Halloween
What fun the kids had. They don't celebrate Halloween in Germany, so Marja had a fun time dressing up and going trick or treating. The kids got lots of candy and chocolate for Mom! Actually, my favorites are smarties and the kids were fine giving me those as long as I didn't take their chocolate.

Marja the Pirate, Abbigail "Hannah Montana"
Austin "Venom" and Steven "The Ninja" without the mask since he couldn't seem to find it.

CANDY!!!!! Lots of CANDY!!!!

More fun pictures

So innocent!

Austin being a crazy boy!

Marja took this one and I did a little editing/cropping. I really like the way it turned out.

Steven being silly

Lattin's Farm

Wow, sorry it has been so long since an update. We have just been busy busy, so I haven't gotten a chance. Here is a little update and some pictures of what we have been up to.

Every year we take the kids to a pumpkin patch to get their pumpkins. This year we went with our homeschool group to Lattin's Farms. Lattin's is a great family operated farm in Olympia, they make the best apple cider and apple fridders (on the weekends only)! Since we went on a Thursday, they gave us apple cider doughnuts YUMMY! They kids got to feed their animals, the cow was hilarious, the kids found out that cows have very loonnngggg tongues, as you will see.

Steven holding his pumpkin he picked

Austin is very proud of his little pumpkin!

Abbigail tried to find a big on, but Iguess this late in the season, all the big ones were taken?

Austin showing me that the goat slobbered on his had.

Austin getting his turn feeding the cow. See her long tongue. Austin thought it was pretty funny.

Abby was afraid to put her hand out and feed the cow so she would drop the food and the cow would try and get some.

English Tea

This past week we studied about England, so what better way to end the week than with afternoon tea. A new friend loaned me her table cloth and we pulled out G.G's (Pete's grandma) china. Abby made cherry, choc. chip scones, which were so yummy! We decided not to make the triangle sandwiches and went with fruit instead. The kids all tried the tea, but in the end switched to hot chocolate. It was a nice time. I think we would like to have a little afternoon tea, with some poem readings or something like that once a month.

Look how pretty the table is!

Even Pete joined us. The roughed looking guy drinking from such a dainty cup.

Whale Watching!

When I asked Marja want was something she wanted to do while in America, she said she wanted to go whale watching. So I found a great day trip on the Victoria Clipper. Marja, Abby and I drove to Seattle and caught the Clipper (ferry) which took us to the Friday Harbor (San Juan Islands), then out searching for whales for 1.5hours. We were lucky enough to find what they say was 2-3 pod (somewhere around 50 whales). It was quite an experience, an amazing site. After the whale watching the Clipper took us back to Friday Harbor where we ate lunch and walked around town for 2 hours, then we came back to Seattle. Not only did we see whales on this trip, but many birds (blue heron, eagles, hawks and more), dolphins, sea lions, and harbor seals, it was a great day.