5:45am

Caleb has been so faithful, waking himself up for seminary each day. Once a week the class meets online, and the other days he studies the lessons alone. He's doing a great job keeping up with seminary, accelerated courses at school, varsity cross country and soccer.

Josh has been dragging his feet doing homework after school and found that he prefers to get up with Caleb's alarm to finish his homework. The day starts early around here!

Firehouse breakfast

Isaac made this picture for our firefighters and showed as many as he came in contact with at the pancake breakfast. Then we hung it on their bulletin board.

We always look forward to pancake day. The whole community comes together to thank our volunteers. The cross country team ran from the school to the breakfast they were quite a sight in their maroon and white!

Caleb in the news

Fishing

After going out on a boat with a friend a couple times, Scott has caught the fishing bug. Over the weekend he couldn't get enough. Everyone wanted to be part of it, and we couldn't have had a more beautiful Columbus Day weekend.

Cleaning the fish

Isaac was such a sensitive boy when it came to cleaning (and killing) the fish. He stood near, saying goodbye, then, "he's dead," and he broke down. I had to hold him for a long time!

Of course, he then had to be in on the scaling, cutting, studying and dissecting, and eating. Lyd and Isaac were mesmerized by the heads, and we cut out the eyes.

There's no way we could slaughter our chickens after how difficult it was to say goodbye to these fish we'd only met!

Fruit trees

This summer we finally got around to buying some fruit trees. Two lonely pear trees have been weathering away in front of the garage waiting to be planted. Today we got one of them in!

Pumpkin carving

We went to the elementary art room to carve pumpkins for Rogers Animals of Halloween.

Lydia stuck to it and did all her cleaning out.