Snapshot Sunday

What a busy week!  Maybe this is why I am so tired today!  We spent Thursday in Chicago at the Museum of Science and Industry.  We invited other homeschool families to go with us and ended up with 8 families.  I thought that was pretty impressive for such a long journey!  We began by meeting at 7 AM with breakfast and lunches packed!  I may have bought pop tarts which Michael devoured!

This is Michael devouring his pop tarts.  He managed to eat an entire box before I realized what was happening.

He decided that this was pretty comfortable, so I just had to take a picture.  Those legs are getting so long!

Hyrum and Jacob had fun playing in the airplane!  

This plane will always make me think of dad and his days with United.  

I don't know why but I always have to take a picture with this cow.  Maybe one day we'll raise some cattle!

Sometimes Hyrum likes to go inside the exhibits.  Oops!  

I didn't realize how much fun Hyrum would have, but the museum entertains both young and old!

Afterwards we headed to Ikea to get some fun toys and a new shoe dresser.  The show holder is amazing and fits Michael's shoes with ease!  I love that even the boys have fun wandering through IKEA with me!  

This is one of our new toys for Simon which Hyrum likes to hijack!  It is pretty fun!

Next, came Halloween!  We started our day with these pancakes thanks to Jodi for sharing her recipe.  They were fun and much easier than I expected.  

We had our usual Halloween Party instead of Trick-or-treating.  I am pretty sure I will never go back!  We had treats and some fun disguises.  We took out a piñata and just enjoyed being together!  

These owls are both adorable and delicious! 

Sticky mustaches were a hit especially among Joshua and Jacob.  Hyrum was not a fan.  

And if that wasn't enough we had pears to take care of.  A friend let us know of a tree that was overflowing and needed a home, so we picked up a friend and went to work.  We canned and froze many pears.  It took us two days, but the results were beautiful!  

Pears have to be my favorite thing to can because they are just so beautiful!  Simon will enjoy these!  

Our front door decided it didn't want to stay closed on a very cold day, so we had to barricade it shut until James could fix it.  I thought it looked pretty funny!

Jacob just loves having his picture taken, so here is a fun one with him and Simon.  What a sweet older brother.

Michael, on the other hand, wants to take pictures.  He captured this happy face at Stake Conference.  They are both sweeties!  

I just realized that I don't have any photos of Joshua.  I will make it my mission to fix that this next week.  And I will try to do less and relax a little more.  :)  It is fun to accomplish a lot, but I think I pushed my limits a little this last week.  Happy Halloween!