Pumpkins

 This is our ONE pumpkin plant that we grew.  There are 22 pumpkins on this ONE plant.  Zac trained the plant to grow out of the garden bed towards our rock wall.  The kids have been begging to pick their pumpkins, so we finally caved in today.  I didn't want to pick them too soon so that they would still be good for Halloween.

 We had parent teacher conferences this week for the kids.  The kids are doing well.  Aubrey has 2 teachers this year.  When we went to her conference, they had to tell us a story about her.  Apparently there is a girl in her class that is doing horrible.  She cries all day and really loud.  Her Mom has been sitting out in the hall, which makes the situation worse.  I guess Aubrey took this girl under her wing and has been inviting her and grabbing her hand to go play at recess, sit with her at lunch, etc.  When her teachers were telling us this story, their eyes were all watered up.  Apparently it was a really hard situation and Aubrey was their saving grace.  Eric, on the other hand, has been bringing Legos and Transformers to school.  :)

 

 

 

 Here are some updated pictures of Zac's project.  He has been working on the chimney this week.  It has been horrible weather this week, and he was outside putting the pipe on so we could start using the fireplace.  It has been heating our house for the last 4 days.  The only downside is when Zac opens the stove to put another log in, a billow of smoke comes out and the house smells like a campfire for the next hour or so.  He is looking tomorrow to make sure he secured everything in its right place, the smoke shouldn't come out at all.

He cut the siding off our house and secured the pipe.  I found out at church today that all of our neighbors have been watching him wondering what in the world he is doing.

He got this much of the chimney finished yesterday.  Since tomorrow is Columbus Day, I have it off.  So Zac is going to be finishing this up tomorrow hopefully.