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Playing UNO with a friend in dress-up clothes

It's Pear-Picking Time - our tree is loaded, and we barely made a dent with what we picked!  I'm planning canning pear halves since the kids and Chelan eat them. I haven't gotten around to it, though.  Come on out and pick if you want some fresh pears!



What does Delaney do while Caiden and Cambry are at school?  She takes care of her doll.  She particularly likes to change its diaper - which is what she's doing here!

Chelan borrowed this fancy food mill to make applesauce this weekend.  It's really not much different than a regular food mill except that the seeds, pulp, and stems are continuously discarded - the process goes a little faster!  It was definitely a family affair, and I couldn't have done as much as we did without everyone's help.  30 quarts and counting . . .



We started getting eggs - finally!  We also found out that one of our chickens is, in fact, a rooster!  It was crowing in the middle of the afternoon - our only indication that it is really a rooster!

I love our church's tradition of giving Bibles to first graders.  Yesterday was that day, and Cambry received her own special Bible.  She was so excited about it and talked about it for days ahead of time!


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