Leaf Fort

This is so late! You can definitely tell by the pics that this was done a couple weeks ago because all the leaves still have color, where as now, they are all dead and on the ground. This was our first model of the great leaf fort. We made 3 others that got better and bigger every time! One of them was so big, Nathan, Ben and I could lay down full length, and all four of us kids could sit up in it! It was soooo fun while it lasted, but we had to take it down before the Medieval Feast. Dad blew all of the leaves into the woods :(

Fort under construction

Done!

The Mysterious Islands movie premiere

Late last night my family got back from watching the movie premiere of "The Mysterious Islands" (Vision Forum's latest film) (For more info on the film, visit http://www.visionforum.com/) in Durham NC. It was fantastic! I won't spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but I will say that anyone who either sees the movie, or ever visits the Galapagos Islands cannot doubt God's work and beautiful design in creation. The soundtrack to this film is gorgeous! I'm Planning to get it myself! Well worth the money. Besides the movie, seeing all of the Christian home school families there was very encouraging to me.....and inspiring! You just don't see many feminine young ladies or gentlemanly young men anymore. I love it! I hope that we can do something like this again soon!!!




Outside the Theater

Inside 

Medieval Feast

My family has been studying the Middle Ages for school, and last night we had a Grand Medieval Feast! We totally transformed our garage into a feasting hall. 70 people showed up :)!!!!! We all had a fantastic time. There were Friars and Scotts, noble ladies and serfs, cloaked rangers and even King Robert The Just, and Queen Brendalynn The Gentle were present at the gathering. Some of our family and friends acted out parts while Mom read some of the customs of a real feast. It was so fun!  My siblings and I had to read reports on what we had been studying in the Medieval times. Last ,we put on a short skit with our friends. It was called St. George and the Dragon. That turned out to be hilarious! We all enjoyed some great fellowship after the food was gone. Thus ended our Medieval Feast, thanks to the hard work of our friends the Robbins and Willis's.

Preparations

Caelen's Medieval Hair Style
The Feasting Hall (In our garage)

Morning Verse

A Morning Verse~ 1 Corinthians 10:31

So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it to the Glory of God.

Old Mitchell in the Fall

Saturday, my family and cousins went on another trip to Mt. Mitchell. The hike is always fun, but this time it was all the colors that amazed us! I love to see God's brilliant design in the ways that the mountains are shaped, to the colors of the leaves. By far, fall in the mountains is the best!

Coming Back From Mt Mitchell Hike

Interesting Recipe

The other day, I got in the "make & bake things" mood. I made up a recipe for chocolate cookies, and they actually turned out pretty good! The recipe is super simple:

Chocolate Cookies~

1/2 Cup softened butter~halved

3/4 Cup brown sugar

1/4 Cup granulated sugar

1 Cup chocolate chips

1/2 Tsp baking soda

1/2 Tsp baking powder

1 1/2 Cup flour

1 1/2 Tsp Vanilla

1 Tsp Salt

2 Eggs


Bake @ 350 for ~15 min/Makes ~ 20

*Stir flour, sugars, powder, soda and salt in one bowl
*Mix egg, vanilla, and 1/2 the amount of butter called for.
*Using a microwave safe bowl, microwave chocolate chips & rest of butter. stir every few seconds until nicely smoothed together.
*Combine dry ing. into the liquid ing.
*With an electric mixer, mix together dry, liquid, and choclate mixutre.
*Bake on cookie sheets for ~ 15 min. they won't look ferm at first, so let them cool for about 5 min before eating.
Hope you enjoy!

Bird Sanctuary

Its October! Hurray!!!!!!!! Last Weekend we went to our grandparent's house. We visited the world's largest Bird Sanctuary in Scotland Neck North Carolina. The facility and staff were fantastic! Caelen took a bunch of pictures, and believe me, it was hard to decide which pics to put on here!

Little bro (Ben) always gets his words mixed up and came home from the bird sanctuary to tell our grandmother that he had fed a pecan (he meant a toucan of course), but we all couldn't stop laughing :)  he is such a sweetie!!!

Laughing Kookaburras