* Dad was down in Dickinson for Wednesday and Thursday
* Ben went on a scout campout on Thursday and Friday (the public school was out for part of the week and so they scheduled a campout). Friday morning, dad went out and spent the entire day with them helping out with the Shotgun Merit Badge.
* We fed the Missionaries
* August had Tuesday off from work and so went out with the Missionaries for 8+ hours! Their dinner appointment cancelled on them and so August treated them to dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings.
* Mom had Bunco this week
* Dad, Seth and Ben went with the youth to Bismark for the Temple Trip
* It was the Primary Program at church today -- the kids looks absolutely adorable participating!
* We had our Home Teachers over
* Dad and Seth went Home Teaching
* Mom went Visiting Teaching
* Blessed again with an amazing Thrift Store find! Mom found a brand new looking suit for $5 that fits Seth perfectly! She was also able to pick up some Halloween costumes for cheap!
* Enrichments: Enoch (his visions and the City of Zion), Likening stories to gospel principles
* Science: Sea Sponges, Spooky Science and Pumpkin Science classes at the Library, Weird Sea Creatures, Digestion (experiment to show how fats are broken down in our bodies)
* History: Touched on some explorers (Lewis and Clark, Henry Hudson and Jacques Cartier)
* Math: of course more Bedtime math, Addition, subtraction, multiplication, greater than or less than, square roots, rounding, place values, and mental math
* English: independent reading (Aubrie has read 40 books this week!) She is going for another 100 to be able to go shopping :) Story Cubes, Novel Writing, handwriting
* Other: The girls have been obsessed with learning Chinese this week! They have written pages and pages of words they are learning (thanks to google translate!). They take their words everywhere and try to use as many of them as they can!
* Art: like always - daily art in some fashion! I found a website that does a monthly art gallery/contest and subsequently hands out digital ribbons for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in the different age groups. Both girls submitted an piece. The "winners" will be announced next weekend. Here are their submissions:
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| By Aubrie |
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| By Lexi |
during enrichment:
Mom: Who knows what happened on this day a long time ago to the Willie and Martin Handcart Company?
everyone thinking...
Nathan: I know! They went out of business!
He was totally serious and it was the cutest thing!
Spiritually Speaking...
One thing I love about when the Missionaries come over is the spiritual message they give to us before they leave. This week, they shared with us a Mormon Message about how much our earthly fathers love us and then related that to how much (even so much that we can't comprehend) our Heavenly Father loves us! During it, I just felt so much love for my dad and how wonderful he is! He has always been such a wonderful example of a true disciple of Christ and incredible teacher to me! My thoughts then turned to how much Heavenly Father loves ALL of us - and he has blessed us all with so much - LIFE! This World! Our Families! Jesus Christ! and I just became so full of love towards Him! I am so grateful to know that he loves me and is aware of me and my struggles and victories! I was brought to tears by how much love I felt for Him and I hope that my actions show him that love.
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