Our Week (11/20 - 11/26)

At Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms (a 19th-century living history museum in Austin):

William loved the blacksmith shop. The smells took me back to the days of Dad welding pipe fences.

We checked out the inside of this old barn, and the smells took me back to the old barn up at the cabin

Emma's favorite was the donkeys

Liz caught a lady bug

My favorite was this old oak tree... ;)
It's supposedly about 500 years old and has a scar from where it was struck by lightning

Photo credit goes to Heidi

One last peek at the blacksmith shop

Our little carnivore, eating the turkey leg:

Dad bought cheese balls and soda. Emma is a junkie:

We went through the entire thing in 24 hours

Thanksgiving Day baking:

Before and after photos of the patriarchal blessing chair:

At Pump It Up with Connor:

At Mighty Fine Burgers with Attalyn:

Our Week (11/13 - 11/19)

Emily does a lot of walking when she subs in the library. Here is her step count from Monday:

Around 5 mi?

Heidi's 12th birthday! Grandma Becca helped decorate the cake:

Emily and Scott had a getaway for their anniversary:

Scott thought this display was cool--very Poncho Villa-esque. The whole exhibit reminded me of Grandma Ellsworth and her love of all things Mexican.

Lakeway Resort

Owen was really excited to go to this birthday party with friends from school:

While Scott and Emily were gone, Becca took great care of the kids:

Mayfield Park

There was a mishap with the garage, but they figured it out

Here is the link to the dress rehearsal of Liz and Heidi's play, Do Not Go Gentle:

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It's nearly 40 minutes long, but Liz has one of the lead roles. Heidi lent support behind the scenes.

Our Week (11/06 - 11/12)

 One-act play dress rehearsal:

Selfies with her fellow cast members:

Daddy-daughter Veterans Day lunch at Red Robin:

Heidi took the love languages quiz:

Here's the fabric we selected for our chair that we're having reupholstered:

Missionary discussion with our friend Amanda:

These next three photos are from several weeks back. The boys were in Downtown Taylor for wrestling practice with William's friend Connor:

The girls helped dad cut down a stump in the front yard:

Our Week (10/30 - 11/05)

 Liz trick-or-treating with friends:

Trick-or-treating with Emma's friend Posey from school:

The storybook character parade at the kids' school:

Owen

William

Emma

Emma was Merida from Brave, William was Jack from Magic Treehouse, and Owen was a pirate from Treasure Island

Emma at preschool:

One of Em's G/T students: