Too Many Words and Not Enough Pictures :)

Wow. Was the rainbow quilt really the last thing we blogged about? So many fun things we didn't record!

Sammy and I were blessed to be able to take a quick trip to NJ for a friend's wedding and my niece's 1st birthday in September. While there, we visited Cape May for the first time, and were totally bummed this week when we found out Harriet Tubman once owned a home there! If only we had known before our trip! She is one of our favorite Heroes of History. So for now we console ourselves that she may have visited the same strip of beach we walked on...though I have a hard time imagining her taking a moment of leisure for herself.

We enjoyed Sammy's first ever surprise party, thrown by our friend Miss Tanya. She  is also the friend responsible for re-energizing our school year by helping us better understand notebooking! We had been trying to do school this way for a while without realizing it had an actual name and that many others were doing it this way already. But I was running into a problem. I had a hard time coming up with an organizational system until Tanya introduced us to several good articles on notebooking. And let me tell you, Sam and I both LOVE IT! Love, love, love it. So I'm sure you'll be seeing posts on it later. My Pinterest page is beginning to be taken over by notebooking already.

Sammy and I also learned to crochet since the last time we posted and are both currently working on afghans. I think we are each about halfway done with them. Our goal is to finish by Christmas. So fun and easy. That's another post we need to get to!

Right now we are working on Christmas-afying the house. Slowly but surely. Last night we made this garland from cinnamon scented pine cones for the front hall.  (This way you are greeted with a whiff of cinnamon instead of the scent of dog hair that I haven't swept up in a week and a half). ;) But we can't show you ours yet because we still plan to add more decorations to finish off the hall.

That about sums up what we've been doing for the past 2-3 months!