Discorrectly

 For a long time, Goggers has been saying the wrong prefix for words, and one of our favorites is when she says that she got "astracted".  So KT and I have sort of adopted this into our daily vernacular.  Today, KT said "astracted", and Cora yells back "Astracted??!!  Mommy, you said it discorrectly!"

A few more from last week:

"What is that 'ex-posed' to mean?!" - Cora Jane

"I like it, 'insept' I like the other color better" - Cora Jane

Outing

Cora, Ollie, and I went out to the woods last week and collected "intersting" or "intrastring" samples, then went down to my lab and checked them out on the microscope.  The digital microscope didn't have a huge magnification, so all of those pictures aren't awesome, but the little analog microscope was much better.  Anyway, it was nice to hang out with them and do a little project on a Saturday!

This was during our sample collection

Messing around with some lab stuff...

Mushroom

Lichen

Feather

Happy 42nd Birthday Scott, XC awards

Scott turned 42 on a Fast Sunday.   No fancy breakfast for him!

He got to wake up early and go to bishopric meeting, and stay after for some tithing.

Then, we had gifts and dinner:  Sweet potatoes (that he made himself), plus chicken and 3 kinds of vegetables that I prepped.)  

Then we had cheesecake and Ice Cream Cones

Then, he went to another youth prep. meeting from 4-6 pm

And then, he went to visit a sick member of the church until late.

Hey - not a birthday dreams are made of or anything, BUT.....we were together......AND......

I did manage to surprise the heck out of him with a new phone & case (he couldn't have been more surprised!), a fancy gardening tool, and a dry bag.

Cora got him some mints he loves and the boys got him a fancy ping pong paddle!

So, we will play on his un-birthday!

Awards night for Cross Country!

8 members of Tim's team are going to STATE!

Tim and Noah

Coach Fox has been great!

The boys on stage

I have been helping with the 4th annual pie fundraiser for Compassion Takes Action

I am hosting 3 pie making days.  It's a lot of work, but a very good cause!

Luckily I had help!

Cora's short story for school entitled: 

"The time I visited Taya"  (Taiha)

Updated Photo of Baby Salil

Can't wait to see him in December

Scott got his log shaved down finally the way he wanted it!  He even managed to bike across it for the first time!

Cora and Anna were reunited with old friends from WAG at the Wagarette show last Friday

They were so excited to see their favorite people!

Tim and Aaron had an altercation with the law...sort of

They got to tour the police station with their young men's group!

My dear friend, Lisa, helped Tim with Trombone one afternoon while I read with her girls and helped her son with his saxaphone.   Here's Nessa in the Hammock reading to me.

Look closely......

Can you see Candice 30 ft up in the tree??

They are so brave!

Robby and Kyle's Visit to NH

Robby and Kyle came out from SLC!

They got to meet Salil and spend time with the Shrivastava Family, and then traversed beautiful Vermont to visit us in NH.

On Monday, we visited Castle in the Clouds

You gotta listen to "Castle on the Hill" by Ed Sheeren when you look at these pics!  :) 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ibBPhiaG0

The leaves were fantastic

We hiked the Brook Trail which has 7 waterfalls on a 2 miles loop....

or maybe it was a 7 mile loop....we thought. :)

Ruins of an old cottage

Waiting for our tour at the Carriage House.

They have a trolley take you up the hill, and then you can walk the trail back down.

We did a basement tour first, and then saw the main house

This property used to have a greenhouse here

A photo of the original green house, with a potting house under it.

The house was built in only 18 months with hundreds of masons and experts.

It originally had 6000 acres, including 2 miles of Lake Winnepesaukee waterfront. 

They have still preserved 5000 acres of pristine mountain property.

The planter boxes on the wall 

The owners, Thomas and Olive Plante went bankrupt after Tom made some poor investments.  

The depression in 1929 didn't help them ever recover.  They were able to stay in the home until 1941 due to a friend taking on the mortgage.  When the friend and Tom both died in 1941, Olive took her personal possessions and returned to her parents in Illinois.

Amazing that once having made 6 million dollars, and then to die broke.

Robby was coerced into a PDA shot

.....As was Scott

This 100 year old rubber flooring was amazing

The home was gorgeous.  No expense spared

And the view was unmatched

The original name of the home was Lucknow

After Castle in the Clouds, we took a look at Wolfeboro.

It had this interesting bench, which was a gift from Russia.

Tuesday, we toured Lowell and Concord, MA

This little garden was a fun little shabby chic addition to the city

We visited Scott's work's fabric Discover Center, the Lowell National Historical Park visitor's Center, had dumplings at Tasty Dumplings, and toured the Boots Cotton Mill.

Boots Cotton Mill

(Photo from Facebook - not mine)

We then took a drive to Concord, MA, and Robby and Kyle were able to snag a tour of the Orchard House, while Scott and I walked up and down Main Street. 

 

I found my dream cereal with an image of "Scott" in a "wife beater" and kilt in the British shop. :)

The drive home on curve-y roads back to Windham was so beautiful!

We had so much fun showing Robby and Kyle our digs!

Thank you so much for coming!!