Another Week

 Gosh I'm posting a lot - ever since this pandemic I think I've had a weekly post. And it's not like a lot is going on . . . but oh well. It makes for good documentation if nothing else. 

Lucy had a great week going to school every day. Lucky girl. Emmy had remote classes all week and it was pathetic to say it nicely. It was the first week of the school doing remote so I will give them another week to make it better - or I will say something. :) It was lame - she has to "check-in" for assignments and attendance for each of her classes. So she signs-in and then the teacher talks to the remote kids for maybe 5 minutes (the teachers are in-person every week - lame). Then Emmy works on the assignments - but most of them took like 2-20 minutes. Then she sat around waiting to sign-in for the next class . . . It was annoying and a waste of her days. But I am still grateful to the schools and teachers for doing something, I really am! The boys had their BYU classes and then each had a class to attend on Tuesday and Friday this week and so that was good. They are enjoying seminary!

Okay, let's look at pictures from this past week:

I gathered a whole bunch of tomatoes from Ben's garden (credit given where credit due) and realized I had enough to make a batch of my Grandmother's Chili Sauce. Oh the house smelled amazing and just like Grandma's sauce - and, when I was finally all done, it tasted just like it, too. My kids LOVE it. Yay!

Ben's Indian corn is amazing (not to eat, but to look at)! We'll have to get a really cool and artistic shot of them all - they are beautiful and will make some lovely fall decoration for our table!

Ben's cabbages did pretty decently! A bunch of them have been shredded (16 pounds worth) and are now sitting in brine for a few weeks to make sauerkraut. Fun!

(The video here is not working, so here is the link to it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Zj08ZML2Hv8)

We went to Open Gym on Friday night and the kids had a lot of fun. Jonas had told Emmy on multiple occasions that fly-aways (a dismount from the bar where you release and do a black flip and then land) was so easy to do/try. (Emmy was needing a spot for quite a while - but this week she has gotten them down beautifully on her own.) So we were excited for Jonas to prove it, ha! So . . . his first attempt was actually decent; it was quite shocking. Csilla and I were watching and thought there was no way he could pull it off - but he did so decently. Unfortunately no one got that on video . . . But I did get his second attempt on video - and it was a scary mess! Jonas luckily didn't get hurt and thought it was pretty funny. I thought it was good that he realized it's not as simple nor easy as it looks . . . :)

Emmy plan and organized a Friend day on Saturday. She and two other girls (plus Lucy and Lila), spent a couple hours at each of their houses . . . First was our house and the three older girls made Emmy's signature dessert: Chocolate Lava Cake. Then all the girls went to Holly's house and they played Secret Hitler and other games. Then it was to Reese's house where they played in their pond, etc. It was a fun day and I am glad my girls have sweet, good friends!

Ha, this is all the girls watching Jonas' fly-away video. :)

Eating the fruit of their labor - yum!