It's Saturday!

Just a couple of photos from today. This morning started out with Amelia squished into the sink, doing her hair, admiring herself, and babbling into the faucet handle (microphone fashion).

We worked a ton today cleaning out the garage, arranging furniture that still did not have a place, doing yardwork, and organizing closets AGAIN! The boys pitched in most of the day as well, and we all just took a much needed break. We read a couple more chapters from the book we are reading as a family (Laura Ingalls Wilder: Farmer Boy), and had plain doughnuts and eggnog to go with it. Almanzo loves these things and the boys have been wanting to try them. Surprisingly they both loved the eggnog.

Fall is here! Beautiful colors, falling leaves, a welcome bite to the air, and even some frosty mornings. Apple pies to be baked tomorrow. Mmmmm.......

on a related note -

We joined a group of people early on Saturday morning to clean up the school and weed/trim/wrestle the killer "poky vines" in the front flower beds. We were trying to make it look great for the first day of school.

My boys are incredible workers. They stuck with it for almost 3 hours. Can you tell from the pictures how exhausted they are? Jake had just finished helping a guy till some of the wet ground. They loved being there.