watched the movie and were excited to see all the spots we had stood. 

Click here to see the photo album of our excursion!

Thoroughly Modern Millie

Or at least Bekah's portion of it. :)

Some of it was blurry. I'll try to get better video tomorrow when I don't have Selah on my lap. :)

Eliza and Selah's Room...Before and After

After 8 days, hair pulling, thinking outside the box, the girls' room is finally finished!

Yay!!!!

Here's the video of the girls seeing it for the first time.

Green Eggs and Ham day

Today was the 1st graders' Green Eggs and Ham breakfast. 

Monica and I joined Selah. Her elementary school is extremely efficient. 1st graders started coming in to the cafeteria a little after 10:30am. By 11:00am, all the students and guests had eaten, cleaned up, had drawings for prizes, kids picked out a book and were headed back to the classroom. 

Beaches restaurant rocks and a good time was had by all!

2012-2013 School Pics

We finally received all of the kiddos school pics! Here they are:

Bekah - Junior Year

Ethan - 8th Grade

Eliza - 6th Grade

Selah - 1st Grade

Enjoy!

Moulton Falls and the Pumpkin Patch

Well, I had grand plans to update this with back to school pics, etc., but realized that it would probably be best to just start from where we are and go from there. Now that I'm feeling better and we're doing more things as a family, I can update this more often.

Today, we went to Moulton Falls and then to Pomeroy Living History Farm for our annual trek to the pumpkin patch. While it was a gorgeous sunny day, the consensus was that 80 degrees was a bit warm for October...at least around here. Nine of us set out (kind of like The Fellowship of the Ring!) and stopped at Moulton Falls first. Here are the members of our Pumpkin Patch Fellowship

Steven

Bekah

Ethan

Eliza

Selah

Monica

Papa

Doug

and myself!

I never did see the falls, but it has a beautiful bridge that we walked across and continued on the trail for about 30 minutes. Really slow pace. Stopped to take pics...a lot. 4 of us had cameras (Bekah, Ethan, Eliza and myself) and between all 4 of us there are over 300 pics! Here is a small sampling of pics from our "walk". I have the thumbnails small, but just click on any picture you'd like to see bigger. :o)

Then it was off to the pumpkin patch for some lunch first.

We fed the goats and looked at the sheep, pigs and chickens. Can you tell which pig's name is Bacon?

Selah wasn't that thrilled with feeding the goat.

We played with the games, the hay maze and visited the hay loft.

We interrupt this recount of normal pumpkin patch activities with some backwards picture fun!

We would have tried for all 9, but only 5 of us were here at the time. 

Then we hopped on our non-covered wagon and headed off to the pumpkin patch where the kids suffered through their annual pics with the pumpkins and pumpkin cut outs, although Bekah decided to have a little fun with it this year if she had to do it anyway. :o)

After everyone chose their pumpkins, it was off on the hayride through pumpkin lane where we met over 90 pumpkin people. They are a friendly bunch!

Bekah, Ethan and I finished off our day by going through the log home while the rest went to the car.

And at the journey's end, it's time for a nap!

Until next time!